Dr. Felicity Fishman & I went thru the same internship & got the same talk a few years ahead of Betsy Grunch, MD | Ladyspinedoc⚡️ She is not exaggerating anything in this video.

Children should not have to “prove” to their parents why they deserve to be loved. They should be loved unconditionally. They didn’t choose to be here. #loveyourchild

⚠️Intraoperative Death During Alleged Splenectomy: This case has gone viral and multiple readers have sent it to me. Some of the records are floating around social media, and I republished them here. This is the operative report and explanation of the underlying situation:

Femoral lines (clinical practice) paradox: ICU/ED world: Oh no, we shouldn't do it, femorals are SO dirty. If we place them, we remove them 3 ds later because we feel guilty & administrators yell ECMO world: let's put 2 huge cannulas in the groin & leave them there for 3 weeks

Interesting #echofirst image of the day. What’s unusual about this parasternal long axis image? Apical 4-chamber view in thread. #POCUS #FOAMed #FOAMcc Courtesy: Viray, et al. CASE 2019

#POCUS #FOAMed Pathophysiology of RV failure with pressure overload. Red frames indicate adverse events leading to RV failure. Green frames indicate adaptive events improving hemodynamics. Orange frames indicate maladaptive events leading to compensated RV failure. Red labels

Thread: 1/ Women in the U.S., I need you to gently set aside your grief for a second and look at me. It's time to operate from a place of planning. -If you are married and not the breadwinner, depend on your husband for insurance, it's time to start planning.

Here are 10 things that expert clinicians do everyday, often without realizing it🩺 (and how we can all start to implement these in our own practice) A 🧵 #foamed #MedTwitter

Norovirus is a cool virus because it doesn't have a lipid envelope. That means it’s incredibly stable in the environment. So in addition to causing violent vomiting, diarrhea, & stomach cramping, it can be shed in stool for 2 weeks, AND hand sanitizers are ineffective. FUN! 1/

I have many grievances today. #CTICU #STAT

If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

behind every great nurse that treats heart arrhythmias is a great energy drink that causes heart arrhythmias

We should be abundantly clear that vitamin A supplementation is a distraction, is not an alternative to vaccination, does not have any evidence from studies done in the USA, and has risks if not done according to the established dosing protocols that few docs are familiar with.

Trump failed to mention the bird flu epidemic, or the fact that Musk’s DOGE initiative mistakenly fired the federal employees who had been working on the government’s efforts to stop bird flu and bring egg prices back down. huffpost.com/entry/donald-t…

Quick question: did we all become nurses because we all have some sort of trauma? At least ICU nurses or any critical care nurse really? 4 of us talked yesterday about parent trauma, relationship trauma, friendship trauma or all 3. I’m like oh. Is that why we’re all here? 😂😳

The attending waiting for me to finish presenting my assessment and plan before changing everything about it