Colin Murphy

Transfusion medicine, data science, and physician advocacy. Tweets not medical advice.

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@VPrasadMDMPH @UCSFHospitals https://t.co/sqTpOEEpnT

[wint @dril]

"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

[John Sherbeck MD @TeamCaptainJohn]

Triaging blood products orders w/ very limited inventory, to guide the care of patients, is challenging yet rewarding.

Triaging blood product orders w/ no units, to let clinical teams know we can’t do anything, is heartbreaking.

Please #donateblood #SaveALife

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@TeamCaptainJohn This captures how much less fun blood banking has become during the protracted pandemic due to the presence or fear of shortages. Talked with my lead tech this week about how at least it was just a platelet shortage this time and not a blood bank pancytopenia like in May.

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@acweyand As long as the PT and PTT remain in use, the in-vitro coagulation cascade will be clinically relevant.

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@fuzzymittens @emily_fri Lots of potential reasons, eg multiple MTPs running concurrently, MTPs being inappropriately used in non-urgent situations to get 'faster blood', etc. Your local blood bank should track MTP prep times as a QA measure and we're always hungry for QI collaborations!

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@amarkelkar Give yourself to the dark side of reviewing.

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

It is important to emphasize that unproven therapies for post-Lyme symptoms have done serious harm to individuals — long-term antibiotics are not benign. I'm very worried about the prospect of patients with post-COVID symptoms being treated similarly.

https://t.co/pjEOnU6DSc

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@BenMazer All of the economists on this thread have filled me with confidence that, while I know only a little about medicine and health care systems, knowing less is not an impediment to offering advice.

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@nosilva You'll be fine! Assuming you make it past the desk, you'll get the same two reviewers mandatory on all papers - one busy one that will give a benign approval, and another that will write 3 pages of specific points to address in a major revision

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

How it started: How it's going:

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@VPrasadMDMPH "A lot of scientists agree with this petition that climate change is real, but I don't. So nobody should do anything." - A scientific iconoclast

[Joe Chaffin, MD @bloodbankguy]

Help me create a 𝕊ℂ𝔸ℝ𝕐 Halloween episode of #BBGEssentials 🗣️ this month! Respond here with an example of an urgent, scary situation in #bloodbanking (eg, massively bleeding patient during a blood shortage) & you might hear @MarkFungMDPhD & I discuss it! #blooducation 🎃🐈‍⬛👻

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@bloodbankguy @MarkFungMDPhD Honorable mention to surgical resident who called to ask how to order IgA deficient plasma for a patient undergoing double lung transplant tomorrow because they didn't see a check box for it in the blood order set.

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@bloodbankguy @MarkFungMDPhD Moderate GI bleed in a patient with end stage liver disease and known anti-K, E, Fyb, and S. No RBCs ready, first paged at 10 pm and paged every 2 hours by lab or clinical team seeking updates.

[University of Maryland Pathology Residents @UMPathology]

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[Linda Song, MD (she/her) 🩸👩🏻‍⚕️ @lindasongMD]

Hello there #MedTwitter #PathMatch21! My name is Linda and I’m a current co-chief at @UMPathology in Baltimore! I love my program, co-residents, AND BALTIMORE. No, it’s NOT just like the Wire. Please feel free to reach out if you have any q’s, concerns, fun stories....#path2path

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@BenMazer @adamcifu Virchow < Landsteiner, fight me AP twitter!

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@BenMazer @adamcifu Too much postmodernism demanding context 🙂. But we ask people to research authors for conflicts of interest in medicine, and when an AEI fellow who wrote a book about how medicine is 'too PC' says 'stop doing politics', the obvious read is 'stop doing politics I don't like'

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@BenMazer @adamcifu The article itself is nonsense. The AMA isn't currently political, but would become so if it endorsed single payer? Promote access to healthcare = good, advocate for a specific way of doing so and you're doing the bad politics. Everything is politics, insert virchow quote.

[Colin Murphy @Allopathologist]

@adamcifu @BenMazer Specifically this one shared at the top of the nested quote tweets. I don't see medical conservatism mentioned outside of the author's bio, so likely a case of a user looking for a reason to be mad. But it's not medically conservative to be politically inactive.