Quote 🧵 It’s not just random luck that the Australian Olympic team athletes are protecting their health & Olympic performance with high quality respirators It’s an evidence based, well planned strategy devised by Dr Carolyn Broderick, medical director of Aus Olympic team

Disciplinary literacy - The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how a mathematician operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and even teachers!) reflect on this.

Telling the prognosis is challenging. It is better not to be definitive at first. But it is also not helpful to be vague when you should be definitive. Think carefully about how you phrase it.

Shunichi Nakagawa So hard isn’t it? I still lean on 🇦🇺 colleagues Belinda Kiely Martin Stockler paper using median OS to estimate Typical (half to 2x median) Best case (3x) Worst case (1/4) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21189397/ How do you do it?

#TipsForNewDocs Patient doesn’t accept your recommendation. How to proceed and document? No: "Patient refuses X.” Yes: "Patient declines X due to __. I explained indications, risks, benefits of X: ___ and the potential consequences of declining X: ___. " #kittlesonrules

🌟STEROID THERAPY - Tapering guidelines European Society of Endocrinology and Endocrine Society Joint Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis and therapy of glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency academic.oup.com/ejendo/article…

Blood culture stewardship Clinical Situations Where Blood Cultures are Low Yield and Generally Not Recommended in the Absence of Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock doi.org/10.1093/ofid/o…

Unleashing frailty from the laboratory into the real world: A critical step toward frailty-guided clinical care of older adults. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 You'd probably find the book, "When Doctors Don't Listen" by Leana Wen (yes, lock 'em down Wen). She argues doctors are not incentivized to find a correct diagnosis so much as they are to rule out serious ones. Math skills (or lack thereof) aside, I suspect this plays a role.

Sleeping in on the weekend may be protective for your cardiovascular health Here’s what you need to know 1/10 🧵

✅ Main mechanisms for low therapeutic adherence in the context of #Lupus Lupus Academy 2024 ➡️ Primary vs secondary ➡️ Intentional vs non-intentional ➡️ Adherence vs Compliance vs Persistence

The many causes of a positive #Rheumatoid factor👇(and ACPA) #Rheumatology #MedTwitter

What happens when stop smoking? #CommitToQuit

Thank you Erman Akkus for ur reply it is a good learning opportunity for #ESMO24 In 15 tweets, I will summarize the trial, my criticism, and why this reply contains 3 common errors that oncologists make because our training doesn't teach these ideas. First, the trial...

Neil Stone I think a much better way of putting this is “Doctors should follow most guidelines most of the time. When they don’t they should have a well reasoned explanation for deviating and should at least think twice before doing so or even seek a second opinion” The problem with the

Medicine is difficult! Standing over my 46 years of clinical practice, I couldn't agree more... doi:10.1136/bmj.q2163 Thomas Dayspring Dr. Martha Gulati ♥️🫀❤️‍🩹🇨🇦 Pam R. Taub, MD❤️💃🏻 Biljana Parapid, MD, PhD, FESC Dr Amar Puttanna 🎸 Andrew J Sauer MD Erin D. Michos, M.D. SABOURETCardiologist Claudio Tinoco Mesquita Otavio Berwanger John Kastelein 👇🏽👇🏽

This has been needed for a long time! Redefining obesity A new report of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology commission that overrides current BMI categories and better defines features and pathophysiologic consequences of pre-clinical and clinical obesity thelancet.com/journals/landi… open-access (such as

A welcome push towards generalist model of care for hospitalized patients. #pcp2025

“That is why this task force continues to say: nothing is better than methotrexate and glucocorticoids to start” - Josef Smolen, on RA treatment #EULAR2025 Dr. John Cush

FREE ACR Rheumatology Virtual Grand Rounds! Bring high-quality #rheum education straight to your residency program. 📚 27 recorded didactic sessions with synced slides + embedded assessments 🎓 Free, open access for residency programs 🩺 No rheumatologist on staff? No problem.