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World Kidney Day 2026: Caring for People, Protecting the Planet Ana Flavia Moura, MD, PhD, FASN, is a nephrologist based in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is a Professor at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health. She currently serves her second term as …

Special post on #AJKDBlog by Ana Flavia Moura and José A. Moura-Neto commemorating #WorldKidneyDay 2026: Caring for People, Protecting the Planet

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👇FYI surgeons, healthcare leaders #SurgSky

Culture of Silence at Columbia Shielded Sexual Assault by Physician, Report Finds Two doctors affiliated with the university and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down after an external report found that the administrators mishandled allegations of abuse against Robert Hadden.

Breaking News: A culture of silence at Columbia University and affiliated hospitals shielded a former physician from sexual abuse allegations, a report found.

In celebration of International Women's Day, RCSEd President Clare McNaught reflects on the importance of this year's theme, 'Give to Gain', the value of volunteerism, and our ongoing commitment to supporting women in surgery and dentistry.

Read her... https://bit.ly/4b8LIqj

#IWD2026 #GiveToGain

The CPS found 12 staff failed in their legal duty of care to Laura. In a letter, prosecutors said: “The evidence clearly proves that [doctors] prescribed incorrect levels of IV paracetamol for Laura due to her low body weight, which was administered without question by nurses.”

Great weekend read this, which is about the first women to have travelled down the Colorado River #adventure #BookSky #IWD2026

Surgical resident & Pure Barre instructor Marianna Frazee writes beautifully about what dance and transplant surgery have in common — precision, micro-adjustments, endurance under pressure, & the quiet strength that only reveals itself when everythings on the line.

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Between Lake Coleridge and the Rakaia River valley lies a spine of small mountains left behind after the glaciers.
Just one of many dramatic and unique scenes in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.
#NZ #mountains #rakaia #wilberforce
#Canterbury #hiking #glaciallake

‘He Was Very Convincing’: Over 600 Mostly Black Women Sterilized and Cut Open for No Reason, Lawsuit Claims — Now Virginia Hospital Faces $6B Lawsuit "Over 600 Black women sue Virginia hospital for $6B over unnecessary surgeries. Shocking details emerge in lawsuit. #JusticeForWomen"

This is one of the worst ever cases of unnecessary surgery (& governance failures), that I have ever come across. #medicolegal #OBGynSky atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/15/o...

Big news #Medsky, we're testing out a new feature from @graze.social – personalization!

Previously, each @medsky.social feed showed everyone the same posts. Now thanks to personalization, posts you like tailor the algorithm to find content just for you!

Try it out and let me know what you think!

Plus even more points for when the whole post is AI generated!

Look but do not touch (nb they live down this way)!

The lack of insight on their part is staggering!

Today's #MemberMonday celebrates Kaori Ito, MD, PhD, FACS, FCCM. Her biggest achievement: bringing the U.S. concept of acute care surgery (surgeons integrated into trauma, emergency general surgery, & critical care) to Japanese practice.
Read more: buff.ly/YkE8aTy
#SCCM

Looking south along Samurai Beach on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. This beach forms part of the Tomaree Coastal walk which can hiked in sections over 2-3 days.

Samurai Beach (part of the Tomaree Coastal Walk), located in the central coast of New South Wales here in Australia #hiking

There is a female arm wearing a Victorian style sleeve in the top left hand corner and a hand in the bottom right hand corner wearing a surgical glove. Each hand is holding a white square with black text on it which reads "New Temporary Exhibition A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery opens Saturday the 5th of April 2025". The background is dark blue.

There is just one week left to view our current temporary exhibition 'A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery'.

If you can't see it in person, the exhibition is available on our free digital guide: guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...

Surgeons and Microaggression | JACS YouTube video by American College of Surgeons

One of my collaborators Dr Chris Heisler, discussing our recently published manuscript in JACS, which focuses on how and when surgeons take action as a result of experiencing microaggressions in the workplace
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Agree with a number of the suggestions to expand the pool of peer reviewers-including recruiting people from other countries, and supporting younger physicians

This is a significant red flag with respect to this doctors behavior towards females in general

Ping #nephsky followers

People need to be banned from entering those areas and only allowed in under some king of management system where they go on a supervised tour. I have just read this book (it is really eye opening around penguin tourism)

Pregnancy Cravings for Prime Numbers? Fake Paper Scams Predatory Publishers Irritated by predatory journals and fake conferences, one mathematics researcher decided to submit an obviously AI-generated manuscript, revealing their exploitative behavior.

I average about eight predatory journal submission requests a day currently. I began to block all of the messages requesting submissions and yet they still keep coming. In the case of one predatory publisher, I vibe-coded an app to (try to) block them. #Medsky www.the-scientist.com/pregnancy-cr...

A bright light in the cardiac surgery and the global surgery communities, now shines no more. RIP Dominique (the news of about this was posted on X).

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

👇This is a really good initiative. Review a book that you have read and send it through to the BJS #BookMedSky

Great story this one, this boy deserves an award for his bravery

This is deflection by the hospital management (as well as kicking the can down the road as to the root causes of the toxic culture). The perpetrators do not appear to have been dealt with.

Opinion | The Doctor in the Epstein Files What is our responsibility as physicians?

Some readers aren’t happy that this article was political.

Leadership sets the tone for what is acceptable in our culture. When a former & current president w/credible SA accusations are implicated in mass abuse of women & girls, we MUST get political. #medsky

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Houston-based organ transplant doctor federally indicted for allegedly falsifying records Dr. J. Steve Bynon surrendered to federal authorities following an investigation into the allegations that led to a months-long halt of Houston-based Memorial Hermann's kidney and liver transplant programs. Bynon was set to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge on Thursday afternoon.

A Houston transplant doctor accused of falsifying medical records to prevent patients from receiving new livers has been federally indicted. 

Surprised that no one responded to this-?timing of the post a factor. Short answer yes they do. Other management options-reduce the volume of the balloon, tape catheter so there is no traction on it, consider Oxybutinin #SurgSky #UroSky