Austin-John Fordham, MD

Founder @ QUASAR Nexus | Emergency Medicine | Mechanical Engineer | Full Stack Dev | Ironman | Pilot | For the healers, builders, and future. For all of us.

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QUASAR Nexus - For the healers. For the builders. For the explorers. For the future. For all of us.

All roads lead to QUASAR. All paths converge in the Nexus.

[Austin-John Fordham, MD @AustinJohn_F]

More people should try out beekeeping!

They require surprisingly little work and upkeep. I have italian honey bees and they are so gentle. I've never been stung in over 2 years.

I took this video during a hive check. The queen even made an appearance, can you find her!?

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A couple years ago I had a patient present to the ED with a single penetrating GSW to medial thigh. The patient was hemodynamically stable and neurovascularly intact throughout.

Majority of the time the projectile remains in these cases. This time it was approx. 2mm from protruding through the skin of anterolateral thigh so removal of the foreign body was best course of action.

Patient asked politely to hear the 'clink' after removal "like in the old western movies". I applied a little local anesthetic, grabbed a metal basin, and obliged. This was the projectile.

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@hthieblot https://t.co/qojykCg4Ca

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@CuriosityonX This is Wattson, my elephant-nose fish. His people also come from the Nile. They are fascinating creatures, and play a rather large role in Egyptian culture!

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This is another short video of Jupiter taken on January 5th, 2024 with the same equipment. One day I hope to upgrade my equipment and get some high-quality long-exposure shots of Jupiter's red dot!

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I love astronomy and astrophotography.

I took this video January 18th, 2024 with my iphone attached to a 10mm eyepiece. I have a refractor telescope I got on Amazon for $150 several years ago.

This is Jupiter! How many moons do you see? Can anyone guess their names!?

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When you see a new specialist for the first time, here's what usually happens.

They have a referral note. Likely the most recent labs. Possibly some imaging. Almost never your full history.

So the first visit becomes an archaeology session. They ask about your past surgeries, your family history, your medications, when your symptoms started, what you've already tried. You reconstruct it all from memory, under the pressure of a 30 minute time slot.

This is why first specialist visits feel rushed. It's not because the specialist doesn't care. It's because the handoff between providers is broken, and you're the only person in the room who knows the whole story.

@MyClarityHealth lets you generate what we call a New Doctor Packet before the visit. A structured summary: active problems, current medications, allergies, recent timeline, questions for this visit. Every fact linked to its source record. Share it as a link. Print it as a PDF. Bring it with you.

Your specialist walks in already up to speed. You walk in already past the archaeology. The visit becomes about the conversation you actually came for.

Link in the comments 👇

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[Austin-John Fordham, MD @AustinJohn_F]

Five things to do the night before any important doctor appointment. None of them require an app. All of them will change how the visit goes.

1. Read your last visit summary. Whatever was documented last time is the context your new visit will build on. Remind yourself what was said.

2. Write down what's changed. New symptoms. New medications. New side effects. Anything that started, stopped, or shifted.

3. Pick three questions. Not twelve. Three. The ones you would regret not asking. Write them on paper.

4. Bring your current medication list. Including over-the-counter and supplements. Including doses. Your doctor will not remember. You might not either.

5. Know your own baseline. What's your typical blood pressure? Resting heart rate? Recent lab values you've been tracking? You don't need to memorize them. You just need them findable.

Clarity Health does all of this automatically if you use it. But you don't need to use it to benefit from the habit. The habit alone will make you a better partner in your own care.

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[Austin-John Fordham, MD @AustinJohn_F]

Here's a number that should bother us more than it does.

Only 12% of American adults have what researchers call "proficient" health literacy. That means 88% of people, nearly nine out of ten, struggle to find, understand, or use health information well enough to make good decisions about their own care.

That includes highly educated people. That includes people who are otherwise very capable. Health information is uniquely hard because you usually need it when you're stressed, scared, or unwell. The moment you most need to understand what's happening is the moment you're least equipped to parse medical language.

We've built a healthcare system that assumes patients can do this on their own. That assumption is wrong, and the data has been clear about it for twenty years. The gap between "having your records" and "understanding your records" is where much of the real suffering lives.

That's why @MyClarityHealth lets you set your own reading level. In settings, you can choose plain language, standard, or professional — and the explanations adjust. Because the goal isn't dumbing things down. It's meeting you exactly where you are.

Link in the comments 👇

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[Austin-John Fordham, MD @AustinJohn_F]

Here's a thing Clarity Health does that nobody else is doing.

When you have a new doctor appointment, you can generate what we call a 'New Doctor Packet'. A structured, one-page summary of your health history, designed specifically to be shared with a provider who has never seen you before.

It includes:
- Active problems, with dates.
- Current medications and dosages.
- Known allergies.
- A timeline of what's happened recently.
- The specific questions you want to ask at this visit.

And here's the part that matters: every single fact is linked back to the source document it came from. If your doctor wants to verify something, they click and see the original record. No guessing. No reconstructing from memory. No taking your word for it.

You can download it as a PDF. You can share it as a link. You can revoke access whenever you want.

This is what the "bring your history" advice should have always meant. It just wasn't possible before.

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Do you see it!?

*shields eyes from the beaming sun while pointing off in the distance and smiling*

There are amazing events on the horizon. Meet you there?

[Austin-John Fordham, MD @AustinJohn_F]

Do not despair, Rejoice! For love is in the air, that is the purpose, and you are the reason.