Dr Cindy Cooper

Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth….

(I could go on…)

Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America.

A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT.

Scary stuff.

📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Well would you look at that.

😷27 Gifts for Exhausted Healthcare Workers A 2024 Gift List for the Hard-working Healthcare Workers You Love

Gifts for your healthcare worker friends - who are generally hanging on by a thread this time of year.

Word. This.

A scene from The Princess Bride, featuring Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya. He is wearing a loose brown shirt with a leather vest, sitting on rocks with a determined expression, holding a sword. The cloudy sky provides a dramatic backdrop.

Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson in Homeland. He sits on a couch in a formal suit, with a white shirt, tie, and glasses, exuding a serious and contemplative demeanor against an ornate curtain backdrop.

A still from Alien Nation featuring Mandy Patinkin as the alien detective Sam Francisco. He has a bald head with unique markings and wears a suit with a tie and dark sunglasses, standing next to James Caan.

Mandy Patinkin in Dick Tracy, wearing a yellow hat and coat with a shadowy green background. He holds a cigarette in his mouth and gazes intently, embodying a noir detective aesthetic.

🎉 Happy Birthday, Mandy Patinkin! 🎉

An acclaimed actor and singer known for roles in The Princess Bride and Homeland. A Tony and Emmy winner, he began on Broadway and is celebrated for his tenor voice. Actively supports humanitarian causes, including refugee aid and mental health awareness.

Thank you my friend!

Happy Birthday to me!

Thank you! And mine for you!

Post: Freddy Mercury died of AIDS 33 years ago today. With modern medical technology, he likely would have lived. Never forget how much progress against major infectious disease has been made in a short time. We are at risk now of rolling back much of that progress.

We’re not going back.

Surviving Another Four Years of Donald Trump It’s going to be a long four years, and I’m determined to get through them with my sanity and humor intact.

I’m determined to get through the next four years with my sanity and humor intact.

Our last dandelion of the season

I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)

Outbreak Investigation FDA is investigating slivered onions served at McDonald’s as the likely source of this outbreak. Onions have been recalled and are no longer being used.

FDA in 10/24: outbreak associated with onions on McDonald’s quarter-pounder

www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

Was there a 'Black Swan' event ahead of the Jack-in-the-Box outbreak 30 years ago? Several months before this date 30 years ago, a Black Swan event occurred in Japan. The 67-year-old president of the United States, George H.W. Bush while

Food Safety News discussing 30-year anniversary of Jack in the Box burger chain deadly ST-HUS outbreak:

www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/12/was-...

ST-HUS from O157:H7 E. Coli is a thrombotic microangiopathy limited to the renal vasculature which presents as severe kidney injury after an acute afebrile bloody diarrheal illness.

Boston, 2024

Absolutely! So good to find you here.

THIS is what’s up.

💙

Awesome! Hooray!

Carl B. Schlatter Carl B. Schlatter (1864-1934) was a Swiss Surgeon. Krönlein's senior physician and first "trauma surgeon". Osgood-Schlatter disease in (1903)

Carl Schlatter, Swiss surgeon litfl.com/carl-schlatt...

ROBERT B. OSGOOD, SURGEON, WAS 83; Orthopedic Specialist Dies-- Ex-Professor at Harvard Aided Shriners Hospitals (Published 1956) Osgood, Robt B

Robert Bayley Osgood MD, American orthopaedic surgeon (Boston) www.nytimes.com/1956/10/04/a...

Mahmud A, Osgood-Schlatter disease (chronic). Case study, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 11 Nov 2024) doi.org/10.53347/rID...

Anterior knee pain with swelling of the tibial tubercle due to strain, possible avulsion of tendon at the growth plate. Typically seen in adolescents undergoing growth spurts, in the setting of running, jumping, kicking sports.

Cutaneous Anthrax- Bacillus anthracis , Gram-positive, spore-forming, nonmotile rod.
Presents: skin blister surrounded by swelling, often painless w a black center
R/F:Working w animals,travellers, postal workers or in military
Rx:fluoroquinolones,doxycycline, erythromycin,vancomycin, penicillin

Cutaneous anthrax

Çimen C. Typical Evolution of a Cutaneous Anthrax Lesion. Infect Dis Clin Microbiol 2020; 1: 27-29.