Lauren Vogel

[Lauren Vogel @ellevogel]

#MedTwitter & #PublicHealth folks!

Wanna learn how to write to actually reach people? Legit one of the best writers I’ve had the pleasure to edit

[Will Staunton @_willstaunton]

I spend all day writing newsletters.

Why wouldn't I want to write them all night too?

[Lady Glaucomflecken (she/her) @LGlaucomflecken]

My biggest hope is as clinicians, you will incorporate the “Explain-Name-Validate” framework into your interactions with patients and their families and teach it to your colleagues and students.

https://t.co/y1VfqeRTMh

[Dr Courtney Howard @courtghoward]

💯 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
15 years into a concerted effort, we have.

Once you know that what you do matters, you can’t un-know it.
@CAPE_ACME @GCHAlliance

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

Hamilton’s James Street North in pretty spectacular form this beautiful evening.

[Lauren Vogel @ellevogel]

What’s going on with pharmacies no longer reliably stocking Covid shots or Paxlovid?

Only one pharmacist in #hamont had Covid shots when I called around a couple months back. Now none I’m talking to are replacing expired Paxlovid stock?

[tern @1goodtern]

Ten things they'll say about avian flu when it achieves widespread human to human transmission, whether or not they're true:

[Erik Hoel @erikphoel]

They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression.

That's kind of beautiful.

[Lauren Vogel @ellevogel]

@kari_marie @covidsafenetwrk @3M Where do you buy from and are they equivalent efficacy? I exclusively wear 3m but a black n95 equivalent would make me switch brands in a heart beat

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

Doctors and nurses get infected in their own hospitals unfortunately.

But there is one hospital in America that has had zero of these infections in over 25 years.

Not one single doctor or nurse in that hospital has been infected.

Not one.

[Timothy Caulfield @CaulfieldTim]

What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis? https://t.co/ucNwEsRi8H by @NaomiOreskes ht @jvipondmd

"In fact, there is strong evidence that masks do work to prevent the spread of respiratory illness."

"We often think of proof as a yes-or-no proposition, but in science, proof is a matter of discernment."

“Methodological fetishism..." (great term)

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

For the last decade, the sole focus of the media crisis narrative has been on saving old institutions. Let's hope that happens.

But what about building new institutions?

It's rarely even considered as a possibility. 3/x

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

I was reminded recently of just how awe-inspiring modern emergency medicine can be. Had a shift where multiple children were brought in by ambulance for significant asthma and croup attacks.

Thanks to quick identification by nurses and protocols that are drilled and practiced regularly, treatment was started almost immediately. All I had to do was quickly examine them, confirm the diagnosis, and check off some boxes on a protocol sheet. They were quickly stabilized and a child that was initially struggling to breath was laughing and jumping on their parents a few hours later. And we did again and again for each sick child, with limited staff, because we've wrung every last bit of efficiency and error out of the process. Unimaginable a century ago, maybe even decades ago.

And yet, we throw away this progress when we fail to adequately plan to handle surges in patient volumes that cripple our capacity to deliver these modern miracles.

[Carly Weeks @carlyweeks]

605 jobs eliminated. Another blow to journalism in Canada in a long line of them this year alone. Devastating for so many individuals and families. And a huge loss for the public, who will know less about local issues and stories that need to be told.

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

I've read this article multiple times today, and this part hits me each time 👇🏿

"High-income countries do not have a shortage of nurses; they have a shortage of healthcare institutions providing necessary & sustainable working conditions, leading to a loss of nurses."

By @emilie_courval @DrNurseNat and myself. With @PLOSGPH @paimadhu https://t.co/kuhLG8HD0O

[Yoni Freedhoff @YoniFreedhoff]

Glad to see masking returning to the hospitals where it never should have left in the first place.

[Katie Baskerville (She/Her) @iambaskerville]

So, three years into the best (and most stressful) gig of my life, i.e. being a freelance journalist, I thought it would be nice to share some nuggets 🧵 (10)

[Andrew Petrosoniak @petrosoniak]

Video review of critical events is a game changer in healthcare yet underutilized

I've started routinely video recording intubations (my own & my trainees).

Sports has long realized this benefit.

Here are my thoughts and why its so effective

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#meded #deliberatepractice

[Lauren Vogel @ellevogel]

Feeling frozen in the face of the Yellowknife and Lahaina fires? Dr. Melissa Lem of @CAPE_ACME shares how to maximize your impact to take meaningful climate action now

#CMAHealthSummit @CMA_Docs

[Sophie Nadeau 🇨🇦 @sophienadeau]

For the record, the best slide in @CaulfieldTim’s deck this afternoon. There is strength in community & @CMA_Docs is so proud to support this work via CMA Media

[Lauren Vogel @ellevogel]

Few things have broken my brain like learning caterpillars fully dissolve into goo before becoming butterflies 🫠