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Lesson 5. Write elegantly. The Lively Art of Writing by Lucile Vaughn Payne is required reading

Check out our manuscript in Antibiotics MDPI #IDTwitter #MedEd 🦠💊🙏🏽 mdpi.com/2079-6382/14/5… Josh Eudy Daniel Anderson Divisha Sharma MCG MCG ID Fellowship Wellstar Health System

When tables are scarce on ICU rounds you make do with what you have

Today, the New England Journal of Medicine published what may be a landmark moment: doctors used customized gene editing inside a living baby to treat a deadly genetic disease called carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency. Is it time to prepare for a world where we

However, despite high-quality evidence supporting the non-inferiority of shorter IV courses and oral antibiotic regimens, the perception that IV therapy is inherently superior remains deeply entrenched in the medical community. Ingrained habits and resistance to change persist...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: #foamcc #foamed #meded #MedTwitter

Medical misinformation is dangerous. Fact is statins reduce cardiovascular risk by ~25% per 1 mmol/L LDL drop (Lancet, 2010) & don’t harm the brain, which makes its own cholesterol (JAMA Neuro, 2021). Statins aren’t “harmless” but social media myths are far more harmful 🧵

Exercizumab?!

When I finish my data analysis and it’s not significant

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses (but when you hear a helicopter, think “airlifted fugitive zebra”)

Enteral versus intravenous antibiotics for critically ill patients: A pilot study 🔺 PO = IV doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid…

I've been hearing a lot about this common concern: "Are kids getting too many vaccines?" It's a fair question. I'm a parent too. And as an infectious diseases physician who directs an antibiotic stewardship program, a big part of my job is stopping unnecessary medications. I'm

Hour 7 of medicine rounds

simplified or sssimplified?

Really grateful CIDRAP covered our volunteer project reviewing vaccine RCTs. We're up to 335 trials with >5.8 M participants and counting. "Essentially every childhood vaccine has been tested in placebo-controlled trials of some sort." Brad Spellberg cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-…

NO ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PREPROCEDURAL FASTING AND WITNESSED PULMONARY ASPIRATION A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS I want to bring to everyone's attention the publication of an article we have been working on for some time. Ever been annoyed by having cases cancelled because

Tolstoy with the best creative advice ever written down

Have the month off tomorrow

My yearly reminder. You are where you should be. Work hard and embrace challenge. Expertise never just happens without the slow struggle to constantly improve over time. When things get hard remember that it’s those moments that will ultimately make you better. Good luck all.

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