Will Ford
@willford.bsky.social
Union man, current primary care resident, and future infectious disease doc. Runs for fun and self-punishment.
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the default tone of right-wing writing on Mamdani at the moment is sweatily pathetic
Polling suggests Israel is historically unpopular in the demographic corresponding with people likely to have small children, so I need someone smarter than me to explain how picking a fight with Ms. Rachel of all people makes any sense whatsoever. nypost.com/2025/12/26/o...
Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel
Successful American politicians always know how to pick savvy mentors.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
the default tone of right-wing writing on Mamdani at the moment is sweatily pathetic
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Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats
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Practice changing plenary #ASH25‼️
Iron is hypothesized to feed infxn & IV iron often avoided in that setting.
>85k people hospitalized w/5 most common bacterial infxns, compared those who recvd IV iron to those who did not.
🩸greater hemoglobin increase
🩸lower mortality at 14 & 90 days
Iron is hypothesized to feed infxn & IV iron often avoided in that setting.
>85k people hospitalized w/5 most common bacterial infxns, compared those who recvd IV iron to those who did not.
🩸greater hemoglobin increase
🩸lower mortality at 14 & 90 days
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Practice changing plenary #ASH25‼️
Iron is hypothesized to feed infxn & IV iron often avoided in that setting.
>85k people hospitalized w/5 most common bacterial infxns, compared those who recvd IV iron to those who did not.
🩸greater hemoglobin increase
🩸lower mortality at 14 & 90 days
Iron is hypothesized to feed infxn & IV iron often avoided in that setting.
>85k people hospitalized w/5 most common bacterial infxns, compared those who recvd IV iron to those who did not.
🩸greater hemoglobin increase
🩸lower mortality at 14 & 90 days
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OPEN SPOT ALERT! There is an ID fellowship spot available at Boston Medical Center. Incredible team, sane workload (including consult caps and non-teaching service). Highly recommended if you're interested in TB/global health, HIV, SUD, or AMR/stewardship. Message me if interested! #IDsky #MedSky
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Thought I'd repost a relevant skeetorial from last year!
I often get asked about renal dosing adjustments of Abx in critically ill pts in the ED, so I'd thought I'd share my thought process & perspective. Caveat: only in ED! Lets dive in! 👇
#medsky #pharmsky #EMsky #IDsky #emimcc #MedEd
I often get asked about renal dosing adjustments of Abx in critically ill pts in the ED, so I'd thought I'd share my thought process & perspective. Caveat: only in ED! Lets dive in! 👇
#medsky #pharmsky #EMsky #IDsky #emimcc #MedEd
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
ID once again dragging ourselves across the finish line—which is a crying shame because I love my job and I love treating people with infections. IM residents, ask me about my work and I’d be happy to sing its praises!
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
ID once again dragging ourselves across the finish line—which is a crying shame because I love my job and I love treating people with infections. IM residents, ask me about my work and I’d be happy to sing its praises!
Solidarity with the SWISS flight attendants shaming Americans for putting their jackets and backpacks in the overhead bins
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Solidarity with the SWISS flight attendants shaming Americans for putting their jackets and backpacks in the overhead bins
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
More like procalci-NO-nin am I right
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
More like procalci-NO-nin am I right
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Scheduling mifepristone largely invalidates the point of the schedule.
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Louisiana restricts access to abortion pills by classifying them as a controlled substance
A bill that would restrict access to abortion pills has been signed into law in Louisiana. The law reclassifies the drugs as a controlled substance, grouping them with Xanax and Valium. Possession wit...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Scheduling mifepristone largely invalidates the point of the schedule.
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Also watched David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS this evening. Is everyone in private practice like that?
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Also watched David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS this evening. Is everyone in private practice like that?
Went for a run for the first time since the half marathon I ran last Sunday. Felt good, but definitely a little creaky!
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Went for a run for the first time since the half marathon I ran last Sunday. Felt good, but definitely a little creaky!
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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There's a vicious war on the right. Please join me in praying for our ally, sepsis.
MAGA's most important think tank has been roiled by the Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes interview, and the situation is only getting worse.
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-wa...
