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Nearly all #medtwitter content is motivated by vanity and some degree of narcissism, rather than by a desire to inform others or benefit patients.
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@AttaboyMD I want to hear your unpopular opinion
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“most malignant account on #medtwitter” anon early career surgeons. we don't agree on everything
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Point taken. The nub here is that a white or Asian student must perform much better on this test and other metrics to get to the interview phase. This is at odds with what most reasonable people see as fair.
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson
What is interesting is that you keep using the word “merit” as though it were synonymous with standardized test hierarchy. No serious profession in America works that way. Law firms interview. Hospitals interview. Residencies interview. Engineering companies interview. The military evaluates leadership and judgment. Airlines evaluate composure, teamwork, and decision-making under pressure. Universities review recommendations, research, service, maturity, and communication. Because every serious field eventually learns the same lesson: Human competence is multidimensional. The MCAT measures something real and important. Nobody serious denies that. But medicine long ago discovered that test-taking ability alone is not sufficient to identify the best physicians. And what is revealing in this conversation is how quickly “merit” becomes a euphemism for “I trust numerical sorting systems more than human judgment,” despite the fact that every major profession in society already rejects that simplistic model. But if you were hiring a new grad from UCLA - even top of the class, you would ask for references, you would interview the candidate - and sometimes find they would not be the best fit. Medical school is a job application - and we do not just sort based off MCAT and GPA - those get you in the door. But we do like people who are empathetic, who can respond to stress, and who present themselves well
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Endless sales pitches to anxious learners, I wonder what exactly it has become. I was a listener / user in the early days and it was good content. Sorry to say the newer stuff is … much different. They have a .org website. Is it nonprofit? The “about” page is all nonsense
BehindTheKnife@BehindTheKnife
MOCK ORAL BOARDS MADE EASY! Use 1 min 8 seconds of your life to hear how 👇🏼 behindtheknife.org/oral-board/sim…
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@FunnyTexan04 @agraybee Oh so now what reporters got wrong was “media gossip” alleging “advanced dementia.” This is strawman counter-factual fantasy. Also fwiw, in the insidious progression of dementia and age related cognitive decline, the ability to be lucid and function publicly is unsurprising.
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@AttaboyMD @agraybee “Making public appearances” is not a low bar for someone who (according to prior media gossip) has advanced dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease and would be needing a wheelchair any day now lol
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It's been two years since The Debate and he's still making public appearances. I understand that social media incentive structures make any kind of public introspection a nonstarter, but maybe in their quiet moments reporters can ask themselves if they got something wrong.
David Weigel@daveweigel
Somehow, Joe Biden returned. semafor.com/article/05/05/…
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@kenklippenstein We could talk about it on social media. Or a journalist could ask her directly instead of waiting for her to “address it.”
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Can we talk about how 73-year-old Senator Susan Collins is clearly in physical decline? Audio up on this video - she speaks at 0.5x speed, voice quavering + head shaking. Parkinsons? Essential Tremor? We don't know because she refuses to address it, insisting she's healthy
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@Legal_Fil “Beyond the pale for any person with a sense of decency” - I mean I was in the party that said character was destiny, and which now sees a vulgar, amoral libertine NY socialite as paragon of “virtue” - we are so far past this
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@Legal_Fil agree with underlying assertion (so much language was drained of its meaning by applying words like nazi, racist, faacist to…mitt Romney etc) But it’s hard to accept that this dude from Maine is a “supporter of the Nazi party” and subscribes to views in Mein Kampf or whatever
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The support we are seeing for Platner—despite his being beyond the pale for any person with a sense of decency—is a long warned-of fruit of the abuse of language.
When you use “Nazi” solely for its normative valence, you eventually strip of its normative content. 1/
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@Noahpinion Would be fun to calculate the percentage decline using the Trump Math™️ method
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@matthewstoller @jmhorp Hard to imagine response that sticks closer to the definition of ad hominem.
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@jmhorp Breyer was always wrong. He was also the guy who deregulated airlines as a staffer for Ted Kennedy. So not exactly disinterested.
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Re-regulate airlines. This isn’t hard. Have the government set prices again.
KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨✈️ B-737 Wrangler@MCCCANM
This is true. Delta & United made almost all of the profit for the U.S. airline industry last year & look set to continue. The market has shifted & they were ready. The demise of JetBlue & Spirit will raise fares. It’s not great, but I’m not sure anything can be done.
