Did you ever wonder why our marrow is located inside of our *bones*, #MedTwitter? There’s no a priori anatomical reason it should be sited there. Blood cells could form in our spleens & livers, as they do during our fetal lives; or elsewhere, as in some animals. Let’s discuss! /1
Labs often confuse patients by reporting reference ranges but do not show the at risk cut points. See below regarding apoB concentrations. Please be sure to request and check apoB when you are due for your next lipid panel.
if you’re at Thanksgiving and someone says their decision to not get vaccinated doesn’t affect anyone else, cut your slice of pie like this to demonstrate how that is very untrue
Winner of 2020’s new kanji contest in Japan: the character 座 (seat), ingeniously redesigned as a neologism for “social distance.”
Note the two 人(person) radicals in the original 座are now positioned farther away from one another!
Runners up: https://t.co/QnakoWGJJb
Oregon just voted to decriminalize all drugs, according to the New York Times and the AP. It’s a major step toward ending the war on drugs. https://t.co/1VP6Tbfrsh
I hope and pray that the passings of Justice Scalia and now Justice Ginsburg don’t also herald the end of an era they modeled in their own relationship — when deep friendship could flourish across profound disagreements.