www.weightmans.com/media-centre... This ruling is just a lot to unpack. 😨

#rstats is so back 💪🤩

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Does anyone ever think about how supervision and mentorship are somewhat missing from healthcare. It's basically all self directed, with some form filling along the way. I can't help but feel that we could be doing it so much better.

Underrated comment.

Gell-Mann amnesia strikes again!

I deeply miss the time when I didn't hear trumps name every day.

Analyse as you Randomise.

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/

Wow. A friend just looped me in on what's happening over on the other site. I have absolutely no regrets about deleting that account. 🤯

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”Most of the applications of clustering are not well thought out, not even considering whether observation clustering aligns with clinical goals.” YES. Clustering has become a huge fad in psychology as well, I see it everywhere.

This highlights important differences. If the LaTeX code is wrong, it'll (nearly always) be obvious. Garbled table -> try again. And ultimately, it doesn't matter in the same way. Nice docs are nice, but people don't die from misformated bullet point If analysis code is wrong, it's not obvious.

Vibe research and vibe science have always been bad. AI now makes them easier than ever to do, in new ways. It's so tempting. I'm not even talking about pure slop. I've overheard conversations between grad students that should make us all uneasy... 😟

Victoria Embankment this morning. Why should hard working cyclists taxes go on these wide car lanes when motorists don't bother using them?

I find it baffling that people want AI to summarise papers for them. The point is to read the papers in order to become a domain expert. Better tools for education are great. But you need a little friction to learn. Also why tests and assessment are important.

This degree of rain is now too much for me. I haven't seen the sun in weeks. When dear god will this rain end. 🌂

Hamnet is utterly beautiful. Would recommend. 🥲

This was amazing. Ive always enjoyed this channel for his deep dives on a variety of facinating technology. This is probably his best work. Watch till the end.

In an editorial, @HSJnews suggests the NHS is “too reliant” on resident doctors. We disagree. Resident doctors provide essential care now & form the backbone of the NHS workforce of the future. The problem isn’t too many doctors - it’s system constraints. Our response: https://ow.ly/exmU50Y3W1K

This was inevitable. Everything is being turned into bloatware AI slop. I've fully retreated to vim and I'm pretty happy with this decision.

Microslop is the logical endpoint of a business model entirely directed at "make line go up" rather than actually supporting the end user.

#iCanHazPDF please pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36971791/ 🙏

Its hard to see how windows 11 could ever be compatible with deployment in the NHS. It's a facinating combination of malware and spyware.

What I don't get about The Fly, is what about all the billions of bacteria already on, in and around him in the pod. Not to mention parasites and funghi. I feel like the fly was the least of his worries.

There is a lot to consider here. Mainly why it's important to conduct RCTs. Just goes to show how much of a terrible soup of retrospective data we base our practice on.

First time using outlook for android (by necessity). Pretty awful user experience. How do people workflow tasks that require looking at email and calendar at the same time?

"One intangible advantage of capillary refill time is that performing it brings the clinician back to the bedside to reassess the patient. This act may be itself the holy grail of early sepsis management." great piece on #sepsis

Outcome 6 🍾💪 IYKYK.

Masking up on public transport for the approaching winter. Get some funny looks. I just enjoy being less sick. Weird.

Fascinating how so much food has its protein content promoted front and center. Even bread. Even though most of these sources lack the necessary amino acids for utilisation. Nutritional awareness in the UK is silly.

Doing shit statistics.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... what a collosal and irresponsible waste of tax payer money this would be. I could think of thousands of better uses for this money.

I think it's incredible that AI is going to kill us all, not because it's a super intelligence that has deemed us an existential threat, but because it's just so overwhelmingly stupid

Please tell me this loophole is real... #OnlineSafetyAct

Digital literacy should really be a minimum requirement to run a country

This is actually a pretty good idea. It's become very trendy in recent years to install a wood burning stove. Which is idiotic. Massively increases indoor air pollution and contributes to local particulate emissions (amongst other things). We should look at this as we do smoking.

Its come to my attention that pokemon cards are valuable again? I have the entire original run, including all holographics in an original presentation folder. Pretty much all in mint condition. Does anyone know how I can go about getting them valued?

I occasionally get asked why I chose medicine as a career. Easy answer. 50% following my brother whom I adore. 50% @robertpicardo.bsky.social who was the best doctor in starfleet. Naturally I didn't say this in my interview, but on reflection, I wish I had!

Of all the bad medical takes, this is one of the worst. Well played bad medical takes... Well played.

As I come to the end of my training, and my 27th and final rotation, I have reflected on this rotational aspect. It has made me extremely adaptable and provided a rich background of experience. But equally, it has broken me, prevented me from creating the social connections that are so... human.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

Who was it that described “Shrodinger’s resident doctor”? Too important to strike, yet as an “apprentice” not important enough to pay properly …

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

Please stop using chatGPT in clinical contexts. If you don't know the answer, check a reputable source or ask a colleague. ChatGPT is absolute medical garbage and not safe to use in this context.

Last week, Em Dash had some things to say. Now, it's En Dash's turn. What's your move, Elipsis?

Chasing lactate with fluid boluses in a patient with [other stuff than true, absolute, hypovolemia] is probably useless, deleterious...and dumb