From @MicroMel, @ASP_MirandaS, @rachelleeoo, @ASPphysician: GL alone don't ensure best practices w/o fb, audit & ed'n. In 100pts in GIM for febrile neutropenia, 59% received rec abx. Heme dz (aOR 3.7) & ID physician (aOR 3.71) ⬆️concordance https://t.co/zhl2VH20uH
If only reading [a physical book] and knitting could be done simultaneously… though I’d think inventing a book-page turner would be the definition of ‘first world problem’. #alas
"Reason for consult: duration of antibiotic therapy."
If you've heard this one before (and who hasn't), read this educational (and entertaining!) thread.
Impaired driving kills ~1,500 Canadians yearly. Imagine if someone said: “Impaired driving is a personal choice. Drive sober if you want.”
COVID killed 13,885 Canadians in 2021 & 6,645 so far in 2022.
So...can someone explain the logic behind dropping mask mandates, right now?
The sad irony: The "freedom" convoy actually had a lot of freedom...To travel across the country. To honk their horns all day & night. To party in hot tubs. To occupy Ottawa for 3 straight weeks.
Privilege is having freedom & having no clue that you have it.
I'm starting to better understand the kind of "freedom" that these protestors want. They want to be free from having to deal with the shared responsibility of caring for others & from having to deal with the consequences of their actions. That's the "freedom" they want.
@sameera_toenjes @BWright_14 The biggest irony not lost for me is that for preaching freedom, it comes at the cost of patients’ freedom that patients’ have the right to access. Not privilege. A right to healthcare.
Stuck at Union GO station waiting for available trains to commute back home… @GOtransit just wondering if a free ride would be considered now that we have to ride the bus?
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Why is torsemide my preferred loop diuretic when treating heart failure?
As a follow-up to a recent tweetorial on furosemide and gut edema, let me offer a 3-part ode to torsemide.