Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Wife got a ticket at LAX like two years ago for stopping to wait for kid3 to come out of baggage claim and she's still mad and the kids will deliberately rile her up about it and tonight at family dinner she was like I BET THAT COP WORKS FOR ICE NOW

Great work from a trainee. The next step is to better understand why the differences

Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Doing unto others. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

A dimmer light but for thoughts.

Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.

The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...

Whatever he had like 12 followers

Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis.

University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.

U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term.

Remember — this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else.

"New Golden Age" for who?

Uterine atony is still the leading cause of postpartum haemorrhage worldwide. This #BJAEducation review helps anaesthetists think clearly about pharmacological management options both prophylactically and reactively. 🧠 www.bjaed.org/article/S205...

Always look for the helpers 🥲

It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”

Mobile endoscopy in rural South Africa: outcomes of a decentralised outreach programme to improve gastrointestinal healthcare access Introduction Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is a valuable diagnostic tool for identifying upper and lower GI pathologies yet is rarely available in resource-limited settings. This project evaluates the impact of a mobile endoscopy outreach effort implemented across five district hospitals in the Western Cape of South Africa.Methods A mobile endoscopy outreach programme was created and implemented at five district hospitals within the Western Cape of South Africa. Health records of patients who presented for endoscopy across these five hospitals were then retrospectively reviewed. Descriptive statistics were used as part of data analysis.Results A total of 515 procedures (486 oesophagogastroduodenoscopies (94%), 28 colonoscopies (5%) and one proctoscopy (0.2%)) were performed at five district hospitals between January and November of 2024 (323 female (63%), 192 male (37%); mean (SD) age 56 (14) years). The most common pathologies identified across all sites included gastritis (76%), hiatal hernia (70%) and oesophagitis (69%). For all patients, the average distance travelled to their nearest district hospital (Beaufort West, Oudtshoorn, Riversdale, Mossel Bay or Knysna) was 13.6 km (SD (26.6)), compared with the average distance they would have needed to travel to the regional referral centre (mean (SD) 102.1 (66.8) km) in George, South Africa, for the same endoscopy services.Conclusion Implementing a mobile, cost-conscious endoscopy outreach programme can offer diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities to patients in international resource-limited settings, while also alleviating resource strain on regional referral centres. This approach can improve healthcare access and can be replicated in other resource-limited settings.

Mobile Endoscopy Expands GI Access in Rural South Africa

by Deal M, Karam J (...) Stark H et 5 al. in BMJ Open Gastroenterol #Surgery #SurgSky #GeneralSurgery #MedSky

🪡 read our summary here
📖 read the article:

Things that I can’t believe I am doing as a pediatrician on a Sunday in December 2025: Triaging patients with fever and rash in my office parking lot to avoid bringing a child inside who might expose everyone in our waiting rooms to measles. And yet here we are….

@greenhousemd.bsky.social
#medsky

Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

Regional anaesthesia and major lower extremity amputations

Check out the recommendations from this Delphi consensus study!

As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts!

#AnSky #RASky

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Male pattern kindness

When intubating with VL, the cords should be as far away as possible, while still visible. Large cords=close camera=blocked tube delivery. #EMsky #EMS @mdaware.org @joshkimbre.bsky.social

Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority

Job Fairy: Paediatric Pain Specialist in Auckland, NZ.
Apply for my job & tell me what my colleagues say about me after I leave 😊
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#pain #paediatric #NewZealand

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

Saturdays at work be like…

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health - NAM The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has launched a new series of monthly discussions to help members of the public navigate many of the complex health

Great new resource now that CDC cannot be fully trusted.

National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health

nam.edu/news-and-ins...

The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**