Emmanuel King, MD

Medsky: We are hiring Hospitalists on all tracks, including academic, clinical and subspecialty (working gap years as we help strengthen your fellowship application). Apply at hospitalmedicine.upenn.edu/node/1734 or DM me to inquire.

Workplace violence against healthcare workers is on the rise and we need to break the cycle. Check out our editorial in #JournalofHospitalMedicine where we highlight recent work on prevention strategies. #patientcenteredcare #staffsafety. shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I'm not much use to my kids with video games. Until today. Someone made a Roblox hospital game where you run around as a nurse, so my kid is muttering things like: what the heck is heparin? What is lasix? Where can I find an IV pump?

Welcome new faculty and Instructors to Penn's Division of Hospital Medicine! Day 1 (virtual) complete and can't wait to continue in person for Days 2-3 with the 18 of you! We will soon be opening recruitment for July 2026, see my pinned post for link to our job site or DM me.

I’m only a Juris Doctor, but I diagnose Don Jr. as being a soulless moron.

Of all nights I pick hyperkalemia night instead of dollar dog night

Had the pleasure of observing a colleague running teaching rounds, them debriefing afterwards. A few months back, they had done the same during my rounds. If you are in academic medicine and not doing bidirectional peer observations, highly recommend. The more senior person has as much to gain!

Hot take. The older surgeon dressed in wrinkled scrubs with a blazer and dress shoes look doesn't work.

Finally, a wholesome break from doom scrolling! 🥰🐶

This.

Sitting in a meeting being told that our recruitment website which I have invested countless hours into needs to be scrubbed of any whiffs of DEI. Knew this was coming but remain outraged, sad and worried.

Happy Hospitalist Day! Proud to be part of one of the oldest academic Divisions in the nation and love my colleagues and the patient/family centered and collaborative care they provide. If you know a Hospitalist give them a high five today!

Nerding out in Denver with my perioperative medicine brethren @spaqisociety.bsky.social

Hot take: one cannot obtain a reasonably priced proper mango that will ripen and be delectable except at an ethnic grocery store. Discuss

‘Cybertruck Man’ a cartoon in defiance of Musk #political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

The fact that FOUR physicians voted to confirm an antivaxxer with zero qualifications to run HHS is just so depressing

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Please read, because, quoting the author: "don't give in to cynicism or apathy. That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what. But it doesn't have to."

The kind of thing where if it weren't 2025 you would skim through, chuckle and move on. But since it's 2025 just add it to the pile of existential dread.

My mood…

“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.” — Alicia Keys accepting the Global Impact Award at the #GRAMMYs .

I’m sure deporting people who produce food and slapping tariffs on countries that we buy massive amounts of food from will lower costs any day now.

patient thought my amazing preliminary intern was "the boss" and that I was the trainee and he wanted me to check with her about the plan. my work here is done

“…the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety. Silence is not an option.” #firstdonoharm #silenceisnotanoption #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

And it's only been a week...

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

Yup

Oohh... a deep cut here

More than almost anything else, I will miss having a President who is capable of compassion, decency and empathy in times of crisis.

Many people still jump to metformin as "first-line treatment" for type 2 diabetes; in 2022, the ADA published a consensus report that now focuses on goal-based therapy: #diabetes #type2diabetes #pharmacist #pharmsky #pharmD #medsky #endocrinology #medications #science #womeninscience #medicalwriter

Medsky, IDsky: are you seeing increased rebound covid cases after paxlovid, and have rebound symptoms been milder or more severe?

🌡️ Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) = temp >38.3C multiple times x 3 weeks without obvious cause Infections: 20-40%. Connective tissue disorders: 20% Malignancy: 10-20% Undiagnosed: 20% Drugs (e.g., phenytoin): rare #medsky #IMsky #internalmedicine #IDsky #hemeonc #hemesky #oncsky #rheumsky

It is just as important to know what kind of patient has the disease, as to know what kind of disease the patient has. —Adapted from William Osler who stole it from Henry George Plimmer, 1899.

Now THIS is the type of economic index we can all get behind

I took 10 minutes to make this 4x4 box this morning please clap

One of my favorite pods

This place better across the board. Even the fake accounts have more effort put into them so I pause for 5 seconds before blocking

As the internet’s current 4th most famous ophthalmologist, behind sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rand Paul, and Bashar Al-Assad, I’d like to request an updated ranking please.

i'm no stephen hawking but i think what happens is that they cancel each other out

My co-residents & I wrote a piece on #AAPI mental health for APA news Here’s Part 1. #mentalhealth #psychsky #medsky psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10....

I will never, ever get over this.

IDsky: one of your brethren included in their note today that patient "sitting in warm room in an east-facing room". @glaucomflecken.bsky.social would be proud. youtu.be/sUMO0Bv2OR0?...

Well played that librarian 😂👌

Hey Medsky: Tell me what specialty's workroom you were hunkered down in with a picture. I'll start

All modern inpatient hypertension research: "Whatever you do, don't treat inpatient hypertension" Current EHRs Blood pressure of 142/80 in red. With an exclamation point. 🤦🏻‍♂️