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Healthcare Workers During COVID-19

I spent a lot of time trying to find the original source for this drawing to give appropriate credit. The artist signed it but I wasn’t able to read the name well enough at this…Continue readingHealthcare Workers During COVID-19

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Masks and Breathing

Here’s a nice anecdotal follow-up to those mask objections I wrote about. Remember, even if it did demonstrate that a mask “cut oxygen levels,” that is not the same order of magnitude of problem as…Continue readingMasks and Breathing

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Matter Science

Objections to Prevention

"Rationing means a fair share for all of us." Fair? That sounds like socialism!

A rundown of objections to COVID-19 prevention strategies, and why those objections are wrong.Continue readingObjections to Prevention

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Matter Science

Rule In, Rule Out

Setting the cutoff at A represents 100% sensitivity. All positives (pink curve) are true positives, but some negatives are false negatives (purple shading). Moving the cutoff to C represents 100% specificity. All negatives (blue curve) are true negatives, but some positives are false positives. Setting a cutoff in the middle at B is a compromise between the two.

Looking at false positives, false negatives, and what that means for COVID-19 testing.Continue readingRule In, Rule Out

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Long Reads

An End and A Beginning

One week ago, I walked away from my last ever ED shift, and with it, my time as a Pediatrics resident. From here onward, I’m exclusively a Neurology resident: No more well child checks, runny…Continue readingAn End and A Beginning

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Long Reads

Incision and Drainage

Descriptions within not recommended for sensitive stomachs. Continue readingIncision and Drainage

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Change of Shift

Displaced femoral fracture after falling out of a window.

Some changes may have occurred in two years. Continue readingChange of Shift

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Long Reads

How I’m Spending the Next-Next Decade

Mark recently remarked that it has been about…oh, hey, a decade…since I last attempted to lead my family and friends through the masochistic labyrinth of my poor life choices. Having now reached the “Post-Graduate” heading…Continue readingHow I’m Spending the Next-Next Decade