#Prognosis

Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻

Dr2NisreenAlwan

Short on anxiety in #LongCovid1/4People with LC get anxious not bec they’re imagining the illness but because:1) They’re disbelieved about their symptoms by services, employers & society2) No known treatment3)

MW Hospital Medicine

midwesthospmed

Pneumonia with Dr Wunderink:Great pearl. Mortality for CAP stayed same for decades until recently. Do to either/both of following: *pneumococcal vaccine for kids which decreased cases for kids AND their

Steve Bruce

SteveBruceCBC

Testicle talk 2.0 (a thread) With all that’s happened in 2020, it seems like ages ago I felt a lump on my testicle, was diagnosed with testicular cancer, lost a

Auds

AudsDisease

I would give anything to be on this side of the diagnosis. I have a pink dress, I could smile and say today I’m wearing pink in solidarity to everyone

C. Michael Gibson MD

CMichaelGibson

Thread:If you were designing the perfect virus what characteristics would it have?1. Spread frequently by people who look healthy2. Long latent period for pre-asymptomatic spread3. It’s Airborne including potential aerosolized

Compassion in Dying

AGoodDeath

This week as part of our plan to share #WhatPeopleTellUs each week, we have a story about why it’s so important that we get death and dying right. We were

Mark Horowitz

markhoro

In the same way that benzos can make anxiety worse in the long term, can antidepressants worsen the condition they are designed to treat? Proud to have commissioned this thoughtful

Sukh Nijjer

SukhNijjer

Peter Openshaw explains the local and systemic inflammatory responses in #Covid19 that drive the clinical presentation. While Respiratory failure is the main issue, cardiac failure is the next most common

Tom Joseph

TomJChicago

1 Trump made a dementia confession at his rally when he projected "that’s what happens when you can’t get the words out, you get angry...Might happen to me someday." It

Neal Brown

NealjBrown

Restaurant managers are exhausted, and exasperated by the labor crisis. Restaurant staff demand better working conditions, better pay & benefits. The truth is, they’re all justified in their convictions. I

Dr.Okaychukwu

OkayCorporation

Since we can't test everyone for the novel coronavirus to detect every single case of COVID-19, especially the asymptomatic ones, how about running the common medical tests (full blood count,

Mehul Parekh

mevparekh

The medical hierarchy as my teams pens. The F1 pen. Will last a lifetime if treated well. Can break easily under stress. Enjoys writing words like - Plan: Admit. Always

Monna Wa Chizama

mithisa_motho

The rapid manner in which supposedly ideologically opposed people agreed on how to treat with the corona Kung Flu tells me the ideological differences are fake. The world suddenly had

svateboje

svateboje

guarded but + prognosis about right. nothing is written! LOTS riding on midterms. serious permanent damage. some of the worst in real practical costs re degraded trust in international reputation;

Michael Cearns

MDCearns

The Glasgow Coma Scale is a widespread and important tool for discussing conscious level. After all, "what's the GCS?", barked the stereotypical neurosurgeon at the cowering FY1. But why?! Well,

Victor Velaphi Otty Mkhize

VVOMkhize

The desire for instant gratification is crippling some people. Never underestimate the calculated decisions taken by abadala. And never look to your neighbour as a timeline for liberation and freedom.