I’ve been keeping this one to myself, but last year I was exposed to HIV from a needle stick injury. It made me realize that, as a physician not dealing with HIV regularly, I really didn’t know much about it at all.

There’s a whole generation of kids who were afraid basements because of the Home Alone furnace.

@xkcdComic

RT @linemonkeymd: This is a huge issue which honestly informs a lot of what we see in modern healthcare: loss of autonomy, moral injury, tu….

Fries are a vehicle for sauce delivery.

How many years do you think we are from “AI rights” protests? As in: this entity is sentient, can suffer, and therefore should be afforded rights equal to that of a human.

What if my face’s default is just number 6

Millions of PINs leaked to create this graph w/ fascinating takeaways:.-Grid like clusters from multiples of 10.-diagonal line from repeating pairs, bright spots for 2222, 3333, etc.-6969 hotspot.-6942 more popular than 4269.-birth year distribution of data set centered on 1970s

RT @JRHouston20: flashers in the rain is a pandemic that needs to be stopped. this is insanity

Watches are so funny it’s like ima strap a clock to my wrist.

“The true secret to being happy is doing things from your childhood that made you happy, but with an income.”.-Cousin Justin

My worlds have collided. Pyxis is where the drugs come from and also now a camera 🧐

Mother in law: “Who’s that talking?”.Wife: “Who?”.MIL: “They’re talking over the music”.Wife: “Mom, that’s rap”.

If you wanted to see the entire eclipse over North America, you’d have to fly from Mazatlan, Mexico to Bonavista, Canada averaging 2,048 mph (3297 km/hr). You’d have to start at about 1,500 mph and end at over 5,300 mph, experiencing totality for 1 hour and 39 minutes.

At this point anything goes. Either physicians evolve & over see the tech or get pushed out. My guess? Physicians in the post AI world will still be employed, but largely as scapegoats for liability. Because at the end of the day, some high earner has to be around to get sued.

When faced with the option of simply no image interpretation (hospital grinds to a halt) vs liability of trusting new AI tech, hospitals will choose the lesser of two evils. This will be the foot in the door moment for AI radiology companies & will be Pandora’s box for radiology.

We’re already seeing this without AI; radiology volumes are currently at an all time high and some hospitals literally cannot staff radiologists. This problem will worsen exponentially. At about this time, AI image interpretation will be starting to incorporate into PACS systems.

As we’re already seeing, midlevels with far less clinical experience, in combo w/ conservative computer-aided recommendations, will result in worsening of the already bad over-imaging epidemic, increasing demand for radiologists to interpret the onslaught of inappropriate studies.

Nurse practitioners/PAs, equipped with LLMs as part of the EMR, will be hired in larger numbers because hospitals won’t be able to help themselves when tempted by the prospect of massive cost savings by reducing the number of physicians on payroll.

A radiologist’s predictions regarding AI and healthcare in the USA:. Large language models will be incorporated into electronic medical records (EMRs) well before radiology systems (PACS), jeopardizing internal medicine doctors’ jobs far before radiologists’ jobs.

As a high school student I job shadowed an ER doc. Found this summary I wrote as a teenager. Fun to see this list over 20 years later from the other side of medical school/residency.