M.Bernie MD

⚕🩺 👨🏽‍⚕️ 𖠗-Doctor by day,Tweeter by night. Views my own. Here for the tweetorials & memes. Personal🐥:@mikebernie7

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Daniel Cressy, 23, becomes the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

Beautiful chart: the collapse in cardiovascular mortality over the last 100 years

What happens when we add anti-lipoprotein(a), anti-IL6, anti-NLRP3, oral anti-PCSK9...?

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

In my opinion this is going to fail so badly and so quickly that anyone who shorts their stock may walk out with generational wealth, and I’m not being hyperbolic here.

It’s clear they consulted no radiologists/ statisticians regarding current imaging limitations.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[𝓔𝓿𝓪𝓷 @Baltlol]

if I woke up to a pony playing a keyboard after surgery I would assume I passed away

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

Gosh darn it! That pelvic reconstruction doctor is going to be so disappointed that his moniker has been stolen!

[New York Post @nypost]

Notorious vagrant known as 'Pee Pee Poo Poo Man' arrested on horrifying new charges https://t.co/S8135DDvSP

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

The @WSJ coming in with that world renowned and hard hitting journalism.

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

I will attempt to translate to Gen Z.

*ahem*
no cap. this study is straight fire. Lowkey this paper ate, the glow up insane. Is this true looksmaxxing or just mogging with a tan? Aura points. Fr fr. Dead. On God.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Men, eat your carrots.

Beta-carotene supplementation makes men’s faces look more attractive and healthy.

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

By the late 1800s, Southey Tubes were utilized. Basically a paracentesis for the legs. It was slow but there was objective evidence of symptomatic improvement. It had many issues including poor healing and infection risk. It was phased out with improvements in diuretic medication

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

The Eber Papyrus (1550 BCE) of Ancient Egypt are one of the first recorded instances of Heart Failure. They describe “fullness of his heart”, “heart is overloaded”, and “the heart is weak”.

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

Early treatments were with methods for volume removal. How did they do this?
- bloodletting (sometimes leeches)
-emetics
-laxatives
-diaphoretics

[Max Jordan Nguemeni @MaxJordan_N]

The smartest doctors in America are actually nephrologists and ID doctors, probably. They essentially take a big $ cut to study complex systems for 2-3 more years; there’s no big pay day at the end, so they’re in it for the love of the game. You can’t tell in other specialties😅

[Simplify Rx 📱 @simplify_drugs]

Cephalosporins were discovered from sewage water ✅

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

Gif of the day:

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

Word of the day: edentulism- the chronic often irreversible condition of missing teeth, ranging from partial to complete loss (I.e toothlessness).

[M.Bernie MD @mbzbmd]

Do you love medical etymology (the study of word histories)? I do!

Fun word of the day:
Gauze-n.- bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings. It comes from Arabic, named after Gaza, the place, due to its history of being a textile hub.