Tarek Hatoum

Heart Rhythm| Syncope| Cardiology #EPeeps #EchoFirst American University of Beirut / University of Calgary/ Alberta Health Services 🇨🇦 #WeTheNorth

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Last weekend in Al-Khalil (Hebron) Israeli soldiers fired at a Palestinian family in their car. The soldiers claimed the car was speeding at them.

A 7-month-old baby died from agunshot to the head.

It turns out someone took a video of the incident. The car fully stopped. The soldier fired anyway.

He murdered a baby, and almost an entire family, in cold blood.

There was no violence and no fighting going on. No unrest. No stress.

This is Israeli society: am industrial scale assembly line of baby murderers in cold blood.

This is the apartheid and occupation Palestinians are forced to live under decade after decade.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis could have been there instead of that soldier, and make the same decision, and have no emotional response whatsoever.

The Jewish state is a superpower of child murder. And it is protected by all the cultural, political, academic, economic, creative forces of an entire civilization.

May it burn with all its psychopaths and murderers.

[Omid Kiamanesh, MD, FRCPC @OKiamanesh]

New from the @BroderickHeart team I work with: a plain-language guide for patients & families weighing genetic testing for cardiomyopathy. Why it helps, what it means for relatives, your legal protections in Canada. Share if it's part of your patients' story 👇 https://t.co/YOo0BlGDVa

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

When researchers looked at fat cells from people 2 years after major weight loss, they expected to see normal cells. They didn't.

The cells still had obesity. Stable chromatin marks. Genes written for relapse.

Weight regain isn't moral failure. It's cellular memory.🧵

[Tarek Hatoum @thatoum]

@hanihassan26 Well said Hani. 💯

[Hani Hassan @hanihassan26]

شكل�� في ناس بعدها فهماني معنى عيد الأضحى غلط.
جوهر المناسبة مش الإحتفال بالتضحية، إنما بالعكس تمام: هو وضع حد للتضحية بالبشر!
يلّي حدث على جبل موريا هو أفول عصر اعتبار الناس مجرد أضحية لاسترضاء الآلهة!

ومع هيك، بعد في ناس لليوم مستعدّة تقدّم ناس أضحية لاسترضاء آلهة الأرض!

#عبث

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Canada needs more Wab Kinew and less Danielle Smith.

[Omid Kiamanesh, MD, FRCPC @OKiamanesh]

Genetic cardiomyopathy tweetorial:

Two siblings. The same gene. The same homozygous variant.

One developed a dilated, scarred heart. The other's heart stayed nearly normal.

Identical genotype does not mean identical heart. 🧵

[Prof Marwan Refaat @DrMarwanRefaat]

Proud to share that @aubmc is the 1st center in the Levant to gain access to @AbbottCardio VOLT PFA integrated with EnSiteX cardiac mapping platform in #AFib management.We started doing procedures using this novel technology helping advance care for our patients. @AUB_FM #EPeeps

[Hani Hassan @hanihassan26]

٧٧% من النواب انتخبوا العماد جوزيف عون رئيسا للجمهورية اللبنانية..

٦٦% من النواب سمّوا نواف سلام رئيسا للحكومة اللبنانية..

٧٤% من النواب أعطوا الثقة لحكومة الرئيس سلام..

ثم يأتي أحدهم ليقول إن هذه سلطة الخارج، بل ويسميها بسلطة إحتلال !!

منطق.

#العبث_اللبناني_المستدام

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Alberta, watch this carefully.

Snake oil mongers sold Brits on Brexit. People fell for it. Economy collapsed. Business relocated to EU.

Now UK wants back in.

#ableg

[Jean Riachi @riachi_jean]

I had a skiing fall. For 10 days, ChatGPT kept assuring me the pain was muscular. Since it wasn’t going away and I had to travel (for trekking 😬), I finally went to see a doctor. Result: MRI, fractured T12 vertebra, and mandatory rigid brace.
It’s been three months and I still have pain.
PS: ChatGPT never doubted itself for a single moment until the very end. When I told it I had a fracture, it replied that this can happen but that my symptoms were not those of a fracture. So not only a bad doctor, but also a dishonest one.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Friends, women scholarships are available for #RWRI 21 summer school (June 29- July 10, online).
We gave an average of 80% scholarships to qualified women so far (and up to 99% for some).

[Omid Kiamanesh, MD, FRCPC @OKiamanesh]

A patient with Duchenne MD: society values his health state at 42/100. He rates it 65/100.

Whose number should guide his ICD decision?

We surveyed 156 cardiac NMD patients to see what self-perceived health actually tracks. 🧵

[Mohamad AlMourad @MohamadAlMourad]

قبل انتصار المقاولة كانت مساحة لبنان ١٠٤٥٢ كم مربع بعد حرب الثأر للفأر صارت مساحة لبنان ٩٩٠٠ كم مربع. شو هالمقاومة شو هالتكتيت، شو هالانتصارات.
لو ما الدولة اللبنانية والرئيسين عون وسلام كانوا صاروا ٨٠٠٠ كم .

[Mustapha Hamoui @Beirutspring]

الدرس اللي الطائفة السنّية لازم تعلّمو لبقيّة الطوائف اللبنانية هوّي انّو مش كل طائفة لازم يكون عندها زعيم

[Anita Anand @AnitaAnandMP]

This morning, I spoke with my Lebanese counterpart, Youssef Rajji, to discuss the current security and humanitarian situation in Lebanon. I expressed Canada’s solidarity with the Lebanese people and offered my condolences for the tragic loss of far too many civilian lives, including that of a Canadian. I also reaffirmed Canada’s support for the Lebanese government’s efforts to restore and fully exercise state authority. Canada will continue to support the Lebanese people, including through the $37.7 million in humanitarian aid I recently announced alongside my colleague @randeepssarai.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In these days of sorrow, fear, and unwavering hope in God, I feel closer than ever to the beloved people of Lebanon. The principle of humanity, inscribed in the conscience of every person and recognized in international law, entails a moral obligation to protect the civilian population from the horrific effects of war. I call on the parties in the conflict to declare a ceasefire and urgently seek a peaceful solution.

[eveline hitti @EvelineHitti]

Israel’s war on civilians measured in Pediatric casualty rates:
14% in Lebanon
30% in Gaza

By comparison:
Ukraine is at less than 1%.

With precision weapons and technology at it ISrL disposal, these numbers reflect a military strategy, NOT glitches.

[Malak @Malakfakih3]

يلي بيراقب أداء الحزب وردة فعله على جهود الدولة للتفاوض واتهامها بالتخوين والعمالة بيحس انو حزب الله عم يتوغل داخل القرى والمدن بفلسطين المحتلة ويحررها تباعا ونواف سلام راكض ينقذ اسرائيل...
بينما الواقع انو كل ساعة بتمضى بتسقط فيها شهدا من عنا وبتسقط قطع من أرضنا وعم تسقط معها اجزاء من روحنا، لكن جمهورهم ما شايف القرى اللي عم تتفجر وتنمسح والإسرائيلي يلي يكزدر بنص بنت جبيل، لأن هني ومن خلفهم بإيران صوروا لجمهورهم انه المحتل هي الدولة والمعرقل هي الدولة ويلي رح ينتقذكم هو اللي فتحنا الحرب كرماله