BACK of the BOOK
Heard in the Blogosphere
Mark Lewis, MD
@marklewismd
I’m tired of learning who my patients really were by reading
their obituaries & attending their funerals. The “social history”
is a reductive, seconds-long assessment of lifestyle risk
factors: a checkbox catalog of vices. It tells us nothing of
their virtues. #medtwitter #meded
Jenny Allen, PharmD
@Jenny_Allen
The range of language options this clin-
ical trial website offers is a tad bizarre. If
I select Old English will I be requested
to dispense from my apothecary?!
Colin Taylor, MD
@ColinTaylorMD
As physicians, we make up a significant portion of the
“System.” Without us, the “System” will cease to exist.
Knowing this, why do we minimize our influence? We must
work together to leverage our position within the “System” to
change it from the inside out. #PhysicianBurnout
Doctors to NRA: “This Is Our Lane”
On November 7, 2018, the National Rifle Association (NRA) fired off a Tweet in
response to gun control research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine:
NRA
@NRA
Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their
lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing
for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community
seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves.
Unsurprisingly, doctors who treat the victims of gun violence did not remain silent.
Health-care providers flooded the gun-rights group with more than 21,000 messages
on Twitter, sharing photos and personal experiences from the frontlines:
This Is Our Lane
@ThisIsOurLane
Since The @NRA is incapable of understanding the important
role we the medical community have in this fight against #Gun-
Violence, we have created this handle just for you!
Marianne Haughey, MD
@mthaughey
I see no one from the @nra next to me in the trauma bay as I have
cared for victims of gun violence for the past 25 years. THAT must be
MY lane. COME INTO MY LANE. Tell one mother her child is dead with
me, then we can talk.
Tatiana Prowell, MD
@tmprowell
Assistant Professor or Instructor – Clinician,
Department of Hematology
Position Description:
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri seeks a full-time
Instructor in the Division of Hematology to provide patient care and
related services at Washington University Medical Center’s Center
for Advanced Medicine, Christian Hospital Northeast, and Barnes-
Jewish West County. He/she will staff an outpatient hematology clinic,
attend on the hematology inpatient and consult services, assist in the
teaching of medical students, medical house staff, and hematology/
Number of gun deaths in the US in 2017 very similar to the number of
deaths from breast cancer. Anyone who says #gunviolence is not a pub-
lic health crisis is either not paying attention or hoping you’re not paying
attention.
Rebecca Johnson, MD
@surgerydoc
You may not know that the small-town
general surgeon taking out your ap-
pendix or fixing your hernia has been
trauma trained for GSWs as a normal
part of becoming a surgeon. We are.
Because #ThisIsOurLane #stayinmylane
oncology fellows, and participate in patient-oriented clinical research.
The hematology service sees a diverse population of patients with
classical hematological problems, including sickle cell anemia and
other hemoglobinopathies, bleeding and thrombotic disorders,
myeloproliferative neoplasms, bone marrow failure syndromes, and
autoimmune hematologic diseases. Duties also include participating in
research and other scholarly activities as assigned by the Department.
The position requires a Professional Medical Degree and a three year
Fellowship in Hematology to be completed by June 30, 2019. Send
resumes to Kristen Sanfilippo, [email protected].
Follow ASH and ASH Clinical News on:
@ASH_Hematology, @BloodJournal,
@BloodAdvances, and @ASHClinicalNews
Facebook.com/AmericanSocietyofHematology
@ASH_Hematology
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January 2019