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Diane Rimple, MD
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Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Former Program Director, Clerkship Director #MedEd #PublicHealth #EmergencyMedicine
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Propublica article.
February 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Thank you for sharing this poignant letter. Reminder to the public: there is no treatment for measles, only prevention.
lethalityjane.bsky.social ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Feb 15
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 16, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Thank you Dr Ranney for sharing this excellent resource. Emergency Medicine intersects with Public Health on so many levels.
February 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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For those working to understand what we are experiencing.
integralanswers.bsky.social Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · Feb 9
Here’s a structured Twitter thread introducing each of the Twenty Lessons from On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, with real-world examples and discussion questions. This will encourage engagement and critical thinking.
February 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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EXCELLENT review of CVO (and emergency ophthalmology). Also - this is a high quality MedEd website
medicastra.medsky.social CMcG Rheum @medicastra.medsky.social · Feb 5
From 2023, a nice discussion of retinal vein occlusions. I might always be on the lookout for #GCA but being clearer on the other options for painless vision loss is valuable.

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