ID physician & CCIO, passionate about reducing antibiotic (ab)use and using technology to make healthcare better. Views expressed are mine, retweets are not.
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How does diabetes mellitus (DM) lead to an increased risk of infection?
I'll often hear this referenced on rounds or in morning report, but I don't recall having heard the mechanism.
As you might guess, there are many potential explanations; let's look at one of them...
Following appalling racist and misogynist comments from #FrankHester, please add your signature to the open letter below and make a positive commitment to act against bigotry. Talk is cheap, time for action. Will you sign? Please RT widely
Whether you’re in arthroplasty, trauma, infectious diseases, microbiology, nursing, or pharmacy !
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Amazing that after years of searching and collating, people (usually @absteward!) still find Shorter Is Better studies we didn't know about! 2 more Lyme disease studies added to table thanks to Dr. Ghanem. One from 1983! Who knew!?
References at https://t.co/1oaAT6Cybb
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BREAKING NEWS: @BMA_Consultants get offer from government to go to members 👇
Only YOU can decide if its enough 👇
Some details below, more in link
https://t.co/qWU1qumJes
#idboardreview 50 M from 🇬🇧 recent mountain biking trip to 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 presents w/ fever, sore throat, cervical lymphadenopathy, myalgia, plt100, AST300, ALT200, prickly rash face then arms, now on trunk. Spares palms/soles. Diagnosis? #medEd#idmedEd#idtwitter
1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: OK on the eve of junior/consultant strikes, we need to talk about these charts (NEW data just in!) 👇
We need to look at them to fix waiting lists & its increasingly clear next GE will be won or lost on the NHS
Please read the whole 🧵 & share widely / RT
Just in case you thought that it was industrial action by nurses & doctors that created waiting lists for hospital treatments, here's something from @FinancialTimes
EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR on my timeline is shouting out one word in response to the NHS workforce plan:
🚩 RETENTION
🚩 RETENTION
🚩 RETENTION
For goodness sake @RishiSunak, stop burying your head in the sand & LISTEN TO US!!
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FPT in CI is now expanded to all in HST in the North East. Happy to discuss my experience via DMs. Lots of pros! Give it serious consideration. See link below for more info.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: With well over 120 THOUSAND vacancies in the NHS, waiting lists just hit its HIGHEST ever level at >7.33 MILLION
Current (& future potential) government need to FIX PAY to fix recruitment & #RETENTION
RT if you want Rishi to fix this mess #payrestoration