Brady Olson, MD

US Acute Care Solutions: 🫁 | Assistant Professor of Medicine: @DellMedSchool | PCCM: @UTAustin | IM: @HarvardMed @CHA_IMResidency | MD: @UWSMPH

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

Going through a Cardiology rotation with the name "brady" can get a little annoying, and quite frankly, tachy

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There are few things more satisfying, procedurally, than a good ol’ fashioned therapeutic thoracentesis (or 2)

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Just found out this is a real thing

Can’t help but feel like Scooby Doo trying to say “lupus”

“Sorry to break the news, but your lungs are full of rhupus”

*eats a comically large sandwich in one bite*

*legs spin in a circle for 3 seconds before I disappear in a puff of smoke*

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🫁 certified

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@si_yonce The Usual Silence by Jenny Milchman

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

3 guarantees in life: death, taxes, and the nicest patients coming to clinic with vague DOE and "abnormal chest CT" from outside facility given the devastating diagnosis of IPF

[Rishi Kumar, MD | RK.MD @rishikumarmd]

There’s one universal truth I’ve learned when assessing patients in the ICU - being “nice” is a risk factor. #MedTwitter

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

Only adds value if it aligns with your current thought process for confirmation bias.

Otherwise...

Low, but you think they have PNA? Ignore it

High, but you think they're doing OK? Ignore it

[Joshua @reverendofdoubt]

Now that I’m at a place that uses procalcitonin regularly after not having it during residency, I am convinced it is one of the most useless lab tests out there.

[Joshua @reverendofdoubt]

Now that I’m at a place that uses procalcitonin regularly after not having it during residency, I am convinced it is one of the most useless lab tests out there.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

If you’re ever wondering why the next 40 years are sucking, remember a former game show host indicted for felony espionage appointed one third of the Supreme Court

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It just keeps getting worse

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

The heart was seen to be flabby and not beating at all

[Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) @TSACO_AAST]

#Throwback_Thursday

Yesterday for #WWYD_Wednesday we ran a poll on a 24 yo man s/p GSW to the L lower chest, traversing to the R lower chest.

A few might have recognized this to be the case of Lee Harvey Oswald, from 1963.

The operative note from Dr. Shires was preserved:

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The study

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

A group of pediatricians wrote an editorial in response to our research group's recent publication. Exciting to see people reading/appreciating our study

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

I often wonder how I'd be described in a one-liner if I were a patient

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

@Makaylafae This is an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations on all your hard work

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

Robotic bronchs are cool

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

[Updating a family member who has a medical background]

Family: What is the lactate?

Me: 17

Family: That is too high...

Me: ...I agree

[Brady Olson, MD @BradyOlsonMD]

New pub

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

New study from our research group:

Adults living with children with diabetes, or asthma, are more likely to forgo/delay their own healthcare due to costs — and to face various other forms of financial insecurity.

Led by Koh Eun Narm & @GenuineJennyWen

https://t.co/bEMIm1ugmi

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Candid intubation shot

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3. Teams tend to not tell the patient that Palli is coming to see them

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Feels pretty cruel for ABIM to email that board results are available while their website is down