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Kevin F McCarthy
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Paediatric Anaesthesiologist & Pain Specialist. Polymath in training. Inventor of the West-facing RAE for dental anaesthesia.
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Meat And Ferments Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d
Wife got a ticket at LAX like two years ago for stopping to wait for kid3 to come out of baggage claim and she's still mad and the kids will deliberately rile her up about it and tonight at family dinner she was like I BET THAT COP WORKS FOR ICE NOW

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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 15d
Epidural rates for vaginal deliveries (Aotearoa, NZ):
• overall: 23.1%
• Māori: 18.4%
• Pacific: 9.9% (significantly lower than European women across both parity groups)
• Māori = European women during their first birth; less likely in subsequent births

#AnSky #ObSky

doi.org/10.1111/anae...

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 17d
Doing unto others. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com

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ash @ashhull.bsky.social · 19d
A dimmer light but for thoughts.

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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 21d
The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken
Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
www.heise.de

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 23d
There was an "influencer" who "went live" after being entombed for three days. But you kids probably haven't heard of him

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 26d
Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis.

University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.
profbrunt.bsky.social Dr. Keith R. Brunt @profbrunt.bsky.social · 26d
Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!!
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients. These ANO2-specific T cells shar...
www.cell.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26d
U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term.

Remember — this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else.

"New Golden Age" for who?

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BJA Education @bjaeducation.bsky.social · 29d
Uterine atony is still the leading cause of postpartum haemorrhage worldwide. This #BJAEducation review helps anaesthetists think clearly about pharmacological management options both prophylactically and reactively. 🧠 www.bjaed.org/article/S205...
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Kevin F McCarthy @kfinmccarthy.bsky.social · 29d
Always look for the helpers 🥲
maddow.bsky.social Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29d
"At schools, volunteers are forming human chains as students and employees enter and leave, with whistles to blow if ICE shows up.

Volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families..."

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Inside Minneapolis’s Sprawling Network of ICE Watchers
Renee Nicole Good lived in a community where residents by the thousands are using text alerts, whistles and Google documents to shadow federal agents
www.wsj.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29d
"At schools, volunteers are forming human chains as students and employees enter and leave, with whistles to blow if ICE shows up.

Volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families..."

www.wsj.com/us-news/insi...
Inside Minneapolis’s Sprawling Network of ICE Watchers
Renee Nicole Good lived in a community where residents by the thousands are using text alerts, whistles and Google documents to shadow federal agents
www.wsj.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jan 10
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · Jan 8
"It's not necessarily the app that's making the images... it's people using the app that's making the images. Making images of that sort is reprehensible..."

No, people are asking the app to make the images.

IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.

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STITCHES - the Best Papers in General Surgery @stitches.today · Jan 8
Mobile Endoscopy Expands GI Access in Rural South Africa

by Deal M, Karam J (...) Stark H et 5 al. in BMJ Open Gastroenterol #Surgery #SurgSky #generalsurgery #MedSky

🪡 read our summary here
📖 read the article:
Mobile endoscopy in rural South Africa: outcomes of a decentralised outreach programme to improve gastrointestinal healthcare access
Introduction Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is a valuable diagnostic tool for identifying upper and lower GI pathologies yet is rarely available in resource-limited settings. This project evaluates the impact of a mobile endoscopy outreach effort implemented across five district hospitals in the Western Cape of South Africa.Methods A mobile endoscopy outreach programme was created and implemented at five district hospitals within the Western Cape of South Africa. Health records of patients who presented for endoscopy across these five hospitals were then retrospectively reviewed. Descriptive statistics were used as part of data analysis.Results A total of 515 procedures (486 oesophagogastroduodenoscopies (94%), 28 colonoscopies (5%) and one proctoscopy (0.2%)) were performed at five district hospitals between January and November of 2024 (323 female (63%), 192 male (37%); mean (SD) age 56 (14) years). The most common pathologies identified across all sites included gastritis (76%), hiatal hernia (70%) and oesophagitis (69%). For all patients, the average distance travelled to their nearest district hospital (Beaufort West, Oudtshoorn, Riversdale, Mossel Bay or Knysna) was 13.6 km (SD (26.6)), compared with the average distance they would have needed to travel to the regional referral centre (mean (SD) 102.1 (66.8) km) in George, South Africa, for the same endoscopy services.Conclusion Implementing a mobile, cost-conscious endoscopy outreach programme can offer diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities to patients in international resource-limited settings, while also alleviating resource strain on regional referral centres. This approach can improve healthcare access and can be replicated in other resource-limited settings.
bmjopengastro.bmj.com

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Dec 28
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Things that I can’t believe I am doing as a pediatrician on a Sunday in December 2025: Triaging patients with fever and rash in my office parking lot to avoid bringing a child inside who might expose everyone in our waiting rooms to measles. And yet here we are….

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Dec 24
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.

This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Dec 18
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
sheencr.bsky.social Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · Dec 18
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · Dec 18
Regional anaesthesia and major lower extremity amputations

Check out the recommendations from this Delphi consensus study!

As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts!

#AnSky #RASky

doi.org/10.1111/anae...

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Ben Zabar @benzabar.bsky.social · Nov 21
When intubating with VL, the cords should be as far away as possible, while still visible. Large cords=close camera=blocked tube delivery. #EMsky #EMS @mdaware.org @joshkimbre.bsky.social

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · Nov 9
Male pattern kindness

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Kevin F McCarthy @kfinmccarthy.bsky.social · Nov 4
Job Fairy: Paediatric Pain Specialist in Auckland, NZ.
Apply for my job & tell me what my colleagues say about me after I leave 😊
jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
#pain #paediatric #NewZealand
Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority
Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Nov 2
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
itsafronomics.blacksky.app Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · Oct 31
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

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Kevin F McCarthy @kfinmccarthy.bsky.social · Sep 27
Saturdays at work be like…

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Sep 23
Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.
james.claims james @james.claims · Sep 22
Anyway watch the stocks of whoever has the patent of leucovorin go up after the announcement. That’s all this is. Promoting Leucovorin so adults force their kids to ingest it to “cure their autism”.

But what is Leucovorin and why are they claiming it cures autism? 👇

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 9
Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

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Dr van Tilburg @drvantilburg.bsky.social · Aug 30
Great new resource now that CDC cannot be fully trusted.

National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health

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National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health - NAM
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has launched a new series of monthly discussions to help members of the public navigate many of the complex health
nam.edu

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · Aug 20
The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Aug 19
🎼 'Six Lords a-leaping'

'In February 2024, UKLFI celebrated the cancellation of a community kite-making workshop, citing claims that the children’s event was “reminiscent of 7 October paragliders”.'

Six of its nine patrons currently sit in the House of Lords'

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