Brian Block

Excited to share my Viewpoint in @JAMAInternalMed in which I review the origin of the term "intensive care" and suggest we consider renaming ICUs to avoid inadvertently nudging people towards more aggressive treatments: ja.ma/2ECGw23

This editor's comment from @JAMAInternalMed is the best hook for our viewpoint exploring how #AI might speak for incapacitated patients at the end of life @TevaBrender @AlexSmithMD "very interesting, somewhat scary, and probably inevitable" Full text: jamanetwork-com.ucsf.idm.oclc.org/journals/jamai…

Very excited to share this case of a patient we cared for at @UCSF @ucsfccm I remember learning about pulmonary complications of stem cell transplantation from Bernie Sunwoo when I was a @UCSFPCCMFellows and now her thoughtful approach is available to all in @NEJM #MedEd

@cjosephy The flyer, haha

Losing Ceci | Humanities | JAMA | JAMA Network ⁦@EthanLSanford⁩ you’ve turned a staggering loss into a beautiful reflection with lessons for us all, as caregivers and human beings. Hugs to you and ⁦@NiuSanford⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

In this week's @JAMA_current, my husband @EthanLSanford writes about the deaths of our daughter Ceci and his patient Terry. About how grief has informed his practicing of medicine and living a fuller life. Please read about our girl and share. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

@eemoin Trazodone

Wonderful opportunity to join the team @UCSF as an interventional pulmonologist. Please feel free to reach out if interested aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04329

@cjosephy @kidney_boy @PulmCrit @IM_Crit_ @NephJC Urea can’t cause hypoNa because its not an “effective osmole” Effective osmoles are those that can’t cross cell walls so create gradient (e.g. glucose, mannitol) pulling H2O out of cells diluting [Na] Urea can’t do that because concentration is = inside and outside cells

@LekshmiMD That’s too sweet of both of you. Does she want to start tonight?

@yarongesty @AAB_IP Would you call it “wins” pleural?

It’s a double win when you get to do a cool project with an excellent doctor. More to come from this budding med Ed pleurologist #pleura @AAB_IP

Actively recruiting a 4th member of our section of critical care cardiology at UCSF! @Sam_Brusca @cardscrit Upload your information now! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF03673

On Day 2 of our @ucsf critical care ultrasound course, Cardiologist @ChrisBarnettMD leads a case-based review of bedside cardiac ultrasound findings before an afternoon of scanning with standardized patients. @ucsfccm @UCSFPCCMFellows @LekshmiMD

I'm CA's Acting Surgeon General. Today, I'd like to publicly share my journey with bipolar disorder. Stigma festers in the dark and scatters in the light. By speaking out, I hope to help dispel stigma. To help anyone struggling know they’re not alone — and to have hope. 1/

@tchen383 @almoskow @MontefioreCCM @ucsfccm @LekshmiMD @AmiraMohamedMD You came for a happy hour and got a paid happy 14hours — what’s not to like?

@almoskow @MontefioreCCM @ucsfccm @brianlblock @LekshmiMD @AmiraMohamedMD I went to a happy hour with @brianlblock and got roped into taking a Sunday night shift. I guess happy hour on the west coast means something else.

yup, I pulled an @almoskow today. “At my old hospital in da Bronx, we used to…” I am that person now. #eyerolling @MontefioreCCM @ucsfccm @brianlblock @LekshmiMD @AmiraMohamedMD #StopMe #NotBoston

@LekshmiMD @jtrebach I’ve been spreading this around UCSF so it’s possible I’m to blame! Let’s see it catch on. So fun to say.

was anyone else trained to refer to fingerstick glucoses as “d-sticks”?? my first attending shift I asked for a d-stick and the nurse goes “honey we don’t do that here”

@LekshmiMD @UCSFIMChiefs @UCSFPCCMFellows @AnnaFretz @ViriGarcia__ @KotasMaya @EmilyAbdoler @parvskumar These are such fun books. I appreciate you!!

@DrPsychMD @DoctorJesseMD @AmerMedicalAssn @JackResneckMD @harvardmed I remember that tutorial group fondly as well!!

At the inauguration festivities for @AmerMedicalAssn president @JackResneckMD with newly elected president-elect @DoctorJesseMD Who also happens to be my fave tutorial leader from back in the day at @harvardmed 😊 #AMAmtg #AMA175 #MembersMoveMedicine #advocacy #Policy

Wow that Severence season finale. What a show.

Striking findings. Firearms in the house do not increase safety but more than double the risk of homicide. The overwhelming majority are women. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

So wonderful to work among amazing colleagues united in purpose @UCSFHospitals as described here: ourtownsfoundation.org/american-insti…