brookswalsh
@brookswalsh.bsky.social
ER doc.
Okay at reading ECGs
Proud to have helped eliminate "excited delirium" in EM.
Aiming to correctly use the subjunctive in Spanish more often.
And I am never, ever sick at sea.
Okay at reading ECGs
Proud to have helped eliminate "excited delirium" in EM.
Aiming to correctly use the subjunctive in Spanish more often.
And I am never, ever sick at sea.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Ya so
Ya so
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Ya so
Ya so
“My life has prepared me for this shit. There’s nothing that scares me anymore. So I bury my head into work.
My escapism is the cruel reality of the city right now.”
My escapism is the cruel reality of the city right now.”
MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted. Share, porfas!
Commentary: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted
“Daily Memo” has become the diary Los Angeles never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region's history.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“My life has prepared me for this shit. There’s nothing that scares me anymore. So I bury my head into work.
My escapism is the cruel reality of the city right now.”
My escapism is the cruel reality of the city right now.”
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MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted. Share, porfas!
Commentary: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted
“Daily Memo” has become the diary Los Angeles never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region's history.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted. Share, porfas!
I'm sure that my ER colleague was 100% sincere when they ordered a costly EMS transfer.
But this situation forced this family into (credit card!) debt.
We don't talk enough about the financial risks of ER visits.
Gift link:
wapo.st/3M65Hgt
But this situation forced this family into (credit card!) debt.
We don't talk enough about the financial risks of ER visits.
Gift link:
wapo.st/3M65Hgt
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm sure that my ER colleague was 100% sincere when they ordered a costly EMS transfer.
But this situation forced this family into (credit card!) debt.
We don't talk enough about the financial risks of ER visits.
Gift link:
wapo.st/3M65Hgt
But this situation forced this family into (credit card!) debt.
We don't talk enough about the financial risks of ER visits.
Gift link:
wapo.st/3M65Hgt
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You can pry my bactrim out of my warm, edematous, erythemic finger.
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
You can pry my bactrim out of my warm, edematous, erythemic finger.
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Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole carries a very low (but real) risk of causing ARDS.
Duration of therapy is a risk factor (>7 days).
Could likely be minimized by avoiding unnecessarily long courses.
TMP-SMX is usually well tolerated, but can wreak havok (SJS, ARDS, drug-induced meningitis). #EMIMCC
Duration of therapy is a risk factor (>7 days).
Could likely be minimized by avoiding unnecessarily long courses.
TMP-SMX is usually well tolerated, but can wreak havok (SJS, ARDS, drug-induced meningitis). #EMIMCC
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole carries a very low (but real) risk of causing ARDS.
Duration of therapy is a risk factor (>7 days).
Could likely be minimized by avoiding unnecessarily long courses.
TMP-SMX is usually well tolerated, but can wreak havok (SJS, ARDS, drug-induced meningitis). #EMIMCC
Duration of therapy is a risk factor (>7 days).
Could likely be minimized by avoiding unnecessarily long courses.
TMP-SMX is usually well tolerated, but can wreak havok (SJS, ARDS, drug-induced meningitis). #EMIMCC
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"if we don't understand that all children are really our children, then we are completely uncomprehending"
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
China Martens
www.chinamartens.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"if we don't understand that all children are really our children, then we are completely uncomprehending"
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
~ China Martens, The Avenue (www.chinamartens.com) maybe @chinamartens.bsky.social
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learned that peacock in Spanish is "pavo real," which gave me new respect for regular pavos
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
learned that peacock in Spanish is "pavo real," which gave me new respect for regular pavos
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You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
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New study design:
Multiply a small & uncertain number with a big number and you get a big number
The final big number looks, well, really big
This grabs headlines & gets cited
It doesn’t clarify underlying uncertainty, so it doesn’t actually illuminate anything
Mathematically rigorous clickbait
Multiply a small & uncertain number with a big number and you get a big number
The final big number looks, well, really big
This grabs headlines & gets cited
It doesn’t clarify underlying uncertainty, so it doesn’t actually illuminate anything
Mathematically rigorous clickbait
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New study design:
Multiply a small & uncertain number with a big number and you get a big number
The final big number looks, well, really big
This grabs headlines & gets cited
It doesn’t clarify underlying uncertainty, so it doesn’t actually illuminate anything
Mathematically rigorous clickbait
Multiply a small & uncertain number with a big number and you get a big number
The final big number looks, well, really big
This grabs headlines & gets cited
It doesn’t clarify underlying uncertainty, so it doesn’t actually illuminate anything
Mathematically rigorous clickbait
Post a movie where you are from
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Post a movie where you are from
Goddamn, @washingtonpost.com. Real sus description of the sexual harassment that Lewinsky suffered.
