Dr F. Francis
@drfrancis.bsky.social
Visceral Surgery resident, interested in #AcuteCareSurgery & #Trauma
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Love travelling & exploring new cultures - arts - cuisines - different ideologies!
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Love travelling & exploring new cultures - arts - cuisines - different ideologies!
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Dr F. Francis
@drfrancis.bsky.social
· Nov 14
You never know what's waiting you down there...that's the adventure of life.
Navacerrada dam
#Spain Sept2014
Navacerrada dam
#Spain Sept2014
C'est une excellente mesure 👏👏
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
France bans smoking in beaches, parks and bus shelters from Sunday
A ban on smoking in certain public spaces including beaches, parks, bus shelters and public gardens comes into effect in France from Sunday, the government said.
www.france24.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
C'est une excellente mesure 👏👏
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Estamos assim todo dia agora
April 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Estamos assim todo dia agora
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💡 One more promising tool for the early detection of #ColorectalCancer
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Serum metabolic characteristics associated with the deterioration of colorectal adenomas - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Serum metabolic characteristics associated with the deterioration of colorectal adenomas
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
💡 One more promising tool for the early detection of #ColorectalCancer
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beware of cognitive bias!
February 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Beware of cognitive bias!
An excellent study documenting a well-known problem in our clinical practice.
Strategies should be developed to ensure a stable and uninterrupted level of care during shift changes. In my opinion, monitoring and feedback mechanisms are the most essential today.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Strategies should be developed to ensure a stable and uninterrupted level of care during shift changes. In my opinion, monitoring and feedback mechanisms are the most essential today.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Triage at shift changes and distortions in the perception and treatment of emergency patients
Employing more than 2 million emergency department (ED) records, we combine machine learning and regression discontinuity to document novel distortion…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
An excellent study documenting a well-known problem in our clinical practice.
Strategies should be developed to ensure a stable and uninterrupted level of care during shift changes. In my opinion, monitoring and feedback mechanisms are the most essential today.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Strategies should be developed to ensure a stable and uninterrupted level of care during shift changes. In my opinion, monitoring and feedback mechanisms are the most essential today.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
AI-supported screening was found to pick up not only more cancers overall (in 338 people compared with 262) but also 24% more early-stage invasive cancers (in 270 people compared with 217)
healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/ai-e...
healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/ai-e...
AI enhances breast cancer screening performance
New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year:
healthcare-in-europe.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
AI-supported screening was found to pick up not only more cancers overall (in 338 people compared with 262) but also 24% more early-stage invasive cancers (in 270 people compared with 217)
healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/ai-e...
healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/ai-e...
And how are we expecting to change anything if we are talking to ourselves in echo chambers???
I am really hating the idea of the mass migration of the cool people to this side... we shouldn't just surrender to insanity...!
January 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
And how are we expecting to change anything if we are talking to ourselves in echo chambers???
I am really hating the idea of the mass migration of the cool people to this side... we shouldn't just surrender to insanity...!
January 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I am really hating the idea of the mass migration of the cool people to this side... we shouldn't just surrender to insanity...!
An interesting field of research! This could rescue millions of patients!
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
An army of viruses against superbugs: Science revives phages to combat antibiotic resistance
Thousands of treated patients support the potential of phage therapy, but limited knowledge of this technique and its regulatory complexity hinder its expansion
english.elpais.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
An interesting field of research! This could rescue millions of patients!
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The location of MSF or MSF-supported medical facilities, shelters and movements that have been hit or attacked had been communicated to the main parties to the conflict in Gaza prior to their attacks. #NotATraget
www.msf.org/strikes-raid...
www.msf.org/strikes-raid...
Strikes raids and incursions year of relentless attacks on healthcare in Palestine | MSF
A timeline of attacks on MSF or MSF-supported medical facilities and medical practitioners in Palestine since 7 October 2023.
www.msf.org
January 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The location of MSF or MSF-supported medical facilities, shelters and movements that have been hit or attacked had been communicated to the main parties to the conflict in Gaza prior to their attacks. #NotATraget
www.msf.org/strikes-raid...
www.msf.org/strikes-raid...
🔆 Don't harm your society!
"If we want to stop the spread of misinformation, we need to understand it in order to effectively counter its societal harms"
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"If we want to stop the spread of misinformation, we need to understand it in order to effectively counter its societal harms"
theconversation.com/misinformati...
Misinformation really does spread like a virus, suggest mathematical models drawn from epidemiology
Going viral appears to be more than just a catchphrase when it comes to misinformation.
theconversation.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🔆 Don't harm your society!
"If we want to stop the spread of misinformation, we need to understand it in order to effectively counter its societal harms"
theconversation.com/misinformati...
"If we want to stop the spread of misinformation, we need to understand it in order to effectively counter its societal harms"
theconversation.com/misinformati...
Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-powered computational program that can predict the activity of thousands of genes within tumor cells based only on standard microscopy images of the biopsy.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
AI tool ‘sees’ cancer gene signatures in biopsy images
Researchers used artificial intelligence to predict the activity of thousands of genes in tumors based on routinely collected images of tumor biopsies. It could guide treatment without costly genomic ...
med.stanford.edu
November 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-powered computational program that can predict the activity of thousands of genes within tumor cells based only on standard microscopy images of the biopsy.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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NGC 7000 Narrowband "the North America Nebula"
November 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
NGC 7000 Narrowband "the North America Nebula"
“We are consuming about 5 grams of micronanoplastics per week; that’s the equivalent of a credit card”
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Plastics in our bodies. What does that mean for our health? — Harvard Gazette
In “Harvard Thinking” podcast, experts discuss what research shows about plastics in our blood and organs, and outline possible solutions.
news.harvard.edu
November 18, 2024 at 1:31 PM
“We are consuming about 5 grams of micronanoplastics per week; that’s the equivalent of a credit card”
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
I know all of you will be like: hey, but you said we should have stayed on Twitter.
Well yes, it's not the solution that we all leave...but I still want to stay connected to you!
Well yes, it's not the solution that we all leave...but I still want to stay connected to you!
November 16, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I know all of you will be like: hey, but you said we should have stayed on Twitter.
Well yes, it's not the solution that we all leave...but I still want to stay connected to you!
Well yes, it's not the solution that we all leave...but I still want to stay connected to you!
Hello BlueSky!
I miss the blue bird! It's gone, so at least let's enjoy the sky! 😄
I miss the blue bird! It's gone, so at least let's enjoy the sky! 😄
November 14, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Hello BlueSky!
I miss the blue bird! It's gone, so at least let's enjoy the sky! 😄
I miss the blue bird! It's gone, so at least let's enjoy the sky! 😄