Tim Nissen

Two under two as a Peds PGY-2. Interested in how to know things well (research methods, education).

[Sallie Permar MD PhD @SalliePermar]

Kids will not be left out of the remarkable innovation of mRNA vaccines! #KidCOVE @moderna_tx

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

This will never end. We can have 3000 million more epidemiological studies but they’ll still be shaming people for the what are probably the safest possible activities in a pandemic due to a respiratory pathogen. ht @jwitker

[Richard Lehman @RichardLehman1]

Refined gold from @hildabast
https://t.co/190gFFy7c9

[Adam Cifu @adamcifu]

Genius
https://t.co/1CZX7hPq6b

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

On the June 4th @Plenary_Session I guessed that 60% of the variability in specialty competitiveness (using surrogate of mean entry step 1 score) could be explained by the $ per hour @audreyamadean

Glad @jbcarmody was listening to email me to correct me The answer is 66%!!

[Esther Choo, MD MPH @choo_ek]

All of us grownups trying 24/7 to get the word out are nowhere as compelling as this child’s 5 seconds:

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

This is an important story

including this-- an investigator asking a funder to incentivize a scientist to validate a lab test with the promise of future funding is v. v. problematic

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

@EricTopol @stephaniemlee @LabTaia (I'm not advocating for the Santa Clara study as Gospel Truth--it has widely-acknowledged, deep flaws. I'm only saying the math of the Buzzfeed piece's criticism doesn't add up.)

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

@EricTopol @stephaniemlee @LabTaia Correct me if I’m wrong, but per Buzzfeed Dr. Wang was concerned that the test undercounts infections. Missing 27% of infections, as Dr. Wang found, would make COVID appear *more* deadly. Overcounting (false +s) is what would drop the IFR and give false reassurance.

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

@amylpeterson No weird corona dreams, but I start feeling nervous and uncomfortable any time two characters on a TV show are within six feet.

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

Come on, America. We can do this. Stay home.

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

@BlakeUmberham @JakeXavier_ 2/2 ... and spending MS4 Christmas with family isn’t going to make medicine easy. (Not that that’s Jake’s perspective—just that it’s a common one.)

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

@BlakeUmberham @JakeXavier_ I’m not saying lock med students out of the hospital on holidays. Learning is awesome—maybe there’s a fascinating case on Christmas. But when I hear advocacy for med students to work holidays it’s often because “medicine shouldn’t be easy”...

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

Academic institution news releases should be *less* misleading and hyperbolic than popular press, not more.

[Cullen Taniguchi, MD @TaniguchiMD]

More hyperbole from the @harvardmed communications Dept. This is an organ on a chip experiment that showed that pancreatic tumors might invade blood vessels. Interesting but irrelevant 👇🏼👇🏼 https://t.co/cuwMqp3KIv

[Doc Around the Clock @DocAroundThClok]

[1st day as doctor]

surgeon: [answering page] how can I help

me: my patient has a toy fish stuck in his GI tract

surgeon: can you be more specific?

me: Nemo

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

Little-known fact: MS4 doesn’t end when your degree is conferred. It officially ends when typing “n” into Chrome autocompletes to “https://t.co/20krVRfQ3K” instead of “https://t.co/BRPzWMyIbQ”.

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

@cbspears Strong work redeeming a once-thought-irredeemable (ok maybe just by me) tweet format.

[John Mandrola, MD @drjohnm]

Wow. This is a brilliant analysis, one that transcends the false notion that digoxin is a killer drug.
RCTs aren’t perfect, but they are so much better than observational data. Read, save, cite this really cool paper in EHJ. H/t @johnwmcevoy

[Tim Nissen @timnissen]

The oft-overlooked upside to publication bias is that you can read only the article title, assume the trial was positive, and then change your practice based on the title. Keeps you from having to waste time reading the abstract.

(I kid, I kid.)