Chris Forsyth

MS4 // Aspiring Internal Medicine Physician // UTK Engineering Grad // (he/him)

[senia che @drawntosenia]

Bought cereal for the first time in a long time and after two bowls I’m sitting in the kitchen looking at the cereal box like this. Now I remember why I stopped buying cereal.

[Andrew Sanders @aksanders047]

BREAKING: Jake Paul has announced his next opponent. He will meet Lee Corso in the ring in early 2025

[Justin “Hoops” McElroy @JustinMcElroy]

I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that.

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

What’s That Name: Election Edition

[Chris Forsyth @ChrisForsythTN]

@ReedTimmerUSA During a national IV fluid shortage???

[@GrantRamey @GrantRamey]

Tennessee's 28 points in the second quarter against Kent State are the most the Vols have scored in a quarter since they had 37 in the first quarter against Kent State on September 14, 2024.

[Brock Purdy Appreciation Station @TylerRichard]

So I was looking for a place to eat in Springfield

[Chris Low @Clowfb]

Nick Saban is retiring, sources tell ESPN. He won six national titles at Alabama.

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

HUGE NEWS and what it means: This morning, @USAID, @StopTB, and @GlobalFund jointly announced that Danaher will lower the price of their standard TB test cartridge by 20% to $7.97. This isn't the 50% reduction we hoped for BUT...

@DanaherCorp is also committing to ZERO profit in their distribution of standard TB tests to impoverished communities. They will sell the cartridges at cost and bring in an "internationally accredited third-party" to assess prices and adjust them accordingly so that Danaher earns no profit from selling these cartridges. That is a huge deal. It means if Danaher's costs decline with increased volume, the price of the cartridges will further decline.

Just for some perspective, if (conservatively) 10 million cartridges are sold annually at the reduced price, this deal would save the poorest communities and those who serve them $200,000,000 over the next decade.

This is a massive win for people living with and fighting TB around the world, and it's a credit to years of activism by @MSF_access, @TAGTeam_Tweets, @PIH, and others.

There are many questions still outstanding, of course, and we hope that Danaher will take a similar course with their extensively drug resistant TB test cartridges. But I for one am very grateful to be able to celebrate today, even as the fight for universal access to treatment and diagnostics continues.

https://t.co/Oleh6ThGTB

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

. @DanaherCorp makes 8 billion dollars in annual profits. Much of that profit comes from price-gouging the world's poorest countries for life-saving tuberculosis tests. Danaher has done this in the dark for 13 long years.
Today, we shine the light. #PeopleOverProfits

[Wes Rucker @wesruckerTBA]

The fascinating thing is I can never in my life recall an FCS team get this many calls in an SEC stadium.

I can't state emphatically enough how bad the officials' report card will be from this game.

[Chris Forsyth @ChrisForsythTN]

@CchristmColleen Would be much more interested to see data from elderly patients with intentional weight loss. I suspect the answer there would be much less cut and dry.

[Chris Forsyth @ChrisForsythTN]

@CchristmColleen One critical limitation of this study is that the participants were not trying to lose weight. Many or most of the participants may have had unintentional weight loss, which is a known poor prognostic factor. The authors discussed this in the limitations.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Ya Ya, a female giant panda, is heading home to China after two decades on loan to the Memphis Zoo. To some animal welfare activists and Chinese people, it’s not a moment too soon. https://t.co/R5vqXyTyQd

[Doctors for America @drsforamerica]

"If guns made us safer, we'd be the safest country in the world."

America:

• 400 million guns
• homicide rate - 26x that of peer nations
• last school year - deadliest on record
• this year - 33 incidents of gunfire on school grounds (it's March)
• #1 killer of kids - guns

[Chris Forsyth @ChrisForsythTN]

Either these refs were paid off for real, or they are the most incompetent group of officials i've seen

How do you go to replay and call that a flagrant?

(The vols probably deserve to lose this game just on their own, but still...)

[Jason Ryan @jasonryanmd]

Maybe residencies/fellowships should only consider ONE research activity per applicant. You could still demonstrate your aptitude for scientific inquiry, but the arms race for publications would stop.