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Jack Iwashyna
@iwashyna.bsky.social
I work at Johns Hopkins to help patients + their loved ones heal from critical illness. I mentor clinicians and other scholars to become exceptional scientists.

Democracy is a Social Determinant of Health (#SDoH). Preserve it

Also #ICU #Baltimore
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“On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now”

I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month

The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion

www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Press
www.atsjournals.org
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Patient Race and Preferred Language Influence the Use of Physical Restraints on Nonintubated Intensive Care Unit Patients
@atscommunity.bsky.social #medsky

🔗 tinyurl.com/yc8hdwx8
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🔥 Simultaneous publication in multiple @jama.com journals by Prof @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social of her RCT and the patient experience analysis

This is mic-drop science

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Community Health Worker Support for Hispanic and Latino Individuals Receiving Hemodialysis
This randomized clinical trial evaluates if community health worker support reduces interdialytic weight gain among Hispanic and Latino individuals receiving hemodialysis.
jamanetwork.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Firstly, do no (net) harm.

~ (adapted from) Hippocrates

Reading Hunink et al (2014) this morning…
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Finally in print - The 1st publication in the New England Journal of Medicine
describing the devastation of healthcare infrastructure & horrors in Gaza, calling on US Medicine to break silence.
And yes it’s still relevant after the ceasefire
#SilenceIsComplicity
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which I’d read earlier but often revisit while navigating the dehumanizing maze of academia
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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I’ll go with “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” by Cal Newport
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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and of course Vogue's Book of Etiquette (1923 edition)
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Barring that:

Amy Kelly's Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings

Frederick Hartt's Art

Edmund Morris's Theodore Rex
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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The Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois, because it's the best argument for higher education ever written.

Also Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson, because it recognizes that college is terrifying and/because it's transformative.
Hey #AcademicSky and #Medsky 🩺🧪

What book do you wish someone had given you as a first year undergrad? Or did someone give you that was pivotal for you?

(Or should it always be @bcdreyer.social’s English or Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Info?)
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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“Excellent Sheep” by William Deresiewicz
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England by D. Hay, P. Linebaugh, J.G. Rule E.P.Thompson, and C. Winslow. Was formative.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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I'm very keen, I must confess, on B. C. Dreyer Dot Social's English!
Hey #AcademicSky and #Medsky 🩺🧪

What book do you wish someone had given you as a first year undergrad? Or did someone give you that was pivotal for you?

(Or should it always be @bcdreyer.social’s English or Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Info?)
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Those are good. I like a book that shows the beauty, pain, and struggle in a field (even if tangential to the field of study) is also helpful.

I’m currently reading Working Stiff, the autobiography of a medical examiner, and I would have loved this, especially the trainee part, when I was starting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hey #AcademicSky and #Medsky 🩺🧪

What book do you wish someone had given you as a first year undergrad? Or did someone give you that was pivotal for you?

(Or should it always be @bcdreyer.social’s English or Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Info?)
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This was not initially intended to be a comment on any Senators

But cowardly bit players whose life story could be a James Callis cameo role are not rare
Is there some sort of Lifetime Achievement Award for James Callis’s ability to play men who imagine themselves smart and are in over their head?

Claude Whelan in Slow Horses
Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica

The cringe. So much cringe
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Is there some sort of Lifetime Achievement Award for James Callis’s ability to play men who imagine themselves smart and are in over their head?

Claude Whelan in Slow Horses
Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica

The cringe. So much cringe
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This looks smazing
The Big Green Books Advent Calendars are a hit!

I've now sold eleven of them!

I'll send you 4, 6 or 12 surprise books, personally chosen just for you, to unwrap on the run up to Christmas

Available for ALL ages.

INFO HERE.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...

Sharing is caring (thanks).
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Dr Dale Needham @icurehab.bsky.social : “it is important to remember that avoidance is a crucial part of post traumatic stress”
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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This is exhausting. But telling.

Whenever you hear someone attacking feminists, you should know they’re attacking women and they’re too chickenshit to admit they’re attacking women.
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It is always fascinating teaching in the same seminar room as Prof @yipingong.bsky.social

My agenda for Week 11 of Death & Daring in the Modern ICU using @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hauschildt.bsky.social was surprisingly well paired with her on Viktor Frankl
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM