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Nora Cheung

@NCheungMD

Simple country surgical intensivist. Tweets are my own.

Joined October 2016
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@NEJM7 Oct 2020
Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The Editors note that although we came into this crisis with enormous advantages, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.

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$ spent per state on students (Y) vs. inmates (B). Imagine what we could accomplish if we reversed the spending. “Social Determinants To Reduce Firearm Violence” #ACSCC20
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This is incredible to see the disclosures of Dr @Jasosamd @UCSFGSResidency @UCSF @UCSFEndosurg We should be all proud of her accomplishments as the Chair of Surgery from @UCSF
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THIS.
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New: American College of Surgeons Call to Action on Racism as a Public Health Crisis: An Ethical Imperative. Read here: bit.ly/2XNbX19
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Ouch, but also true.
John Erickson (@JohnEricksonWH) profile pictureJohn Erickson@JohnEricksonWH5 Apr 2020
Stay home 🏡. Just like 108,600,000 of you did in 2016.
New Yorkers are dying precipitously. Your hospitals and healthcare professionals are overwhelmed. You decided THIS is time to give a podium to an entitled, spoiled, clueless @EstebanElizond0 to virtue signal at his fellow students? Shame on you @nypost. nypost.com/2020/04/04/yale-s…
Yale students are using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to lower standards

Yale students are using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to lower standards

Leave it to Yale students to make a crisis about themselves. While worldwide death tolls from the coronavirus grow exponentially every day, these privileged Ivy Leaguers are putting their...

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2/ Hampshire, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, DC, Vermont, and Wyoming. Looking from the perspective of war, 11M deaths is ~15% of the worldwide fatality from WW2 and ~65% of the worldwide fatality from WW1.
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3/ Exactly how many people would need to die before Senator Johnson thinks we should care?
We think of burnout as a new problem, but Dr. Nin presents a paper on burnout from 1974. #CCC49
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Not included on this slide: 9 children die every day from gun violence. Thank you @SCCM for highlighting this travesty. “The Impact of Gun Violence on Public Health” at #CCC49
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Master Class: Cardiovascular Physiology - I so wish this had been available 4 years ago when I started doing cardiac surgery / cardiac critical care. Great class! @SCCM #CCC49
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Work time requirements and lack of personal time are leading factors contributing to surgeons leaving practice. ow.ly/Y3GK50yfGnQ @AnnekeSchroen @pturnermd @JFreischlag #burnout #SoMe4Surgery #VisualAbstract
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“Don’t chase oliguria - just be sad.” Ten Hot Topics in Surgical Patient Safety #ACSCC19
Spectacular case indeed! #ACSCC19
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Recommendations from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma’s Firearm Strategy Team (FAST) Workgroup: Chicago Consensus I journalacs.org/article/S1072… #freeaccess #firearms
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You were a teenager with artistic dreams. You were not the intended target. You were shot too many times anyway. You were my first gun violence victim as an attending surgeon. Your mother didn’t blame me for your death, but I think I always will. #ShareAGunViolenceStory
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