Varun U. Shetty
@shettyvu.bsky.social
Writer | Intensivist
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This is the time for more engagement, not less. We need all hands on deck. Let us all find our part to do in this, no matter how small- give time, money or both.
“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause.”
The scale of this is difficult to capture.
@stephanienolen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
The scale of this is difficult to capture.
@stephanienolen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This is the time for more engagement, not less. We need all hands on deck. Let us all find our part to do in this, no matter how small- give time, money or both.
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WHO is all of us. We are all WHO.
Let’s raise $1 billion to support the @who.int’s critical mission of protecting global health, particularly in times of uncertainty and reduced funding
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
Let’s raise $1 billion to support the @who.int’s critical mission of protecting global health, particularly in times of uncertainty and reduced funding
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
January 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
WHO is all of us. We are all WHO.
Let’s raise $1 billion to support the @who.int’s critical mission of protecting global health, particularly in times of uncertainty and reduced funding
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
Let’s raise $1 billion to support the @who.int’s critical mission of protecting global health, particularly in times of uncertainty and reduced funding
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
We talk about advance directives a lot in medicine-what one would want when they are ill. In this poem, I try to capture the ineffability of the hypotheticals:
www.pennreview.org/advance-dire...
(Best read in landscape mode)
#poem #humanities #advancedirectives
www.pennreview.org/advance-dire...
(Best read in landscape mode)
#poem #humanities #advancedirectives
Advance Directives — The Penn Review
www.pennreview.org
December 22, 2024 at 12:27 AM
We talk about advance directives a lot in medicine-what one would want when they are ill. In this poem, I try to capture the ineffability of the hypotheticals:
www.pennreview.org/advance-dire...
(Best read in landscape mode)
#poem #humanities #advancedirectives
www.pennreview.org/advance-dire...
(Best read in landscape mode)
#poem #humanities #advancedirectives
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From age 18 to 22, I volunteered twice a year in India's Pulse Polio Vaccination drive. We knocked on so many doors & convinced so many strangers.
When India finally eradicated polio, I felt personal & collective pride.
RFK Jr offends me in ways I can't even fully articulate!
When India finally eradicated polio, I felt personal & collective pride.
RFK Jr offends me in ways I can't even fully articulate!
As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt.
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
December 14, 2024 at 8:47 PM
From age 18 to 22, I volunteered twice a year in India's Pulse Polio Vaccination drive. We knocked on so many doors & convinced so many strangers.
When India finally eradicated polio, I felt personal & collective pride.
RFK Jr offends me in ways I can't even fully articulate!
When India finally eradicated polio, I felt personal & collective pride.
RFK Jr offends me in ways I can't even fully articulate!
American friends, remember seeing a child with polio? No. Because polio vaccine eradicated it.
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
American friends, remember seeing a child with polio? No. Because polio vaccine eradicated it.
Bedaquiline monotherapy for leprosy. Amazing that we can potentially treat this with just one drug as opposed to months of toxic multidrug treatment. It’s tiny but promising trial. These pathbreaking therapies for people in resource-limited areas can’t come soon enough.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Bedaquiline Monotherapy for Multibacillary Leprosy | NEJM
Standard multidrug therapy for leprosy may be associated with severe side effects, which add to the stigma and discrimination that affect persons with the disease. In addition, the threat posed by ...
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December 12, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Bedaquiline monotherapy for leprosy. Amazing that we can potentially treat this with just one drug as opposed to months of toxic multidrug treatment. It’s tiny but promising trial. These pathbreaking therapies for people in resource-limited areas can’t come soon enough.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Kind of fantastic that we live in a world where we can get results like this. Insurance companies have no excuse to not approve.
With the publication of PURPOSE 2 for PrEP in @nejm.org, and the stellar results, I wonder what’s going to happen once it gets approved for this indication. Should be interesting, to say the least! blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Who's Going to Get Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention?
At the International AIDS Conference this past summer, Dr. Linda-Gail Bekker brought down the house presenting the results of the PURPOSE 1 trial of twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir for prevention ...
blogs.jwatch.org
December 9, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Kind of fantastic that we live in a world where we can get results like this. Insurance companies have no excuse to not approve.
December 9, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Thanks to Philip Terman for sharing this wonderful poem with me. Joy Harjo at her best. Happy Holidays!
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Perhaps the World Ends Here
The world begins at a kitchen table. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. We have given birth on this table, and have prepared our parents for burial here. Perhaps the world ...
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November 28, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Thanks to Philip Terman for sharing this wonderful poem with me. Joy Harjo at her best. Happy Holidays!
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/...
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Skytorial: Five pearls on olanzapine 😁
Between agitation and nausea/vomiting, olanzapine has a wide range of use.
Olanzapine is generally not a front-line agent (e.g., haloperidol or ondansetron often are). But sometimes, it really comes in clutch....
Between agitation and nausea/vomiting, olanzapine has a wide range of use.
Olanzapine is generally not a front-line agent (e.g., haloperidol or ondansetron often are). But sometimes, it really comes in clutch....
a man in a plaid shirt sits at a picnic table with the words " settle down " on the bottom
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt sits at a picnic table with the words " settle down " on the bottom
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November 27, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Skytorial: Five pearls on olanzapine 😁
Between agitation and nausea/vomiting, olanzapine has a wide range of use.
