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Joined December 2013
Here is our article that defines and disambiguates both #ockhamsrazor and #hickamsdictum for #differentialdiagnosis .And a blog post with additional information:. And tweetorial as promised
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PSA - if you go under oath/deposition, make sure your facts are straight and your confidence calibrated, else you're gonna get shredded. #expertwitness #medicolegal.
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RT @sfmcguire79: This is such a revealing moment: @DouthatNYT, moved by a poem about the beauty and gift of procreation, asks the woman who….
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Identity politics and pandering to extreme progressives and leftists has ruined the Democratic Party. Utter destruction.
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Working-class Americans who until recently voted Democratic said the party should not count on a backlash to President Trump to win them back. Still, there were pockets of opportunity.
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RT @pash22: Overdiagnosis across medical disciplines: a scoping review.via @Kevin_Jennisk et al .
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RT @Wil_Ward_: I wrote in @Sensible__Med last year that mental health screening is not supported by RCTs. It is recommended by USPSTF. But….
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This guy is fresh air. “even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver, after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the open spaces have a splendor all their own”. @VPrasadMDMPH .
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Dr. Vinay Prasad’s rehiring was an unusual instance of a federal official targeted by the right-wing activist Laura Loomer being brought back into the Trump administration.
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In the final analysis, we performed a repeat bronchoscopy and demonstrated that the mucormycosis was no longer growing. This, and the first species being circinoillooides confirmed that the first was a false positive result.
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Maybe we should ask what the Asian kids are doing?. “During the last four decades, Black and Hispanic enrollment at these schools has plummeted as Asian representation has soared.”.
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The city’s eight specialized high schools are regarded as crown jewels but also symbols of segregation. The number of Black and Hispanic students admitted to them dipped slightly from last year.
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FFS put a magnet on the defibrillator. This isn’t hard. Plus, I like how they say “a narrow majority” (53%) supports the death penalty. If it was something they favored, it would not have qualified it with “narrow”.
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Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, had argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart implant.
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RT @drjgauthier: Learn more about CAR T-cell therapy's Founding Father:."Zelig Eshhar, Who Engineered Immune Cells to Fight Cancer, Dies at….
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He made a conceptual leap in immunotherapy by creating a hybrid T-cell, known as CAR-T, that was genetically modified to destroy cancer cells.
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RT @eddyjoemd: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign addresses specific concerns regarding patient management, but not all of them. This paper atte….
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How does the discussant always get it right in the @NEJM Case Records? By magically reducing stochastic uncertainty to near zero. How they do that, you decide.
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I’m incredulous that any free thinking intelligent mature adult can read the first paragraph of this and not find it to be tendentious or oversimplified. #mysidebias #transgender. For starters, you got this nobody JD in CO telling SCOTUS they got it wrong.
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming hormonal treatment for transgender minors. This decision will have profound implications.
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RT @drsthanus: Kounis syndrome. A rare, underdiagnosed condition that occurs when an allergic reaction triggers acute coronary syndrome. h….
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RT @YCGaryLee: State-of-the-Art Summary on Heart Failure Pleural Effusion by @JoseMPorcel in 15 min. I learned a lot - likely you will too….
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RT @YCGaryLee: #PLEURAL_PEARLS_WA 31.@Birt_Hogg_Dube syndrome: a cause of spontaneous pneumoThx clinicians must not miss. Autosomal dominan….
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Hahahahhahahhaha. I always say nobody wins in a contest of who’s the biggest douche, but here we have two winners!!!.
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The sudden fallout ended a nearly yearlong partnership, during which Mr. Musk helped propel Mr. Trump to the White House and became one of the president’s top advisers.
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