Hematologist & Prof @McMasterU 🧠 Quality, guidelines, equity, transfusion, lab med, bleeding, clotting ❤️ Not active on X. Find me on Bluesky (same name!)

Joined August 2016
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Many gratifying years on Twitter: knowledge exchange, advocacy, collegiality! But X has devolved into an angry place, full of misinformation and abuse. More 😱 than 🙂. I'm closing shop on X, but find me in a happier place on 🦋 (same name & handle).
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Menaka Pai, MSc MD FRCPC retweeted
We *tried* to do a meta-analysis on menstrual bleeding in FXI inhibitor studies - not only is it not a tracked outcome, but hardly any patients were even capable of menstruation. Read our call to action for improving capture of HMB in anticoagulant trials. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k6ci…

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Excited to speak with old friends and new at @QueensuDOM next week! Lots on the agenda, including online safety & civility. On that note: I'm gradually moving house to bluesky (same name and handle!). Come find me there to talk #heme #med #life. 🦋
Don't miss it! #MedicalGrandRounds - virtual panel with, Drs. Evans @skepticalIDdoc, Pai @MPaiMD, Burneo @epileptologo and Furlan @adfurlan. Learn about: Social Media for Medical Professionals: Building Your Presence. Thurs., Nov. 21, 7:45AM. Email megan.sands@queensu.ca to join.
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Food for thought from the @guardian, which (like many trusted accounts) is leaving X. Not sure how a jump to another microblogging platform will impact my ability to share #hematology education broadly... but it will probably improve my peace of mind! theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
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Sharing in honour of someone who changed so many lives for the better. Please donate in tribute! And if you knew Elianna, you knew she was indeed a hematologist, a mentor, an advocate... and a total badass. Thinking of her today - and her lessons of resolve and resilience. ❤️
Join us for the 5th Annual Blood Drive in Honour of Dr. Elianna Saidenberg (@ESaidenberg) - esteemed hematologist, mentor & patients' rights advocate. To honour her memory, we welcome you to book a donation appointment for November 18th or 20th at the Carling location.
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Thinking about family and friends in the U.S. today! 🇺🇸 Bon courage!
Stop scrolling, take a deep breath, and use the next few minutes to escape to a place where the air is sweet. 💛💚
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Happy Diwali! Happy Halloween! Happy Day I get to appropriate all my kids' coffee crisp bars! 🪔🎃🍫
Replying to @CraigBaird
Coffee Crisp Introduced to Canada in 1938 as Biscrisp, a coffee variation was soon added to create Coffee Crisp. Since then, the candy bar has been almost exclusively available in Canada with some exceptions. Each bar contains less than 10 milligrams of caffeine.
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Menaka Pai, MSc MD FRCPC retweeted
You saw the video, now I’d like you to READ it. Then pls share. Trump at yesterday’s “townhall.” Question: My question is, what's your plan to help bring common sense back and help small businesses? Trump: The fact is that, you know, they want to get away from gas, and I have friends, they're into the cooking world. I'm not. I just like to eat, but they're into the cooking. And I don't know how you feel. It sounds like you they feel that you really gas is much better than the electric for cooking, right? And they have this thing about, you know, they want to put gas out of business, right? No gas. You know, the amazing thing, we don't have electric in this country, but we have all the gas you can use. We have all the we have oil and gas. That's what we have. And even the cars, if you look, they want to go with all electric cars. California is having blackouts every week, bracket brownouts, blackouts, and then they come up with rules and regulation to go to all electric but they can't even supply what they have. It's so nuts. We're going to get number one, your utility course. You heard me said before, your course will be down, and we're getting rid of all the elect if you want electric rate and if you want gas, great. The only thing you can have is a hydrogen car, right? You heard me say that, right? Because you know what happens? They have a new car. They say it's great, but it's got one problem. You know what the problem is? Every once in a while, one will blow up. And if it does blow up, and you happen to be inside of it, you're in bad luck, because you're not recognizable. You know that it's the new thing, hydrogen. I said, No, thank you. I don't want to. I don't want they call the wife. That's not my husband. Oh yes, it is.
