Ken Milne MD

Ken Milne MD

@thesgem.bsky.social

Trying to cut the knowledge translation window down from over 10 years to less than 1 year with the power of social media. Remember to be skeptical of anything you learn, even if you heard it on the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine. www.TheSGEM.com

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It's a conversation about intellectual humility, the pressures shaping modern medicine, and why even experienced physicians should keep questioning what they think they know.

Dickens seemed to have predicted social media. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…

I suspect that this will have little impact on the people who believe (without good evidence) that routine childhood vaccination is causing serious harm in a larger number of children (ex autism spectrum disorder). www.newsweek.com/us-measles-c... @dennisrenmd.bsky.social @aineyoremd.bsky.social

newsweek.comUS measles cases may hit 6,500 in 2026 amid vaccine skepticism: ExpertsWith 4,080 cases and counting, the United States has more measles cases this year than at any time since 1991.

Ken Milne MD reposted

Hospital access block, not excessive ED visits or inefficient ED docs, is the primary cause of ED overcrowding. ED overcrowding is fundamentally a hospital-wide and healthcare-system capacity problem that requires solutions primarily outside the ED.