Lynn Gauthier

Associate Professor, Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval
@[email protected]
@lynngauthier.bsky.social

[Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje]

Repeat after me.

FUCK citation counts.

Just do meaningful work that you enjoy, do a great job making it accessible and present it honestly so folks can use it and build on it optimally. That's it.

[halifax man @lexisfriend]

This is written by a Florida judge and posted on face book. Everyone should soare a few minutes and read his words about Canada and the United States

[CIHR-ICR | IC-IRSC @CIHR_ICR]

📢 Avis aux patients partenaires de la #RechercheSurLeCancer! Aidez-nous à définir nos priorités de recherche et nos orientations afin que nous comprenions mieux les effets à long terme des traitements. Faites-vous entendre dans ce sondage anonyme : https://t.co/QINgJGq2NJ

[Lynn Gauthier @Doc_Peper]

@rqrd_qprn @ghasemloulab @CanadianPain @queensu @universitelaval @AxeOnco

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Lucy Gagliese @LGagliese]

RIP to the #pain and #palliative care pioneer Dr. Robert Twycross. @IASPpain

[RQECD/QNJPI_PAINtalks @QNJPI_PAINtalks]

ALERTE PAINtalks 🚨

Voici Zoha Deldar, représentante du @QNJPI_PAINtalks et stagiaire post-doctoral à @mcgillu

Sa conférence sera donnée en collaboration avec Sandra Woods, patiente partenaire. 👐

Ne manquez pas ça ! https://t.co/2jGu6ApY0J

[Dr. Nina Steele @NinaSteele17]

2/ a thoughtful conversation with this incredibly brave human hit me hard. This job really matters. What we do matters. It’s a huge responsibility. The rigor and reproducibility in our data translates to real people. Real families. Another grant another paper deadline…

[Dr. Nina Steele @NinaSteele17]

Got off this plane in tears. Not even sure what I was feeling. In awe of the cancer survivor who I met who was sitting next to me. Turns out his entire family had succumbed to lung cancer and he had survived. He noticed I was a cancer researcher as he saw me working on data. 1/

[David K Smith @professor_dave]

So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. This didn't happen because she herself fought for it -- although she did fight hard the whole way to even get to that point. 👩‍🔬
What happened was that the award was offered to her husband, Pierre. (1/n) 🧵

[Emily Calandrelli @TheSpaceGal]

3 years ago, my dream job was cancelled.

Emily's Wonder Lab helped inspire the next generation of scientists. I pitched dozens of science experiments for more seasons, but they weren't interested.

What do you do when your dream is cancelled?

You pivot.

I turned the experiments into a book series.

They became a #1 NYTimes Best Seller.

I used all the money I made from the books to hire a production company to help me turn each of the 100 science experiments into a YouTube series.

Introducing: Emily's Science Lab. It launches tomorrow.

Here's to controlling our own destiny ;)
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[𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐮𝐧𝐠-𝐈𝐧𝐡𝐢𝐧 🇲🇺 @Jcheunginhin]

Behold the men who wouldn’t let me sit in my own reserved seat today so they could do their Important Business. FYI am on my way to Oxford to do unconscious bias training.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

The time Kris Kristofferson consoled Sinead O'Connor after she was booed mercilessly for telling the truth on SNL in 1992.

It costs nothing to be a decent human being.

God speed Kris Kristofferson.

[Alastair McAlpine, MD @AlastairMcA30]

A vaccine has essentially eliminated a dreadful form of cancer.
Extraordinary.

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

And lastly keep in mind: ALL of my patients have cancer

If the defense is that this is all well-intended to curb the opioid crisis, the obvious counterpoint is that there are still very much legitimate reasons for prescribing these medicines that should not be mired in red tape

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

1. See patient in acute pain

2. Prescribe pain medicine so they can avoid the ER

3. Patient goes to pharmacy, is told that pain medicine requires prior authorization by insurer (who gave no forewarning of such and will not reopen til next day)

4. Patient ends up in ER anyway