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Fantastic webinar from @OntariosDoctors Women on Microaggression in the Workplace. Actionable suggestions & discussion of real harm that inequity causes in our profession. My little bedtime avoiding buddy enjoyed it too! 🙏🏾 @DrSamiraJeimy @DocMCohen @ReenaPattani @PintoPearls
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Tagging @WomenOMA - the powerhouse group behind this. Excited for the next webinar (on boundary setting).
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Healthcare worker friends in Ontario! Jump on it! (Also: thank you to Ontario pharmacists and family physicians, for taking on this additional work to keep us healthy ❤️)
COVID vaccines are available in Ontario for High Risk and Priority populations. Further information: ontario.ca/vaccine-locations…
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Have not had time to watch the entire episode, but this clip of @MsMacrophage from @MacDeptMed is fab. A clearly articulated, sensible, and kind take on #masking to prevent #Covid and other respiratory infections. And Dr. Bowdish, TY for the work and your colleagues at FIRH do.
Q - Why did you have a mask on before the show? A - I have a duty of care not to spread disease to the vulnerable people I care for. I also want to protect myself, being in the highest risk group for #LongCovid. Dawn Bowdish Immunologist
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Menaka Pai, MSc MD FRCPC retweeted
Where there’s a wage, there’s a gender gap. Compelling evidence from Dr Zainab Abdurrahman President-elect @WomenOMA @OntariosDoctors @FMWCanada @thenosm
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Menaka Pai, MSc MD FRCPC retweeted
Remember this chart every time you change or initiate management on the basis of a lab test a hundredth below the reference range.
Each step in the process introduces variation. It is strange that laboratory scientists who are most interested in this. Yet compared to clinical measurements (FEV/FVC, BP, waist circumference, symptom questionnaires etc) laboratory measurements have the least measurement error.
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Menaka Pai, MSc MD FRCPC retweeted
🚨Excited to share this comprehensive EVIDENCE BASED review of PK/PD interactions btwn Food or Herbal Products & OACs. Full of practical recs & it identifies current knowledge gaps 💥Such an incredible team, and I am honored to contribute to this paper! #AnticoagStewardship
🚨Interactions between #food 🥘🍲/🌿& oral #anticoagulants: There's plenty for #warfarin, but few important ones for #DOACs, too! @AzitaTalasaz @SemThrombHemost @BrighamResearch And a lot to study in future #HemeTwitter #CardioTwitter #Thrombosis👇: tinyurl.com/2v373thz
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TY @ORBCoN1 and Dr. VanSpronsen for floating this to the top of my feed. All 14 recommendations are a must-read to promote patient-centred, high value lab ordering: choosingwiselycanada.org/rec…
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From the latest ORBCoN Report, "New Recommendations for Choosing Wisely Canada for Medical Laboratory Professionals: Spotlight on Wise Transfusion Practices" by Amanda VanSpronsen #ChoosingWisely #MLTs #transfusion #medicine
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My favourite: "Don’t wake patients at night for phlebotomy for testing deemed safe by clinical teams to proceed in the morning." So important to let our inpatients rest and heal - and we can all play a part in that.
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Working on an anemia lecture this morning, and reviewing the cbcmadeeasy.com/ website. Fantastic work by some of my fave people. (And so far, I'm doing pretty well on the quizzes...) Check out this interactive, fun, and challenging resource! @stefan_d_jevtic @SMithoowani
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Today my 5 yo asked me to play "the Alphabet Song" in the car. He meant "Hot To Go!" by @ChappellRoan. ❤️My guy is working on *actual* literacy, but he's all over social and cultural literacy 😃

ALT Hot To Go GIF by Chappell Roan

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Replying to @CBCNews
@CBCNews TY for your attention to this story! Ontario clinicians & laboratorians came together to lift the lower limit of ferritin to 30 ug/L (20 in kids). #HemeTwitter, what's the cutoff in your jurisdiction? Can we "raise the bar" for our patients?cbc.ca/news/health/iron-defi…
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And if you are a clinician, please visit hemequity.com/raise-the-bar-…. Drs. Michelle Sholzberg and Grace Tang have designed an amazing resource to help you diagnose and treat.
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