Teresa Leisen Sellinger

Editor @physicianswkly @_formedics, NJ dweller, Iowa native, mother of 3, sister of 8, logophile, baker, Broadway musical fanatic, and yacht rock aficionado.

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Another great column by @DrLindaMD!

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🧑‍⚕️Working 100‑hour weeks as a #resident wasn’t a rite of passage—it was a hazard.

Dr. Girgis (@DrLindaMD) explains why physicians must set limits, drop low‑value tasks, & stop pretending #burnout is a personality flaw👉️https://t.co/b4afeSjrCa

#MedTwitter

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👩‍⚕️Conflicting guidelines aren’t just confusing—they’re costing lives.

Dr. Roth (@theboobiedocs @coopermedschool) shows how to reframe #CancerScreening as self‑care, push patients to know their risk, & combat myths tanking prevention rates▶️https://t.co/0oGPLLXxox

#MedTwitter

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🧠#Addiction is learned, so why are we still treating it like simple reinforcement?

Dr. Fowler (@ExoNeuro @UCIrvine) explains how targeting plasticity, not just opioid receptors, may finally disrupt the cue‑driven relapse cycle. ➡️https://t.co/cjFFz4YoR4

#OUD #MedTwitter

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🚑️#Hypocalcemia is part of trauma's lethal diamond, so why are we treating it last?

Dr. Sodade (@FollowMercy) shares new data showing pre‑hospital calcium changes the biochemical trajectory long before the patient hits the #ED bay ➡️https://t.co/LAuOokmGca

#MedTwitter #EMS

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👩‍⚕️A palpable node in cNI #BreastCancer isn’t a mandate for ALND.

Drs. van den Bruele (@abotty02 @DukeHealth), Mamtani (@anitamamtani @MSKCancerCenter) & Pilewskie (@MPilewskie @umichmedicine) explain how AUS may allow more patients to opt for #SLNB👉️https://t.co/uUJtDAqBmO

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Support local physicians and nurses--let Valley Health know that bringing in private equity and firing those who actually care for patients is reprehensible. https://t.co/Cgquq87Lkr

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Love me some MedLaw--always interesting, always useful information

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📃If you think you understand your #EmploymentContract, you probably don’t.

Dr. #MedLaw reveals employer‑friendly traps buried in #compensation formulas, termination terms, non‑competes, & more, & how clinicians can protect themselves▶️https://t.co/SB4n9j8jzp

#MedTwitter

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💊The drug label evolves only if we speak up. Yet most ADRs never make it into the system.

In this column, Dr. Sheil explains how underreporting is sabotaging #pharmacovigilance and what true patient‑centered safety should look like.
👉️https://t.co/j0XCxxCYt1

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[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Hey @WIRED, how about interviewing neuroscientists who are actually studying the brains of people with #LongCovid? I'm available, and so are many others in the field.

"When the brain gets stuck in a feedback loop of fight or flight" What does that even mean? #Pseudoscience

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⚔️When families weaponize conflicting directives, clinicians get stuck in the crossfire.

Dr. #MedLaw explains why—without a named healthcare #proxy—dueling documents & feuding relatives leave one path forward. Find out what it is.
👉️https://t.co/bToggEHTPS

#MedTwitter

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⬛️Predictive tools shouldn’t be black boxes.

Dr. Fuchs (@FuchsTom, @amsterdamumc), discusses the clinician‑friendly ML models his team & @MSBase_Registry partners built to provide individualized 5-year progression risk estimates in #MS➡️ https://t.co/eONm4TsCOo

#NeuroTwitter

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😬#ALD management is rife with avoidable errors.

Check out the 11 most common pitfalls, according to Dr. H. Janaka da Silva (@MedicineUoK) et al, & how to avoid them.
👉️https://t.co/J08HN5AFZG

#MedTwitter #Cirrhosis

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🫗We screen for smoking but ignore the water.

John Leppert, MD (@johnleppert @StanfordMed @VAPaloAlto) et al researched the metals most strongly linked to bladder, prostate, & urothelial cancers.
Learn more➡️ https://t.co/vRzCxmyuT5

#MedTwitter

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I've never been at a medical conference where the results have been greeted with a standing ovation

Tremendous breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment

Through science

Hard work, rigorous research, clinical trials.

Science

Not the quack pseudoscience of social media

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I had the honor & pleasure of interviewing Christopher Gage @gagecb3 for this feature--wonderful guy & incredible research!

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🚑️#Naloxone is increasingly reaching people who #overdose before #EMS arrives.

Christopher Gage, MHS, NRP (@NREMT, @OSUPublicHealth) explains how layperson intervention is reshaping the front lines of the #opioid epidemic & why it's good news👉️https://t.co/YN91t8k6g2

#EMT

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@jamessellinger

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👩‍⚖️Son with a #proxy. Spouse acting in good faith. Both demanding that the other be shut out. What's a physician to do?

In this column, Dr. #MedLaw, MD, JD, walks clinicians through the only legally defensible path forward➡️https://t.co/SRNhdcISzX

#MedTwitter #MedMal

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🚨A 140% surge in #GLP‑1 prescribing. A 34% plunge in metabolic #bariatric surgery.

#Obesity care is tilting hard & not necessarily in patients’ favor. Dr. Tsai (@Thomasctsai @AmCollSurgeons @BrighamSurgery) et al reported on the trend👉️ https://t.co/w2LTuUrkF2

#MedTwitter

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📲A physician's credibility is their currency—& 1 bad social media sponsorship can bankrupt it.

Dr. Gray (@mededitpodcast) joins Dr. McDonald (@AlexMMTri @KPSCALnews) to talk #SocialMedia boundaries, transparency, & protections.

Tune in🎧️ https://t.co/uO4SGByv87

#MedTwitter

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🚺️ Empiric #vaginitis treatment is failing millions of women.

Dr. Brown (@DukeMedSchool, @BillionToOneInc) explains why outdated diagnostics miss coinfections, fuel recurrence & drive up costs, & why #NAATs should be the new standard 👉️https://t.co/HekOXHVgDO

#OBGYNTwitter

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Another great column by @frankbrodkey!

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🏥#CriticalCare is rife with standard-of-care #ICU interventions that never earned the evidence.

Dr. @frankbrodkey (@uwsmph) shares why outdated practices like lactate‑guided #resuscitation & #thrombolytics for minor ischemic stroke refuse to die.
👉️https://t.co/RWUYcOBikJ