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Oh, your patient is at risk for aspiration? To what? Having a better doctor?

oof

Democratic leadership amid rising authoritarianism

There are 14 active measles cases inside the facility and 112 individuals are being isolated. This is on the heels of prior COVID and tuberculosis outbreaks there. I’ve also learned the alarming news that there has been an effort to quarantine detainees with measles at our local hospitals.

German phrenologist Robert Burger-Villingen is taking measurements in order to determine the personality of his patient.

Interviewing my new lady doctor

Dear Grok, tell me about your training data, without explicitly telling me about your ingrained racism.

Based on AAMC data for recent applicants and matriculants, Asian physicians average the highest MCAT scores (508.8–514.3), followed by White (507.8–512.5). Black and Hispanic averages are lower (497.4–506.8). Studies on USMLE Step 1/2 and residency in-training exams show similar patterns, with these metrics predicting board performance and knowledge. Statistically, Asian or White demographics show the strongest objective indicators of competence on average. Always check individual credentials and outcomes.

"Asian or White demographics show the strongest objective indicators of competence"

I know it ain't cool to go to The Bad Place™️, but wow the grok advice on how to pick a doctor

But there's a YMMV disclaimer so probably fine

i feel the need to rewatch children of men. does it still hold up?

In Spain we don't say “I feel like I'm in fight or flight mode” we say “Estoy en un sinvivir”. And I think that's beautiful.

Kind of more interested in how Frank-N-Furter got this role.

After Hartford cops killed two men needing mental health help on two occasions within nine days, I am having all sorts of conversations with people about beanbags and tasers and riot shields and training. And maybe that's all good and proper. But the simpler answer is "no guns."

My grandmother used to tell a story of breaking up a fight between my dad and my aunt when they were 7 and 9, and my aunt saying, "He hit me back first."

I don’t use this app but I noticed some supportive messages popping up and I really appreciate that 🥹💞

Suture (1993)
Before he was the US president in the TV series 24, Dennis Haysbert was the twin brother of a nefarious scrawny white dude in this neo-noir.
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a woman holds a black ball in her hands ALT: a woman holds a black ball in her hands

I want to see a study funded by Magic 8-Ball comparing the two

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

The @annalsofem.bsky.social editors' summary is unjustifiably generous about AI scribing.

Editors' job is to temper the author's enthusiasm, not hype it.

“A hospitalization rate at 2% is ludicrous...It’s vast underreporting. Measles makes you sick.”

- Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Washington Post image A student's arm is seen in the rubble at the school in Minab, Iran. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA/ Reuters

It was correct of the WaPo to publish this photo of the aftermath of the attack on the girls' school in Minab.

A school girl's detached arm laying next to her dirt-covered viscera.

This is now our legacy in the world.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Our study was conducted at a single tertiary academic ED, and ambient AI use was voluntary and encounter-specific, on a low overall percentage of encounters (11.2%) skewed toward lower acuity and highly skewed adoption among a subset of physicians. Comparisons should be interpreted as descriptive associations reflecting early real-world use. Furthermore, outcomes were derived from electronic health record audit logs, which estimate active electronic health record time but cannot fully distinguish focused documentation from multitasking, interruptions, or concurrent clinical activity. Misclassification of on-shift versus after-shift work is possible when physicians extend beyond scheduled shift end or document remotely. Finally, we did not directly assess documentation quality, coding accuracy, patient experience, or financial impacts, which are important dimensions of ambient AI evaluation.

Abstract:
"When used [in an ER setting], ambient AI was associated with shorter on-shift documentation time, total EHR time."

Editors' summary
"AI modestly shortened documentation time."

Limit
"Comparisons should be interpreted as *descriptive* associations"
www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...

There is no acceptable reason to call the Higgs boson the “God particle.” It corresponds to no theological concept in circulation and the guy responsible for it originally called it “goddamned particle“ because it was hard to find

Somehow, I'm starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize 🤔

I’m going to be blunt here: Helen Keller could have seen this result coming from a mile away.

For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos.

Tweet from uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock I knew Dave Newman, but when I very first heard your story, Aja, I believed you. You deserved to be protected the most. I'm so sorry you had to go through this, but we are fighting to make sure this never happens again.

"But when [Aja] also asked the technician, who sprayed Luminol on the bag of evidence, to also spray her ...
“It was all over my face, all over my breasts like I told her”"
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social

Need to remind new EM docs of this case every now and then
www.thecut.com/2019/10/moun...

And not just the actions of *Mr* Newman by himself.

Also how "many* people in EM initially took his side, defended Newman

Tweet from uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock I knew Dave Newman, but when I very first heard your story, Aja, I believed you. You deserved to be protected the most. I'm so sorry you had to go through this, but we are fighting to make sure this never happens again.

"But when [Aja] also asked the technician, who sprayed Luminol on the bag of evidence, to also spray her ...
“It was all over my face, all over my breasts like I told her”"
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social

Need to remind new EM docs of this case every now and then
www.thecut.com/2019/10/moun...

Oh buddy. Good thing we're doing a text thing here or I would be murdering the prosody of Cervantes and Benito