Christopher T. Ryan, MD

@georgetolisjr I remember you asking me this actually, might have been the hardest question I remember during interview season but it cuts through the rehearsed nature of interviews

One of my favorite questions to ask fellowship interviewees is “what is a trait of Dr. X (who has written a letter of recommendation) that you really don’t want to emulate in your own life or surgical practice?” To my knowledge the RRC police has not banned that question yet.

Researchers from @BCMFromtheLabs found that the severity of chronic obstructive #pulmonary disease is associated with adverse outcomes after open thoracoabdominal #aortic aneurysm repair. Read the recent study by logging in to #JTCVS: doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcv…

@camilotivo @ThoracicStudent @STS_CTsurgery @TSDA_CTsurgery amazon.com/TSRA-Review-Ca…

@AATSHQ @Cerf_MD @markkferguson @ElliotServaisMD @MBMarshallMD @BernieParkMD @DrewMoghanaki Is it a fair assumption to think patients without access to MIS have ready access to SBRT?

[4/4]: Then patients could finish potentially curative SBRT in the same timeframe as the hospital stay alone after a thoracotomy. —Kathryn Engelhardt, MD, MS for the AATS Journals 🗣️Thoughts? @Cerf_MD @markkferguson @ElliotServaisMD @MBMarshallMD @BernieParkMD @DrewMoghanaki

[1/4]: A short commentary by Dr. Kathryn Engelhardt @KateEEngelhardton: JTCVS, “Association of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage with use of minimally invasive resection for non-small cell lung cancer” by Sakowitz, Benharash, et al. of @UCLAHealth doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcv…

@BadMedicalTakes Travel of bullets creates a negative pressure cavity in the soft tissue which sucks in surrounding air and tissue with bacteria/virus/fungus… (mostly bacteria). That is why antibiotics are needed (albeit only for a relatively short period of time as a prophylactic measure)

@RhusheetPMD @aribindi Is it? I don’t think “the system” evaluated, consented, and scheduled these patients. Even educated and empowered patients are at risk when providers give strong recommendations for treatments that are against their best interest using fear tactics like described in the article

This is as much about doctors doing the wrong thing as it is our system failing to educate and empower patients. Let’s not forget to lift the most important person in the room, and it should begin before the first poke or cut. It’s gonna take all of us nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea…

@georgetolisjr Ironically, risk aversion may be one of the drivers of the declining case numbers lamented here

I don’t think we should be pursuing or rewarding 0% coronary mortality; many high risk patients who deserve a CABG will not be offered an operation. In my GS days, if you were 100% correct with acute appendicitis, you were sending too many patients home with the disease.

@KayeMcdougall ?

@ZachJBrennan The last one I did had a good IT person. They stood behind me on the hospitals staten and asked me to do ten tasks on Epic. I completed them all and was checked off. 5 minutes.

I have a serious recommendation to decrease burnout: portable EPIC training. I am now completing my 7th round of EPIC training. I will not be accepting any comments at this time about how "EPIC is configured differently at each hospital, so you need this." No.

@maz_jovanovich “Solved the crew duty problem” - have you been to an airport lately? Tell the hundreds of people in the customer service lines after flight cancellations/delays that the problem has been solved, I’m sure they’ll be relieved

@TheReaderapp unroll

@UzmaRahmanMD Congrats!

So excited for this opportunity! Thanks to everyone who's helped me along this journey :)

@BCMGSRes Only 423 days! (But who’s counting )

Atta way Dr. @CT_RyanMD!! 🎉🫀 Now back to hernias, gallbladders, appendixes for a bit longer…

@herbchen @UABSurgery Thank you!

welcome to @UABSurgery !

Excited to match @UABSurgery for fellowship in Cardiac Surgery. Ready to get to work!

@BrownJHM @TulioCaldonazo @KohanAndres Surgery time pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33910050/

A patient presented for evaluation of exertional dyspnea. What is the clinical sign? @KohanAndres #Medtwitter

@MBurt34 Reviewing questions is the actual studying/preparing. Answering questions does nothing

just one more block

@DonaldBaril @VascularSurgCS Dislike

When the access is just a bit high (post-TAVR femoral occlusion)....aka Perclose meet inguinal ligament. @VascularSurgCS

@tomaspueyo One of the worst health-related opinion articles I’ve read in a long time

@jtrebach @SophWPerez All organic life must be purged from Idaho apparently

BREAKING: humans across the world have been exposed to ACID and this epidemic must be stopped Today I introduced a bill to ban all amino acids