Olanzapine is generally not a front-line agent (e.g., haloperidol or ondansetron often are). But sometimes, it really comes in clutch....
Between agitation and nausea/vomiting, olanzapine has a wide range of use.
Olanzapine is generally not a front-line agent (e.g., haloperidol or ondansetron often are). But sometimes, it really comes in clutch....
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Executive Director Rachel and chicken resident Scully explain a bit more about HR 9495 and WHY this bill is so dangerous for nonprofits who seek to do vital liberatory work. The house will be voting AGAIN on this bill soon — PLEASE CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE TODAY!
November 19, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Executive Director Rachel and chicken resident Scully explain a bit more about HR 9495 and WHY this bill is so dangerous for nonprofits who seek to do vital liberatory work. The house will be voting AGAIN on this bill soon — PLEASE CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE TODAY!
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“I hear the stars are sentient.”
Read all three poems by K. Iver in @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/k-i...
All three astounding.
#everynightapoem #TransDayOfRemembrance
Read all three poems by K. Iver in @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/k-i...
All three astounding.
#everynightapoem #TransDayOfRemembrance
November 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM
“I hear the stars are sentient.”
Read all three poems by K. Iver in @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/k-i...
All three astounding.
#everynightapoem #TransDayOfRemembrance
Read all three poems by K. Iver in @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/k-i...
All three astounding.
#everynightapoem #TransDayOfRemembrance
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As Medsky grows it’s inevitable we see more users posting misinformation.
Just my 2 cents, don’t give them the time of day. Don’t quote dunk, don’t screenshot, don’t let them take up the oxygen in this space.
Just subscribe to the block list, report bad actors in DMs, and let the trolls starve.
Just my 2 cents, don’t give them the time of day. Don’t quote dunk, don’t screenshot, don’t let them take up the oxygen in this space.
Just subscribe to the block list, report bad actors in DMs, and let the trolls starve.
November 18, 2024 at 9:34 PM
As Medsky grows it’s inevitable we see more users posting misinformation.
Just my 2 cents, don’t give them the time of day. Don’t quote dunk, don’t screenshot, don’t let them take up the oxygen in this space.
Just subscribe to the block list, report bad actors in DMs, and let the trolls starve.
Just my 2 cents, don’t give them the time of day. Don’t quote dunk, don’t screenshot, don’t let them take up the oxygen in this space.
Just subscribe to the block list, report bad actors in DMs, and let the trolls starve.
Michael Ondaatje’s ‘A Year of Last Things’ is one of the best collections of poetry I’ve read in a while
November 18, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Michael Ondaatje’s ‘A Year of Last Things’ is one of the best collections of poetry I’ve read in a while
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I know youre all stressed but since we can't do much for hours yet, here, take a few minutes and read this through again, it might help take your mind off things for a bit
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 5, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I know youre all stressed but since we can't do much for hours yet, here, take a few minutes and read this through again, it might help take your mind off things for a bit
This gem by Michael Ondaatje!
November 2, 2024 at 12:23 AM
This gem by Michael Ondaatje!
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Timothy Snyder summed up the LA Times and Washington Post situation elegantly.
October 26, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Timothy Snyder summed up the LA Times and Washington Post situation elegantly.
This!
PulmCrit Wee: We need a heart failure classification system that doesn't ignore half of the heart.
💔Diagnose, document, and communicate about RV failure.
💔Support #ThePeoplesVentricle by classifying heart failure more comprehensively.
blog: emcrit.org/pulmcrit/hfx... #MedSky #FOAMed
💔Diagnose, document, and communicate about RV failure.
💔Support #ThePeoplesVentricle by classifying heart failure more comprehensively.
blog: emcrit.org/pulmcrit/hfx... #MedSky #FOAMed
October 26, 2024 at 12:29 PM
This!
February 14, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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With ongoing horror in Middle East I hesitate to write abt Odesa, Ukraine. But if I don’t—who will?
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
November 23, 2023 at 5:31 PM
With ongoing horror in Middle East I hesitate to write abt Odesa, Ukraine. But if I don’t—who will?
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
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"We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital. One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic patient, and the other one was shot in the abdomen."
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
November 11, 2023 at 9:03 PM
"We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital. One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic patient, and the other one was shot in the abdomen."
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
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Faisal Mohyuddin.
November 12, 2023 at 1:27 AM
Faisal Mohyuddin.
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“You can’t imagine the feeling,” she said. “You are not safe. All places are targets, so you think of dying at any time.”
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/w...
‘You Think of Dying at Any Time’
Gaza residents say Israeli airstrikes come mostly without warning and hit indiscriminately, leading to the feeling that death is imminent and inevitable.
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2023 at 6:13 AM
“You can’t imagine the feeling,” she said. “You are not safe. All places are targets, so you think of dying at any time.”
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/w...
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Because inspiration is not machine learning, and pretending it is does nobody any favours.
October 13, 2023 at 9:33 PM
Because inspiration is not machine learning, and pretending it is does nobody any favours.