Our COVID-19 paper is finally online! This was such an incredible effort with so many amazing collaborators, and I'm immensely grateful to have been a part of it with the @JosefowiczLabsciencedirect.com/science/ar…
To all of the people calling to defund PBS and NPR, here are some facts:
- NPR receives approximately 0.6% of their funding from federal grants. The vast majority of their funding comes from corporate sponsors, and donations.
- Fox News has saved millions of dollars through dodging US taxes by opening shell companies in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere.
- Tesla, SpaceX and Solar City all receive substantially more in government funding than NPR.
For anyone who finds this as treacherous, traitorous, and unforgivable as we do - just pretend it's green and white for #NewYorksStrongest. We take out the trash every day...and next year, that'll include the Eagles.
78 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz78
In the 1950s, CEOs were paid 20x more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs were paid 59x more.
In 2009, CEOs were paid 180x more.
Today, CEOs are paid 399x more than the average worker.
We must put an end to this rampant greed and inequality.
BREAKING: NYC nurses strike to end this morning in historic victory as tentative deals were reached with both @MontefioreNYC and @MountSinaiNYC Hospital. Nurses won concrete enforceable safe staffing ratios in both deals and will be back on the job.
🔗: nysna.org/press/2023/breakin…
Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Frederick Banting, inventor of insulin: "Insulin does not belong to me. It belongs to the world."
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine is "consistent with the value."
I want to share what I think about MDs. I love each and everyone that busted their ass, borrowed too much money, sacrificed more than we can ever quantify, in hopes of helping their patients. Medicine is an imprecise science. The uncertainties far outnumber the absolutes.
The iGel is a great supraglottic airway device
But like other supraglottic airway devices (SAD) it's not foolproof
Here's how to maximise your success with the iGel - a thread 🧵
Don’t forget the saves! They disappear to the floor in the middle of the night and we tend to focus on those who we can’t save. (Reminding myself today on day 12 in the #MICU )
the most important lessons I teach about #ICU care:
-how to advocate for your patient -how to work with consultants -how and why to make friends with everyone in the hospital -how to communicate with patients/ families These are 100% absolutely life saving skills.