Cliff Marks

Emergency medicine physician @BIDMChealth @HarvardMed, former journalist. Interests include but are not limited to chocolate chip cookies.

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I wrote about why ultrasound may soon replace the stethoscope, and what its story tells us about the development and adoption of new technologies in @NewYorker https://t.co/DXJrGVckC4

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In case you're wondering what happens when the government increases tariffs across the board, the Times (of 1890) is on it! https://t.co/zVeOlnOAWd

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“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” is just an amazing euphemism

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@outbreakupdates FWIW, given the overlapping time periods for the peds office and ER on the same day, I'm guessing these times include two hours (or some amount of time) after the patient left; would have been good to do the office-to-ER transfer not via the waiting room though

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@khakrish @dvasishtha I think there's promise here but the devil is really in the details - both ED doc and home care company need to be comfortable with the risk

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@khakrish @dvasishtha That's fair - I think it depends on what capabilities really exist for monitoring in the community - if I'm worried enough about stroke to need an MRI before discharge, sending them out of the hospital feels like it's going to go badly a non-negligible percentage of the time

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@khakrish @dvasishtha But also, wouldn't you just transfer this patient to a hospital with an MRI?

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@mlchild Just seasonal right now but god help us if one of these bird flu variants manages to spread well human to human

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I have seen 12 patients with Flu A in the last 24 hours…

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The cruelty is truly mind boggling https://t.co/0uOJWKdDpj

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In case you're wondering what happens when the government increases tariffs across the board, the Times (of 1890) is on it! https://t.co/zVeOlnOAWd

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We’ve raised over 10K so far! Please consider donating/sharing - these candidates need your help and their races are key to winning back the House!

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I'm working with a group of health care workers called Moonlighting for Democracy - we're pledging to pick up an extra shift and donate the proceeds to Democratic candidates in close congressional races. Hope you'll consider donating/sharing! https://t.co/RB3pQUSAMD

[Cliff Marks @cliffmarks]

I'm working with a group of health care workers called Moonlighting for Democracy - we're pledging to pick up an extra shift and donate the proceeds to Democratic candidates in close congressional races. Hope you'll consider donating/sharing! https://t.co/RB3pQUSAMD

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Tried to settle a bet using chat gpt and honestly don’t think AI is going to replace us just yet

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Excited to learn that the fifth circuit believes ER docs have standing to sue government agencies for lax regulation of firearms! (Not to mention inadequate responses to homelessness, poverty, etc.)

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Please God let Brian Cox be on the next season of Curb

[Georgia Pritchett @georgiapudding]

This was a tough secret to keep! We decided it in the #Succession writers' room in Jan 22. So nobody found out we used code on the whiteboards. Larry David meant Logan Dies. So episode 403 said Connor's Wedding, Larry David. Mind you, that would also have been a great episode.

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@HKalodimos Feel like they would have had an uncomfortable discussion about who should do compressions before realizing Gerri wasn't there to lose that game

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Thinking a lot about the flight attendant on Succession who seemed to be the only person doing chest compressions for 30 minutes straight (if Kendall had gotten a hold of the best airplane medicine expert in the world, maybe they would have known to switch out)

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I still reflexively use TKTKTK sometimes in draft medical notes and it confuses the hell out of everybody

[Aaron Lacy @AaronLacyMD]

After using EPIC for years I now put *** on documents and notes when I need to signal to myself or others that something isn't complete or needs to be inserted.

I can't be the only one, right? I am sure there is a term for this.

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If you make a list of unwritten rules and don’t include “stand right, walk left” on escalators, you’re doing it wrong

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@pujalms @khakrish Thank you!