Tim Lahey
@timlaheymd.bsky.social
Infectious diseases doc, ethicist, and medical educator in Vermont ❤️🏳️🌈🕊️
“The knowledge that we would have had about how we can enhance population health through those clinical trials will be lost.”
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November 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“The knowledge that we would have had about how we can enhance population health through those clinical trials will be lost.”
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“We have been so successful undermining trust in vaccines that now we are forced to defund vaccine science”
August 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
“We have been so successful undermining trust in vaccines that now we are forced to defund vaccine science”
He led the writing of the original protocols in Pittsburgh for circulatory death donation.
“My concern from Day 1 of doing this was that people may abuse the system,” he said.
#bioethics #transplant
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“My concern from Day 1 of doing this was that people may abuse the system,” he said.
#bioethics #transplant
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July 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
He led the writing of the original protocols in Pittsburgh for circulatory death donation.
“My concern from Day 1 of doing this was that people may abuse the system,” he said.
#bioethics #transplant
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
“My concern from Day 1 of doing this was that people may abuse the system,” he said.
#bioethics #transplant
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
Thanks by W. S. Merwin
July 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thanks by W. S. Merwin
July 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
June 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I hereby retract the whining I did at the end of a 7-day stint
June 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I hereby retract the whining I did at the end of a 7-day stint
June 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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May 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Calculating Doge’s impact, analysts say, is complicated by its deliberate opacity”
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May 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
“Calculating Doge’s impact, analysts say, is complicated by its deliberate opacity”
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April 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Randomized multi-center BALANCE trial confirms 7d of antibiotics as good as 14d for simple bacteremia from pathogens other than Staph aureus
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March 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Randomized multi-center BALANCE trial confirms 7d of antibiotics as good as 14d for simple bacteremia from pathogens other than Staph aureus
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The "Orwellian absurdity" of lifesaving projects Ted Cruz wants to kill
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February 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The "Orwellian absurdity" of lifesaving projects Ted Cruz wants to kill
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The lawyers, the scientists, the blues, standing up for truth and good health care and the oldest standing democracy in the world
Oh yeah and a kitten
Oh yeah and a kitten
February 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The lawyers, the scientists, the blues, standing up for truth and good health care and the oldest standing democracy in the world
Oh yeah and a kitten
Oh yeah and a kitten
February 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“I have committed no crime and there are no possible grounds for any allegation ... However, that the mere articulation of these baseless threats, and the potential that they will be acted upon, create immeasurable and intolerable distress for me and my family.”
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January 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“I have committed no crime and there are no possible grounds for any allegation ... However, that the mere articulation of these baseless threats, and the potential that they will be acted upon, create immeasurable and intolerable distress for me and my family.”
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Excellent discussion of the limitations of obesity definitions in a new Lancet report
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January 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Excellent discussion of the limitations of obesity definitions in a new Lancet report
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