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-wa...
Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank
Plus: Another round of nutty Trump pardons?
www.thebulwark.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
There's a vicious war on the right. Please join me in praying for our ally, sepsis.
Showed my wife the Emblaveo ad material and her immediate question was “why are they marketing this to men only??”
October 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Showed my wife the Emblaveo ad material and her immediate question was “why are they marketing this to men only??”
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Please read the following statement by Executive Director Audrey Sasson, condemning the flood of racist and Islamophobic attacks this week against @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
We call on our City and State political leaders and organizations to condemn and forcefully reject these smears. (1/5)
We call on our City and State political leaders and organizations to condemn and forcefully reject these smears. (1/5)
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Please read the following statement by Executive Director Audrey Sasson, condemning the flood of racist and Islamophobic attacks this week against @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
We call on our City and State political leaders and organizations to condemn and forcefully reject these smears. (1/5)
We call on our City and State political leaders and organizations to condemn and forcefully reject these smears. (1/5)
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So I said sounds like he's just feeding antibiotics to the resistance genes and his intern started crying.
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
So I said sounds like he's just feeding antibiotics to the resistance genes and his intern started crying.
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A lot of y’all still don’t get it
ESBL holders can use multiple antibiotics on a single species
So if you have 1 monoculture and 3 antibiotics you can create 3 new beta lactamases
This hospitalization is essentially a mint event for both Carbapenamase and Efflux pumps
ESBL holders can use multiple antibiotics on a single species
So if you have 1 monoculture and 3 antibiotics you can create 3 new beta lactamases
This hospitalization is essentially a mint event for both Carbapenamase and Efflux pumps
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A lot of y’all still don’t get it
ESBL holders can use multiple antibiotics on a single species
So if you have 1 monoculture and 3 antibiotics you can create 3 new beta lactamases
This hospitalization is essentially a mint event for both Carbapenamase and Efflux pumps
ESBL holders can use multiple antibiotics on a single species
So if you have 1 monoculture and 3 antibiotics you can create 3 new beta lactamases
This hospitalization is essentially a mint event for both Carbapenamase and Efflux pumps
Hate that every time I see the brand name of lenacapavir, my brain comes up with a jingle for it based on “Hot To Go”
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Hate that every time I see the brand name of lenacapavir, my brain comes up with a jingle for it based on “Hot To Go”
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Great point about considering the sens/spec of the given scan, in the given patient, at the given time. Those reported in literature are averages… but this particular scan might be better or worse.
But regarding even the pooled “sensitivity of CT for cholecystitis of 94%”…
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But regarding even the pooled “sensitivity of CT for cholecystitis of 94%”…
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it's sloppy to say that "CT scan has a a sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 59% for cholecystitis"
different patients have varying collections of radiologic signs
radiologists may use varying criteria
so an individual patient's specific scan may have *variable* sensitivity & specificity
#1/2
different patients have varying collections of radiologic signs
radiologists may use varying criteria
so an individual patient's specific scan may have *variable* sensitivity & specificity
#1/2
a man in a vest says it 's sloppy in a netflix advertisement
ALT: a man in a vest says it 's sloppy in a netflix advertisement
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October 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Great point about considering the sens/spec of the given scan, in the given patient, at the given time. Those reported in literature are averages… but this particular scan might be better or worse.
But regarding even the pooled “sensitivity of CT for cholecystitis of 94%”…
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But regarding even the pooled “sensitivity of CT for cholecystitis of 94%”…
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Miss Major has passed away. We've lost an icon for the ages. Rest in power.
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Miss Major has passed away. We've lost an icon for the ages. Rest in power.
Truly diabolical that the open enrollment periods for my wife and my respective jobs do not overlap at all.
October 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Truly diabolical that the open enrollment periods for my wife and my respective jobs do not overlap at all.
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I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
Finished up 3 weeks of a relaxing and very educational Clinical Microbiology rotation with a presentation on biosafety and lab-associated infections ➡️ vacation time now
September 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Finished up 3 weeks of a relaxing and very educational Clinical Microbiology rotation with a presentation on biosafety and lab-associated infections ➡️ vacation time now