Melvin La

Anesthesiologist. Tweets are my own.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Hey Mike Huckabee, I asked around and Coke likes me, Delta agrees with my values, I wear Nikes and my hometown Dodgers won the World Series.

But it’s not because of my ethnicity. It’s because I’m not a sh*thead like you who is adding fuel to anti-Asian hate.

#StopAAPIHate

[Melvin La @MelvinLaMD]

UCSF health care workers desperately need new facilities to provide world class care to patients throughout SF and beyond. A new hospital for #SanFrancisco can’t wait! #SFforUCSF @NormanYeeSF @DeanPreston @myrnamelgar @UCSF
https://t.co/xyDnaaZrh5

[Melvin La @MelvinLaMD]

👏

[Pete Muntean @petemuntean]

Breaking - UPS and FedEx trucks carrying the first U.S. shipment of coronavirus vaccine have left Pfizer’s facility near Kalamazoo, Michigan.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

We did it, @JoeBiden.

[JEFFRO MD @jeffsimmons]

#anesthesia What’s the most annoying sound in the OR?
(Not allowed to answer with a person or specialty)

I say it’s the high pitch whine of an ill fitting Bair Hugger.

Or maybe an OG/NG on suction but still in the mouth coiled up.

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Oy

This is offensive

This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how hospital billing works

And its untrue

To hear our President demean doctors who, along with nurses, have put their lives on the line to manage this public health disaster is beyond the pale

[Melvin La @MelvinLaMD]

Congrats to @WCMAnesthesia!

[Anesthesiology News @anesthesianews]

No local #anesthetic dose at which you can avoid #hemidiaphragmatic paresis when administering a #supraclavicular block. https://t.co/DifYK7YXoB @WeillCornell @nyphospital @ASRA_Society #ultrasound #anesthesia

[Melvin La @MelvinLaMD]

I’ve been reading MMWR ever since my second year of medical school. It represents the foundation of infectious disease reporting in the United States. Shame on this administration for politicizing the CDC and their work.

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

HHS spokesperson Caputo and his aides have targeted the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports — a pillar of U.S. medical research — arguing that scientists are intentionally trying to undermine Trump’s message. https://t.co/Qau7yYZH0c

[Kim Eagle @keaglemd]

As sun sets on our summer, it’s time to take stock of the waters ahead. We’ve learned a lot about Covid-19, often the hard way. Here’s hoping that our leaders, health systems, and populace can come together in a new unified resolve to get better, to be better. Life is precious...

[Gavin Preston, M.D. @GavinPrestonMD]

Some medical leaders say all we need to end the tragedy of physician #burnout, depression, and #suicide is resilience training.
NO amount of yoga, mindfulness training, etc. is going to fix this.
It is a failure of the #healthcare system, not the individual.
#MedTwitter

[ProPublica @propublica]

Cuomo and de Blasio led New York to nearly 10 times more coronavirus deaths than California.

https://t.co/S44iCzHxRi

[Ethan J. Weiss @ethanjweiss]

I guess @united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days? Every seat full on this 737

[Ed Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA @EMARIANOMD]

While you were sleeping... #Anesthesiologists are on the frontlines fighting #COVID19. Elective surgery is postponed=no anesthesiologist shortage. Behind scenes, AANA uses COVID to replace VA anesthesiologists with nurses! Act now! @ASALifeline https://t.co/0S6qfB9qBf via @cbs46

[Melvin La @MelvinLaMD]

Amazing work by @NIvascuMD and @WCMAnesthesia in mobilizing their entire anesthesia team and stepping up to the challenge of caring for these patients

[NEJM Catalyst @nejmcatalyst]

How @nyphospital @ColumbiaPS @WeillCornell developed novel ICU care team models for #Covid19 and redeployed physicians to staff an incremental 550 ICU beds within 3 weeks: https://t.co/pt4Np3054F via @DKumaraiah @NIvascuMD #SARSCoV2

[Kashmira_Chawla @Kashmira_Chawla]

Converting ORs to ICUs! #COVID19
@alexpeters @ZATurnbull @nyphospital @WCMAnesthesia @WCMsurgery @WeillCornell
@ASALifeline @SCCM @APSForg @wfsaorg @NEJM https://t.co/XKmvZy8AYp

[United Airlines @united]

This is why we fly.

20 UCSF Health workers, who voluntarily set aside their own lives to help save lives, are on their way to New York City.

We are humbled by your selfless sacrifice.

Thank you.
#UnitedTogether #UCSFHeroes @UCSFHospitals @StephenCurry30

[Robert White, MD MS @RobertWhiteMD]

@galexandermd @SCCM @fuzzymittens Yes I have a copy of the original document this was featured in. It’s a physician who when we rotate through HIS icu refuses to work with the anesthesia residents (or to acknowledge our presence). We are second rate citizens to him. No joke

[Melvin La @MelvinLaMD]

@matthieulegrand @fuzzymittens @SCCM I wish it were