Emergency Medicine-Critical Care physician with interests in mechanical ventilation, pulmonary hypertension, and critical care transport.
Boston, MA
Joined October 2015
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Ok, I have to say something, especially as I keep getting pulled into in these posts. COVID-19 causes ARDS. I keep hearing the refrain that it is not ARDS because “the compliance is normal.”
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle.
They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training.
Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades.
The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
The more certain someone is, the less they’ve seen. Wisdom doesn’t deal in absolutes—it holds contradiction, nuance, and the humility to be wrong.
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Still reading this myth that ventilators killed people with severe Covid.
It's like going outside on a rainy day and blaming umbrellas for the rainfall
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
The rules are extremely strict because the risk of rejection is extremely high. This is not a new policy. You can’t get a heart transplant without your vaccination because the patient will need to be on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their life that make them immunosuppressed. If the patient then gets Covid & dies, then the patient dies & the heart is wasted. This isn’t political.
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
*Every single* cure for a disease ultimately flowed from basic exploratory research. Stopping basic research is like stopping the mountain rains and expecting rivers of cures to still flow. Examples:
1) studying saliva of Gila monster -> GLP1's
2) studying funghi -> first statins
3) mRNA biology -> gene therapy for spinal atrophy
4) studying bacterial genetics -> CRISPR gene therapies
5) studies of nuclear magnetic resonance -> MRI scans
this list can go on and on. Not only in biology but all aspects of technology.... e.g.
6) curvature of spacetime -> GPS
7) quantum mechanics -> semiconductors
8) electromagnetism -> fiber optics -> internet
...
As a taxpayer (irrespective of whether you’re a scientist) would you would be in favor of more of the @NIH budget going to fund efforts to solve specific diseases at the expense of basic exploratory research? Which diseases?
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
I'm a huge fan of ivermectin.
Its a great drug.
Safe and effective for parasites including scabies and strongyloides.
(Does nothing for Covid though. Why you would use if for that I have no idea)
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
Don’t miss Dr. Onyinyechi Eke’s amazing, evidence-based session on TELE- Ultrasound! 🌟#WINFOCUS24! 📷@harvardsono @onyi_eke @on @mghedus
@WINFOCUS
@ViaWINFOCUS
📷 Tomorrow, Nov 23 📷 5AM-7 AM EST ( 11Am-13 ECT) #CriticalCare#Ultrasound
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
I love twitter bc where else can I, an person with two graduate degrees from Harvard in both infectious disease epidemiology and biostatistics, be assured I am wrong about infectious disease epi and statistics by a software engineer who has “read multiple FDA package inserts”
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“Was he in ICU?”
“I doubt it he’s DNR why would icu take him?”
WHY DO WE HAVE TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS. DNR IS NOT DO NOT TREAT AND THEY CAN GO TO ICU
The Bahamas? The Bahamas (and then Cuba and Haiti) is the beacon of freedom that is the United States?
Guided by his strong faith in god? Or by his funding from Ferdinand and Isabella to profit in the spice trade?
One of us is confused, and I don’t think it’s me.
Guided by his strong faith in God, Christopher Columbus set sail for the west determined to change the trajectory of world history.
He discovered a land of opportunity which centuries later became the beacon of freedom that is the United States of America.
Happy #ColumbusDay!
As an emergency physician, I am mortified.
As a feminist, I am not the least bit surprised.
This is unacceptable. A man’s vital signs would never presumed to be related to issues with his girlfriend, and he would never be called a term of endearment by a random “professional”
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
I’m back.
I’m back on Twitter (which is its only name).
I have left AI in charge of the universe; you’ll notice the improvement.
I’m back, with less respect for you than ever.
And just like before, My nephew is my only follow.
Spread the word, bastards.
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
Most of the AI hype folks on here talking about AI and medicine have never diagnosed a patient, have never given treatment, have never counseled a patient. I've practiced medicine and built/tested AI tools. We aren't anywhere close to "replacing doctors".
Susan Wilcox, MD retweeted
Women in medicine:
- Earn less.
- Are less likely to be in leadership.
- Have fewer research opportunities.
- Spend 8.5 hours more per week on domestic responsibilities.
Yet, they spend more time with patients and provide better care.
The double standard needs to END.
