Chris Merritt

no accidents

We can only hope the rest of the world will be better.

Conversations with journal editors about language in manuscripts submitted - concern for the authors' safety, scientific credibility, the potential for career impact... all due to "banned words."

Is this real life?

Is the an "Orwellian Manual of Style" we can adhere to?

Would’ve been nice if RS hadn’t enabled RFK, Jr for years… but we’ll take this

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”

- Police Chief in Madison, WI

I’ve cared for infants who stopped breathing w/ pertussis.

School aged kids who died of flu or COVID.

And many of my patients can’t be vaccinated because they’re on chemotherapy or are immune compromised.

Vaccinations save lives of those who get them & those who cannot.

It’s that simple.

It’s my understanding (and my understanding is routinely incomplete, so please someone wiser check my work) that serum iron is far less reliable as an indicator - mostly reflects your dietary iron over the past day or two rather than indicating sufficiency or deficiency overall?

When grads with six figure debt can’t see 3 years of subspecialty training as a wise investment…

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

As the Supreme Court debates trans kids' right to essential healthcare, today is a good day to ruminate on the fact that the United States is the ONLY UN member state not to have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

I’m just saying there’s more than one type of violence.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around. Can complexity science help us improve pediatric research? - Pediatric Research Pediatric Research - If things were simple, word would have gotten around. Can complexity science help us improve pediatric research?

If only life were simple… complexity science to drive peds research

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love these - my own two favorites are “Fear and loathing in the Emergency Department,” and “All Purulence is Not Created Equal.”

Optimist:The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Peds ER doc: try a sippy cup… there’s a saline shortage

One thousand percent

Peds EM and Med Ed nerd in the wilds of Little Rhody - and feeling thankful/optimistic this week for this place

And the converse is true too - all the more reason for excellent training in acute/emergency care for pediatricians. The withering of EM experience for pediatrics trainees is a travesty.

All the more reason for excellent training in pediatrics in emergency medicine.

Crucial for acute care of children.

I just think it's great that the little NICU babies and I both need a dose of caffeine to keep us from dying.

We must keep this in the forefront. Medicaid covers almost half of all children

#KeepKidsCovered

Gearing back up after a fair bit of malaise and fatigue on the other app.

Looking forward to (re-)connecting with all the good #MedEd people and ideas over here.

Any role for an aging pediatric EM doc?

Asking for me.