I was still recovering from my viral infection and turned in early last night, so catching the #Lions- #Ravens highlights today. The #Detroit #Lions are fun to watch, I gotta say. I have never seen #Michigan so lit up about #NFL as the last 3 years or so

Finally some good news - love #BillNye the #ScienceGuy, and we need him now more than ever. Save us, Bill

My sister-in-law texted me: first death in our #immediate family: had to say goodbye to family #pup Lucky Rangarajan, a ~10 lb Bison/Toy Poodle mix with a big personality and a tendency to take on dogs 10x his size 😂 he was 16 (112 in dog years) and this was long expected. Run free little man

Children (by children, I mean adult US #Senators) there is statistical concept called prevalence. Prevalence is how often an item is used or occurs. The prevalence of use of #acetominophen (100 million/year) is greater than prevalence of ivermectin (maybe 150,000/year for appropriate indications)

BREAKING: Republicans just voted against a bill to fund the government AND fix the health care crisis THEY created. Republicans voted to send premiums skyrocketing and to shut down rural hospitals.

sacrifices #Indian #immigrants make to care for red state #rural #patients: Growing up South Indian in BFE #Oklahoma meant they had to drive 4 hours to #Texas for basic groceries for foods we eat (basmati rice, flour for dosa, etc) We have 7 #Indian grocers in 10-mile radius in Ann Arbor/Canton, MI

These idiots have never even stepped foot in these rural communities but they make policies for them that take away their healthcare. They have no clue what it is like to live in an area where your closest medical center is an hour away if you are LUCKY.

The newest face of long-term unemployment? The college educated. A decade ago, they made up 1 in 5 of the long-term jobless. Today it’s nearly 1 in 3 — as A.I., automation, and shrinking white-collar demand reshape the market. shorturl.at/3WDMV #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

Was talking to my MD spouse about the Tylenol-autism kerfuffle. Her take was insightful. Now, pregnant women with fevers will be afraid to take Tylenol to stop their fevers. And ironically, it's the fevers that might be responsible for fetal neurological maldevelopment.

Here's the full list, sorted by most popular with #US #MedicalStudents to least, shades are political leanings. Lot more Blue near the top. Interestingly, #Wisconsin is very popular, but #Michigan is one of least popular with US MDs (though lot of DOs, MSU has great DO school) and dependent on #IMG.

For real, go to rural areas in the country and you see a lot of foreign doctors. Why? Because only an Indian man who grew up in poverty wants to live in motherfucking Sapulpa, Oklahoma (my dad)

6 states most dependent on #IMG applicants to fill #residency slots: 1) North Dakota (37.9%) 2) Wyoming (33.3%) 3) Arkansas (30.6%) 4) Alaska (28.6%) 5) West Virginia (27%) 6) Mississippi (26.6%) Something these states have in common, can't tell what..

imagine you are a doctor on an H1B visa and you see legal immigrants being sent to third-world gulags over admitted paperwork errors, would you trust this regime? the brain drain will continue until our academic, medical, industrial, and public institutions are all an irrelevant laughing stock.

The clown show that passes as immigration policy these days. Impulsive illegal policy change motivated by racism--> immediate backlash + furious lobbying by constituent parties --> piecemeal carve outs = utter confusion and fear.

When i had appendicitis in rural TN, my surgeon was Persian. At least 80% of hospital were immigrants. Rural hospitals will collapse completely if doctors are not brought from foreign countries in H1b or J1 visas

Totally missed this in the chaos yesterday. It says “May”, not “Will definitely be exempted”, and the damage is already done. This week was the start of residency interview season, my guess is we may get 1/3 of our usual #IMG #international doctors at most, with big holes in #rural red states

Outstanding work strengthening & enriching China by Trump: "President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus." (gift link)

This is a great list. I approve of this music taste

#MusicChallenge #1Artist1Album1Song 114/365 #Rapture Edition? (Honestly I've lost track of what day this week we're being raptured) Bob Dylan Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (1973)

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

In a shocker to everyone, #privateequity #forprofit takeover of #hospitals: - reduced full-time employees by 11.6% - increased transfers (presumably to #nonprofit #academic centers) by 10.6% for ICU pts - caused 7 additional deaths in #EmergencyDepartment per 10,000 patient visits, a 13.4% increase

