I’ve got a strong suspicion that WBC data ain’t random.

If you’re not yet calling streptococcal sepsis ‘strepsis’, can you even spell portmanteau?

"generate a map of the USA with each state named"

ChatGPT 5 is really killing it. Thanks for the update guys.

The line between life and death: cardiac arrest and CPR. The latest episode of Pomegranate Health #podcast has landed. Listen now #cardiology @HeartLungCirc @psirides @drkathrynmannix
www.racp.edu.au/pome...

When Google Scholar tells you you’ve been cited and you click on the link….

« Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril:
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say » @science.org

If you have a passing interest in the UK’s experiment with a new model of care, the Leng review into Physician Assistants (ex-Associates) was published today in all 134 pages: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687760...

OUR NEW PAPER: Comment on the Leng Review on physician associates. #healthpolicy @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

10/ And there are wider questions about how we ever got into this situation, introducing a new model of service delivery with so little thought. Some medical leaders have serious questions to answer, not least to those who have suffered as a result (both patients and PAs given false expectations)

🧵1/ Big changes are coming for the occupational group now termed physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) in England. Our new @bmj.com piece (@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & me) unpacks the implications of the Leng Review, commissioned by @wesstreeting. Here are our thoughts. 👇

The latest episode of Pomegranate Health #podcast has landed. This time we talk about the line between life and death: cardiac arrest and CPR. Listen now #cardiology @psirides.bsky.social @drkathrynmannix
www.racp.edu.au/pome...

#missionimpossible: A medical perspective
- Attempted use of defibrillation without a rhythm check
- Tension pneumothorax less likely from a splenic gunshot
- Management of tension pneumothorax however most excellent
- Don’t leave your decompression chamber and immediately get in an airplane

My advance directives are pretty straightforward:

If I’m able to be saved, save me.

If I’m unable to be saved, don’t save me.

All you need to do is run my blood through the Can They Be Saved? machine and if the answer comes back “yes” then save me. If the answer comes back “no” then don’t bother.

🚨Medical device vulnerability: researchers found the Contec CMS800 Monitor contains a firmware backdoor.

If connected to the internet, the backdoor automatically connects to a specific IP & uploads patient info & sensor data.

It also allows remote code execution, which is potentially lethal!

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I wrote a book with some Australians a few years ago and it’s just been translated into Portuguese and is still available for free from here rrthandbook.org

Why does reviewer 2 always have the ‘interesting’ opinions? Are they assigned in order of reply? If so, are they just more burned out so it takes longer to answer emails? Or are they the last choice ‘please we’re desperate’ reviewer? Anyone know? @rcshuker.bsky.social

RIP Table 1