Aorta Dude

Hey yall don’t do aortoplasty for adults. It’s horseshi**. Cheers.

Similar adulterations in exported heparin were found in 2008

I bet $TSLA tanks tomorrow, but a rebound is engineered in a week or two as feds announce they’re going to invest in Tesla infrastructure and buy EV’s for federal service. Red state gov’s will do the same. Based on nothing except a hunch.

First the CFB trophy, now the pope. What will he break next?

I cannot wait to blast Tool’s “Eulogy” when it means something.

Of course thats the result.... #agsky #econsky
Most Americans want manufacturing to return to the USA - they just don't want to work in the factory.

My absolute favorite is to stay up all night getting an abstract in before the midnight deadline, only to get a deadline extension email the following morning.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

I think it’s important that DOGE knows that we keep up with the relevant literature in the “last week” replies. So I’m sending this:

www.auajournals.org/doi/full/10....

Dammit got more questions about unvaccinated blood donation today. Feckin exhausting

CSA delivery + ChatGPT is a great combo. How else do you get rid of rutabagas and turnips

Does John Mellencamp have to scream out “vacation! In the gulf of! America!” when he goes on tour now?

Time to start smoking cigars, wearing bowler hats, drinking heavily (just kidding I quit) and fighting fascism.

Scientists at NIH can’t purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications | CNN Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies f...

This just gets worse & worse.

Under Trump’s new policy, cancer researchers at the NIH aren’t allowed to buy reagents, effectively halting research.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...

Had a convo with someone outside of medicine, and I said “man that must be nice.”
Him: “ imagine all the paperwork you hate doing. And all the dumb initiatives that your superiors think up. That’s all I do, but it doesn’t help people, and my bosses weren’t smart enough to go to medical school.”

Who salutes? But no ever does.

New amp day!!!

A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...

@drjenellstewart.bsky.social and I read this sitting next to each other. Every time I looked up, she was wide-eyed and shaking her head. @davidmcswane.bsky.social's latest story is horrifying and nuanced, and I couldn't put it down.

www.propublica.org/article/thom...

This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

DO NOT GO BACK AND LISTEN TO CRAZY GAME OF POKER
It will be ruined

Limewire Wrapped:

1) gin-and-juice-phish-cover-(not-actually-phish).mp3
2) unplayable_file.wav
3) ignition-remix.flac (also unplayable)
4) of-mice-men-spark-notes-chp-4.txt
5) OARCRAZYGAMEOFPOKER.mp3

As a surgeon, I have some thoughts on this. 🧵

Absolutely thrilled that we have a “patient access program” that tends to only address wealthy and savvy patients, demanding a 14 day scheduling turnaround for a 4.0cm aneurysm that was seen on a CT scan over a year ago.

Do you the FDA is coming for my heater meals??

Sp

Saw a patient recentky who is taking horse paste ivermectin for shortness of breath. Pt has lung cancer and refuses to get it seen about. But is cool with aortic surgery. Make it make sense.

Call me if it’s thoracic. #riseandgrind

Book cover for Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin showing a cosmonaut with the head of a hawk.

I read a book and really liked it, and will probably re-read it in the next week. Absolutely absurd and satirical, but with a tender side. And it deals with the Cold War, space exploration, and propaganda in hilarious ways. “Omon Ra” by Victor Pelevin.