#Medicine

“I strongly believe in the importance of the scientific approach. Yet...the sciences have lost much of their vigor, vitality and curiosity. Dogmatic ideology, fear-based conformity and institutional inertia are inhibiting
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1/My Journey to @seftoncouncil & Deputy to @MetroMayorSteve:When I was 6 weeks old, @AlderHey hospital gave my parents a very unfavourable prognosis. I had an aggressive #Neuroblastoma which was partially
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In my last set of tweets on @MatthewHootonNZ's armchair epidemiological reckons, I emphasised that he does not have the skills to analyse epidemiological data. In his latest Herald piece, he
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What a powerful opening sequence to today's #EOTalks by @cparen #MummiesAncestors Charlotte is discussing the post mortem biography, journey, and treament of "The Young Man", who is now at the
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1/18 New Year Resolutions suck. Here's my goal. To earn a WGA card because that means... Now for the good stuff. A wish @PathOfWill1 continues to make shit up. @dpgcrimethink
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Yesterday obesity, today cycling https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-kickstarts-2bn-cycling-and-walking-revolution Government announcement includes- funding - infrastructure - measures to cut congestion and pollution- road safety CEDAR r
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I have two twitter accounts: a professional one (this one), a personal one, and I run a third account for @RainbowNHSBadgeI’ve been trying to decide which account to post this
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Moving in right direction to reverse outbreaksHere's how:At-home frequent rapid tests10M/day ->pool 2 ppl/test ->20M ppl tested/day ->Ea house tests 1x/wk ->140M ppl tested/wk!! ->Herd effects: R RAPIDLY
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1. PASSED MY ID BOARDS!! You are now looking at a board certified ID physician! This ends a decade long journey in medical training as a Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG).
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just because NHS hospital intensive care capacity isn’t technically “full” doesn’t mean that coronavirus patients are getting the level of care they normally wouldgovernment data available here shows this (thread)https://www.gov.uk/
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I deleted a thread I made yesterday about a certain controversial UBC prof. That whole thing is super triggering and it's taking up too much space in my head. I
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An Autopsy of #AI #COVID19 #cough diagnosis"We think this shows that the way you produce sound changes when you have COVID, even if you’re asymptomatic" @MITHow this model might work
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There are a lot of articles and news segments about anticipated Black skepticism of covid vaccines but not a ton of data being cited as far as I can see.
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Y'know what's medically interesting about the Onana UEFA suspension?What he tested positive for isn't actually a 'performance-enhancing drug' like the typical ones (ab)used by athletes. It's just a 'peeing pill&#
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 177Nice to re-start our Covid grand rounds today. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/yyw5myns . We covered a range of epi issues (the shape of the pandemic, changing mortality
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Having just shared with a coauthor the latest draft of our piece, I'm declaring my work done for this (fill in your preferred adjective) year. So I thought I'd do
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