UCSF Emergency Medicine
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US health care 🏥🚑 increasingly publicly financed but investor owned. 📈🤑
Costs rising 💰despite worse population outcomes 🫠
Free link to paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
This study has been years underway — I'm happy to see it published today in the Milbank Quarterly.
"Century-Long Trends in the Financing and Ownership of American Healthcare."
A short thread.
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Elizabeth Kwan retweeted
This morning, we sounded the alarm on the patient boarding crisis that has brought ERs across our country to a breaking point. In our joint letter to @POTUS, we shared real-life stories showing the threat to our health care safety net. [1/4]
Full letter: acep.org/globalassets/new-pd…
ALT Four screenshots of our letter to the White House. Also available as a PDF at the link in this tweet.
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Dual sequence + vector change defib w/ improved outcomes in refractory VF bit.ly/3t5TLif
Survival to 🏥d/c: 30.4% (DSED) vs 21.7% (VC) vs 13.3% (standard)
DSED vs Standard RR 2.21
VC vs Standard RR 1.71
Trial stopped early but, encouraging results for DSED/VC
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Find Vaccine for kids 6 months to 4 years: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Find Vaccines for kids under 5! Search by state
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We have so many people who lack even the most basic, elementary school-level science literacy in this country, who cite "decreased oxygen intake" or "carbon dioxide retention" as a reason it to not wear a mask in public.
#wearyourmask
#DoBetter
#PublicHealth
#TrustANurse
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In the midst of all the things that have turned our world upside down, the one that has stuck to me the most?
1 out of every 2,000 African Americans have died from #COVID19
In 3 months
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OK @amalmattu
UCSF High Risk EM Hawaii April 14-18, 2020 Wailea Marriott on Maui
Featuring @amalmattu @DianeBirnbaumer Peter Deblieux
@highriskEM @SonoShyy @ucsfdem
highriskem.ucsf.edu
A “local’s” guide to San Francisco by someone who arrived in 2015 👏 Thanks @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/travel/un…
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Three of the 10 professions with the highest gender pay gaps are in healthcare. This gap widens with age and for women of color.
#TIMESUP #TIMESUPHC
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Thank you @MurseWordsworth @tnicholsmd I’m always so moved by your advocacy
I'm honored to have been able to contribute to this overdue movement to fight inequality & gender based harassment in healthcare.
I'll continue to offer my voice & my silence PRN.
'TIME'S UP Healthcare' Video Shows Men in Medicine Condemning Harassment menshealth.com/health/a26554…
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The clock has run out on sexual assault, harassment and inequality in the healthcare workplace. It's time to do something about it. Follow us to learn more tomorrow. #TIMESUP #TIMESUPHC #TIMESUPHealthcare
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Dina Wallin closing #HREM19 🏝🎉Save the date UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine April 14-18, 2020 @waileamarriott Thank you! @ALiEMteam @SonoShyy @Sean_Kivlehan @AaronKornblith @mpmercer @borykea @DerekMonetteMD @PharmERToxGuy @M_Lin @DrDebbieYi @hmchunge @csmollin @CoreySlovis
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Pregnancy airway: a Mallampati 1 pt can be Mallampati 3 by third trimester #HREM19 It’s not just feet getting swollen
