Angela Falk, 🇸🇪 EM 🩺🚑
@angelafalk.bsky.social
Akutläkare 👩⚕️🚑 Studierektor för ST-Akutsjukvård.
Will always defend your right to seek and get the healthcare you medically need!
Tech & Innovation 💡 enthusiast.
EM Physician in Sweden.
Writes in Swedish and some English, no excuse for my grammar.
Will always defend your right to seek and get the healthcare you medically need!
Tech & Innovation 💡 enthusiast.
EM Physician in Sweden.
Writes in Swedish and some English, no excuse for my grammar.
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"After [Texas] made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, the number of blood transfusions during ER visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%."
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, ProPublica Analysis Shows. Here's how we did it.
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"After [Texas] made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, the number of blood transfusions during ER visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%."
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A British-Gambian Ph.D. student at Cornell University who had faced possible deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian protests said on Monday that he had left the United States. “I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high,” he wrote on social media.
Cornell Student Who Faced Deportation Says He Left the U.S.
Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student who had been suspended by the university after participating in pro-Palestinian protests, said he “took the decision to leave the United States.”
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A British-Gambian Ph.D. student at Cornell University who had faced possible deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian protests said on Monday that he had left the United States. “I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high,” he wrote on social media.
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New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Real chilling effects
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
A speach worth listening to.
Mette Fredriksen, PM of Denmark about standing strong with Ukraine
youtu.be/Ht0H4DeBwDI
Mette Fredriksen, PM of Denmark about standing strong with Ukraine
youtu.be/Ht0H4DeBwDI
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen Speaks About Ukraine
YouTube video by Crosscut Films
youtu.be
March 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A speach worth listening to.
Mette Fredriksen, PM of Denmark about standing strong with Ukraine
youtu.be/Ht0H4DeBwDI
Mette Fredriksen, PM of Denmark about standing strong with Ukraine
youtu.be/Ht0H4DeBwDI
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#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social
An end-to-end #deeplearningmodel that is highly capable of identifying significant atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries, using #coronaryCT
Interpreting⏱️
Physicians 20 min
The model: seconds!
The need for manual
labeling and annotation is minimal!
#Sahlgrenska #EM
Paper: tinyurl.com/bd3zzwcv
Interpreting⏱️
Physicians 20 min
The model: seconds!
The need for manual
labeling and annotation is minimal!
#Sahlgrenska #EM
Paper: tinyurl.com/bd3zzwcv
tinyurl.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
An end-to-end #deeplearningmodel that is highly capable of identifying significant atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries, using #coronaryCT
Interpreting⏱️
Physicians 20 min
The model: seconds!
The need for manual
labeling and annotation is minimal!
#Sahlgrenska #EM
Paper: tinyurl.com/bd3zzwcv
Interpreting⏱️
Physicians 20 min
The model: seconds!
The need for manual
labeling and annotation is minimal!
#Sahlgrenska #EM
Paper: tinyurl.com/bd3zzwcv
On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump began his term with presidential actions including 26 executive orders, with more expected to follow.
This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.
Email tip: lte@justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/107087/
#emedsky #politics
This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.
Email tip: lte@justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/107087/
#emedsky #politics
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
www.justsecurity.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump began his term with presidential actions including 26 executive orders, with more expected to follow.
This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.
Email tip: lte@justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/107087/
#emedsky #politics
This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.
Email tip: lte@justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/107087/
#emedsky #politics
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Reposted by Angela Falk, 🇸🇪 EM 🩺🚑
“Despite the data freeze, wastewater was updated today, and now shows the predicted drop in rates that I've been talking about. Modeled to today:
🔸375,000 new infections/day
🔸~1 in 89 currently infected
🔸Midwest still above other regions
And, on this week's edition of #BlueSky #MedSky
🔸375,000 new infections/day
🔸~1 in 89 currently infected
🔸Midwest still above other regions
And, on this week's edition of #BlueSky #MedSky
January 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Why hasn’t someone rebelled and leaked the missing issue of MMWR this week? Courage, scientists! Courage! Fight back!!!! 🧪
January 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Why hasn’t someone rebelled and leaked the missing issue of MMWR this week? Courage, scientists! Courage! Fight back!!!! 🧪
This is an ongoing study in Sweden regarding Doctors thoughts about being required by law to report refugees.
