Hey is this ID? Can we do a quick in person curbside before I have to run to the ED to see another consult for a traveler from an antique land? Meet me by the two vast and trunkless legs of stone outside the cafeteria
just hanging out in chat with the boys and typing "nominal" back and forth at each other
Mayor Mamdani prays alongside people in custody and staff at Rikers Island.
People in custody pray together.
Rikers Island staff prepare a dining table for iftar.
Mayor Mamdani shakes hands with a person in custody across a dining table where other people in custody eat together.
Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.
In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity.
Eid Mubarak, New York.
Gaudily dressed rich lady: “How could this suddenly happen to a perfectly normal man?”
Doctor in white coat: “We’re still running tests, so…”
Rich lady, interrupting, screaming: “You’ve been doing tests for hours!”
Doctor: “He’s not the only patient here.”
The 2010 K-drama Secret Garden 시크릿 가든 has some truly wild TV medicine, but it also has the most accurate description of a VIP medical encounter ever put to screen.
He got you
NPR @npr.org · 2h One of the most influential groups in hip-hop honors its legacy and the late Trugoy the Dove with a set of classics and new material. n.pr/4cj2DZE De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert One of the most influential groups in hip-hop honors its legacy and the late Trugoy the Dove with a set of classics and new material. n.pr 5 79 369 gary7379.bsky.social @gary7379.bsky.social Follow Where's that hard-hitting political and social commentary that got you banned by the right? I couldn't give a damn what you think about hip hop. Unless you step up and become relevant again I'll have to move my albeit meager financial support from NPR to PBS.
an incredible website where everyone is normal and people know the difference between NPR The News and NPR the Tiny Desk.
For their many sins, Radiologists should have to do clinic visits where they go through every slice of scans while patients go "what is that. What is that. Ok what is that. What's that smudge? What is that? Doesn't look like nothing to me!!! THERE! right 🫵 there. Is that cancer? What is that. OMG wh
If I were a prominent and very publicly Catholic member of the administration, I would just retreat to a monastery for the rest of my life
If anyone has ever described you as a "movement elder," it's time to be screened for high cholesterol, diabetes, and consider scheduling your first colonoscopy.
The rich and powerful will do anything except not be freaks about medical beliefs!
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My god, he’s done it again
Marlboro Reds taste great when you don’t have a surgeon in your ear telling you it’ll impede wound-healing
Making an HBO gay sex show about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern call that Heated Ribaldry.
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
Man goes to doctor. Says, "doctor, I am so depressed. I only want to sleep all the time. I am always hungry and thirsty, and I spend all my time on the toilet urinating. My wife says my breath smells like sour milk. What can I do?"
Doctor says "solution is simple. Go and see great clown Pagliacci,"
“Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved or not at all”: the story of amphotericin B
🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day:
❓ Q: My patient with febrile neutropenia (FN*) on IV cefepime is hemodynamically stable but continues to have fevers. Do we need to switch empiric antibiotics to IV meropenem?
#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX #AMSsky
Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!!
To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.
this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
Louisiana 1965-67 Department of Highways Biennial Report with a black & white collage of highway infrastructure
Black & white collage of highways snaking through a swamp landscape with water and twisted trees
The press has done a lot over the years to manufacture presidential gravitas and prestige, going above their expected duties as state stenographers.
But I don't think any other president has had so much free PR and image management coordinated across so many media outlets, not even close
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Personal announcement: my medical license has been renewed to 2028.
Just listened to @fivefourpod.bsky.social’s episode on INS v. Lopez–Mendoza, and there’s definitely a straight line from there to here. Rest in pieces, O’Connor 👎
Very hectic but rewarding weekend of ID consults. Not a sustainable volume, but did feel like I did good work.
Brilliant gambit sir
if you were in college during your first “No Blood For Oil” protest then now is a good time to discuss with your doctor which age-appropriate cancer screenings are right for you.
the default tone of right-wing writing on Mamdani at the moment is sweatily pathetic