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Matt Katz, MD 🟦 🇺🇸
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Interim Chair and Residency Program Director in Radiation Oncology at Tufts Med Center. Dedicated to improving health and cancer care. Trust, learn, collaborate. Neutral good.
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Not so simple question for healthcare professionals:

Why are you online?
#medsky
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#Wolfsberg25 is happening in Oslo next year 21 - 23 Jun
➡️ Abstract deadline 31st Jan
➡️ Radiobiology experts
➡️ Great opportunity to network
➡️ See you there!
@oncoalert.bsky.social @subatomicdoc.bsky.social @mguckenberger.bsky.social #ESTRO
www.wolfsberg-oslo-radiation.com
Home | Wolfsberg
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December 4, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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I find AI vs clinician studies very preliminary but also as furthering the need for > investment in clinician competence and wellbeing. And yet > $$ go to AI. I call this The Big Yellow Taxi (…paved paradise to put up a parking lot 🎶) Paradox. Remember: Only people can care. @patientrevolution.org
December 2, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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Watch this story youtu.be/lXtkg9FPZBg by @pbsnews.bsky.social about the corruption in the mission of healthcare and how @patientrevolution.bsky.social is a backbone for a movement for careful and kind care. Then join us patientrevolution.org
The Patient Revolution aims to expose healthcare flaws and pave the way for improvement
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
November 18, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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Attending on the inpatient solid oncology service this week really makes me want to remind everyone to schedule their age appropriate cancer screenings immediately. Colonoscopies, mammograms, pap smears and primary care appointments save lives!! #MedSky #OncSky
December 3, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Did we conceive the structure of neurons incorrectly all these years?
nature.com/articles/s41...
not smooth, cylindrical strands but a string of pearls?
it's controversial
science.org/content/arti...
@science.org
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function - Nature Neuroscience
Axons have always been assumed to be cylindrical. Using in silico modeling and cryopreservation of tissues, Griswold et al. demonstrate that unmyelinated axons of the mammalian central nervous system ...
nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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This is great!

A simple, understandable video you can share with patients who inject drugs to help them reduce their risk of infection
Very important to address harm reduction strategies and get pts on therapeutic dose of medication for opioid use disorder. We made a video at Yale on this topic. youtu.be/9uYCFOpDoR4?... and also a website for patients safersubstanceuse.org, other great resources at nextdistro.org
December 2, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Our Delphi consensus-based approach included 83 thoracic radiation oncologists in at least one survey to create consensus-based OAR dose constraint and target goal templates for lung cancer radiation therapy.

What do you think? Link here:
www.practicalradonc.org/article/S187...
#lcsm #radonc
December 1, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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I've been calling for digital literacy modules in civic ed for over a decade now
November 30, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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There are no safeguards or rights to keep history of X/Meta from repeating on Bluesky.

I love this idea. AND we have to break the cycle first.

Cc: @itsthebunk.bsky.social @stales.bsky.social @danamlewis.bsky.social
@thelizarmy.bsky.social

lightcollective.org/tangled-in-t...
Light Collective - Tangled In The Web:
Visit the post for more.
lightcollective.org
November 28, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Honor of being #SoMe editor for The Oncologist for going on 2 years (thanks @drdonsdizon.bsky.social) They are currently recruiting for new #Deputy Editors. Don't miss out on this opportunity to be a part of an incredible team. Apply today. DM if you'd like to get connected. @rcsimm.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Another good Sunday treating before Thanksgiving. We typically treat on Sunday, so people can have off the Thanksgiving weekend without affecting the effectiveness of treatment #radonc
November 24, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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We already have a #LongCovid hashtag! It's not the ASCO communities, it's the LC community. Hashtags that are needed *usually* emerge somewhere, but can be hard to find. LC is a pretty obvious choice, but a lot of cancer survivorship concepts are not. We can discover, collect, share info.
November 24, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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🚨🚨Prostate and UREthra on MRI (PURE-MRI):
Try to contour (outline) the prostate and urethra on MRI for 1 patient
After everyone is done, we will enable the “answer key”
And you help us learn how to help doctors and AI do better
Sign up here: redcap.link/PURE-MRI
🙏🏼
November 22, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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I just created a new starter pack for #Medtech on Bluesky!
November 8, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Longer-term investment in learning more about lymph node metastasis.

I had a fascinating discussion with Pathology about head neck cancer . It makes me wonder if we need to be working much more closely across specialties.

#medtwitter #cancerbiology
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Lovely music for studying the biology of lymph node metastasis
#cancerbiology #CME #oncsky
November 16, 2024 at 7:34 PM