Seems like the majority of us are eating a lot of plastic every day, and this might be having society-level effects that we attribute to other things

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Here’s what preference signaling in the 2024-2025 residency application cycle will look like. The biggest change is both IM and Surgery moving to “big signaling” with applicants now receiving 15 signals in each.

Occasionally I write an "essay" post where I use a little bit more of an expressive tone. Today's essay is about the importance of defeating absolute poverty. noahpinion.blog/p/the-elementa…

I profoundly disagree with this. Asking questions - particularly those that prompt the learner to think & not simply recall information - is a GREAT teaching method. If you create a safe learning environment it isn’t “toxic quizzing” but the Socratic method at its best.

I am awe struck at the rate of progress of AI on all fronts. Today's expectations of capability a year from now will look silly and yet most businesses have no clue what is about to hit them in the next ten years when most rules of engagement will change. It's time to

Wow. A serious contender for the worst idea ever. And a reminder that Ted talks are bullshit told by idiots

At exactly this time on November 24, 1963 (also a Sunday), Dr. Tom Shires and his residents begin the trauma laparotomy on Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was found to have the SMA sheared off the aorta, along with R kidney and IVC injuries. He also got a resuscitative thoracotomy.

Boss: You get that video ready to show off the world’s first bipedal musculoskeletal android? Video guy: Sure did boss, strung its hideous bleached body up on wires like one of those angel kaiju from Evangelion. made it a Francis Bacon painting, just like you asked Boss: what

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

Introducing the world's best OCR model! mistral.ai/news/mistral-o…

Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science openrxiv

Your outie is officially a surgeon. Welcome. #Match2025

One of my biggest regrets was voting for President Obama in 2008 as a medical student & celebrating the passage of the ACA Little did I know the carnage it would wreck on the medical profession and my future patients. I had no idea then that the ACA was written to strip

This Dwarkesh Pod origin story took an unexpected turn

A surgeon in China successfully removed a lung tumor from a patient located 5,000 km away by operating a robot remotely from Shanghai. The innovative procedure took place with the patient in the city of Kashgar, and the operation was a success.

When I was in elementary school, my mom started going blind. Retinitis pigmentosa. No family history. No treatments. No cure. I got lucky. She didn’t. It led me to build Orchid so my baby —and everyone else's—gets to win the genetic lottery—avoid blindness— and hundreds of

Hospitals Acquired By Private Equity Firms: Increased Postoperative Mortality For Common Inpatient Surgeries Adrian Diaz Justin B. Dimick Health Affairs UMich CHOP healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137…

Julie Fredrickson Alex Miller Julie, a good learning experience. These 2,050 calories will cause a massive insulin spike followed by a post-meal crash. Increased hunger 3-4 hr later. Your arteries constrict and blood vesselsl stiffen. The nitrites are a group 1 carcinogen (increased colorectal cancer risk).

William Osler (1905) remind us not to listen too closely to the chronic complainers in medicine, as “there are such in every calling” and the source of discontent usually comes from within.