🇨🇦 Father, husband, brother, son. And now, grandfather! MD, ObGyn for 35+ years. Radical Centrist. Old as dirt.
Tweets, er posts, er Skeets are mine #Medsky
Grandparents, who have the most proximity to once defeated diseases that vaccines prevent, advocate for their prevention.
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We are hiring!
New post-doc position at Imperial College London working on wearables and near-patient sensing in brain tumour patients
Please re-skeet
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The safest permanent birth control isn’t what most people think.
Vasectomy and tubal ligation are both effective — but they’re not equal when it comes to risk.
Vasectomy is generally safer.
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice."
Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.
Family docs in Ottawa just received a plea for help from our local children’s hospital: unprecedented volumes in the Emergency Department of children testing positive for influenza. Message to parents and primary care providers: Get flu shots out to the paediatric population!@ottawapublichealth.ca
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
An OB-GYN who took acetaminophen during her own labor said the president’s remarks about Tylenol won’t stop her from prescribing it when necessary, but will confuse patients and increase health care providers’ fears of potential lawsuits.
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Alzheimer’s docs announced some encouraging news at the 2025 AAIC in Toronto… monoclonals are performing better than skeptics predicted. So what are monoclonals and why were people cautious? Neuroscientist Dr Georg Hafner explains medicalnewsbulletin.com/lecanemab-do...#EndAlz, #alzsky 🩺,⚕️🧪 🧠
Trump's war on free speech is "f***ing crazy."
Check out our new six-figure ad campaign running on Manosphere podcasts highlighting the comedians and podcasters standing up and speaking out against the Trump Administration's censorship.
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
Your reminder that Moderna’s newly updated COVID vaccine, targeting the LP.8.1 variant, has been approved by Health Canada and, for the first time, will be manufactured here in Canada. So I fully expect those of us who want it to be able to get it. When? I would think late October.
“Mark Carney beat Jean Chrétien's record for highest approval rating of a Prime Minister in Canadian history, proving that Canadians long to be governed by small-c conservatives yet prefer to identify as Liberal.”
As a physician, few things make me as depressed as the knowledge that the only Trump cabinet member with a net positive public opinion rating is RFK Jr 🤦🏼♂️ #Medsky#Vaccines
Cannot wait for the PeteHegseth streaming series starring doppelgänger TimothyOlyphant 😳
Seriously, has anyone ever seen them in the same room together?
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
🔴 Rescuers pull young woman’s body from rubble — she was found next to her fiancé, both missing since the attack.
The couple, Mykola and Ivanna, lived on the 8th floor and were planning to marry. They died together when the building collapsed.