The best part of bioethics is when you get lectured AT about Kantian and Cartesian virtue ethics for 2 hours.
I really enjoyed the bit where none of the concepts were given practical examples to demonstrate how they actually differ.
There’s a whiff of both the brutal and the desperate about the arguments being mounted against #pilltesting at the moment...
I suspect it represents a dread fear of what might happen if the Australian public wakes up to a wider, more informed discussion about drugs policy.
The idea that the most interesting thing that youth do is sex and drugs ignores that sex and drugs were part of social movements that fucked up the boundaries set by the powerful.
Then when the disease is nearly eradicated some celebrity bees will start telling the other bees the vaccine is unnatural and the disease will come roaring back
The hypotensive septic pulmonary HTN patient: their RV is on the cliff edge of the Starling curve, so ignore those sepsis guidelines. Fluid kills, start inotropes. #ACEM18
#POCUS poll for the Twitterati:
In situations where an expert opinion on an ultrasound is not immediately available,
Is it acceptable to get an expert review via an online medium such as WhatsApp, and would you be happy to be that expert?