Healthcare got excluded. I would be scared for community decease spreading and a larger cost if immigrated patients were too scared to seek health care.
boundaries.study/about-the-st...
#EM
Healthcare got excluded. I would be scared for community decease spreading and a larger cost if immigrated patients were too scared to seek health care.
boundaries.study/about-the-st...
#EM
The Boundaries Longitudinal Study
Interdisciplinary research project funded by the Swedish Research Council and the University of Edinburgh.
boundaries.study
January 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is an ongoing study in Sweden regarding Doctors thoughts about being required by law to report refugees.
Healthcare got excluded. I would be scared for community decease spreading and a larger cost if immigrated patients were too scared to seek health care.
boundaries.study/about-the-st...
#EM
Healthcare got excluded. I would be scared for community decease spreading and a larger cost if immigrated patients were too scared to seek health care.
boundaries.study/about-the-st...
#EM
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The Trump administration’s anti-DEI snitching plan is getting flooded with fake reports after it tried to strong-arm federal workers into ratting out their colleagues.
Trump Wants Snitches to Report on DEI. There’s Just One Problem.
Donald Trump wants people to expose diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the federal government. The idea is already flopping.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Trump administration’s anti-DEI snitching plan is getting flooded with fake reports after it tried to strong-arm federal workers into ratting out their colleagues.
Wow! US health care is insane.
One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...
No More General Anesthesia
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Wow! US health care is insane.
#news "The model exhibited clinically meaningful performance, notably its high negative predictive accuracy"
"Clinical use of comparable #AI in first-line, quick-response triage of patients with chest pain or dyspnoea appears as a valuable option" #emedsky #medsky
openheart.bmj.com/content/11/2...
"Clinical use of comparable #AI in first-line, quick-response triage of patients with chest pain or dyspnoea appears as a valuable option" #emedsky #medsky
openheart.bmj.com/content/11/2...
Predicting troponin biomarker elevation from electrocardiograms using a deep neural network
Background Elevated troponin levels are a sensitive biomarker for cardiac injury. The quick and reliable prediction of troponin elevation for patients with chest pain from readily available ECGs may p...
openheart.bmj.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:45 PM
#news "The model exhibited clinically meaningful performance, notably its high negative predictive accuracy"
"Clinical use of comparable #AI in first-line, quick-response triage of patients with chest pain or dyspnoea appears as a valuable option" #emedsky #medsky
openheart.bmj.com/content/11/2...
"Clinical use of comparable #AI in first-line, quick-response triage of patients with chest pain or dyspnoea appears as a valuable option" #emedsky #medsky
openheart.bmj.com/content/11/2...
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Here is a framework for a course on AI literacy for students. Many thanks to those who commented on an earlier version on LinkedIn. Do continue the discussion here - additions, emphasis? #ai #education
November 11, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Here is a framework for a course on AI literacy for students. Many thanks to those who commented on an earlier version on LinkedIn. Do continue the discussion here - additions, emphasis? #ai #education
Cook et al came up with a new study with a clear AI focus. A dataset has been built to train language models on climate misinformation, so that they can better identify the wrong steps in the argument. This is an automation of important components of critical thinking. 💡👌 #ai #fact #climatechange
Just published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports where we've trained a model to automatically detect logical fallacies in climate misinformation - part of our project using AI to debunk climate myths www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation
www.nature.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Cook et al came up with a new study with a clear AI focus. A dataset has been built to train language models on climate misinformation, so that they can better identify the wrong steps in the argument. This is an automation of important components of critical thinking. 💡👌 #ai #fact #climatechange
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Just an FYI for anyone who hasn’t delved into the depths of RFK Jr. insanity, here’s his web site claiming that polio is a toxin and not a virus.
