Jack Iwashyna

JOURNAL ARTICLE Baby boy blue — why is this newborn lethargic? Get access > Michael Rieder, MD PhD FRCPC, Gideon Koren, MD FRCPC Paediatrics & Child Health, Volume 15, Issue 9, November 2010, Pages 571-572, https://doi-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/10.1093/pch/15.9.571 Published: 01 November 2010 Article history v A correction has been published: Paediatrics & Child Health, pxag013, https://doi-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/10.1093/pch/pxag01 Extract A one-week-old boy was seen in the emergency department with a two-day history of poor feeding and increasing lethargy. He was born at term after an uneventful pregnancy by repeat caesarean section. His birth weight was 3.2 kg.

via @iwashyna.bsky.social

There isn't even a proper disclaimer. Merely a note on the access page:

"A correction has been published: Paediatrics & Child Health,
pxag013, [with URL]"

Correction ≠ FICTION. A dramatic headline hints we'll learn why ...

Baby boy blue — why is this newborn lethargic?

But it was assuredly used to train an AI!

good LORD

WTAF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS

Trust the people who knew him like @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

At some point we will have a conversation about the bogus claim that running a financially successful company equips you for leadership more broadly.

Wait, do Brits not have like a “District Attorney who prosecutes crimes”?

Like why are Danny’s parents having to recruit Jocelyn out of retirement to take their case?

Finally getting around to watching Broadchurch and was not expecting Phoebe Waller-Bridge in season 2

(I expected the Doctor Who everywhere, and now s2e1 a little Torchwood, too…)

And the paragraph ends “one can only dream of having a legacy of loving your people so hard that you don’t even need to be around for them to feel it”

Damn

…You have to lean into trusting what's most important: that someone gave you the platform to do what you'd do”

~ Lawrence Burney

“I've been guilty of trivializing the opening act, but there's a courage there that I'm not sure I'd have the ability to muster up if put in the same position. You're in a space where the bulk of people in attendance aren't there for you, but you can't be deterred by that truth…

structurally indifferent to truth is a good line

Brown and white boer goat with an ear tag that says 0884, putting his little feet on me in a hammock

I'm sorry I engaged in discourse first thing in the morning. Here's a cute goat to make up for it.

Amid the turmoil, Sam Beyda, a 24-year-old who has never previously worked in public health, has assumed a prominent role at the agency, according to current and former officials. While at the CDC, O'Neill was often absent, those officials said, and he deputized Beyda to run much of the agency's day-to-day operations for him, people familiar with the matter said. Beyda, a 2023 graduate of Columbia University, is based in Washington, D.C., but frequently travels to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters. An internal document in November listed Beyda as leading five of 16 new strategic initiatives, including updating the CDC's agencywide response to outbreaks and crises, downsizing animal research and enhancing surveillance of novel pathogens. Some longtime CDC staffers have credited Beyda with being a quick study and making an effort to ask questions and learn on the ioh Ona coninr novear And ofniol enid Pando

But others say Beyda isn't qualified for a senior role that is often filled by someone with a master's in public health or years of experience in the federal government. Beyda executed January's widespread grant cuts to state and local health departments that the CDC then quickly rescinded, people familiar with the matter said. The administration moved forward about two weeks later with roughly $600 million in grant cuts to four states led by Democrats, a move now held up in court. Beyda was also deeply involved in a chaotic wave of firings at the CDC during the October government shutdown, according to people familiar with the matter, which saw more than a thousand employees laid off only for hundreds to later be reinstated. Beyda is one of at least a dozen political appointees at the agency, representing a larger number than in previous administrations, according to two current employees. The new political appointees wield significant power over the CDC's

Letting a 24 year old lead hundreds of millions of grants cuts at CDC…

“there is no evidence of acute medical conditions resulting from passive exposure to fentanyl or methamphetamine (such as from touching contaminated surfaces or inhaling second-hand smoke)”

Congrats on inventing insider trading war crimes, America

The point is to destroy the administrative state, centers of knowledge and all civic institutions that stand in the way of Russell Vought’s vision of an authoritarian theocracy. It sounds insane and something out of Atwood. But this is where we are. Under his eye.

Logged on to post the sentence “I’ve started stress dreaming about granular lab budgets” and what better visual to accompany that than

But that is not their actual job. There is a job description for all federal jobs. It’s in writing. They can look it up.

#MakeFewerPodcastsDoYourJobs

The Trump Admin continuing to NOT do their jobs

There's an episode of West Wing with an entire dramatic plot about an unpaid intern getting fired because they sold a gift from a foreign government official on eBay for like $100

This story made me so angry and sad

Concierge medicine as horror show. This story is so upsetting, not least because many of the doctors mentioned are still practicing & so far have not been held accountable for their unethical & likely also criminal activities.

US people: we would like to do the right thing

US institutions: oh, no, we cannot permit that

How does that compare to Trumps?

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

its fun how we elect congress to use its unique constitutional powers to appropriate money for explicit purposes and the WH just* says nah

*illegally

Vought/Trump to US Science AND US Health AND US Higher Ed: "Die. Starve. Die"

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

"The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has so far not received approval [from OMB] to spend any of the research funding allocated in a budget bill signed into law on 3 February."

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets www.nature.com/articles/d41...