Shazib Cheema

Interventional Cardiologist . Endorsed TASS Locums

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

@LAzzaliniMD Deeply sedated patients with borderline BP or hypotension commonly have slow coronary flow during angiogram!

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

@mandeep_mayo Does ischemia mean we must fix it ? I doubt it. We can still manage medically per Ischemia trial! Fixing it is not inferior either.

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

Today, I had the honour of speaking to the 47 countries that comprise the @UN #HumanRightsCouncil urging the immediate release of my father @imrankhanpti and all #Pakistan’s #politicalprisoners. Along with this, I want to be very clear. Like my father, I fully support maintaining GSP+ as the people of #Pakistan should never be punished for the actions of its leaders. But the Pakistani regime must also fully comply with the 27 treaties it committed to follow to obtain this benefit, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Convention Against Torture. @UN @ptiofficial #HumanRights #ImranKhanUnlawfullyDetained

[Roberto J. Cubeddu, MD @RCubedduMD]

TEE 6 weeks post Watchman DDX ? #watchman #echo @NCHRooneyHeart

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

@DrIHHashmi1 Got it. Stent fracture makes sense then! Thanks for sharing .

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

@DrIHHashmi1 Sometimes tough fibrotic lesion makes it impossible for stent to expand . Pre stent solution is using cutting balloon and post stent I guess is to deploy another stent ! Curious to know the behavior of the NC balloon before stenting

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

CPT code changes for #InterventionalCardiology 2026

[SCAI @SCAI]

2026PercutaneousCoronaryInterventionCodes for Interventional Cardiology https://t.co/NS2MhrwCNB

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

https://t.co/Y7pzCJzPYV

[Shariq Shamim @ShariqShamimMD]

Glad less Cardiology fellows are applying for IC fellowship. Number of suboptimal IC training fellowship position have grown in the last decade and there is huge over supply of IC vs Gen Cards. This has lead to most ICs working 90% as general cards and doing 10% IC as side hustle. #Cardiotwitter #Match2026 #CardioX

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

@Murmur_MD “Direct stent” is the key word here to ensure procedural safety and success.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Say her name! HIND RAJAB

Don’t forget her.

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

@mhmd_s09 .

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

If you're still defending Israel as it starves children to death, you're a monster.

[Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI]

Important Message from Former Prime Minister Imran Khan from Adiala Jail - 22 July 2025

“Never in the history of Pakistan has any political leader been subjected to the treatment that I am currently enduring. Nawaz Sharif committed corruption worth billions and was nevertheless granted every possible comfort in prison. In contrast, never before has the innocent and apolitical spouse of a political figure been imprisoned under such inhumane conditions as those imposed upon Bushra Bibi.

I am enduring the harshest prison term in the country’s history solely for the supremacy of the Constitution and in service of my nation. The level of oppression and authoritarianism is such that even the water I have for ablution is filthy and contaminated with dirt, unfit for any human being. Books sent to me by my family have been withheld for months. Access to television and newspapers has also been suspended. I have spent countless hours re-reading the same old books, but now even those are no longer available.

All my basic human rights have been violated. Even the minimum facilities accorded to ordinary prisoners under the law and the jail manual are denied to me. Despite repeated requests, I have not been allowed to speak to my children. Political meetings have also been restricted; I am only permitted to meet certain ‘choice individuals’, while all other interactions are barred.

Let me make this absolutely clear: every member of the party must immediately set aside all internal differences and focus solely on the movement planned for August 5th. I do not see any meaningful momentum building behind this initiative at present. I am waging a battle against a 78-year-old system, and my greatest success is that despite unprecedented oppression, the public stands firmly with me.

On February 8th (2024), the people expressed their trust in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf by voting for you even in the absence of an electoral symbol. After such a clear mandate, it is the moral and political responsibility of every party member to become the voice of the people. It will be nothing short of disgraceful and condemnable if PTI leaders waste time on internal conflicts at this critical juncture. Anyone found engaging in factionalism within the party will be expelled. I am fighting for the future of our generations, and every sacrifice I make is for that cause. To create rifts within the party at this time would be a direct betrayal of my mission and vision.

The so-called government formed through Form 47 has crippled the judiciary through the 26th Constitutional Amendment. The way biased judges are now delivering blatantly unjust verdicts under these courts is visible to the entire nation. We must launch a robust campaign to liberate the judiciary, for no nation can survive, let alone progress, without judicial independence.”

[Shazib Cheema @Shazibcheemaa]

@mandeep_mayo IC nitro

[Amir Kaki, MD @DrAmirKaki]

Today we lost my young cousin to settler violence while he was in a village in the West Bank, not in Gaza. He is an 23 year old American that was visiting family on summer break. Another tragic loss of life amongst countless others. God Bless his soul. May he rest peace.