Kadye McCaslin

@langstonwertzjr If these didn’t exist every small rural hospital would have to transfer anyone needing a specialist consult out to a bigger hospital, potentially costing patients tremendous amounts of money.

Are these robots in Charlotte?

@UltraRunnerPod The best path for nursing is to get a RN through community college for very little $, get the hospital to pay for your BSN. No need to pay for 5 years of university for a RN degree.

I'd heard how crazy the college admissions process is, but now seeing it in reality has blown my mind. My kid has great grades (4.2 weighted) with a ton of APs, leadership ec's, a very solid athletic resume, parents paying cash, etc., all at a private college-preparatory HS, and she has basically no chance of getting into a UC or CSU for her major. Not sure what needs to be done, but this is crazy. 🙄😩

@CMerandi My mom had metastatic breast cancer in her spine and was on fentanyl patch for over a year. One month she got it filled at the Walmart one town over. The next month local Walmart refused to fill saying she was “pharmacy hopping”. Pharmacists like to show their power sometimes 😡

“My best friend was dying from cancer and her local. Walgreens refused to fill the meds, even after talking to the hospice doctor.” The government created a machine nobody knows how to stop Wait until you’re affected

@Stephan40208759 @BobTheMutant @WallStreetApes Nurses or other doctors there can assess and tell the remote specialist what is going on in real time. Small rural hospitals don’t have some specialists on staff. I worked in a small ER with no neurologist. This saved several unnecessary transfers out.

@BobTheMutant @WallStreetApes You can't evaluate through a fucking screen. Human to human contact makes more sense.

North Carolina Hospitals have deployed these telepresence robots These allow doctors to interact remotely with patients. A real human doctor is operating this remotely and speaking with patients Yes, this is real. This is so dystopian North Carolina hospitals deployed these to combat doctor burnout and staffing shortages at some locations

@ibdgirl76 @ChadDKollas Honestly 90 year old cancer patients should probably be followed by palliative care who can manage their pain without them having to see a pain specialist. My patients end up being much more controlled than taking what the oncologist prescribes anyway.

A 90-year-old cancer patient treated like a drug-seeker. Cut off opioids cold turkey by her own oncologist. Now she’s forced to go to a pain clinic every month just to get medication she was already stable on. @ChadDKollas I am seeing more stories of oncologists doing this. Any idea why?

@UtseyBill @RossDellenger @YahooSports It’s not really anymore. My daughter entered college with 30 credit hours, took 21 hours sometimes, summer school most years and it still took 4 years. Athletes can’t do that.

@RossDellenger @YahooSports 5 years? Ridiculous...the standard for college graduation is 4 years. We have been most gracious with allowing a redshirt for injuries or personal issues. BIGGER question, 5 yrs from 19th birthday or HS graduation...WHICH comes first? If its 19, RIDICULOUS! If HS graduation, OK.

The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. bit.ly/3POqo2D

@joshwgoodson Now it’s a million. To think I thought the guy who said 8 people turned it down was exaggerating.

Yes it shows the level of programs UNC, a top 3 job in the sport got told no by a million ppl including the Iowa coach State went with a high major assistant who was a former player. State and UNC aren’t the same and not sure anyone saying they are

@ChopChop570 @jasonscheer Didn’t you hear? “Sources” said so 🙄😂

@jasonscheer How in the world is it the 6th choice? Lmao they got an NBA Champion coach.

UNC having to go to its 6th choice at best means it’s just not the job we think it is, including myself.

@unc_zone Probably just shut down the whole university 🙄

Really makes you wonder what Carolina will do if they swing and miss on Donavan.

@kirkifyi @TheDegenWeekly If I was in that situation and knew I wasn’t leaving I would say “I’m not leaving”.

@TheDegenWeekly I think he trolling you tards😭😭imagine your in the final 4 and tryna win a national championship and they are asking u about another job at the final 4 press conference🤦‍♂️

What are Tommy Lloyd’s odds to be North Carolinas next head coach? Every interview I’ve seen makes it more obvious - this dude is GONE.

@sevonty @Policy_Solution @CZ Even worse if your doctor needs to learn about a med from their patient who saw a commercial about it 🙄

@Policy_Solution @CZ If your doctor needs commercial to be on top of medical treatments, get a different compatant physician

.@CZ’s story says it all: diagnosed with MS when there were no treatments, he saw firsthand how drug ads helped inform him and his doctor about new options that changed his life. That’s the real impact of DTC ads. They empower patients with information, spark conversations, and help people take charge of their health.

@ChiefEngineerCE In my experience admitting patients to rehab from the hospital what usually has happened is the hospital cannot be bothered to do an accurate medication reconciliation. At least 50% of patients I have cared for in rehab come in with orders to continue meds they have never taken.

