Sarah Al Qassimi

physician | eosinophil enthusiast | poetry bot | #WomenInMedicine

[Sarah Al Qassimi @SarahAlQue]

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."

[Fin Moorhouse @finmoorhouse]

I love this photo from the Artemis II archive

The blurry hand of someone who has travelled further from Earth than anyone in history

[Jamal Fakhro @jfakhro_58700]

التعليم النظامي للبنات في دول مجلس التعاون .

[Vitor Borin P. de Souza @vitorborin_]

Probably the most uninformative figure ever created

[Mahamad @Droodkin]

everyone today has been working 24/7

[Roger @rdd147]

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance.

https://t.co/ciPB3DdR2J

[David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink]

Just amazing to watch deaths from cervical cancer plummet as HPV vaccination coverage increases
https://t.co/4nJhaaaSD7

[Todd C. Lee @DrToddLee]

Today in @NEJM we show that cefazolin should be the preferred agent for MSSA bacteremia

https://t.co/BCVDzDfUqL

We also show in @TheLancet that penicillin should be preferred to anti-staphyloccal penicilins for PSSA

https://t.co/X3JSm7NxJG

@snap_trial @RIMUHC1

[Takahiro Matsuo (Taka), MD @TakaMatsuo_ID]

【The 2026 FIFA World Cup: Communicable disease risks and advice for visitors to Canada, the United States, and Mexico】Travel Med Infect Dis. 2026 May 28

👉Important review on communicable infectious diseases risk!
🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽⚽️🏆

https://t.co/EvyE9BlXkK

#IDMedEd #IDFellow #IMResident

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

Tl:dr version: giving MDs financial bonuses for controlling their patients’ blood pressure paradoxically worsened blood pressure treatment because incentivized doctors were more likely to re-measure elevated BP until “normal” (rather than treat), resulting in many more strokes.

[Aamer @IbnKulthum]

The actual translation is far more poetic. “From here the first letter of literacy was launched towards every corner of Earth.”

[Trudy Wu, MD @TrudyWuMD]

Incredibly touched by this. Please take a minute to read today. An important message for physicians everywhere

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Sleeping <6h a night for 2 weeks reduces cognitive performance equal to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation.

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

NASA has launched a website where you can follow the Artemis II mission to the Moon in real time 👩‍🚀

Absolutely amazing.

Link 🔗👇

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

How outcomes in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma changed, from 1986 to 2026

[ernie @sullenpoetry]

book depository youll always be missed

[NEJM @NEJM]

Presented at the 15th European Lupus Meeting:

In patients with SLE without advanced lupus nephritis, obinutuzumab plus standard therapy was superior to placebo plus standard therapy in conferring and sustaining a clinically meaningful reduction in disease activity over 52 weeks. Full phase 3 ALLEGORY trial results: https://t.co/KykhH0rJ3L

#SLEuro | @SLEuroSociety

[Claire Penis @ZeroSuitCamus]

Hayao Miyazaki: I need a normal man to animate a normal beam and a normal explosion.

Hideaki Anno: Sir, I’m 23 years old and I’m insane. What if the beam and explosion were absolutely unreal instead of normal?

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

In the ruins of Shifa hospital and despite the genocidal war on Gaza 168 Palestinian medical doctors graduated yesterday as board specialists in different medical fields.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Trikafta is one of the most inspiring medical advances in decades.

Approved in 2019, the drug at first makes cystic fibrosis patients vomit up mucus for a whole day.

But while they lose that day, they gain a lifetime–a healthy, *normal length* lifetime.

It's a miracle drug.