Great to see Dr. Wood for the 50th Annual Strauss Memorial Lecture at UofC. An inspirational lecture on a career dedicated to improving access to lung cancer screening and demonstrated how to make an impact through a career in surgery. @DouglasEWood1@uchicagosurgery@UWSurgery
UPDATE—Just learned that Eli Lilly executives are raging and furious at losing $20 billion in market cap from this stunt with @TwitterBlue. It’s too bad they don’t see their own damn insulin price gouging as the actual problem. Karma @LillyPad, karma.
Former Surgical Outcomes Research Center T32 NIDDK post-doctoral rsch fellow & current UW general surgery resident @AlexLoisMD led a rsch team conducting a natl study of #peroral#endoscopic#myotomy published in @JAMASurgery @andrewswright @uwgensurgres https://t.co/Hxub0ogTMO
Interpret cost findings w/ caution b/c the limitation of a 1-year time horizon
PD often not “one & done”—need for repeat procedures adds costs over time
https://t.co/7SxkOZ6bD6
https://t.co/m78oMSVeUy
@JAMASurgery@AlexLoisMD@SAGES_updates@ElliotServaisMD@DrShawnGroth
POEM associated w/ more tests 1-year later—pH testing 10x higher
POEM & PD can both lead to reflux—unclear why more testing w/ POEM
One getting too much, the other too little?
https://t.co/7SxkOZ6bD6
@JAMASurgery@AlexLoisMD@ElliotServaisMD@DrShawnGroth@SAGES_updates
In this study, per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for achalasia increased 19-fold from 2010-2017. POEM was associated with higher healthcare utilization compared to surgical myotomy, and lower utilization but higher costs compared to pneumatic dilation. https://t.co/fjdZvM6OUO
So excited to get my second booster! Decided to get Moderna to mix an match with my Pfizer shots before. Feel more protected already. Will still mask up on planes.
▶️get the shot when you can
▶️mask up when on a big group to protect yourself and others
▶️500 people dying/day
Things have changed in our #COVID19 ICU. It’s overflowing with relatively young, previously healthy, unvaccinated people being considered for ECMO and other advanced therapies.
Please help stem the tide. Get vaccinated, Seattle/King County: https://t.co/LRRE00xwzj
Great virtual journal club last night discussing the impact of residents on patient outcomes. Thanks to all who attended! And special thanks to Dr. Khandelwal for "hosting"!
Pls take a moment to sign this. Sam Dubal went missing on a hike on Mount Rainier. Given his supplies and experience, there's good reason to think he's still alive—his family is asking the @MountRainierNPS to keep searching for just a little longer. https://t.co/DOojMbvzo8
How many more people have to die before we reinstate the assault weapons ban & the limit on high-capacity magazines & pass universal background checks? After they passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again. We must act now.
People suffer from mental illness in every other country on earth; people play video games in virtually every other country on earth.
The difference is the guns.
White supremacy is not a mental illness. We need to call it what it is: Domestic terrorism. And we need to call out Donald Trump for amplifying these deadly ideologies.