Sweet to hear our 2023 #CBCIdeas documentary, "Hawkeye's Army", being replayed tonight on CBC Radio One. I loved producing this piece with @nahlahayed.bsky.social, and getting to parse all this with the great Alan Alda is still pretty indescribable. #burnout #MASH4077 www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Did we really need hospital masking during COVID-19? Study says yes medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11... From study: "...stopping universal masking and SARS-CoV-2 testing was associated with a significant increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections..."

This paper is interesting for a few reasons. It shows that mask mandates in healthcare protect patients from infections, and removing mask mandates in healthcare harms patients. A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨 Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections BALANCE trial publication is here ! #IDsky #Medsky @idjclub.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Honey, stop what you're doing, new hyponatremia research just dropped! What's it say? It looks like slow correction is associated with worse outcomes, like death and length of stay! Was it just a small study? No, it was a meta-analysis of almost 12,000 patients! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...