@docbjorn

Emergency Physician, Medical Education Research(er?), possible polemicist. Opinions, at most, my own.

Joined July 2009
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Brooks Walsh@BrooksWalsh12 Jan 2024
This report is a short but powerful review of police dog injuries, and the injustices underlying their use. I want to illustrate their report with a few of the cases 🧵
Physicians for Human Rights@P4HR10 Jan 2024
New PHR expert medical opinion: California police deployment of attack dogs has resulted in severe injuries, disfigurement, and disability. PHR calls on the California legislature to ban or strictly limit the use of police attack canines in the state. phr.org/our-work/resources/u…
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Supervising medical student sim lab—there should be acting awards for playing sim and standardized patients
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Bjorn Watsjold retweeted
Attorney Alex Taubes
@alextt6 Aug 2023
Privatization of public services — hospitals, schools, prisons — results in lower quality services. Worse, it results in corruption, theft of public dollars, and fraud. CT allowed a national healthcare company to buy three community hospitals—a disaster! propublica.org/article/inves…

Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical...

Prospect Medical, which mostly serves low-income patients, has suffered a litany of problems: broken elevators, dirty surgical gear, bedbugs and more. Its owners, including Leonard Green & Partners...

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Want to be one of the most cited researchers over the next 20 years? Develop STARD or similar reporting guidelines for AI-classified data. Assessments will be automated, how much bias will be hidden if we don't anticipate how and why it occurs? @mededdoc @erikwdriessen @TChanMD
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Musings on culture in the ED 1/n
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What would it look like for people to leave the emergency department clean(er), better, and appearing cared for? How would our care change if we saw patients in their own skin, not through accumulated layers that might obscure or bias the person there and what they need? 9/n
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Any departments out there that do this? Any successful or failed attempts to implement? I realize that we're already tasked with doing what feels like everything, but this seems like something that could positively affect care before, during, and after 10/10
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Graphic WAPO article on kinematics of trauma. Rifle rounds carry much more destructive force than 9mm handgun rounds. washingtonpost.com/nation/in…
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Sadly, this is one of my favorite topics to teach since trainees don't often get lectures on it in med school. Sad especially because you can't learn this without someone having the worst day, and many doctors around the world don't have to learn it because they don't need to.
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Hey @paperpile and @Speechify_audio. You should meet, maybe think about how to make your apps work together?
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Nationalize healthcare. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/02/26/healt…

Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units (Published 2023)

Citing costs, many hospitals are closing labor and delivery wards, expanding so-called maternity care deserts.

nytimes.com
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You know what takes longer than admitting a patient to the ICU? Spending 15 minutes digging around in the chart trying to find a reason why they don’t need admission, 10 more minutes stalling, 5 more minutes complaining, and then admitting a patient to the ICU.
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Not sure who might need this info, but phosgene was called CG in WWI.
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