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Dr Rasu Shrestha

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Physician, bridge builder & strategist. EVP, Chief #Innovation & Commercialization Officer. Together, we can fix health AND care. Posts are my own.

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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 3d

The future of experiential learning, robotics & surgical training is here.

So excited about IRCAD North America - which we went live with right here in Charlotte, NC.

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#medsky #surgsky #robotics

Dr. Rasu Shrestha shares impact of Ircad Surgical Training Institute

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Suzan Cee ☀️🌸🦋🪷🍃💙

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#Inspiration ✨️ #Kindness ✨️ #Gratitude ✨️ #Blessings ✨️

January 6, 2026 at 3:41 AM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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10 Healthcare Leadership Resolutions For 2026

Love the list. Here are the top 3:

1️⃣ Say the hard things. Do the hard things.
2️⃣ Recommit to healthcare exceptionalism.
3️⃣ Speak for people who don’t have a voice.

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Leaders scaling a ladder and helping each other out

January 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM

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Dr Rasu Shrestha

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Thank you @statnews.com for publishing this.

More insights and stories on Adam's amazing blog:

glioblastology.substack.com

#medsky #btsm

Glioblastology | Adam Marc | Substack

Philosopher gets brain cancer; blogs about it. Welcome to Glioblastology. A journal of parenting, patient advocacy, existential maturity, and life with life-limiting illness. Click to read Glioblastol...

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December 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

@rasushrestha.bsky.social

🤖 Robots will be a BIG thing at #CES2026!

What do YOU want robots to do for you?

#CES #robotics

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LG says its CLOiD home robot will be folding laundry and making breakfast at CES

The LG CLOiD home robot can fold laundry and make breakfast in your conveniently dystopian “zero labor home.”

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January 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

@rasushrestha.bsky.social

All of Pittsburgh, everywhere. 🖤💛

[photo credit: Dustin McGrew]

#Steelers #HereWeGo

Photo of a heart in the snow in the foreground with the Steelers stadium in the background

January 5, 2026 at 5:17 AM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

@rasushrestha.bsky.social

That’s Steelers-Ravens game was EVERY emotion and then some.

Wow.

January 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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🔥Time to fire Mike Tomlin. That was a pathetic first half.

#HereWeGo #Steelers #FireTomlin

Photo of Mike Tomlin

PITTSBURGH STEELERS
56 consecutive reg. season games with
7 or fewer points in ist quarter (All under Mike Tomlin)
T-LONGEST STREAK BY A HEAD COACHIN NFL HISTORY

January 5, 2026 at 3:00 AM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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🤔 When all the smoke settles, will we all finally realize what all the distractions were really about??

Venezuela with oil fields and oil barrels and a faint but clear shadow of the words “Epstein Files”.

January 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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I’ll just leave this here as we reflect on the U.S. invasion of Venezuela.

Troops seemingly planting the U.S. flag on Venezuela - but it’s really a U.S. flag on an oil rig.

January 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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Apparently, per DJT, this should now perhaps be called the “Donroe Doctrine”!

🤯

#MonroeDoctrine

The Monroe Doctrine is a foundational U.S. foreign policy from 1823, declaring the Western Hemisphere off-limits to new European colonization and intervention, asserting separate spheres for the Americas and Europe, and stating any such attempt would be seen as hostile to the U.S., aiming to protect nascent Latin American republics and U.S. security interests by curbing European power. It established a principle of American dominance in its hemisphere, influencing U.S. actions from the 19th century through the Cold War (like the Cuban Missile Crisis) and remaining a touchstone for U.S. involvement in the region.

January 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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Insightful analysis from @theguardian.com:

“Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas“

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas

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January 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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How’s it already possible that 2025 actually seemed like a saner time?

The US president, Donald Trump, has said Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been captured and flown out of the country after a “large scale” pre-dawn assault on Caracas and the surrounding region.

January 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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Does he now lose his FIFA Peace Prize?

Photos showing Venezuela being attacked.
US launches 'large-scale strike' on Venezuela and captures
President Maduro, Trump says
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January 3, 2026 at 11:55 AM

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OpenNotes

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The name of the game is "Publish or Perish" and some of our team's researchers have been playing it for decades.

In October, @ctlin.bsky.social, @thelizarmy.bsky.social and @epatientdave.bsky.social gathered in our Boston office and played this all-too-real board game from @chethan.bsky.social.

January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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President Trump is taking 325 mg of aspirin a day to prevent heart disease. His doctors advise him to take 81 mg.

Both are wrong. Here’s why.

New edition of Ground Truths, open-access from the amazing @erictopol.bsky.social

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The Lowdown on Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention

Pivotal Randomized Trials and Guidelines

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January 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

@rasushrestha.bsky.social

“Your capacity to say ‘No’ determines your capacity to say ‘Yes’ to greater things.”

~E. Stanley Jones

#inspiration #newyear #leadership

Man from Office saying: Nooooooooo Please Nooooo

January 2, 2026 at 9:47 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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Dr. Rasu Shrestha shares impact of Ircad Surgical Training Institute

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January 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

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2025 was so yesterday!

michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .

Alt: michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .

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January 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

@rasushrestha.bsky.social

💯 This year, instead of resolutions, try rituals.

Where resolutions chase outcomes, rituals attend to process.

#happynewyear

Rituals are gentler than resolutions. Where resolutions chase outcomes, rituals attend to process. Georgia O'Keeffe took a 30-minute walk each morning in the desert, often alone, believing the walking itself was where the work of painting began. Toni Morrison rose at 5, made her coffee, and waited for the sun to appear-or, as she put it, "watched the light come." Ludwig van Beethoven, also a devotee of coffee, approached the ritual differently, counting out exactly 60 beans for each cup, the number he believed produced the perfect brew. None of this was about efficiency or output. It was about creating the conditions in which the work—and the self doing it—
could come into being.
Rather than control, rituals are relational. They create atmosphere. They offer rhythm and containment.
Where resolutions depend on willpower— a finite resource, especially in times of illness or uncertainty — rituals build scaffolding. They don't ask us to muscle through. They anchor us in time, place, and meaning.
Rituals are not impressive. That, l've come to believe, is one of their chief virtues. They don't demand overnight transtormation. They ask only that we return
-to the canvas or the page, to the body, to ourselves
—and see what shows up.

January 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM

Dr Rasu Shrestha

@rasushrestha.bsky.social

May we all resolve to take care of our #mentalhealth in 2026, as much as we resolve to “work out and eat healthy”.

Remember, self-care, is critical.

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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 5d

I resolve to have fewer "open tabs" in 2026 - both on my browser, and in my head.

#newyearresolution #selfcare