DocAnopheles, DO

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Somehow I thought being a physician in my late 30’s would involve a lot more luxury travel and a lot less sleeping in parking garages.

Haven’t lived in SLC in a decade, but felt like this was the issue with Trax when it started. Train itself was great. Getting to the train from cheaper housing areas required a car and parking because the bus system was basically non-functional.

I mean, I’m basically a running discourse on potential world ending plagues and different places pus can come from. A nice conversation about middle housing and heat pumps would be a godsend.

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“If the crew talked back to the captain, or the patients to their doctor, then whose authority would they accept? How could the passengers be kept safe or the patient healthy?”
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

In 2023, the U.S. spent approximately $1.35 trillion on healthcare administration. That’s more than we spent on:
•Physician salaries (~$350B)
•Nursing salaries (~$335B)
•Retail prescription drugs (~$450B)
•Imaging, lab tests, EHRs, and outpatient procedures combined
#BlueSky #MedSky #NurseSky

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

Old news, but The Kite Runner gets banned a lot in my red homeland. There’s always the Anarchist Cookbook, but that’s kind of a whole different thing. I need to look at some of the titles on your shelf I think.

The collective infectious disease community anytime RFK shares a new strategy

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

1) A couple weeks ago I got a tip: NIH had pulled down a mural of Dr Fauci, this person had heard.

I was able to find NIH sources who confirmed, yes, *something* had been removed from a wall.

But they couldn’t quite agree on what was hanging there before — a masked Fauci? — or when it came down.

A photo of a bus shelter, presumably in London, with the text: X - delete your account - If the bar lets Nazis in, it's a Nazi bar. Below is a photo of Elon Musk giving a Hitler salute.

A friend send me this, presumably in London.

I think more of us are asking this. Which is one of the more positive things happening right now.

A patient, young guy with kids, who I was pretty sure was going to die, asked me to sign his organ-shaped pillow a several days after a successful, if complicated, lung transplant. Off ECMO. Off oxygen. Doing laps. Sometimes you win.

I hear you. Fantasize about buying a food truck on the daily now. Restaurant business is savage and unstable, but apparently so is medicine.

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...

This is Winston Smith’s job in “1984.”

Question for the legally savvy - I work a free clinic run out of a church that deals almost exclusively with undocumented migrants. I also work an academic center. If I put myself between ICE and a patient in either of these settings, do I have any legal ground to stand on? Any existing threads?

I mean, dude didn’t even use a slit lamp.

Can't imagine why anyone would target the CEO of a company that, by all appearances, has made it's mission maximizing profit via human suffering over the last decade. That he was the CEO over health insurance, not the head CEO, seems relevant.

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Excellent thread by @dralicehan.bsky.social on this important paper in @cidjournal.bsky.social.

Dramatic increase in cure with telehealth vs referral to local providers.

Very concerning that telehealth coverage might soon be limited -- it's one of the silver linings of the pandemic.

#IDSky

I cannot believe in 2024 we are need to defend basic health interventions that have lowered infant & maternal mortality and increased overall human lifespan and health.
✅️Vaccines work
✅️Abortion is healthcare
✅️Pasteurization prevents disease
✅️Fluoride is water is good for teeth &safe
These are facts.

B.C. teen with #birdflu remains in critical condition per officials. Genetic analysis from the teenager has revealed mutations that may make it easier for the virus to infect humans. 

Meanwhile, the virus has killed >280 million poultry birds since 2021, infected >400 dairy herds

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Will keep updating!

And just like that, we have our first #idjclub article #idsky

Congress Is Making Funding Decisions Now: Urge Them to Protect ID/HIV Funding Ask your members of Congress to support robust funding for vital ID/HIV programs.

Getting pumped to dive into advocacy with @idsainfo.bsky.social given the political landscape in our country. #IDSky #HIVSky

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This is a good one. Physician interactions have an outsized impact on people’s lives, particularly in high-stakes situations. The table in this paper is a great example of how to reframe language in way that achieves a more constructive and meaningful result.