ericweinhandl.bsky.social
Kidney epidemiology (PhD) + biostatistics (MS). My primary interest is home dialysis. Christian in the LCMS, lifelong Minnesotan, Ole, Gopher, husband, dad x4.
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Meine Großeltern left Österreich (Apetlon, southeast of Neusiedler See) in the late 1940s. The stories of their youth are part of my life, which makes all of what occurred easier for an American child to understand.
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Looks like the Pop Tart’s evil cousin.
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Much better in MN today, but yesterday was as bad as I've experienced in the past few years of wildfire smoke
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If it ain’t red, leave it in the shed.
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Idiotic public policy. That’s how I really feel. We somehow conflated decriminalization (of possession/use) with safety of use.
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If we set aside editorials and perspective articles...
It would be interesting to see what % of RCTs in NEJM and JAMA are industry-sponsored vs NIH-sponsored. I suspect that in those two journals, the former is dominant.
JAMA specialty journals are a different topic, for sure.
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As an Ole alum, I feel compelled to tune in and cheer for BC.
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🌍 History made! For the first time, kidney care is on the global health agenda. #WHA78 adopted a landmark resolution recognizing kidney health in the fight against #NCDs.
👏 Thanks to Guatemala and the global kidney community for making this possible!
#KidneyHealthMatters
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Aside from turnovers, that was a good quarter.
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Maybe it is a priority, though.
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It is still a relatively slow-paced and inactive platform. I don’t feel overwhelmed by political takes (largely one-sided though they are), but engagement is not broad-based.
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I use FedEx Office more than any other outfit. I just pick up the poster at the store, so I need not worry about the hotel misplacing it. The price is fine, and more often than not, the location is in the convention center hotel or within a few blocks.
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You just need an Xtandi app.
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Maybe my knowledge of market dynamics is out of date! My PhD advisor in EpiCH was paid nowhere near $200,000 (and she was hardly inexperienced).
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It is amazing that Hardeman’s salary was $206,000. That is substantially higher than many salaries among tenured PhDs in the School of Public Health.
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Are two instances of elevated troponin indicative of a really bad MI? 😵💫
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This is one of your best articles. Thank you for putting your experience (really, your life) into words.
In reading, I was reminded of my discomfort with the discordance between the claimed "wonders" of home dialysis and the lived experience of patients. Honesty about likely outcomes is important.
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That's an interesting point. I've read articles (not in journals) about limited HD capacity in a number of countries. The US is not one of those countries. It'll be interesting to see whether articles in journals provide that context.
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Good, I can keep abstaining from Python.
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The moment the tide turned against pet raccoons in Minnesota:
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Clinics have backup supply on hand, and one can always order more. But I’ve long thought it’d be nice if people had a permissible way to inform others in the area of supply that could be shared, whatever the circumstances may be. It’s an idealistic thought, for sure.
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I was joking. It’s not an actual market, because regulations prohibit redistribution of supply. The fluid is a prescribed drug, per se, so the dialysis clinics may not reclaim supply.
Many people have leftover supply, and other people do sporadically run short of specific colors.
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Has lots of uses, great for gardening 🤣
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Big market for PD fluid, I know that
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There is a very interesting book to be written about the thesis that the slow evolution of policy and regulation during the past 40 years has created real harm. There are many potential chapters.
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You should write history books as a side hustle.
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You figured it out.
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It is unnecessary.
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Perhaps you should announce that on X.
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I think that there is a perception (among some) that while one can have a good academic conversation on Bluesky, potential engagement with the broader world, especially journalists, remains significantly wider on X. Resolving that issue (or merely the perception) is what remains.
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Here would be my hypothesis:
In claims, diagnoses arise from interaction with healthcare providers. More interaction = more diagnoses. More interaction also offers more opportunities for vaccination in a billable setting. See the game? Vaccination is a confounded risk factor for new ASD diagnosis.
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And while we are at it, let me add that I would entertain raw milk from the giant dairy that the Davis family (Cambria ownership) has in Nicollet before I drank raw milk from the vast majority of family farms. So that whole bit about knowing the farmer and petting the cow is ridiculous.