Ana Moran

Infectious Diseases Specialist. Clinical Associate Professor Creighton University School of Medicine and Barrow Neurological Institute. Tweets are my own.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

People consistently use the best-case scenario when making their “most realistic” future predictions

In 4 experiments (N = 2,900) we found that people use a BEST CASE HEURISTIC when making predictions about relationships, politics, and the pandemic. https://t.co/NzQ97J51xp

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

@AaronGoodman33 @ABIMcert Is it real or spam? And if it is real, can they actually force doctors to re certify this way? I thought one could do it every ten year or yearly credits…

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

@VPrasadMDMPH @AaronGoodman33 I received too! This morning.

[John P Erwin III MD MBA MACC (#BigPoppy ) @HeartOTXHeartMD]

"The foundation of medicine is love"-- Paracelsus. 1493-1541

[Lucy McBride, MD @drlucymcbride]

@VIDUS1999 I think many forces fuel the "just do something" bias: 1) pts' desire to leave w a prescription 2) liability assoc'd w restraint (see: emergency medicine) 3) TIME required for MDs to explain data/nuance. Prescribing a Zpack is easier than explaining to a pt why they don't need it

[Monica Gandhi MD, MPH @MonicaGandhi9]

"Fathers and teachers, what is hell? I maintain it is the suffering of being no longer able to love".
Father Zosima, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

@drlucymcbride Perhaps there is both the “need to do something” and patient’s expectation of not walking away “empty handed” from the medical visit?

[Monica Gandhi MD, MPH @MonicaGandhi9]

COCCIDIODOMYCOSIS (will call "cocci" now) - Want to do a thread on this important fungal infection due to exciting new advances. Cocci is an "endemic" fungus- means endemically exists in the soil in some regions based on conditions. It is also "dimorphic" which means exists as

[Barbara Trautner @bwtrautner]

Acculturation was inversely correlated with Hispanic patients' use of antibiotics from non-prescription sources; high co-pays and clinic language barriers also drove intent to use non-prescription antibiotics
https://t.co/61o1S7U4Mr

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The happiest people in the world are the ones who:

• love what they're doing
• accept things that they can't change
• find pleasure in doing things
• continue to grow and evolve
• practice humility
• expect less
• enjoy and appreciate little things in life

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

- Aristotle

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

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[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Something to brighten your day.. 😊

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

@DrScottBalsitis @DLeonhardt @DrJBhattacharya @CDCgov Agree. Even a 1/million risk is larger than ZERO benefit.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. https://t.co/st7WrF482f

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

In the 90s, women were less likely to negotiate their salaries than men. Today, they're more likely to ask... but still get fewer raises.

The solution is not to encourage women to advocate for themselves. It’s to change the stereotypes and systems that are biased against them.

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

@DGlaucomflecken Misery likes company?

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

“The right question is not ‘what do I want?’, but ‘Is what I want worth wanting?’ The answer comes from introspection, self-awareness, and discernment.” Matthew Croasmun

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

@SameerKeoleMD Is the tweet you retweeted real? If I didn’t know any better, I would think it is reporting facts from a low income country with a deeply corrupt government and no true democracy…

[Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg]

Our new preprint is out: We reanalyze & expand the highly-influential Boston school mask study by Cowger et al published in @NEJM
- Our expanded sample actually found higher case rates (not significant) in the masking districts
- The authors' original findings did not hold up when not using the very specific Callaway Sant'Anna Diff in Diff methodology which we argue was inappropriate to use given the data they had
-We show districts that dropped masks 1st had the biggest drop in cases (!)
-We found prior immunity could explain up to 2/3 of the variation in case rates (!)

We discuss in detail why causal inference was inappropriate in the original paper (https://t.co/sBZoyXLKE7) including statements about masks effectively reducing cases or being able to help mitigate structural racism

Very grateful to have been able to work with this incredible team:
@AChandra_TO @ShamezLadhani @VPrasadMDMPH & Ram Duriseti

Hopefully the peer reviewed version of our paper will be available soon. In the meantime, we welcome feedback of course!
Our raw data, as always, are available on my github; link in the article
https://t.co/Wtfjs3oovm

(if you ask me our paper should have been published under statistics rather than physics, but I guess arXiv disagreed!)

[Ana Moran @VIDUS1999]

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