Malathi M, MD

Chaotic dreamer.
Words. Sapio. MD Community Med | MSc Global Health policy LSE | Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Kochi

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Losing 2% of body mass in water is associated with a 28% reduction in cognitive performance.

Stay hydrated.

[Malathi M, MD @Malathi90]

The three I's of strategic development - Investment, Infusion and Innovation.

A focused look into the latest worrd development report. https://t.co/1H4YfjjRGR

[. @AdiG1993]

Many people in India have a curious habit of bashing school curricula like basic mathematics.

They think that we learnt stupid shit like the Pythagoras theorem when we should have learnt stuff like financial management.

This is a stupid viewpoint and betrays a half-assed understanding of how education works.

Let me illustrate this point with a story from Sherlock Holmes.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Stop waiting for miracles or benevolent saviors. Assume that you are alone, that no one cares. Take responsibility for where you are in life. Become the investor, the mentor, the friend you wish you had. You’ll start attracting the people and the opportunities you always wanted.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

1/ DEI in medicine means that even if doctors injure patients, they might still be protected (even promoted). It means that top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons. And it means research by whites may be disregarded. Here’s what I've found… 🧵

[Malathi M, MD @Malathi90]

@prashanthns A perspective totally missed. Excellently articulated.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” — Chinese proverb

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Causal inference is much more than statistics.

Good causal inference requires deep knowledge of the data, questions, and reasons for asking them.

This is as true in a randomized trial as it is in an observational study. RCTs only work because we have more of this knowledge.

[Malathi M, MD @Malathi90]

@DrJBhattacharya I am grateful for that meticulously written textbook. Excellent examples, exercises and exciting for sure.

[Nikita Mehra @DrNikitaMehra]

Love how this article published in @TheLancetOncol begins and ends… ‘the idea that one can influence cancer through diet is an alluring one….. Every patient with cancer needs to be given evidence-based information regarding diet and supplements following a cancer diagnosis to prevent more harm being caused.’ #MedTwitter #ScienceTwitter

[Jeffrey Flier @jflier]

For a medical society, or a medical school, to prioritize "social justice" over medical expertise is to declare themselves unfit for their professional roles.

[Nina Schwalbe, PhD @nschwalbe]

Existing vaccines offer 66-90% protection and are recommended for those at risk.

Despite global attention as a public health emergency of international concern, only a few countries maintain vaccine stocks.

That's just plain, not fair.

https://t.co/FMKbCIwvev

[John Mandrola, MD @drjohnm]

Re… Professor Connolly comment

Of all the things I’ve most changed my mind about its primary prevention. I used to think ARRs were small, but that’s, in part, b/c we start late.

Finegold et all changed my mind. Younger pts stand most to gain.

Still tho it’s up to the pt.

https://t.co/7adjSLwE7x

Cc @ProfDFrancis

[Malathi M, MD @Malathi90]

@heyabhishek GPT4

[F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE @fperrywilson]

AI in Medicine is suffering from what I would like to call "The Cassandra Problem"
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[Malathi M, MD @Malathi90]

Simone's maxims.

An incredible, mostly irrefutable take on academic medicine.

[Christopher A. Longhurst, MD @CALonghurst]

Dr. Joseph Simone first published a set of maxims for understanding academic medical centers in 1999. They are so fundamental we often don’t know when we are stealing Joe’s lines.

Learn more about these famous aphorisms 🧵 (1/16)

[Malathi M, MD @Malathi90]

@theliverdoc More power to you.

[Malathi M, MD @Malathi90]

@kentbuse @OpenUniPress @PeterASinger @stefanswartpet @baumfran @SharonFrielOz @HPP_LSHTM @HelenClarkNZ @ravi_rverma @Maheshcpuri @rasanathan @AllianceHPSR Foundation of my learnings. Grateful for the effort and the lessons.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

What is a Woman available now for everyone: https://t.co/6jFqfuKPJu

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

This would be the biggest comedy of errors in Indian media in last few months.

The Indian Express puts out a news title claiming that Ayurveda advises consuming jalebi+rabri (type of Indian sweet) for management of migraine.

BUT, the actual content of the news deals with debunking this misinformation which was initially put up on Instagram by an Ayurvedic practitioner.

Now, the apex pseudoscience authority in India, Ayush, does a "fact check" on the pseudoscientific news piece and warns people and The Indian Express NOT to print such claims - when the news content was actually fact-checking and debunking the very pseudoscientific claim.

But the real comedy comes when Ayush themselves start patronizing Ayurveda by misinforming the public that migraine is well described in Ayurvedic texts and MANY STUDIES on benefits of Ayurveda on migraine is published in literature (there is none actually)

Ayurvedic texts do not describe migraine but mentions "headache" in general in the chapter on "Diseases of the Head" and talks about treatments that include putting cow and goat urine in the nose, burning the patient's skin, making the patient consume fats+sugars (probably where the idea of Indian sweets came in) and more importantly, instilling blood of animals in the nose and making patient smell fumes of rotten fish to drive away bacteria and worms causing headache.

This is real Ayurveda.

Do not, for ONCE believe what AYUSH is telling you. It is the biggest disinformation campaign on Indian public health.