Dr Vyom Sharma

Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom.bsky.social

Australian GP #medsky Broadcaster Magic Creator at DARK CUBE www.vyomsharma.com.au I miss the racism on twitter.

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If you WOKE LEFTIES think you can walk in to MY HOUSE and make MY WIFE ‘independent’ and push your trans agenda ON MY KIDS then you are DEAD WRONG because I have LOST CUSTODY of my kids and I haven’t seen wife since the RESTRAINING ORDER.

The abrupt tone shift of the last few hours means nothing. They're temporarily paralysed by the possibility the political assassination is by one of them. The next 200 could be by one of them. It will only take one from the other side before all hell breaks loose.

The Coalition couldn't wish for a cohort more naturally inclined to vote for them than Indian immigrants. Substantially socially conservative, economically right leaning cohort. The indomitable challenge for the LNP is to, for the length of an election cycle, not seem racist.

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I also think our (often valid) policing of language used by reporters can amount to infantilizing paternalism. “I read this headline, I understood it, I learned a new fact from it, but it’s BAD because less-savvy people could have their tiny minds warped by the phrasing and I must protect them.”

Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social

I'm saying this as someone who spends a large part of my working life ironing out small differences in questionnaire wording, but I really do think many people who like language overindex on how much phrasing matters to the way people react to news they encounter in their daily life.

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- the CI for this finding from this > 120 mm Hg subgroup comes awfully close to 0 (-5.9 to -0.1) - effect size of SBP reducing by 3mm Hg is small. We expect meds to make at least 5 mm Hg difference. But...

Big claims about rising cancer in young people globally, esp in Aus "Some increases.. might be explained by changes in the way they are diagnosed - but most cannot" How about: - Increased testing? - Detection of cancers that are more biologically indolent? - Incidental detections? #medsky

Had an encounter today that reminded me how we can hold 3 layers of belief - often contradictory: - Proclaimed: what we dare say publicly - Private: what we admit to ourselves - Revealed: what our actions show

A senior commander of Iran's revolutionary guard said that if Israel nukes Iran, Pakistan would nuke them back. Pakistan's defence minister denied ever agreeing to this. Pakistan has now closed land and air borders with Iran.

I've never seen the US media cycle so utterly unable to keep up. Every single day since Trump's inauguration, roughly 7-12 huge policies, or bonkers statements are reported. Each of them worth a week's coverage. But then, two seconds pass, and something else insane happens.

I'm astonished at the breadth of issues affected by Trumps's myriad executive orders. Huge changes being presented as short, sporadic reports that understandably vanish with each update. The only thing that's surviving the 24 hour news cycle at this point is the Nazi salute.

Folks, I am telling you, this Aussie cricket team are the loveliest bunch we've had since like... forever. For all the talk about toxic masculinity in sports, now we've got a great bunch - get around em.

There is something Shakespearean about the specific tragedy of Kohli's career ending due to his inability to resist a ball outside off, and being undone by it every time. Desperately trying to recapture the magic he once possessed of the most glorious cover drive in cricket.

All night I dreamt I was in Adelaide, trying to get a beautiful woman to fall in love with me by mansplaining right censoring on a kaplan-meier curve. Didn’t work. What do women want?

Dear #medsky GPs - when treating COPD patients 1) are you doing the 'ol stepwise approach, starting with tiotropium, or opting for a stepdown approach and starting sometimes with combination meds? 2) Do you look at eosinophils when choosing COPD inhalers, or nah?

I estimate there are 40+ movies that I've only seen 70% of the way through. Because until age 13, at 8:30 PM mum would shut the TV and march us off to bed. I still don't know how Waterworld ends.

New NEJM trial on Tirzepatide for HFpEF. I have 2 questions #medsky Claim: Treatment led to lower risk of a composite of death from CV causes or worsening HF. Q1: Is it weird to claim a COMPOSITE win, when there were HIGHER deaths due to CV causes in treatment group? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

nejm.orgTirzepatide for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity | NEJMObesity increases the risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Tirzepatide, a long-acting agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor...

A coprimary endpoint was change in Baseline in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (100 point scale) - which was between-group difference, 6.9 Q2: Couldn't much of the gap in scores happen purely due to weight loss? look at the questions. Also, placebo group improved by 12.7 points!

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I’m astonished that, in response to the murder of the American health insurer CEO, the main thing Americans are posting is their personal insurance horror stories. So much bad will towards the healthcare system. Incredible that American democracy is powerless to change a system that oppresses it.