Great article by @laurenagoubi@JosephSakran and colleagues regarding increasing death at the scene and lethality of firearm injury in the US. Patterns in Location of Death From Firearm Injury in the US | Emergency Medicine | JAMA Surgery | JAMA Network https://t.co/Qe70BZ4h13
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Our pre-hospital teams work really hard to take of patients in suboptimal, high-stress situations. Still, there's work to be done to provide equitable care, particularly for minority-group patients. @UWSurgery@HIPRC@harborviewmc@UCDavisSurgery
JUST IN‼️We are excited to announce that Dr. Joseph Cuschieri @JoeC_TraumaDoc, Trauma Medical Director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center & @UCSFSurgery Professor, has been named Chief of Surgery at @ZSFGCare. Congratulations Dr. Cuschieri 🥳🥳
@AirCanada still no reply to my DM regarding refunds for flights that I was not able to change through your flexible change policy due to a system error. Please respond.
@Grubhub account was hacked and email address changed. Send you an email but no response and your website requires a sign in to contact you….a little help would be appreciated
Thanks so much for the opportunity to share the stage @ #ACSCC22 with this awesome group. Controversy & challenges in appendicitis seem to always be standing room only! Content is online.
Check out the launch of our newest @PCORI appendicitis implementation program, TRIAD!
Awesome work leading this project and pub in @JAMASurgery, @iyzhang! We so appreciate you & @JoshuaLiaoMD’s leadership and sharing your perspective, & ideas with the CODA team! 🥂
@UWSurgery@UWDeptMedicine
For those that follow my instrument posts, I may now announce there will be an ongoing series in BJS (British Journal of Surgery) called The Instrumentalist.
The first entry in the series is on scalpel handles and blades. Access is free, and is here:
https://t.co/HqsDXUXvDH
Congratulations to David Flum MD, Giana Davidson, MD (@gianamontana), and the team at @UWMedicine, for project funding approval to work w/ hospitals on a program to help patients w/ #appendicitis choose antibiotics or surgery for treatment.
Learn more: https://t.co/BXSkAHC88p
And just like that, seven incredible surgeons finish their residency @UWSurgery @uwgensurgres and start the next stage of their careers and lives. They are making a difference in people’s lives. Congratulations! You inspire me!
RIP Dr. Preston Phillips, an Harvard/Yale trained orthopedic spine surgeon, who was shot to death by a disgruntled patient in Tulsa, may your memory be a blessing for all. #GunSafetyNow
Buffalo and Uvalde have shown us that a good guy with a gun is not going to stop gun violence. More guns won't stop gun violence. Commonsense gun laws WILL.
Demand your senators take swift action to #EndGunViolence: Text BOLD to 644-33.
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Thurston High School.
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University of Arkansas.
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I’m a Trauma Surgeon, survivor of #GunViolence, and have been working Beyond the Bedside at the intersection of Medicine/Public Health/Public Policy to make communities safer.
One thing is clear @ThisIsOurLane
Let’s Go — #DoctorsForGunSafety
My hope is that researchers will indeed someday make SIDS a thing of the past. But until that time, irresponsible reporting and hyperbolic statements are both cruel and dangerously misleading. https://t.co/i3b50VGzx4
Why isn't the contrast dye shortage due to supply chain issues in China, affecting so many aspects of medical practice and patient imaging, getting national media coverage? And how did we get to rely 100% on China for contrast dye?