Fact:
"Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom"
-Isaac Asimov
My mother is not a physician, yet somehow, she’s extremely active in "telemedicine". Is it just my mother or do all doctors’ moms do the same? 😊
My thoughts are with all those people that spent their day at home today with a potassium of 3.3 (and nothing bad happened to them!)
#foamcc #electrolytes #emimcc
My thoughts are with all those people that spent their day at home today with a potassium of 3.3 (and nothing bad happened to them!)
#foamcc #electrolytes #emimcc
Yann Le Cun, former chief AI scientist at Meta before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in Dec 2025
Large language model (LLM) versus a 4 yo child:
I want to shake everyone’s hand here, but I don’t want my hands getting bruised 🤝
Btw, has anybody heard about senile purpura? Or my Internal Medicine background is acting up?
Our usual reaction to any new study is either “I don’t believe it” or “I knew it”......
A NEJM trial in ICU pts w acute resp failure found that mucolytics (carbocisteine & hypertonic saline) don’t help. My ICU rounds line “mucolytics are useless” may need an update: “and possibly harmful”
Factoid:
The first clinical use of plasminogen activators (do you remember streptokinase?) in humans focused on the management of parapneumonic effusion/empyema, not myocardial infarction
#foamed #emimcc
I thought that routine daily aspirin is no longer recommended for the primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes
Please advise