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Joel Skaistis. Ordinary cardiologist. Extraordinary prior auth filler outer.
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Good sign for the prospect of avr with normal ef

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 NEW: Wow, Trump's former VP Mike Pence just called Trump out for lying about Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

@rephaleystevens.bsky.social and somehow the horrors of the last 2 weeks just get more horrible. Congress just passed this in 2018. Seems like you could shame the gop to stand by and still support not having our elections hacked

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social more plugs for open primary ranked choice voting please. How better to make government responsive to the needs of the people than to elect leaders who actually appeal to the majority of the public

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

How much can we pay trump to just retire? 20 billion? I’ll chip in on that gofundme

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Econ textbook publishers, get rid of that trolley problem kid stuff. We got the USAID problem now. Would you pull a lever to stop a program that saves millions to…not sure what you get out of it honestly. 3 anti woke points?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Three times a day

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

submitted 15 days ago • 29 comments

Over at the other site somebody is boasting to have saved a life but stenting a proximal Cx in an asymptomatic patient (big yellow arrows underscore the success!) I think it could be argued that this patient was actually harmed, given the never-ending 2% annual event rate of any PCI. #cardiosky

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

What is this goomba???! #echofirst #cardiosky #medsky #whycmr #pocus #imagefirst #echosky

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

For every horrible thing Trump has done, there are twenty other horrible things he has also done.

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

Top 5 most read papers in @jaccjournals.bsky.social #JACCAdvances in 2024 Del Franco, A, Ruggieri, R, Pieroni, M. et al. Atlas of Regional Left Ventricular Scar in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathies: Substrates and Etiologies. JACC Adv. 2024 Oct, 3 (10) . doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time to play: Is it fat? #echofirst #whycmr #cardiosky

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Why is mri the go to test for cerebral infarction but not myocardial infarction? #whycmr #cardiosky

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

How can you have 18% inappropriate shock rate with only 4 events and 300 participants? #cardiosky

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 27 days ago • 105 comments

A new editorial describes the science behind a clinical trial reported by Ruff et al. in which a monoclonal antibody targeting factors XI and XIa was evaluated for its effects on bleeding events in patients with atrial fibrillation. Read the full editorial: nej.md/3Eg76gw #MedSky #ScienceSky

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t relate with docs not treating amyloid because of the cost to insurance companies. What kind of Stockholm syndrome is this? #medsky #cardiosky

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone get insurance to approve Zepbound for osa treatment yet? Hate having to wait til someone has a heart attack or stroke before it gets approved for non weight loss general ASCVD risk reduction. @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Icd predicts 3 month mortality with auc of 0.91! Editorial title: “We’re gonna need a new name on the end of life alert” #cardiosky #medsky

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

If 2/3 of the US is eligible for glp1as, how many of us have to start using them before “herd immunity” kicks in? I’m talking about societal taste change like McDonald’s selling quinoa and pickleball in every strip mall #cardiosky #medsky

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

How do you convince a hypertensive, diabetic with cardio renal syndrome and cad to take 10+ pills? My go to line lately is “your heart wants you to”. Peer pressure

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