Brian Patrick Murray

Emergency Medicine Physician, Medical Toxicologist, RPCV Bolivia30, husband, father, and ginger. Tweets should not be mistaken for medical advice.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Others were being treated by being placed on an extremely strict diet, which inevitably led to starvation.

These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at that time, certain death. The scientists moved swiftly and proceeded to inject the children with a new purified extract of insulin.

As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first one to be injected began to wake up. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room that was full of death and gloom, suddenly became a place of joy and hope.

In the early 1920s, Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available to successfully treat diabetes. Both Banting and Macleod earned Nobel Prizes for their work in 1923.

In the same year, Banting, Collip, and Best decided to sell the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1.

Banting famously went on to say, "Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."

[armyemdoc @armyemdoc]

In September 2024, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released an updated guideline on RhIG and spontaneous/induced abortion before 12 weeks. Here's the gist:
-Rh testing is not necessary
-RhIG prophylaxis not indicated

The why:
-Previous studies were largely 🗑 and using older assays like the Kleihauer-Betke instead of flow cytometry
-Newer studies (better data but not great) suggest the risk is nil compared to the risks associated with RhIG
-Most of the demonstrated risk of developing HDFN is much later in pregnancy
-Most other societies around the world already ditched the use of RhIG in early pregnancy

https://t.co/s1S40H8SBZ

#emergency #emergencymedicine #criticalcare #icu #erlife #iculife #science #army #armymedicine #armyemdoc #resuscitation #research #data #cpr #pediatrics #children #kids #obstetrics #baby #obgyn #medx #medtwitter

[lucki @lxckiszn]

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[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

The MAHA crew wants to “ban glyphosate” - which isn’t surprising considering that RFK Jr. was on the legal team for the lawsuits claiming glyphosate causes cancer.

It doesn’t. There is over 30 years of data to show that.

But he’s made LOTS of money off lawsuits AND fear.

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[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Remember this. Lock it in.

[SomebodysGrandma @CarrieM38512385]

The Trump Effect

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

A distraught friend yesterday boiled it down perfectly:

"If we won, we'd be celebrating how many of them would get healthcare, education, or student loans canceled. But they won, and they're celebrating how many of us they get to kill."

Tells the whole story, doesn't it?

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

For you assholes calling Joe Biden Genocide Joe. Read this you dumb fucks.

[Brian Patrick Murray @bpatmurray]

@ericsslater @PamKeithFL

[Pam Keith, Esq. @PamKeithFL]

20 or so million votes are unaccounted for.

Turn out and vote counts are not aligning.

Something is VERY wrong.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

This Musk meme speaks to something true which is America is splitting culturally between the college educated vs the non-college educated.

There is however a third group. People who went to college but who think and act like people who didn’t.

[Brian Patrick Murray @bpatmurray]

@SPuro88 I dress as an er doctor every year.

[Darth Thunder ⚡ @XDarthThunderX]

Do you want to see more Qimir in Star Wars? ✨

[Native American Roots @native_history_]

They need your pray. Please pray for him...😢🥺
Don't scroll down without type AAMEEN 🙏🙏🙏

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I've been talked into doing this again before Election Day, so here we go....

I will donate to @KamalaHarris and downballot Democrats $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow.

(84,726 followers at the start)

P.S. I will cut you folks off eventually... and I will do my best to follow back. 😎

[ShitpostGateway @ShitpostGate]

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[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

“It puts the ballot in the box or else it gets the Trump again.”