Christine Liu
@DocForGrandma
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Geriatrician; mom, spouse, caregiver, researcher, improving the lives of older people with kidney disease
Joined June 2014
RT @AJKDonline: Frailty in Kidney Disease: A Comprehensive Review to Advance Its Clinical and Research Applications . .
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RT @AJKDonline: Effect of Long-term Exercise Training on Physical Performance and Cardiorespiratory Function in Adults With CKD: A Randomiz….
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RT @YasminRafiei: Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I w….
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After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.
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RT @Megany221: Tears in my eye on home visits today listening to caregivers say they got the vaccine. Because in addition to being primary….
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RT @KidneyMed: COVID-19 Infection Risk Among Hemodialysis Patients in Long-term Care Facilities. #OpenAccess. @DocF….
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This is for all the nursing home residents we have lost. I promise to keep advocating for change. #ThisIsOurShot #covid19vax #paltc #Stanford #AGS
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RT @BrookdaleLiving: Seventy-five years together makes for the perfect pair! Charles and Dorothy celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary….
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RT @TsengJennifer: We @BMCSurgery ❤️ our @BUgeriatrics colleagues! Thanks for helping us with some of more wonderful and vulnerable patient….
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RT @DrAROrkaby: Using VA data we found a 25% reduction in all-cause mortality and 20% reduction in CV-mortality in new statin users >75 yea….
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This retrospective cohort study uses Veterans Health Administration data on adults free of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) to evaluate the association between new statin use and...
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Creativity in time of Covid. Love it!.
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RT @robertspeker: Sydmar Lodge Care Home residents and carers have been recreating classic album covers. The home has now been in lockdown….
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With my fantastic colleagues of the New England Geriatrics Network, we wrote about the horrors of COVID In Massachusetts nursing homes #geri #geriatrics #nursinghome #LongTermCare.
Good article. Here's the question: If enough of us say this message enough of the time, will we get through?
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RT @KarlPillemer: Good article. Here's the question: If enough of us say this message enough of the time, will we get through? https://t.co….
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RT @The_BMC: In honor of #LabWeek 🔬we'd like to give a special shoutout to our #Microbiology Lab 🧪— this team is leading the charge in orde….
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RT @joshuy: I hate headlines like this so I’ll say it again, If an engineer builds a one winged airplane that doesn’t fly, why blame the pi….
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RT @Lm_solberg: #COVID19 The community is wealthy but the #NusingHome staff are still under paid. We need to #valueLTCemployees They care f….
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RT @DayDHollis: More than 40% of deaths from covid in MA are in the nursing homes. Does anyone else find this such a troubling statistic? W….
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I am crying. Today we discussed how we will ration vents if needed. My mom, who helped me get to be the doc I am, would not get one bc she has dementia. I get why and agree with the strategy, but it doesn’t make it any easier. #geri #geriatrics #nursinghome #COVID.
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Enormous thanks to Rory Silvia, fabulous operations guru for BMC geri who got MONOGRAMMED shields for those us fighting covid in nursing homes! #BMCproud #geri #MedTwitter #COVID
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