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We have “rapid response”
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We reinvented talk shows. And the wheel keeps spinning.
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I pooped in a hole in my backyard like 6 months ago. Shoutout hurricane milton for that one.
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That pendulum can cause a lot of damage in each direction
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Real “sense of impending doom” going on here
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Per this source, “Roughly two-thirds of the approximately $20 billion in federal funds allocated for GME is through Medicare, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
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🙋🏻♀️
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My dad is doubling down and digging his heels in. It’s so embarrassing to watch. Ego is powerful.
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The burnout is insane. I feel complicit in a system that doesn’t prioritize patients.
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Looking out for themselves. Many of them angling for spots in the administration.
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I wrap/papoose kids in sheets to minimize movement during procedures. I wrapped a Spanish-speaking kid and said “I’m going to wrap you up like a burrito” and then “you’re an adorable little burrito” and the translator laughed and said, “sorry but ‘burrito’ means ‘little donkey’ and it’s so funny”
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Ibuprofen, lidoderm patch, stretch, massage, contemplate that you never realized how often you use your mid-back muscles
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Imagine thinking ramps are inconvenient -mom with baby in stroller and bike-obsessed preschooler
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Your patients and, especially, their parents are so lucky to have you. If you ever need donations to a tiny bow fund, lmk
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100%. My kid needed nebs and steroids. Specific virus really didn’t matter and I assumed they’d run the Covid/flu/rsv swab that we have, not the full panel. Whether his symptoms were from rsv vs metapneumovirus vs rhinovirus would not have changed management.
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Spill the tea, blitzy
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Also, someone please study/publish this
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Real men love E. faecalis
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In undergrad I worked on a trial for a new flu drug. Study arms were placebo, new drug, and oseltamivir. We used to joke that the placebo would need to be an emetic for the study to be truly blinded.