Today’s pep talk: if you mean to get the vein and you get the artery, well that’s bad. If you mean to get the artery and you get the vein, that’s just embarrassing
Simran Gupta
@simrangmd.bsky.social
CCM fellow at Mount Sinai. Prior Transplant/Oncology ID fellow at Brigham and Women’s/Dana-Farber @mgb-id-fellows @harvardmed. former @MayoAZ_IMRES. @UConnHealth alum. Dog mom & dancer. 🇮🇳
Wearing my Fauci shirt today (also wore it when I got my first Covid vaccine!) and still wondering when we are going to prosecute the people in the Epstein files.
The long-term damage done by this unhinged obsession against a public servant like Dr Fauci is unmeasurable. We won’t see the people avoiding public health and infectious diseases careers and the discoveries they would’ve made.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
My favorite quote from the newest Voices of ID article out in CID.
Time to Antibiotics and Mortality in Immunocompromised versus Non-Immunocompromised Patients with Suspected Sepsis ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vO28g9
Ahhh was kinda hoping this would give me an excuse to just eat NY pizza and bagels
Your Local Epidemiologist@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 2w ago5/ So what should New Yorkers do? For most people: you can keep on eating your salads! We aren’t part of the lettuce recall, so there’s no reason to treat your lettuce any differently. Just continue practicing good food safety by washing fresh produce thoroughly, like we always should.
My personal hobbyhorse is that Wegener's granulomatosis became granulomatosis with polyangiitis because Wegener was a Nazi so when Churg-Strauss syndrome became eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis many assumed incorrectly that Churg and Strauss (Jewish pathologists) were also Nazis.
Having severe World Cup withdrawal. Fixed only slightly by watching videos of Lamine Yamal and his brother
Anyone else feel that Argentina’s goal keeper is single-handedly keeping his team in this game?
A common question in academia is what makes a good mentor/mentee relationship. CITI training has the answer
The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!
Working my first night shift in three years tonight. My only consolation is I can get any food or drink I want at any time tonight cuz #NYC
In the most dramatic turn of events, every single TV in the bar lost service just as the final whistle was about to be blown
New York officials find Legionella in 76 cooling towers as cases hit 63. Currently 12 patients are hospitalized for Legionnaires’ disease. Read more: https://bit.ly/4wChzc0
Never have I ever lived in a state that makes doing basic things so incredibly difficult as Massachusetts
My new home has a cold stone less than a mile away. So dangerous
Erling Haaland and the rest of the Norwegian men's team are paid the same as the women's team. In 2017, they took a voluntary pay cut to allow the women's pay to be increased. The move came from the players' union, not management.
Didn’t know who erling haaland was three weeks ago but now I’d run through a wall for him
Sepsis Diagnostic Excellence and its Association with Mortality in Adults with Potential Infection ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vkw2Z5
Once I had a patient who was hypotensive despite 30cc/kg fluids and an ICU team member told me to give more fluids because the pt was only on 1L of oxygen. So I’m just wondering if anyone else tailors their resuscitation to whether or not they need to intubate said patient
Disappointing data on meningitis vaccine preventing Neisseria gonorrhoea infections Then again negative trial data is as useful as positive findings, so that we focus resources most effectively #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Meningococcal B Vaccine to Prevent Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection | NEJM
No vaccines are currently licensed for the prevention of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection. Observational studies suggest that the four-component meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (4CMenB) may reduce...
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The most un-well thing to do is have a lecture about the importance of wellness over lunch time
Pep talk this am: “lawyers really don’t understand critical care, but they understand when a procedure is screwed up”
