Gasman

Cardiac Anaesthesiologist, regional and airway enthusiast. Dad and Husband. Tree Hugger. Vaxxer. Doggophiliac. Truth. Justice.

[Pastor Alex @PastorAlexLove]

Dear Atheists

Please explain how the “meteor” hit all the dinosaurs but missed all the cavemen?

I will wait…

[Gasman @moshicoli]

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[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

Do you know why so many of my colleagues burned out?

Because they spent all day in ICUs with dying patients, exhausted, short-staffed, calling families, postponing ordinary care because the hospital was full.

Then they went home and saw people like you telling them it was exaggerated, that the hospitals weren’t really overwhelmed, that they were lying, or that they were part of some political scam.

Imagine doing that work all day and then being told by someone who wasn’t there that what you just lived through didn’t happen.

That contempt had a cost. And healthcare workers paid it.

[Gasman @moshicoli]

@gdequeiroz virtue

[Gasman @moshicoli]

@gdequeiroz Is this a new thing to virtual signal about? Who cares? The slides look neat and do their job. I can get slides done and edited to my style in an hour instead of a weekend.

[David Gokhman @David_Gokhman]

Humans are far more prone to degenerative skeletal diseases than other apes. Our new @Nature paper uncovers the genetic changes that shaped our skeleton and uncovers a major clue to why it is so vulnerable to degeneration.🧵👇
https://t.co/AADspJAyQn

[Oom Rugby @Oom_Rugby]

🚨AN ELLIS PARK AUTOPSY🚨

What really happened that day at Ellis Park? And what can we take away ahead of the Boks' visit to Perth on Sunday.

https://t.co/6LeT9KSnO4

[𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 @Anaes_Journal]

Structural training solutions in regional anaesthesia

• Failing to execute a PNB successfully does not compromise immediate patient safety.

• Adding a mandatory assessment framework does not create more clinical cases or free up consultant time.

#anaesthesia #regionalanaesthesia #regionalanesthesia #MedTwitter

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[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

Some thoughts on burnout: 🧵

A part of burnout in medicine, especially in academia, is that people are carrying around with them an enormous number of thoughts and frustrations that just sit there and fester in their minds, and they see no safe outlet for expressing them.
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[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

The Happy Hippy Backyard Sessions changed my opinion on Miley - great voice, great harmonies.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The Amazon Rainforest’s tallest tree was located on this day in 2022!

The 290 foot tall tree was found on satellite in 2019, but it took a grueling expedition deep through the jungle to reach it on foot.

[Kanwaljit Arora @mekarora]

50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring 📩

1. https://t.co/b5SBLaGQV1 — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. https://t.co/jnwTMhag7e — See every plane currently in the sky
3. https://t.co/xHa80uDH1m — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. https://t.co/FGDaeaU5Em — Live map of winds and storms
5. https://t.co/eIDu7R4sy8 — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. https://t.co/6rFSF1zrpO — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. https://t.co/CGYZQkebbi — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. https://t.co/OppV29C4rR — Watch forests disappear from space
9. https://t.co/rHyVpqRz5p — The world's statistics, second by second
10. https://t.co/TaF47T5vCB — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. https://t.co/Rf2bSlBRwi — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. https://t.co/04wu7wmWBu — Maps from centuries ago
13. https://t.co/gTK4w8An33 — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. https://t.co/jAWtbO5WPd — World map drawn by volunteers
15. https://t.co/cxjImE6EZL — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. https://t.co/1CjzYKCTzf — Virtual walks through cities
17. https://t.co/uNIPhnwR7t — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. https://t.co/NdnjpfPZrO — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. https://t.co/kd2y0XYh5q — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. https://t.co/F7ugSoBTVs — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. https://t.co/HPDMmYnN0p — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. https://t.co/ufusbFtNlj — Real sky map in your browser
23. https://t.co/dwdM45seEM — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. https://t.co/dffUurnOid — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. https://t.co/vAp2FI36fJ — Visual articles told through data
26. https://t.co/X92Recqwke — The state of the world with real data
27. https://t.co/XHs0hqO6HY — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. https://t.co/i7KXiv2P8s — Visualizing complex data
29. https://t.co/Rj6gWA26fE — World Bank's open data
30. https://t.co/aN8jGgsu51 — Turkey's official statistics database
31. https://t.co/ApNx1Wwrn1 — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. https://t.co/RbRiDBa6Xr — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. https://t.co/lE7QGKsfCN — Record of every book in the world
34. https://t.co/wWAYRmFS2V — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. https://t.co/JR1oMzNXYk — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. https://t.co/k6QMPiJNZ8 — America's digital library collection
37. https://t.co/jmjeo55fFX — Tour museums from home
38. https://t.co/TH5nfKRI5j — Download artworks in high resolution
39. https://t.co/NKSBWu1bp0 — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. https://t.co/HYmNec0qMY — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. https://t.co/vR9JOX7ZpP — Free archive of culture and education
42. https://t.co/jqxzniu2cc — Met Museum's open collection
43. https://t.co/QeDnKRWxF8 — Family tree of music genres
44. https://t.co/w7xet4sdwE — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. https://t.co/eeZDFVm61w — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. https://t.co/OVj3vwIEsI — Random knowledge well
47. https://t.co/UqBaX2YpBX — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. https://t.co/Cd2GfXr5UK — Live stream of science news
49. https://t.co/CC4DZtCKyJ — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. https://t.co/bW0w8HImUc — Visualize data with live code

Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later.

[Gasman @moshicoli]

@ThulaniFirst @Mfido_ Beautiful

[amaBhungane @amaBhungane]

The Constitutional Court is handing down judgment on the challenge to the adoption of the Public Procurement Act now. Watch here: https://t.co/CUpt2hBMuD

[Dire Straits 🎸 @DireStraits77]

Mark Knopfler 🎸🫶

Romeo And Juliet ❤️❤️

[Peter Rugby Eater @PeterRugbyEater]

😁

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

I have always hated cats. Never had one, never wanted one, my parents hated them, I assumed this was simply one of those sensible family traditions that would be passed down through the generations.

Then my son wanted a cat.

So we got Winston.

Obviously the child’s enthusiasm for feeding, cleaning up after and generally tending to Winston lasted approximately eleven minutes, and I became staff. Except staff are paid.
Winston therefore decided he liked me. Well, "liked" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. He tolerated my existsnce.I did not like Winston. We had a perfectly satisfactory commercial arrangement: I provided food, he stopped screaming at me like a tiny furry crack addict.

Then my eldest moved out and LEFT HIM HERE.

So now I’m permanently living with an aggressive domestic abuser who wakes me up demanding breakfast, follows me around shouting, insists on affection and then, when affection is provided, attacks me because apparently I have administered it incorrectly.

Then my little girl wanted a kitten.

“It’s a boy,” I was assured.

Excellent. James.

James is not a boy.

By the time we discovered this, James had been James for too long and nobody could think of another name, so she is now officially James Not James, or JNJ for texting purposes.

And somehow, without anyone consulting me, I have become a CAT PERSON.

Tonight Winston and James Not James are both lying on top of me and I’m trapped in a position last seen during the floor routine at the 1984 Olympics. I need a wee (possibly a fart (Im not taking any chances at mt age without a Tenna Lady)). My leg has gone dead. I think I’ve lost circulation to one arm. I cannot move because apparently disturbing either of them would constitute a war crime.

And, annoyingly, I love the little bastards.

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?

Bob is my dog. Bob and I are soulmates. Bob has principles.
Bob "claims" he hates cats.

Except I’ve caught Bob asleep in bed with them, so Bob is apparently a collaborator. A double agent. I have been betrayed.

I am now outnumbered by three furry freeloaders, none of whom contribute financially, all of whom occupy my furniture, two of whom shit in boxes inside my house, and one of whom openly assaults me.

There must be an Ombudsman for this.

The Feline Complaints Commission?

Cats Ofcom? Catchment?

A tribunal?

I’d like to speak to whoever is in charge because this is absolutely not what I signed up for.

Exhibit A

[Robert Kalyesubula,MD, FISN(USA), PhD-FRCP(London) @rkalyes1]

🔥🩺 How your doctor presents to the ER!

🔥 If your field is not featured - just make one yourself!

[Mpho Popps Modikoane @MphoPopps]

The Airlink pilots having a debrief before flying over Cape Town stadium👨🏽‍✈️👨🏿‍✈️👨🏻‍✈️#PeopleNeedComedy #ItsTheSkitsMyDog #PNC #AirlinkFlyOver #NoDNAjustRSA @Official_PnC