Amy Attaway, MD MS

On ATS Who's Who, meet Refiloe Masekela, MD, PhD, associate professor and academic head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at University of KwaZulu Natal. Dr. Masekela is also co-director of the Pan African Thoracic Society MECOR program. Learn more: site.thoracic.org/about-us/new...

ATS members are invited to submit an application for an Assembly/Committee new or renewing project. Applications are due by 11 p.m. ET, on Aug. 4.

Submit today! site.thoracic.org/membership/a...

I'm a Fan of Fan; MD B&B Bathroom Fan... Ambience

take a break from scrolling with the smooth sounds of bathroom fan. ignore the world open.spotify.com/episode/4L3X... #bathroom #newepisode #ambience

Happy Saturday #bluesky... 😊

Some global issues:

Animal models of disease (perhaps especially genetically-engineered mouse models) are often not predictive of what happens in human populations.

This is empirically true.

But the causes need to be examined thoughtfully.

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The Blue Journal thanks Pallavi P. Balte, MBBS, MPH, PhD, for her contribution to the July issue

Associations of Prepandemic Lung Function and Structure with COVID-19 Outcomes: The C4R Study

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Martha's Vineyard; Nature's Yacht Rock... Ambience uncommon ambience · Episode

re-upping because you need a beach to sit on right now — bring your ears to a summer evening in vineyard haven. ignore the world open.spotify.com/episode/0rmx... #marthasvineyard #beach

Ride the Ferry to Martha's Vineyard... Ambience uncommon ambience · Episode

In the 90s showing up for standby by noon at the Woods Hole Terminal guaranteed you got over to the island by the end of the day… you would just have to wait forever in a hot car where the kids have been bored with travel Yahtzee since Danbury. open.spotify.com/episode/2l2q... #marrhasvineyard

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Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research.

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North Coast Skies in Cleveland, Ohio

Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public.
(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

Every day I learned a bit more and started to feel more comfortable, but I still had soooooo much to learn.

Fortunately, I learned early in my life that asking questions, even seemingly naive or even stupid questions, was better than pretending I understood. Again, the staff were great.

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
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My quote of the day

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

The Blue Journal thanks Maeve Georgia MacMurdo, MBChB, MPH, for her contribution to the July issue

Letting Cooler Heads Prevail: The Necessity of Occupational Regulation of Heat and Smoke Exposure

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The Four States of Clinical Medicine, and a Movie Review (Sort Of) I finally saw The Big Sick. And hooray, it’s excellent. 9/10. Based loosely on the real-life courtship between comedian Kumail Nanjiani and writer Emily V. Gordon, the movie has great word of mouth, i...

Currently attending on a general medical service. Remarkable how often cases fall into one of these 4 categories.

(Hint: You want to be in Box #1.)

The Four States of Clinical Medicine, and a Movie Review (Sort Of) blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

My quote of the day

People’s words will tell you a lot, but their actions will tell you everything.

Maya Angelou

"As a health care professional, I am thankful that the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of no-cost coverage of preventive services under the ACA. This is a win for the patients served by the members of the ATS." – Nicholas Kolaitis, MD, vice-chair of the ATS Health Policy Committee.

This is by far the most common vaccine I strongly recommend in ID adult clinical practice. As ID doctors, we see some truly severe cases of zoster, with post-zoster sequelae that may last months or even rarely be permanent. #IDSky doi.org/10.1093/cid/...

N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants

N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants:
The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

Snowfall; that Closed Schools for a Week… Ambience Podcast Episode · uncommon ambience · 01/11/2025 · 5h

need a break from the heat? listen to snow fall and road treatment from a gloriously frigid day a few months back podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... #ambience #heatwave

The ATS joins the @ama-assn.org and over 75 other medical societies and organizations in signing an open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines.

Read the letter: www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

Cotton Candy Guardians in Cleveland, Ohio

ATS Breathe Easy - Clinical Year in Review 2025 | ATS Breathe Easy | Episode 450 Continuing our series on What You May Have Missed at ATS 2025, host Amy Attaway, MD, MS, of Cleveland Clinic, dives into key topics from the Clinical Year in Review with Sara Auld, MD, MSc, Emory…

Weren't able to join in-person? Listen to the ATS breath easy podcast with Drs. Amy Attaway and Sara Auld as they discuss highlights of the ATS Clinical Year in Review seminar!
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YouTube video by uncommon ambience podcast Vineyard Harbor Waves ... Ambience

Need ten minutes staring at waves and boats bopping around a harbor? This was recorded looking north west towards the ferry terminal on a mostly cloudy day last week in Vineyard Haven, MA. Take a break, ignore the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqk... #waves #ambience #mvy

John Williams composed the legendary music. The first time played the “dun-dun” theme to Spielberg, Spielberg thought it was a joke. He later called the Jaws score “John Williams’ greatest contribution to any of my films.”

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One of the standout moments is the dolly zoom shot into Brody. Spielberg took it from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. It was created by Hitchcock’s camera operator, Irmin Roberts. The zoom effect is now commonly known as “the Jaws shot.”

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Spielberg cast Robert Shaw as Quint. He spent 2 weeks tailing a real Martha’s Vineyard fisherman called Craig Kingsbury and took some dialogue from Kingsbury like the “blue gills and tommy cotts” line. Craig Kingsbury has a cameo in the film, too.

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JAWS was released 50 years ago today. Regarded the first summer blockbuster and landmark of Hollywood, the making of story is so crazy it begs the question of how it was ever made…

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