I relayed that we had a large tax bill as a consequence for taking care of my wife's mother. It was dramatic and certainly tested our finances and employment. The event: We had a call from our son, in another state, who was unable to get her off the couch- Thank God he was there. We had to dispatch EMS to retrieve her from her home, and my wife left on the next flight as the Doctor told us she would probably not recover from her stroke and didn't have much time left. When my wife arrived her mother was unable to function, speech drawl, and unable to walk. My wife didn't leave her side ...and after two weeks, she neither improved nor declined, she was placed in a rehab. On rehab check in - The nurses asked about her 4 X daily fentanyl prescription. For the record - her mother had never used prescription pain killers in her life. She had zero prior prescriptions for anything except a light BP med dose. My wife was shocked and the rehab nurses said- no this is NOT typical unless there is an addiction at play. Took her off the pills and she immediately, within 4 hours- started to recover, walk, coherent speech, memory returned, was in the kitchen helping the cooks prepare food. As a result of the stroke she has zero inhibitions, sometimes puts her clothes on inside out, and wont stop talking even to strangers while shopping ... We will take it. So the questions is.. How does a Fentanyl prescription get slipped onto the chart of a stroke patient?

@LeonardG58530 @CBSBrenton @CBSSports We only have to dress for snow once every few years and we have great barbecue.

@CBSBrenton @CBSSports Why go to North Carolina, when Michigan is about to make him one of the top paid coaches in the country. Everything North Carolina can offer Michigan can top or match, but without all the pressure and Duke to deal with.

#BREAKING There is a “growing expectation” that after the conclusion of the NCAA tournament Michigan Wolverines HC Dusty May will take the North Carolina job. Significant NIL and contract extension upgrade from his stop at Michigan. @CBSSports confirms. #NCAA #UNC

@SHERRODWHITE_ @UNCballTalk He brought in 2 5stars last year (2024) and that didn’t work out very well.

@UNCballTalk This what you wanted. And HD was bringing in 2 top 5 stars….

UNC is about to hire a 60 year old coach and start way behind the 8 ball in the portal 🥀🥀

@DocLibertarian @Dr_JSA Maybe 10% of those >90 survive but what about long term. Maybe people want to do more than just survive the event. All of those things need to be clearly discussed. We as clinicians have to stop this “if your heart stops do you want us to try to save you” like it’s magic

@Dr_JSA Performing cpr during a procedure has very different outcomes than at home or in the floor of the hospital. Intervention is immidiate and most people do well. Quite the opposite of most cpr.

Performing CPR on a 99 year old is undignified. There are some things that the public needs to see first hand to realise the reality - CPR is effectively legalized GBH. The countless bones I've broken performing CPR and those people are returned to their families for funerals...

@Dr_JSA And that is why I describe what it is like to perform CPR on frail geriatrics every single time i discuss code status with my patients. It always sounds cruel when I am saying it but patients deserve to know what “resuscitate” actually means.

@VickieWray1 @MargoinWNC Not staff, CMS. Believe me staff in nursing facilities grieved over this too. It was horrendous witnessing families watching their loved ones die from outside the window, watching residents that we love die thinking their families didn’t care anymore. It was traumatic for us too

@MargoinWNC Never forget my mom dying alone. My best friend crying for me to come see her but staff wouldn’t allow it. I’ll never forget

People have short memories about what happened during COVID. I don’t. I went into a local nursing home in my community as a volunteer to help residents vote. I was one of only two people allowed inside, fully suited in PPE, while their loved ones stood outside in the courtyard, looking in through the windows. Wives, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters—openly crying, just trying to see them. The residents were scared. They wanted comfort. They wanted their families. But Roy Cooper kept those nursing homes locked down for over a year. So I showed up. They couldn't deny me access because they had let me in before-and they didn't. The staff leaned in. They ask me to help and O asked them how I could help-and I did. I went to grocery stores, dollar stores, parking lots—wherever I had to—to pick up things they couldn’t get anymore because their families weren’t allowed to visit. I worked with companies to bring in real soap, toothpaste, and toothbrushes—not hospital brands, the ones they actually wanted. I worked with the community to gather slippers, gowns, and homemade blankets. I brought candy and prizes for bingo and games. I stayed with those residents for two years because I couldn’t stand watching them be that alone. And one by one, they started to die. Some from age. Some from loneliness. Some from complications made worse by COVID—brought in by staff while families were still kept out. It was the most agonizing, devastating thing I’ve ever witnessed. Not for me—for their families. The ones who called me asking how their loved ones were. The ones who asked if I could set up a FaceTime or pick up a card. These weren’t my patients. They weren’t my parents. They were the people who built my town. My friends’ parents and grandparents. Teachers. Business leaders. Retirees who came home to be near their families. My neighbors. My best friend’s parents. I will never forget what those lockdowns did to them. And you shouldn’t either. Roy Cooper and Mandy Cohen are monsters. You will never convince me otherwise after what I saw and lived through with those residents in my own small town.

@JonahDispatch It is hard if you have dementia

I will never stop laughing at the fact he’s so proud that he passed a rudimentary test to see if he’s got dementia. I mean it’s not a hard test.

@Andrew_Forrest1 A 14 million dollar roster should not just crumble when one player is out even if that is the best player.

Listening to these guys on the tournament pregame show (Bruce Pearl, Jalen Rose, etc.) talk about Hubert Davis’ firing being wrong because of injuries this season is so annoying. For the hundredth time, IT. WAS. NOT. JUST. ABOUT. THIS. YEAR. Only better than a 6-seed once in five years. Missing the tournament in 2023. Back-to-back first round exits. Use some common sense…

@BlackRook19 @zionszzn Or we’ll I guess so. Equally infuriating

@zionszzn Or well see

Dear Apple, at no point will I ever text someone “he’ll yeah”