Attention #MSM and #IDTwitter : It's pronounced "Hoop-ing" cough, not "Whoop-ing" cough.

Scary that the MAGA cult and social media like X have led to this outcome. 👇cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/surve…

Normalizing extremism in politics by presenting it as balanced is an increasing failure of #MSM. MSM must be a filter, otherwise you're just #socmed. Crappy reporting from The Daily Telegraph discussed 👇is not a surprise. healthydebate.ca/2024/07/topic/…

Great 🧵 on the differential diagnosis of an inflammatory arthritis. It underscores that taking short cuts to diagnosis without a proper history & physical exam leads to unnecessary procedures and potential adverse patient outcomes. Knowing a diagnosis is better than guessing.

Dear Colleagues, When evaluating a patient with leukocytosis don’t automatically assume it’s always an infection. Signed, Your friendly neighbourhood ID doc

Metaphorically, this is exactly what he did. '

Our 14-year-old dog Abbey died last month. The day after she passed away my 4-year-old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that

Says every ID doc everywhere. The indiscriminate ordering of Echos often leads to erroneous diagnoses of infective endocarditis particularly in the elderly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “normal” echo in an 80 year old. Remember their ❤️ valves are also 80 years old.

This paper on thromboinflammation is everywhere this week. Unfortunately nobody commenting on it seems to have read it! I have, and it definitely doesn't say what commentators are suggesting. 🧵nature.com/articles/s4158…

It's a pre-print. However, it doesn't speak well to academic research integrity. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

NYC Prima Ballerina with Alzheimer’s listens to Swan Lake and it all comes back. The most beautiful video you’ll see today. 💞

Reality: - There is a mountain of evidence on vaccines. - NO good evidence supporting the fearmongering bunk (eg, "died suddenly" BS). - Increasingly, antivaxx noise is about politics. This is killing people. My new article reviews the evidence.👇 #VaccinesWork

Worth a read to see how the so-called 'Wellness' industry is adversely affecting good evidence-based health care. Kudos Andrea C. Love, Ph.D. 👩🏻‍🔬🔬💉 & Dr. Katie Suleta. medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…

Can now coin a new term: Vaccine gap.

This. A thousand times, this. 👇

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle): The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

An uncomfortable truth. Although normal aging is a physiologic process, it can also be an explanation for symptoms we develop as we all grow older. Searching for pathologic reasons for those symptoms can be fraught with harms. medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…

Why I won't bring myself to watch re-runs of Frasier. 👇