November 9, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Just an FYI for anyone who hasn’t delved into the depths of RFK Jr. insanity, here’s his web site claiming that polio is a toxin and not a virus.
Part 2
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Part 2
This is enjoyable 😘
As we rebuild our community on this new platform, a reminder that there were only even eight distinct MedTwitter personalities. Bluesky will be no different.
(1/2)
(1/2)
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
This is enjoyable 😘
Lets chat about teaching EM residents to be efficient...
I think there are 5 rules that are helpful
1.) Don't have unreasonable expectations
2.) Be strategic with how you interrupt
3.) Work on micro skills
4.) Let them know what you’re thinking
5.) Residents attend the huddle
#EMedSky
I think there are 5 rules that are helpful
1.) Don't have unreasonable expectations
2.) Be strategic with how you interrupt
3.) Work on micro skills
4.) Let them know what you’re thinking
5.) Residents attend the huddle
#EMedSky
a cartoon character says beep beep in a desert
ALT: a cartoon character says beep beep in a desert
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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New study finds that a booster vaccine lowered the risk of long covid by 26% versus no vaccination & 23% vs primary course vaccination. Study funded by BioNTech.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MedSky #MedTwitter #BlueSky 🧪 #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky
#MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MedSky #MedTwitter #BlueSky 🧪 #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky
#MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth
The impact of vaccination on preventing long COVID in the Omicron era: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Millions worldwide are living with long COVID. Since therapeutic research is ongoing, long COVID prevention is a pragmatic public health strategy. While prior analyses have shown the benefit of primar...
www.medrxiv.org
November 24, 2024 at 8:08 AM
New study finds that a booster vaccine lowered the risk of long covid by 26% versus no vaccination & 23% vs primary course vaccination. Study funded by BioNTech.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MedSky #MedTwitter #BlueSky 🧪 #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky
#MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MedSky #MedTwitter #BlueSky 🧪 #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky
#MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth
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REFLEKTION: Vi måste börja retweeta bra inlägg om bluesky ska funka. Ser du något kul, viktigt eller klokt: låt andra veta. Låt andra lära känna en favorit. Låt contentskapare få sin cred. Rekommendera varandra. (Det är så vi håller bluesky rent.)
November 21, 2024 at 6:17 PM
REFLEKTION: Vi måste börja retweeta bra inlägg om bluesky ska funka. Ser du något kul, viktigt eller klokt: låt andra veta. Låt andra lära känna en favorit. Låt contentskapare få sin cred. Rekommendera varandra. (Det är så vi håller bluesky rent.)
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Georgia is using leaked reports as an excuse to replace community health oversight professionals with anti-abortion extremists.
meidasnews.com/news/georgia...
meidasnews.com/news/georgia...
Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths
The heartbreaking story of Amber Thurman was first reported in ProPublica earlier this year
meidasnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Georgia is using leaked reports as an excuse to replace community health oversight professionals with anti-abortion extremists.
meidasnews.com/news/georgia...
meidasnews.com/news/georgia...
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Teodorescu undrar varför ICC ej efterlyst Irans eller Kinas ledare. Beror på att ICC bara har jurisdiktion över brott på ansluten parts territorium eller av ansluten parts medborgare. Palestina ansluten, Kina & Iran inte. ICC skulle bryta mot sin egen stadga om den skulle följa Teodorescus krav.
November 23, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Teodorescu undrar varför ICC ej efterlyst Irans eller Kinas ledare. Beror på att ICC bara har jurisdiktion över brott på ansluten parts territorium eller av ansluten parts medborgare. Palestina ansluten, Kina & Iran inte. ICC skulle bryta mot sin egen stadga om den skulle följa Teodorescus krav.