Armand Northcut, MD, MS

AEMUS Fellow @CRDAMC Off-Road Cyclist. Extremophile who gets stoked about EMUS and CC. My tweets do not represent BSWH, TTUHSC or the DoD.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Sports Podcasters: "The Brendan Sorsby situation is destroying the integrity of the sport AND while you're here use promocode DUMBFUCK to bet 5 dollars and win up to 200"

[Kent R. Hance @KentRHance]

During the last drive of the overtime Super Bowl with a 4th and 1, the Chiefs didn’t go to a Longhorn or Sooner to keep the drive alive and win. Nope they went to Texas Tech Red Raider Patrick Mahomes. Final Chiefs 25 49ers 22 Texas Tech Raider Nation is so proud of Mahomes.

[Texas Tech University @TexasTech]

Still the best in the world.

Congrats on your third #SuperBowl title, @PatrickMahomes! 💪

🔴From Here, It’s Possible⚫️

[Armand Northcut, MD, MS @ArmandNorthcut]

Hauling a bike unsecured like that with no padding is a pretty quick way to destroy a carbon fiber frame.

Not exactly surprising that person also owns a cyber truck.

[Gatorade Should Be Thicker. @WinslowDumaine]

Just a fundamentally unserious vehicle.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

@JessicaRajian @stats_feed My family is from Andrews, TX. My whole family, including me, went to Tech for college

[Armand Northcut, MD, MS @ArmandNorthcut]

🙃🙃🙃

[Nabihah Kumte @NabihahKumte]

As an M4, I prioritized high-volume level 1 trauma centers when looking for places for residency

I did not consider what that would mean for me as an intern on trauma at a high-volume level 1 trauma center 🫠🥲

[Rob Dauster @RobDauster]

Conference realignment is the most American thing I can think of. Whittling away at all of the quirky, unique things that make something special and popular so that every last dollar can be squeezed out of a homogenized, board room-approved product to keep a bunch of stiff, corporate suits happy when revenue projections are shown.

[Texas Scorecard @TexasScorecard]

Texas Tech University Rated 5 Stars By LGBT Index

The rating is higher than that of UC Berkeley's.

UNT Dallas and UT Arlington are the only other Texas Universities with 5 stars.

https://t.co/v1nJaJhJKR

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

For example, to prove my point, I opened the podcast (https://t.co/a4TeapBKM2) and skipped forward to a random location, around 37 minutes into the thing (I can't bear to watch all 3 hours and debunk point by point).

At this point, he's talking about a "Lazarus Report" that said 1 in 37 people had an adverse reaction to vaccine. I'm pretty sure he means this:
https://t.co/gYVrUzXWWl

This is the sort of things that live, I can't rebut, but written, I can.

I googled, I found the thing, I read the thing. It doesn't say what RFK claims it says.

The way VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting system) works is that you should report any event after a vaccine that happens 30 days after. This includes things that couldn't possibly by related to the vaccine, such as a pedestrian getting hit by a car.

This floods VAERS with garbage, where 99.9% of the reports have nothing to do with vaccines, because on average, within 30 days, things happen to people.

In other words, 1-in-37 is the same chance that in the next 37 months, you'll have one of the 890 conditions that VAERS wants reported: falling down the stairs, getting a cold, severe headache, ingrown toenail, and so forth. This is normal.

If you get a placebo vaccine instead of a real one, there's a 1-in-37 chance in the month after you'll have some event that VAERS wants reported.

The point of VAERS isn't the absolute numbers but relative numbers. There's a spike in the number of people getting ingrown toenails after a new measles vaccines, something so totally unexpected, this system will help find it.

During the pandemic, lazy doctors who did a poor job reporting to VAERS suddenly got diligent, and the number of VAERS reports shot through the roof -- including all 890 categories, including getting hit by a car. It didn't mean covid caused anything, because almost all 890 categories went up mostly equally. It's how we know myocarditis was actually a problem, because those reports went up more than the rest.

The point is that you really can't debate this sort of thing live. I'd never heard of the "Lazarus Study" before, though I have researched VAERS thoroughly, so I wouldn't be able to debunk it. Conversely, RFK just brings it up out of nowhere and misrepresents it. Moreover, the RFK/Rogan audience have such low levels of education, they simply can't follow the complex explanation debunking it.

You can't live debate crazies. It just won't work.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Emergency medicine consults

[Marcus D. González, MD, MBA @MDGonzalez_]

Saddened by this news tonight. Such a great physician, educator, leader, and even better person. Thank you for everything, Dean Berk.

[Texas Tech University @TexasTech]

From Here, It’s Possible. 🔴🇺🇸⚫️

[Texas Tech Emergency Medicine Residency @TexasTechEM]

Upcoming 4th year students - we are pleased to announce a scholarship for those who are interested in rotating with us in Lubbock. Hope to see you in West Texas!

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Twitter Blue subscriber with 27 followers: Anyone else think it's strange Hitler just "killed himself" with no investigation?

Elon Musk: Very strange

[Atul Grover, MD, PhD @AtulGroverMD]

"Hip replacement patients thought their doctor should be paid $14,358 for a total hip replacement

and estimated that Medicare was paying out $8,212 for the procedure.

The actual amount that Medicare paid out? A paltry $1,375"

https://t.co/6YF2M9Ll7Z

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Jordan Peterson falling for an article from "The Dunning-Kruger Times" is way too on the nose, but here we are.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

“I’m weary. There’s only so many times you can walk in the room and tell someone they’re not coming home tomorrow…I would simply ask you to do something. Because doing nothing, which is what we have been doing, is not working.”

– Louisville, Kentucky Dr. Jason Smith

[Scott Greenfield @ScottGreenfield]

Aside: It is amazing how fast the body cam footage comes out when the cops did the right thing and were the good guys.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.

“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”

The inside story 🧵