Seth Trueger
@mdaware.org
ER doc at Northwestern & @BedsideMedNU.bsky.social interests include social media for medical journals and medical education, health policy, and airway management amateur guitar gear nerd opinions are mine, arent medical advice ja.ma/seth
The reason Trump’s approval keeps hitting a new all-time low every day, and why Republicans might lose the Senate, is because GOP voters are losing their enthusiasm for his agenda, while independents move in droves toward an energized Democratic base. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...
">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...
kffhealthnews.org
Good night Bluesky. Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows. We built them. We can take them apart. We can #LickTheBomb.
there’s a ton of unfounded health claims (mostly from the weird doc) and the author also makes a lot of causal claims on “what happens to you when you eat like this” based on his perceptions of his singular experience which is… not how any of this works
antiscience quacks are often really weird also, no a Bristol 4 Type 4 stoool is not "indicative of healthy rectal function and, if nobody knows you're pooping in the corner of a room at a dinner party, you may have some serious issues
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 19h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
It sounds like refusal to hire more nurses and forcing nurses to care for more patients at one time is a big part of this. Failing adequate staffing, they should try ... paying people more.
um no
Solid Snake Spotted in Metal Gear Solid
Alt: Solid Snake Spotted in Metal Gear Solid
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KSV@ksvesq.bsky.social · 21h agoMy Gen Z employees have taught me that putting the !! sticker on a text means you agree with what the person is saying and not “omfg are you kidding me?!?” (as I had been using it frequently) and now I’m spiraling.
Increasingly demanding is a really weird way to say “exploitative”
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
theintercept.com
not only were there not 4 stars but they started off on the left like that?
🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟@coleurbanist.bsky.social · 22h agoThe last election where a Republican won mayor of Chicago
Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
hospitals want us to do more with less without a concern for patient safety or our own wellbeing while refusing to pay us adequate wages
Stop Saying There's a Nursing Shortage
The U.S. may have less of a shortage of licensed nurses than a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in bedside jobs that have become increasingly demanding.
time.com
interesting that even in an article that is very much pro-nurse the early frame is that nurses are not willing to work in jobs that have become increasingly demanding and not jobs are underpaying nurses
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 23h agohospitals want us to do more with less without a concern for patient safety or our own wellbeing while refusing to pay us adequate wages
It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
There’s obviously nothing wrong with people going into the skilled trades, but most trades have their own systems through which people get trained. Also, I would be curious to see how many Republican administration officials and elected leaders have Gen Z kids who work in the trades.
In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
I was lucky to be invited by @bmj.com to be a Guest Editor for a series on COVID in the US For one paper, I commissioned my brilliant Duke colleague @keishabentley.bsky.social to lead an analysis on "Race, racism, & covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt" Read it at www.bmj.com/content/384/...
Race, racism, and covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt
Keisha Bentley-Edwards and colleagues argue that systemic racism and economic inequality are at the root of disparity in covid-19 outcomes and suggest how to distribute resources more equitably. The...
bmj.com
Trevon Logan@trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d agoBy late Summer of 2020, COVID was the third leading cause of death for Black people in the USA. It’s like everyone has just forgotten that…
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
Wait. Rand Paul and RFK saw a hearing attacking Tony Fauci as a....marketing opportunity? No way!
Spotlight on Fauci Said to Boost Book Sales for Kennedy and His Publisher
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his son, and Senator Rand Paul have all written books criticizing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. All were published by a company led by a close Kennedy adviser.
nytimes.com
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Among Scottish children followed from ages 5 to 15 years, #ScreenUse was minimally associated with developmental difficulties after adjusting for family functioning, with early high screen-use predicted difficulties at age 10 but not at age 15. ja.ma/4blJeGg
Sexual and gender minority (#SGM) medical students strongly prefer to work in a state with higher SGM equality after their training, highlighting how policy environments may shape future physician workforce distribution. ja.ma/4w8L4Sr
Among patients undergoing surveillance for #PancreaticCysticNeoplasms (#PCN), invasive testing decreased 2006-2022, with reductions in EUS and pancreatic surgery; for those who developed #PancreaticCancer, stage at diagnosis and survival remained stable. ja.ma/4w3wdbK