"...years before *she* understood the power imbalance..."
"...years before *she* understood the power imbalance..."
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Goddamn, @washingtonpost.com. Real sus description of the sexual harassment that Lewinsky suffered.
"...years before *she* understood the power imbalance..."
"...years before *she* understood the power imbalance..."
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"When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. " Signed D3- Deb, Dan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social
We are former CDC officials. RFK Jr.'s change to vaccine guidance is propaganda.
Under Secretary Kennedy, CDC materials can no longer be assumed to reflect scientific authority.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. " Signed D3- Deb, Dan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social
Left unsaid by the experts quoted here - the antiviral meds (e.g. Tamiflu) don't prevent hospitalizations or deaths from the flu.
www.nhregister.com/connecticut/...
www.nhregister.com/connecticut/...
New flu strain could make this season worse than expected in Connecticut
Subclade k has been circulating in Asia and in Europe, and it might already be in the United States, experts said.
www.nhregister.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Left unsaid by the experts quoted here - the antiviral meds (e.g. Tamiflu) don't prevent hospitalizations or deaths from the flu.
www.nhregister.com/connecticut/...
www.nhregister.com/connecticut/...
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Maybe it's a generational difference, but I just don't think it's OK to sext with metaphors when similes will do. Like, turn it down a notch, Thackeray. You're talking about a blowjob.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Maybe it's a generational difference, but I just don't think it's OK to sext with metaphors when similes will do. Like, turn it down a notch, Thackeray. You're talking about a blowjob.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Bukele has dealt with three US administrations. He went from conservative darling to pariah under the early Biden years’ anti-corruption agenda. Outmaneuvering the Democrats, Bukele’s bet on Trump catapulted him back to the seat of US power. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...
Podcast: Bukele and Washington: Honeymoon, Breakup, and Back Together
Nayib Bukele has dealt with three U.S. administrations. He went from conservative darling to pariah under the early Biden years’ anti-corruption agenda. Outmaneuvering the Democrats, Bukele bet on…
beta.elfaro.net
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Bukele has dealt with three US administrations. He went from conservative darling to pariah under the early Biden years’ anti-corruption agenda. Outmaneuvering the Democrats, Bukele’s bet on Trump catapulted him back to the seat of US power. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...
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House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks
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Ross Douthat: Don’t Worry. Trump Doesn’t REALLY Want Democratic Officials to be Executed.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ross Douthat: Don’t Worry. Trump Doesn’t REALLY Want Democratic Officials to be Executed.
"Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects"
share.google/WB8HmStiAGT1...
share.google/WB8HmStiAGT1...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
share.google
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects"
share.google/WB8HmStiAGT1...
share.google/WB8HmStiAGT1...
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Story today from the great @lenasun.bsky.social, who tracked down shocked CDC scientists who said they didn’t know the website was changing.
She also summarizes RFK Jr’s efforts to resurrect false claims on autism this year.
She also summarizes RFK Jr’s efforts to resurrect false claims on autism this year.
Under RFK Jr., CDC promotes false vaccines-autism link it once discredited
The CDC’s website now says health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines and autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Story today from the great @lenasun.bsky.social, who tracked down shocked CDC scientists who said they didn’t know the website was changing.
She also summarizes RFK Jr’s efforts to resurrect false claims on autism this year.
She also summarizes RFK Jr’s efforts to resurrect false claims on autism this year.
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Why don't more cis woman understand that the entire movement against trans women in sports is the patriarchy trying to oppress all women. It's so blatantly obvious.
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Why don't more cis woman understand that the entire movement against trans women in sports is the patriarchy trying to oppress all women. It's so blatantly obvious.
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Whenever I’m in the middle of having a heart attack I always pause to carefully review which ambulance service offers the lowest rates before calling 911.
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Whenever I’m in the middle of having a heart attack I always pause to carefully review which ambulance service offers the lowest rates before calling 911.