a snippet about the ICU and rounding from my novel. A song that broke my heart and a poem that mended it. and a rant. hope you find something it. open.substack.com/pub/lswrites...
Lady macduff in Macbeth just before she and her children are murdered by the state: Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly. Why then, alas, Do I put up that womanly defense To say I have done no harm?
My second post is about writing as healing, living infinitely in the moment, and this. open.substack.com/pub/lswrites...
Lady macduff in Macbeth just before she and her children are murdered by the state: Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly. Why then, alas, Do I put up that womanly defense To say I have done no harm?
My second post is about writing as healing, living infinitely in the moment, and this. open.substack.com/pub/lswrites...
hi everyone I do not use bsky much but I am now on substack if you are interested! substack.com/@lswrites/p-...
hi everyone I do not use bsky much but I am now on substack if you are interested! substack.com/@lswrites/p-...
oh it was SO GROSS WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME!! hahaha
#CHEST2025 After Hours live storytelling event was 🔥🔥🔥 with baby gorillas and tales of being lost at sea and near drowning and break dancing! @chriscarrollmd.com @avrahamcoopermd.bsky.social @laxswamy.bsky.social
"staying active is a powerful source of drive. It strengthens our bodies and lights up our minds - bringing clarity and focus to our imagination"
The corporate perception of imagination: it needs clarity and focus 🙃
Sharing at my first ever workshop this week! #amwriting
Try not to compare yourself to other authors.
Writing's a long game,
and other writers are looking at you
wishing they could be where you are.
So keep going, we're in this together.
#5amwritersclub #amwriting #writerslife #WIP #poetry #wattpad #amreading #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
I try to remember that even the person i was a year ago is looking at me that way. But it is easy to forget 😅
Good morning, #5amwritersclub. I just received this link to my six-sentence story published today in Gooseberry Pie Literary Journal today. Enjoy (and remember: you don’t always have to write thousands of words). gooseberry-pie.com/survivors-ki... #microfiction #flash
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
I just read this and loved it, and learned so much. I am a better reader now. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life g.co/kgs/FPaMFbq
Never underestimate rage
This is going to be a different type of campaign.
Because when you’re going after Medicaid and even ripping food away from hungry kids, all to cut taxes for donors and corporate lobbyists, we’re not pulling punches.
I hope you’ll join us:
secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_a...
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.
Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
Exactly. And then they get a bit older and you get a good stretch and boom it happens again and you're set entirely back.
I’m not trapped in rounds with you, you’re trapped in rounds with me
Do i take my gorgeous home made food to the resident workroom and ask them why on earth they're eating the cafeteria garbage? Yes, because i am literally the worst.
If you ask medical intensivists which types of admissions scare us the most, I would guess the most common answer would be pregnant patients (followed by status asthmaticus, which is a separate conversation). Pursuing any policy that increases risk of severe disease in pregnant people is insane.
💯 all i see is politics which is the same as everywhere else so no real value.
I think it is not going to be what it was and that is ok. I am glad we had what we did while we did.
In memory of professor Rinaldo Bellomo: A giant of intensive care medicine
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100110
It requires more people posting which isn't happening w/o traction, which won't happen without posting, etc. I don't know if it is worth all that work tbh.
Are there effective feeds on bsky? Yes. Could someone make a more generally interesting medsky feed? Maybe. It isn't easy to bring together so many broad interests - the biggest med journals don't really achieve that either.
The feed isn't focused at all. Twitter had a strong clinician focus which is lacking here. Too much is research or really just too political -- which is everywhere anyway. The feed doesn't work for me.
Yeah, the engagement is so weak here.
I'm at NTI if anyone is here!
You intubate a patient smoothly with roc & ketamine
After connection with the vent:
- oxygen saturation is 98%
- etCO2 tracing & values are normal
- breath sounds are symmetric
the vent starts alarming for a 60% air leak
you ascultate the neck & cannot hear a leak
what is happening? #1/2 #EMIMCC
