#Patient

Rituparna Chatterjee

MasalaBai

Thread: A practical list of things/checkboxes I've come up with from half a month of everyday battle with critical covid patients. Will keep updating.1. Buy a pulse oxymeter (many hospitals

Azalea Kim

azaleakim

In the context of #COVID19, never has advance care planning (#ACP) felt so necessary and relevant to more people; yet, so elusive in how to actually do #ACP at scale.

MikePed

ped_mike

1 of 2—Got denied service the first time due to covid. I was respectful and explained I’d just find a different doctor. Gave them my new patient papers and asked

say sorry, TEWV

trewvs

Crisis as a TEWV patient.(T: suicide incl ref method) I am very sad and upset today.This time last year I was getting intrusive & overwhelming suicidal thoughts. I've had bipolar

Rebecca McEachern

McMooney2017

For every parent and child out there trying hard to manage Type 1 diabetes: I fell in love with diabetics during camp as a resident @IWKHealthCentre. Sometimes I feel like

creppy andrea grimes

andreagrimes

A lot of people are asking “Why’s reopening taking so long?” and that's a fair question, but please be patient w/the CDC, which is working hard to contact each and

Kham Kidia

kkidia

1/ THREAD: VIP PatientsWe can't let patients buy special treatment. It privileges the white & wealthy.In residency, when I wouldn't provide unwarranted treatment, a “VIP" patient brought me to tears,

Maria Chong

mariachong

One of life’s greatest honors—I approach the cleaning of a friend’s vacuum cleaner with the seriousness of a cardiac surgeon removing an arterial blockage. This patient was a particularly serious

Amit Thadhani

amitsurg

Authorities across the country are on a hospital shuttle spree whenever a positive case is detected there. This is not going to end well.https://twitter.com/anantbhan/status/1245294547044839424 Jaslok shut down for the same

John Cardillo

johncardillo

1/ Doctors I speak to are baffled by Fauci’s resistance to and condemnation of Hydroxycloroquine. They explain that the main reason for clinical trials is safety, but Hydroxycloroquine is long

kae

sportyidk

Sorry but you can't expect people to go up for you 24/7 when you don't give people anything to go up for. Were we supposed to care abt her pulling

Rajeev Chitguppi MDS

chitguppi

We should take Cycle Threshold (CT) values of PCR seriously, because they indicate1. the viral load of an infected patient2. if he is infectious too3. if he is at high

Eugene Gu, MD

eugenegu

Unlike other patients, Boris Johnson likely has the option to get convalescent plasma from a patient who recovered from the coronavirus and developed antibodies to it. It remains the most

Kari Jerge, MD, FACS (she/her)

kari_jerge

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now... but SURGICAL INTENSIVISTS ARE INTENSIVISTS. We do a one to two year long fellowship. We complete a formal board certification

The SWC

SWC_Neuro

SWC Group Leader Athena Akrami was among the first people to notice that her COVID symptoms were not going away, a phenomenon now recognised as ‘Long-COVID’ that is receiving attention

Amit Sammi

Amit_Sammi10

Jose Mourinho as a Locum #Pharmacist in Community #Pharmacy. A thread of GIFs.#pharmacyheroes#PrescribingSomeLaughter#LaughterIsTheBestMedicine Arrive for work and introduce self to staff members. Morning motivational team talk. Wholesaler