Michael (he/him)

PGY-2 UCLA IM | Housing and transit advocate

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@numble Thank god someone is looking after the $2M+ homeowners in the gated community located 100 feet above the subway.

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@NickAndert It always saddens me that the Expo stop on Westwood/Rancho Park (aka the most direct rail stop to UCLA until the D line opens) is a sea of single family homes. I guess that’s better than an empty lot though.

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@numble I’m surprised Option 1 is still on the table given how poor ridership projections from metro are. I fuss if both 1 & 2 were gone at the same time SOHA would have flipped.

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@PurviRajani @AlecStapp At the start of their careers, physicians undergo 3-7 years of reisdency/fellowship training where they are typically making 50-100K/year (the left bell curve). The moment residency is finished their pay increases by 4-7x.

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@MattMasonCA @numble I wonder if there’s a typo in the report, the previous report also lists 71.1% completion but the station percentage increased.

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@numble 5000 people per hour is atrocious.

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Self-endoscopy done effortlessly by Professor Majidah Bukhari (video playback ⏩ x2)

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

An "expert" witness defending bans on transgender youth's health care

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@DeportosJordi @OGdukeneurosurg 100% of the time it was the anesthesiologists fault.

[. @soupmd_]

Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like at this point Stanford should really publicly step in and defend their new interns

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@curcuas @JakeAnbinder Not to mention Petco Park is 0.5km from the bay.

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@JakeAnbinder To be fair, half of the 3 km radial catch of Oracle Park in SF is water. The other half includes high density residential buildings with local and regional rail connections.

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@numble Really sad to see here play both sides this way. Was hoping for someone a bit more pro-heavy rail, but I suppose she’s still more supportive than Hertzberg was going to be.

[mdb @mdbtvh]

"clinical judgement" is just an official way of saying "based on vibes"

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@ytk_lau The NBME:

[Michael (he/him) @mikeoplasma]

@numble Nice. When will Metro announce the in-person open houses for the Sepulveda line?

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Kevin McCarthy walking into the new Congress with a fresh majority

[Avraham Z. Cooper, MD 🩺 @AvrahamCooperMD]

It turns out that “catching cold” is perhaps actually a thing! This study found that cold exposure severely hampered nasal antiviral immune responses.

https://t.co/PHGqipD1lc

#MedTwitter

[Robert Cruickshank @cruickshank]

So the big NYT article about California high speed rail is not actually saying anything new. It's the latest from a former LA Times reporter who spent the last 12 years writing based hit pieces about the project. I shut my blog down years ago. But it's time to debunk him again.