MD/PhD cardiologist. Director of 💙Failure VAD @VTCSOM. Good times @DukeU @BCMHouston @UABMSTP @HopkinsMedicine @UFMedicine @UMKCmedschool. Husband Dad Myocytes
@hvanspall I remember reading this back in 2007. Re-reading it now hurts all over again … as I know it does for you. Thank you for reminding us to be always on guard with our medical decision-making. It’s a matter of life and death.
@NBCOlympics This headline has a problem. U.S. Figure Skating gives four medals per event. The fourth place recipient gets a pewter medal and stands on the podium. I believe Max has won the pewter medal twice before. So this is his first top-3 finish, not his first podium finish.
Still have an opening for our Structural Heart Fellowship for 2025-26 at Carilion Clinic. High volume TAVR, LAAO, mitral and tricuspid interventions. >15 structural heart trials.
I wish he’d have put on a mask after the race to minimize exposing all the health care workers and volunteers who ran to help him. As we know, this virus is highly contagious and can still be deadly.
Covid for 2 days. Amazing he could still medal.
No protocol at the Olympics for Covid as if #SARSCoV2 doesn’t exist. Sadly, more phenomenal athletes will be hit https://t.co/cLHeWUUDBE
Holy Crap!
93-year-old billionaire, Dr. Ruth Gottesman, just donated $1 BILLION to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her instructions for the money?
"The gift should be used to cover tuition for all students going forward."
Her Husband passed away 2 years ago. “He left me, unbeknownst to me, a whole portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock,” The instructions were simple: “Do whatever you think is right with it,” she recalled.
This is amazing!
@AlanHawxbyMD This is what we are reduced to … and the people who mandate these unnecessary modules that waste our time then wonder why costs are high, access is limited, and efficiency suffers
🧵 On 6 December 1989 a man entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Montreal’s École Polytechnique with a semi automatic weapon. Separating women and men, he shot the women, screaming, “You are all feminists”
14 women were murdered. Today we remember their names and not his
@BrownJHM@LITFLblog Electrical alternans … occurs when heart swings in large pericardial effusion … clinical description indicates there is tamponade …