Debí tirar más fittings 😔

Almost-burnt (on purpose) odds and ends in the fridge, tossed them with eggs and 🧀 pasta cooking 💦, and called it carbonara.

🌺 in Hawai’i vs 🌺 in Massachusetts ….

Sending peace, love, and eternal hope for regeneration this ❄️ #MLKday. 🌺

Trade was a success Artist: @doctororbust.bsky.social Cc @robyncohenmd.bsky.social @tsengjennifer.bsky.social

“A trauma surgeon, an 👁️ doctor, a GI / MIS surgeon, a family practitioner, and a surgical oncologist walk into an MBA …” 🙏 to the EMBA Program at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management @brandeis for already challenging and inspiring our cohort of 25 physicians!

VESALIUS-CV trial: Lowering LDL cholesterol levels with evolocumab reduces the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with a previous MI or stroke, but the effect in patients without a previous MI or stroke is unknown. Research is summarized in a new Quick Take video. nej.md/4jwRuGa

Breaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz

If you were going to have the perfect lobster roll, would it be warm with butter or cold with mayo? 🦞

Breakdown of the year @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Whooping Cough Cases Soar as Vaccination Rates Drop In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination rate needed for community protection.

RIP Meathead 😢. My late dad’s favorite shows = All in the Family + M*A*S*H. I was in pre- then grade school but I learned so much about people & 🇺🇸sitting quietly beside him … (by the end of MASH I understood more, although not why the 💋 !) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/a...

It is possible that I have made too much fried rice for 2 1/2 people

Happy leftovers to all who celebrate!

Current state

Last week had the pleasure of hearing Dr Anton N. Sidawy MD, MPH, FACS President of American College of Surgeons give his honest assessment of our critical healthcare worker shortage in 🇺🇸 … and yet still leave audience hopeful! Rare gift! (PS - younger surgeons prioritize #worklife balance!)

In what 🌎 are New England and Harvard both on an 8-game winning streak - in 🏈??? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Does anyone not like tater tots? 😋

I am always so humbled by the service of our veterans. Thank you, and thank you to the families who give so much, here and abroad. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Sunday mac ‘n cheese (aka “use up stuff” night)

In the CORE-TIMI 72a and CORE2-TIMI 72b phase 3 trials involving patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia, olezarsen led to a significantly greater reduction in the triglyceride level and in acute pancreatitis events than placebo. Full results: nej.md/491XG5V #AHA25

Among patients with atherosclerosis or diabetes but no previous myocardial infarction or stroke, evolocumab led to a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events than placebo. Full VESALIUS-CV trial results: nej.md/4oWrIN6 #AHA25

Someone actually trusted me with their beloved … 🌱 🪴 🌺! (I must be a grownup.)

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

GLP-1 drugs have intrinsic potent anti-inflammatory action beyond their metabolic beneficial impact on glucose regulation and weight loss www.jci.org/articles/vie...

“Twice as good to succeed …” 🙏 Dr. Gauthier! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...

Acute and chronic viral infections, including Herpes Zoster (Shingles), Hepatitis C, HIV, CMV, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2, are linked with a substantial increased risk of cardiovascular events, from a systematic review. Figure for SARS-CoV-2 below newsroom.heart.org/news/some-ac...

RIP to a real mensch. 🙏 Dr Zinner, your memory is a blessing to so many. Source: The Boston Globe share.google/9DNgh7A8isIq...

If you are lucky, you may make forever friends in work and also in life. If you are super-lucky, they coincide! 😘 ❤️ 🤗 Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) and partners as we came together in Birmingham to try to help train surgeons who will serve ALL our communities. 💐

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

A meta-analysis of 13 studies comparing health care professionals vs generative A.I. showed the latter was more likely to be perceived as more empathetic in all but 1 study academic.oup.com/bmb/article/...

The benefit of Ozempic (semaglutide) for protection from major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is independent of weight loss magnitude and baseline adiposity, likely related to the GLP-1 anti-inflammatory effect thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New in the October 16, 2025, issue of NEJM: Sentinel-Node Biopsy in Cervical Cancer (PHENIX phase 3 trial) nej.md/4oaZled Telitacicept for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (18C010 phase 3 trial) nej.md/42EmA7I #MedSky

Both of my teenagers called me of their own volition today and neither asked me for money, at least initially. Please share my joy!

Enacting one of my primal food memories, chicken and dumplings, but with local bok choi

First they debunked red wine, and now dark chocolate? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Plenty of amyloid, very little tau Low inflammatory response nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

Love this outfit on Daniel Day-Lewis. DDL has a reputation for being a real clothes nerd, having studied bespoke shoemaking under Stefano Bemer, knowing his way around Savile Row, and getting guernseys from little-known makers. He wears his own clothes to photoshoots. IG GQ

In a heartfelt #chiefresident #surgery final @bumed grand rounds today Dr Priyanka Chugh @antiwheatgirl.bsky.social tells us why the stories we tell… and our patients and families tell us … matter. We are so grateful!! 🙏 ❤️

The authors of a new Medical Education article review the ways that attending to the intersection of clinical-reasoning education and health-equity education — centering on the emerging concept of diagnostic equity — can support diagnostic excellence. Read the full review: nej.md/3VRmANT

Not every day a skin cell is turned into viable egg! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Funding for cancer research has never been more important.” At Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Scientific Summit on behalf of the Ben & Rose Cole PRIA Foundation this weekend - and got to 🤗 Cynthia Stroum, the donor who sponsored my very first independent grant in 2006! 💜

Me want cookie! 🍪

The projected rise in global cancer deaths 1990 —5.9 million 2023—10.4 million 2050—18.8 million is yet another reason we need to get primary prevention into high gear, which is now possible but not getting done www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Girls just wanna have fun … and 🔪 expertly wielded! 😋 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/d...