John Ross
@johnrossmd.bsky.social
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Canadian in Boston. Hospitalist. FIDSA. #M4A #RaisetheWage #BLM #IDSky #GoHabsGo http://bit.ly/4mtlvaN
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Original research, climate change and infectious diseases: in a cohort of 1130 cases over 31 years, we saw a marked expansion of the Babesia season over time. The mean number of months/yr in which patients developed symptomatic babesiosis rose from 2.2 before 2000 to 9.2 after 2015 🧵 #IDSky
johnrossmd.bsky.social
As Robert Stone once observed, sometimes it's nice to see a real loser really lose.
girlsreallyrule.bsky.social
The Supreme Court has denied an appeal by Alex Jones over a his $1.4 billion defamation judgment for his false claims that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax, which leaves in place the record-breaking sum he was ordered to pay in 2021. www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook case
The Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Alex Jones over a $1.4 billion defamation judgment for his false claims that a 2012 school shooting was a hoax.
www.cbsnews.com
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johnreppion.bsky.social
Mindlessly scrolling earlier, I saw a video which contained the sentence "all culture war is a deliberate distraction from class war". Possibly the most succinct expression of the times we live in, and the problems we're facing.
johnrossmd.bsky.social
Two amazing bits from this interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum:
- Thomas Pynchon apparently has ANOTHER completed novel in the can
- Rosenbaum is disappointed that Pinecone, a frail 88-year-old, is not as ambitious and experimental as he was at 36, when Gravity's Rainbow was published
Interview with film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum in Film International: I’m curious about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, One Battle After Another (2025), even though I didn’t really like his adaptation of Inherent Vice (2014). I don’t think Vineland is a great novel, but it’s a good novel. It has more possibilities. I don’t think Pynchon is as ambitious now as he once was, and it seems he’s now interested in writing these detective novels. They’re still fun to read, though. When I last spoke with Hat & Beard Press, the publisher of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, they confirmed that Pynchon actually has a second completed novel in addition to the one that will arrive in October—Shadow Ticket.
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
the gutting of the national center for health statistics should be considered its own five alarm fire
altcdc.altgov.info
Eliminated at NCHS:
❌ Office of Informatics, Governance and Assurance
❌ Office of Information Sevices (communications)
❌ Office of the Director for the Division of Vital Statistics, which is now without all leadership
❌ Planning/Operations in the Division of Healthcare Statistics
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katarney.bsky.social
This (apocryphal) story about Virchow that I snuck in as a footnote into my book Rebel Cell remains my proudest pun in print.
johnrossmd.bsky.social
This was a *long* time ago. Obviously many systemic failures in play!
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eric-reinhart.com
New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
johnrossmd.bsky.social
At a hospital where I trained, a patient coded and eventually was found to have a blood sugar of...zero

Turns out a nursing student misread a heparin order and gave 5000 U of SC *insulin*
johnrossmd.bsky.social
Looks like I don't get to retire just yet 😢
Scamcoin price plummets
johnrossmd.bsky.social
Tired: anti-vax grifting

Wired: immortality grifting
motherjones.com
They say the only things certain in life are death and taxes.

But America’s billionaires, having taken care of the latter, are now trying to disrupt the former—and make sure nobody can pry their fortunes from their cold dead hands.
These billionaires want to disrupt death—and keep their fortunes forever
Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.
www.motherjones.com
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency
adamkeiper.com
You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
johnrossmd.bsky.social
This big strong neurologist, very tough guy, with tears in his eyes, said to me, Sir, those are the finest white matter hyperintensities we've ever seen
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beyerstein.bsky.social
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls  while praying outside an ICE facility.
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klaproth.bsky.social
SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake
johnrossmd.bsky.social
Pleased to report that this 88-year-old fella still has the juice
Shadow Ticket, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon
johnrossmd.bsky.social
Fawns playing on your lawn, sportive raccoons cavorting in your trash
johnrossmd.bsky.social
Penicillin, ivermectin, clofazimine #IDSky
Andy Reid in a bland suit, Travis Kelce in ugly
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tom.medsky.social
There is literally no basis for this. We have decades of data to show it makes no difference.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...
johnrossmd.bsky.social
From an essay by an American surgeon about his work in Gaza (disturbing content) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
One night we had 60 dead and 200 injured — or what Palestinians call “just another Tuesday.” People died on the floor waiting for care. One 5-year-old child lay on the ground. His intestines spilled out of his belly. His older brother begged me to help. I grabbed his hand and joined it with the child’s. I wanted to say, “I’m sorry. He’s gonna die. Just hold his hand until he does.” Instead, I just stared at him — and then left him there to pound the floor in grief as I took an undignified leap over a father grieving over his daughter’s mangled body to help triage the scores of wounded people still lying on the blood-smeared floor.

One child showed up barely holding on. An explosive blast had shattered her head open. A chunk of shrapnel stuck out of her skull. Fragments of gelatinous brain trickled out and stained her flowered shirt. She was somehow still alive, gasping for breath, blood foaming and bubbling through her mouth and nostrils — one of many cases deemed “hopeless.” We could not waste resources trying to save her, but we didn’t want her to die alone. So we took turns holding her hand until she died.
johnrossmd.bsky.social
Yikes. I knew Rife machines were a thing in the “Lyme-literate” world but this is bad
johnrossmd.bsky.social
In The Simpsons universe, antibiotic courses are either 4 or 8 days long
Homer Simpson, with 4 digits on each hand