Lakshman Swamy (he/him)

"staying active is a powerful source of drive. It strengthens our bodies and lights up our minds - bringing clarity and focus to our imagination"

The corporate perception of imagination: it needs clarity and focus 🙃

Sharing at my first ever workshop this week! #amwriting

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Try not to compare yourself to other authors.
Writing's a long game,
and other writers are looking at you
wishing they could be where you are.
So keep going, we're in this together.

#5amwritersclub #amwriting #writerslife #WIP #poetry #wattpad #amreading #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

I try to remember that even the person i was a year ago is looking at me that way. But it is easy to forget 😅

Survivors’ Kids At Carcassonne - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Mak on Unsplash by Faye Rapoport DesPres At Carcassonne we bought cheese and baguettes and stuffed them into our backpacks. We’d arrived overnight on a Paris train, weary from sleeping in a c...

Good morning, #5amwritersclub. I just received this link to my six-sentence story published today in Gooseberry Pie Literary Journal today. Enjoy (and remember: you don’t always have to write thousands of words). gooseberry-pie.com/survivors-ki... #microfiction #flash

22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...

He needed air. The price was $539.

When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

I just read this and loved it, and learned so much. I am a better reader now. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life g.co/kgs/FPaMFbq

Never underestimate rage

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YouTube video by Annie Andrews Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.

Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.

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Exactly. And then they get a bit older and you get a good stretch and boom it happens again and you're set entirely back.

I’m not trapped in rounds with you, you’re trapped in rounds with me

Do i take my gorgeous home made food to the resident workroom and ask them why on earth they're eating the cafeteria garbage? Yes, because i am literally the worst.

If you ask medical intensivists which types of admissions scare us the most, I would guess the most common answer would be pregnant patients (followed by status asthmaticus, which is a separate conversation). Pursuing any policy that increases risk of severe disease in pregnant people is insane.

💯 all i see is politics which is the same as everywhere else so no real value.

I think it is not going to be what it was and that is ok. I am glad we had what we did while we did.

In memory of professor Rinaldo Bellomo: A giant of intensive care medicine

CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100110

It requires more people posting which isn't happening w/o traction, which won't happen without posting, etc. I don't know if it is worth all that work tbh.

Are there effective feeds on bsky? Yes. Could someone make a more generally interesting medsky feed? Maybe. It isn't easy to bring together so many broad interests - the biggest med journals don't really achieve that either.

The feed isn't focused at all. Twitter had a strong clinician focus which is lacking here. Too much is research or really just too political -- which is everywhere anyway. The feed doesn't work for me.

Yeah, the engagement is so weak here.

I'm at NTI if anyone is here!

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You intubate a patient smoothly with roc & ketamine

After connection with the vent:
- oxygen saturation is 98%
- etCO2 tracing & values are normal
- breath sounds are symmetric

the vent starts alarming for a 60% air leak

you ascultate the neck & cannot hear a leak

what is happening? #1/2 #EMIMCC

True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep her alive? An ICU nurse explores the impact of end-of-life care in an illustrated opinion piece.

My friend (icu nurse) and his wife wrote this for the globe. They were finalists for the Pulitzer for the series! apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/grap...

A more artistic expression of moral injury, I have never seen.

It is part of a series! I will try to get the other links.

this is a lovely little comic about how icu nursing can (will?) require you to violate your own ethics

True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep her alive? An ICU nurse explores the impact of end-of-life care in an illustrated opinion piece.

My friend (icu nurse) and his wife wrote this for the globe. They were finalists for the Pulitzer for the series! apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/grap...

So sorry to hear. Looking forward to what comes next, I'm sure it will be great!

I also think phrasing matters. When we hit certain milestones, we do sometimes get a party, but happens after a hitting a goal, and the perception is not that we are doing it for a party. If they asked me to do QI to get a party, it would not be an incentive