Senescent surgeon
Retired academic surgeon. PGY-thirtysomething. Surprisingly well behaved. Full-time dog servant. She/her. Surgeons can be female. So why can't (US) presidents? 🇨🇦-🇺🇸
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- Lest we forget
- In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Age 90 acute abdomen (no advance directives) #medsky
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonKnock knock. Who’s there? Did you know? Did you know who? Did you know South Carolina has municipal elections next month? Vote.
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- Reposted by Senescent surgeonI’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.
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- Reposted by Senescent surgeon🌟Meet Dr. Annie Andrews🌟 Pediatrician, gun violence prevention advocate & researcher, and former congressional candidate working to protect kids’ futures. Clinical Professor at George Washington University & senior advisor to Everytown for Gun Safety & Moms Demand Action. Learn more: bit.ly/44D59Gn
- Reposted by Senescent surgeon"The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia, and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPublica what is being lost." projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
- We have been talking about this for months. www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
- You can sign a letter to support NIH staff who are opposing the current administrations damaging and short-sighted policies that threaten current and future generations. You can support as a patient, a clinician, a scientist or as anyone who has a stake in healthcare. www.standupforscience.net
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonI'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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonThe slow death of American higher education. Nobody’s going to travel to study there. The best research will no longer be done there. The best research academics will eventually leave.
- Reposted by Senescent surgeon"We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic... Dying senselessly is no act of freedom. And too many people in the USA do die senselessly because we have the wrong idea of freedom." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by Senescent surgeon"Mr. Kennedy’s assertion that he has “not fired any working scientists” flies in the face of reality. Hundreds of scientists from NIH, CDC and FDA have lost their jobs as part of his plan to overhaul HHS." #medsky www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonAre you on #Medsky yet? Save our feed and check the pulse of the fastest-growing network of healthcare workers on Bluesky!
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- Reposted by Senescent surgeonNEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonExclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
- Guidance on MMR in context of outbreaks.
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- Reposted by Senescent surgeonFor this teacher appreciation week, I’m going to talk a little about graduate medical education. What is it? It’s the education of resident and fellow physicians. These trainees have finished medical school & are doctors but need to complete residency +/- fellowship to work in their speciality.
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonIn my now daily quest to combat vaccine misinformation and disinformation, I give you this great article from @HealthyChildren. Data matters. Science matters. Disinformation harms children. #PedSky #MedSky
- Excellent. Back to the days of the Tuskegee syphilis trial. If they really wanted to do a non-vaccine arm all they need to do is enroll people who refuse vaccines. And then blind the researchers. No need to assign anyone to non-treatment.
- This study is going to collect data from numerous sources including labs, pharmacies, genomics. Do patients opt in? If not how can the data be de-identified? Glad I'm not on that IRB.
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[This post could not be retrieved] - People really need to stop talking about "biological sex" as a dichotomy. If they don't understand the nuance of intersex conditions, they don't understand the issue well enough to claim any authority.
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonMarie Maynard Daly was born 104 years ago today. She did important early histone research, and in 1955 published an important paper on the link between cholesterol and heart disease. She passed away in 2003. tinyurl.com/46s85wzv #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧪
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonOur database of terminated grants is powered first by PIs who send us information about their grants. If your grant was terminated--or if you received a stop work order of some sort--let us know! forms.gle/8qWNSjBerJ1G...
- Not having enough useful things to do, I asked Elon Musk's Grok3 to estimate Trump's weight. Here is the surprisingly reasonable answer: "...roughly between 240 and 280 pounds, leaning toward the higher end given his age (78) and less muscular frame compared to athletes."
- Full answer here: grok.com/share/bGVnYW...
- Interesting potential explanation for increasingly partisan politics. How do you get society to focus on facts and evidence...when some like their "alternative facts"?
- 🗣️📉 From facts to feelings in US politics Congressional speeches have shifted over 145 years – moving from evidence-based language toward intuition. This change links to more polarisation, inequality, and less lawmaking. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm #Politics 🧪 #US
- What international medical graduate would come to the US now knowing that they could be deported any time and for any reason (or no reason at all)?
- All Social Security updates and news releases will only be on X now. Why do I think this is just to bolster X user numbers and perhaps to expose retirees to rampant right wing misinformation found on X?
- Pretty sure you can return stuff from Amazon if it was sent in error.
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonUSA led the world in expertise stopping HIV, incl preventing mother to child transmission. But DOGE has now dismissed every global prevention expert at USAID, CDC, & State Dept. The risk is insane: Resurgent HIV & 500K child deaths by 2030. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonCrossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:
- Throwing 2 million dollars at Myanmar after a magnitude 7.7 quake is kind of like lobbing paper towels at hurricane survivors. It's an pathetic token effort.
- Reposted by Senescent surgeonTariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
- Welllll....Alberta? Seriously though, there have always been pockets. It's just that those pockets have been amplified and normalized.
- I think it was a fit of sheer stupidity.
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- Why does Trump want Greenland? Rare minerals? Maybe. It's also in a great position to threaten Europe from the west. Wonder why Putin doesn't oppose US expansionism here?