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@BarbellFi He’s also a doctor and you’re peddling financial advice on X. There’s that to consider.
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Neighbor’s son graduated med school
Just got his first real job at 32
$0 saved for retirement
$400k in student loans
They threw a party to celebrate 😬
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Don't forget to log your duty hours, and consider asking Ethicon for one of those knot-tying boards. Good luck with step 3.
Doctor Mommy@DrIVIeG
OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS. OBGYNs ARE SURGEONS.
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I suppose any media attention is good, but it seems a bit odd to be excited about a tv appearance by a fictional intern with a backstory involving your school. I’m not even sure this would count as a “shout out,” but I guess we can be charitable. Congrats. 🍾
UCI Health@UCIrvineHealth
Last night’s The Pitt introduced Dr. Nazely Toomarian, a new intern on her first ED shift and a graduate of @UCIMedSchool. Thanks for the shout out, The Pitt and @HBOMAX!
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@DrKarenWalker @smootholdfart so three years of kids’ dental care is like much less than one day of bombing iran?
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I am patiently waiting for insurance actuaries to start to figure out what antiscience is costing them.
#antivax
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@AviWoolf This is characterized as “millionaire” thing but LOTS of middle/ upper middle class families game the system this way. It’s seen as unfair the mom has to use all her assets and sell the house to pay for the nursing home. So many people think this way that reform would be hard.
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@Empty_America I think true. But it’s funny how increases in price like this *dont* have much impact — and yet people will drive across town or wait in a long line to save $0.1/gal on gasoline. To those (many) people, the higher price doesn’t change behavior but does piss them off!
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Even when fuel spikes, it's still "cheap" in the bigger picture.
It never really goes high enough to result in signficant thrift behaviors.
When the trucks are all at 55mph, no boats on the lake, no RV's on the interstate, that will be the first sign of real price pressure.
Nick@PubPlanPosting
Diesel over $6 gallon. Surely that means the truck drivers are going the 55 speed limit to conserve fuel.
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@Havoc_Six Such a head scratcher! You’d think federal law enforcement resources had been misdirected away from real crimes, and the fbi was led by a preening, incompetent ideologue theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…
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This dude was already on the FBI's radar.
In 2016, he was caught trying to funnel cash to an individual who he thought was a member of ISIL (ISIS), but was in fact an FBI agent, while also planning to attack military members. It seems he was inspired by Nidal Hassan's attack at Fort Hood, which left 13 people dead and 30 others injured. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison, but was released early in 2024.
Questions:
Why was he released early?
How did the FBI miss this one now?
Tom Winter@Tom_Winter
BREAKING | NBC News: A man previously convicted of providing material support to ISIS, Mohammad Jalloh, and recently released from prison has been identified as the shooter at Old Dominion earlier today, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter say.
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@AdamPollock Of course crime reduction is essential, but getting these kit’s distributed similarly to AEDs is a worldwide priority in the world of trauma surgery. I applauded it! stopthebleed.org
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Only Britain would stock military-style medical kits on public transport rather than get rid of the people who stab and kill each other
It doesn’t have to be like this
BBC London@BBCLondonNews
Bleed control kits help stem severe bleeding from deep wounds before emergency services arrive. bbc.in/4rl6HfE
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At a surgical residency interview:
Program director: Are you planning on starting a family?
Me: What?
Program director: Just saying, a lot of women who start gen surg residency and have kids end up leaving, so don’t take a spot in the match if that’s your plan.
Me: . . .
All women professionals have been asked illegal questions like this during interviews. Before you say “report him” keep in mind that reporting a PD as a student is risky bc powerful men are rarely held accountable.
If this angers you, fight back by writing Google reviews if you’ve had positive experiences with your female surgeons, lawyers, contractors, mechanics, etc. Celebrate what we went through to claim our seats at male occupied tables.
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Though I share a revulsion at “provider,” and welcome an effort to identify physicians (and non-physicians) more clearly, at the end this paper just comes up with a new series of terms, like “clinician.” It’s the same brain-dead game played with homeless/unhoused, many others
Eric Topol@EricTopol
"The term [provider] should not be used to describe physicians, nor should physicians use it to describe themselves, their team members, or their trainees." acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN… @AnnalsofIM @ACPIMPhysicians
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