shortages/illness, being underpaid/overworked, swamped A&Es with providers already burned out/suffering moral injury — one can only handle so much.🙏 https://bbc.in/3GBlJdk

#EmergencyMed #EmergencyPhysicain #uk #covidsars2 #medtwiiter #bbc END

In non-ventilated, hypoxic Covid patients, use of higher-dose steroids:

- ⬆️risk of death (18% vs 12% lower dose)
-⬆️risk of mech ventilation/death (19% vs 13%)
-⬆️pneumonia (10% vs 6%) vs usual care with lower dose steroids. #medtwiiter #MedMastodons #covidsars2 https://bit.ly/3hT0U3j

This NYU VIP piece @nytimes@twitter.com is wild. Physicians being deemed "unprofessional" for not meeting VIP demands. Medical professionalism truly is in the eye of the beholder and is weaponized against clinicians. (Read more by @JamesHLeeMD@twitter.com https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/fulltext/2017/05000/the_weaponization_of_medical_professionalism.20.aspx) #medtwiiter