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PCCM. Lung biology, cancer, biomarkers, indie music, nature, etc
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Jan 30, 2025: “CHEST remains steadfast in our mission to prevent, diagnose, and treat chest diseases using all available means to advance the best patient outcomes. We maintain that striving for health equity is essential to achieving this goal” www.chestnet.org/newsroom/che...

NYT Bee agrees that this is a word 100% made up by surgeons.

Share if you’re Gen X and you grew up: - Licking lead paint off the walls - Drinking leaded gasoline straight from the pump - Chewing on a big bar of lead whenever you were bored And you turned out fine!!!!

So how long until some political appartchnik axes my clinical trial protocol because it has a section entitled “Inclusion Criteria”?

This is cool but the true nerd knows that you could own all of them with one well-crafted sapply() www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

Nichard Rilhous Mixon

If this is even half true, the chaos will be immense.

Paper out in J Thoracic Onc about the impact of comorbidities on lung cancer screening. Tremendous work by Sebastien Gendarme. I am truly privileged that he chose to spend a year in our lab and this was all his doing! www.jto.org/article/S155... #medsky #pulmsky #lcs

Heading home. Traditional German fare at the Lufthansa lounge in Munich

What if we kissed at

There’s always mon(k)ey in the banana stand *clickclick*

Wifey and some old building

Now with vitamin R!

youtu.be/WHrn_pHW2so

New paper just dropped in @jama.com showing the miracle that are HPV vaccines Full article here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... TL;DR version of article: Get your kids vaccinated (both boys and girls) because it prevents cancer

Night started with low acuity low census unit. Relaxing in the call room by 9:30pm when apparently the hospital decided is the right time to replumb the adjacent space. They banged on pipes until about 3:30am, which of course signaled the universe to unleash the high acuity admits.

The mandatory psychological wellness education modules will continue until burnout improves

We will finally get the crudites that this nation deserves

I help to run a diagnostic clinic for cancer, where I was brought on board to deal with lung nodules. With my biomarker research background, I’m being dragged into the sordid world of multi cancer early detection tests (MCEDs). Is there appetite for a skeetorial/thread on these? #oncsky #mced

Weekend getaway #saguaroNP

I guess it’s time to start posting here? How’s everyone dealing with their existential dread? For me, it’s trying to make sense of the lme4 library, clinical protocols for managing MCED tests, post rock, and Japanese joinery and car repair videos. Follow for infrequent updates #medtwitter