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Lakshman Swamy (he/him)

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · Dec 18

Intensive Care I go.bsky.app/NC7iD2K - full!
Intensive Care II go.bsky.app/GoXVFDp - full!
Intensive Care III go.bsky.app/79wiREk - open!

Let me know if you want to be added! Anyone who cares for or supports the care of the critically ill!

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · Jun 20

The corporate perception of imagination: it needs clarity and focus 🙃

"staying active is a powerful source of drive. It strengthens our bodies and lights up our minds - bringing clarity and focus to our imagination"

Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · Jun 17

Sharing at my first ever workshop this week! #amwriting

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Alice Blanchard @alicebooks333.bsky.social · Jun 11

Try not to compare yourself to other authors.
Writing's a long game,
and other writers are looking at you
wishing they could be where you are.
So keep going, we're in this together.

#5amwritersclub #amwriting #writerslife #WIP #poetry #wattpad #amreading #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · Jun 12

I try to remember that even the person i was a year ago is looking at me that way. But it is easy to forget 😅

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Faye Rapoport DesPres @fayerd.bsky.social · Jun 12

Good morning, #5amwritersclub. I just received this link to my six-sentence story published today in Gooseberry Pie Literary Journal today. Enjoy (and remember: you don’t always have to write thousands of words). gooseberry-pie.com/survivors-ki... #microfiction #flash

Survivors’ Kids At Carcassonne - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Mak on Unsplash by Faye Rapoport DesPres At Carcassonne we bought cheese and baguettes and stuffed them into our backpacks. We’d arrived overnight on a Paris train, weary from sleeping in a c...

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · Jun 3

He needed air. The price was $539.

When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler

In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · Jun 1

I just read this and loved it, and learned so much. I am a better reader now. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life g.co/kgs/FPaMFbq

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 30

Never underestimate rage

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Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · May 29

This is going to be a different type of campaign.

Because when you’re going after Medicaid and even ripping food away from hungry kids, all to cut taxes for donors and corporate lobbyists, we’re not pulling punches.

I hope you’ll join us:

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Elect Annie Andrews

Donate to send Annie to the Senate!

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Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · May 29

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.

Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.

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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 28

Exactly. And then they get a bit older and you get a good stretch and boom it happens again and you're set entirely back.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · May 28

I’m not trapped in rounds with you, you’re trapped in rounds with me

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 28

Do i take my gorgeous home made food to the resident workroom and ask them why on earth they're eating the cafeteria garbage? Yes, because i am literally the worst.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · May 27

If you ask medical intensivists which types of admissions scare us the most, I would guess the most common answer would be pregnant patients (followed by status asthmaticus, which is a separate conversation). Pursuing any policy that increases risk of severe disease in pregnant people is insane.

LeCaffeinated Rabble-Rouser @thetirednurse.bsky.social · May 27

This is absolutely terrible. Not only are pregnant women immunosuppressed but their physiology also puts them at increased risk for more severe disease. Shameful.

Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · May 27

Is flu next? Also pregnant women are immunosuppressed and have always been on the list of high risk. This is beyond comprehension

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 25

💯 all i see is politics which is the same as everywhere else so no real value.

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 25

I think it is not going to be what it was and that is ok. I am glad we had what we did while we did.

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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · May 25

In memory of professor Rinaldo Bellomo: A giant of intensive care medicine

CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100110

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 25

It requires more people posting which isn't happening w/o traction, which won't happen without posting, etc. I don't know if it is worth all that work tbh.

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 25

Are there effective feeds on bsky? Yes. Could someone make a more generally interesting medsky feed? Maybe. It isn't easy to bring together so many broad interests - the biggest med journals don't really achieve that either.

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 25

The feed isn't focused at all. Twitter had a strong clinician focus which is lacking here. Too much is research or really just too political -- which is everywhere anyway. The feed doesn't work for me.

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 25

Yeah, the engagement is so weak here.

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 19

I'm at NTI if anyone is here!

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josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · May 17

You intubate a patient smoothly with roc & ketamine

After connection with the vent:
- oxygen saturation is 98%
- etCO2 tracing & values are normal
- breath sounds are symmetric

the vent starts alarming for a 60% air leak

you ascultate the neck & cannot hear a leak

what is happening? #1/2 #EMIMCC

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Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 12

My friend (icu nurse) and his wife wrote this for the globe. They were finalists for the Pulitzer for the series! apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/grap...

True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep her alive?

An ICU nurse explores the impact of end-of-life care in an illustrated opinion piece.

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · May 13

A more artistic expression of moral injury, I have never seen.

Lakshman Swamy (he/him) @laxswamy.bsky.social · May 12

My friend (icu nurse) and his wife wrote this for the globe. They were finalists for the Pulitzer for the series! apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/grap...

True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep her alive?

An ICU nurse explores the impact of end-of-life care in an illustrated opinion piece.

apps.bostonglobe.com

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