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

I will point out Chair of UM Faculty Senate said my first and last name pronounced perfectly today at Senate Assembly. The supposed leader of the formerly most powerful country in the world cannot pronounce the most commonly used medicinal agent on the planet God I love working with smart people

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

The funniest part of this is acetaminophen is the (perfectly safe) drug. Tylenol is a *brand*, and by attacking the brand and not the drug, the US government has just given Kenvue a massive gift when this goes to court. Their lawyers are likely drooling right now.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

I’ll be honest, if I was a #Pediatrician or #OBGYN I would be dropping out of medicine to go off grid and open a combined tea and book shop on an island. I give you all credit for your strength to still see patiently this without blowing a gasket So far they haven’t effed up #Geriatrics much…yet

It absolutely is “an attack on women’s health”. I am not kidding when I tell you this will lead to a lot more women enduring severe pain or letting fevers go untreated because they will just forgo all medicine “to be safe”. At this point it definitely feels like that attack is intentional.

Parenting culture war discussions are so incredibly fucked up in America so I don’t like to about it. But I hope we can agree that not only is this about devaluing the worth of autistic people and hiding the genetic factor in neurodiversity it’s also about punishing women, all women.

Additionally acetaminophen (Tylenol) as a safe antipyretic medication can help prevent febrile seizures in children with viral and other infections or with a robust post vaccination inflammatory response. The recklessness of these announcements by non medical professionals is very shocking.

I was at a #FacultySenate meeting and missed it and it sounds like to preserve my mental health I need to not subject myself to it

Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm. His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN. When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

As a fierce #data person who is going to be attempting to work in #policy this year, my anticipated stress level:

Not to mention, they're a lot of our doctors. They keep us healthy! Most of the medical professionals I've had in the last 15 years have been from overseas. They are good at what they do and fill a MAJOR shortage of homegrown docs. Wait lists are 6 months WITH them here.

Good news for China, India and Canada: "firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment... particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D- intensive."

Looking forward to unemployed #men taking all the jobs that #mothers of young children are having to vacate due to this administration's policies. Wait...

The US is imposing sanctions on Brazil for trying to protect its democracy, and throwing a lifeline to Milei to prop up his administration.

Technically started in the 80s, but will be my comfort show for all time. Been through whole series twice.

💯% - #Public education is where people can learn about a world beyond their own neighborhood and open up their views, social mobility. That's why #fascists want to shut it down, so only Harvard, Yale, Duke, and Stanford exist and the rest of us are funneled into manual labor

case in point: my financial advisor, whom I trust completely and I can vent to politically, went to Central Michigan (we talked about the football game- apparently visiting team gets half the money from concessions, which is $$$ at the #BigHouse). No way I could do this with a Harvard finance guy 😂

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, with Justice Kavanaugh saying that the wrongful stops of citizens is “typically brief.” But try telling that to the U.S. citizens who have been violently detained: Cary López Alvarado, Andrea Velez, Javier Ramirez, and U.S. veteran George Retes.

Facts are simple and facts are straight Facts are lazy and facts are late Facts all come with points of view Facts don't do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around Facts are living turned inside out Facts are getting the best of them Facts are nothing on the face of things

Tylenol is the only OTC designated as safe to take during pregnancy. So no don’t just slap a black box warning on it when there is no legitimate evidence of it being unsafe in pregnancy.

I’ll be really interested to see if “men of advanced age (>40 in this case) having children”, which has been scientifically linked to #autism is gonna come up today at all, or it’s just blaming #women. Take a guess.

Yeah FWIW Indians are despised in #Canada and the #UK (everyone I know who moved to Canada are white), so might as well stay in the relative safety of a blue city in a purple state

Susan Lucci and Jim Harbaugh? 😂

one of my best friends just got their citizenship last year after 6 years, I am very happy for her, but she's also now looking for ways to leave with her new passport since she just had to walk home during a giant "no immigrants" Nazi rally in the middle of London

Somehow ended up being on subscription list for an #India #tech newsletter which I usually ignore, but this came to my inbox today:

I’m a #doctor and I WHOLEHEARTEDLY endorse this. #MusicTherapy is my favorite prescription