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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · Aug 10

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · Aug 1

Omg.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Apr 17

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · Jul 30

I am so sorry this was done to you
Awful
Wishing you well in your recovery

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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.bsky.social · May 29

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #pedsky #immunosky The recently published #Fluvaccine after #MyocardialInfarction trial showed that #Fluvaccine within 72 h of hospitalization for MI led to a significant 28% reduction in MACE and a 41% reduction in CV mortality, without any excess in serious adverse events…

Reiner @erlangen.bsky.social · May 29

Influenza Vaccination for Cardiovascular Prevention: Insights from the IAMI Trial and an Updated Meta-analysis
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Grippeimpfung sofort nach Herzinfarkt sollte Standard werden
springermedizin.de/kardiologie/...
Herzschutz durch Impfung
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbBL...

Influenza Vaccination for Cardiovascular Prevention: Further Insights from the IAMI Trial and an Updated Meta-analysis

Influenza infection is a significant, well-established cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CV mortality. Influenza vaccination has been shown to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE)...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · May 10

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped

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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · May 5

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”

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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · Apr 19

I think
In medicine
The highs are high and the lows are really low

The privilege of the relationship we share with patients is a treasure

But
The way our good will is used to extract value in the form of service provision that eats away at our life and lifespan …sucks

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Tom Quinn @proftomquinn.bsky.social · Apr 11

Wow! @aidanbaron.bsky.social congrats on your new podcast.

This first episode on dental/oral health taught me a lot. Recommended listening for anyone interested in health and health inequalities.

Looking forward to more.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Apr 7

So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.

Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.

Third measles death

This is not normal. For three reasons.

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

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Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social · Apr 2

I just have to shout into the void that patient safety incident investigations are so additionally traumatic for families who've already been through the worst. I'm so drained with being promised reports that don't arrive-and communication about their absence I have to instigate.

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · Apr 1

Traffic stops are one of the most common civilian and police interactions. Does race influence such interactions?

Our new paper published in @science.org using a rideshare data set shows that there is considerable racial bias. Paper can be downloaded here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding

Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and...

www.science.org

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Natalie May @nmay.bsky.social · Mar 30

“The best time to have a baby? Preferably at the end of the third trimester.”

Great stuff from Leanne Rowe over in MJA

insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/12/the-...?

The best time to have a baby during a medical career - InSight+

Advice about delaying pregnancy or parental leave may be dismissed as an innocent attempt to help early career doctors achieve their goals, but it constitutes a breach of the Sex Discrimination Act. T...

insightplus.mja.com.au

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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · Mar 26

Wait what
There’s an orally dissolving prochlorperazine ?

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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · Mar 26

I have just been informed that Ondansetron wafers are actually not absorbed by the oral mucosa and instead need to trickle down with spit to be absorbed by the gastric mucosa

Am I being punked?

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 22

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

time.com

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Tony Walker ASM @agwalker01.bsky.social · Mar 23

Formula 1 teams obsess over data to shave milliseconds off lap times. 🚥🏁 Ambulance Victoria takes the same approach to cardiac arrest survival—their latest report shows a record 41% survival rate, making Victoria the 3rd safest place in the world for OHCA.
www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/about-us/res...

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · Mar 20

Guys on American military podcasts call each other ‘sir’ like people in The Bear™ call each other chef in the Kitchen

Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · Mar 16

I love Paul Simpson’s suggestion that researchers should take a methodological pause to consider “am I heading in the right direction?” the same way we’d take a clinical pause managing complex illness

I’m as guilty as any of us of (ab)using surveys in the past
A great reminder

Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · Mar 16

An important recent editorial

Surveys - they often suck*

*lack methodological rigour, misappropriate validated tools, fail to appropriately analyse qualitative data etc

Poor surveys have become almost ubiquitous in paramedic research

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Doing better with survey-based research in paramedicine - Paul Simpson, 2025

journals.sagepub.com

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Dr Nav Sidhu @drnavsidhu.bsky.social · Mar 15

23 cases of epidurals being blamed for masking acute compartment syndrome pain. In 19 of these, the patients complained of pain but were ignored.

@maggieholtzmd.bsky.social at #ASURA2025 #AnSky #RASky

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Dr. Buck Reed @buck-reed.bsky.social · Mar 8

When I joined an ambulance service 20 years ago there were 8 women in our recruit class of 32. Last week I taught a new group of first years and had 70% female students. I'm excited about the evolution of Paramedicine given our traditional gender bias. Demographic change brings structural change.

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