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Emily Moin

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Intensivist, ethicist, epidemiologist, math enthusiast. Es könnte auch anders sein. (I call them tweets and they're my own)

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Apr 20

“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
– George Eliot

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 8h

A journal that I won’t name check because I have no self respect and still hope to publish in it someday sat on a timely (current events related) paper of mine for months, requested very minor revisions, and then rejected it.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 9h

Pure hopium

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 9h

After spending the past ten years getting stochastically terrorized with cyber attacks, large health systems are hanging "kick me" signs on their backs because of their fear of being left behind by a tech revolution they don't understand.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 9h

There's a lot going on in this article, and this is far from the most important criticism, but if I were a health system I would simply not implement a tool where the expected workflow is for physicians to copy and paste their patients' charts into a browser window. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How Physicians Can Prepare for Generative AI

This Viewpoint discusses basic skills for using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how to take an active role implementing AI into patient care.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 9h

Oh...

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

If it’s your birthday and you really want to

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

clean girl aesthetic (theme_classic())

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 2d

Presented at #OTOMTG25:

Valayannopoulos and colleagues report the outcomes of treating 12 participants who had complete inherited deafness with gene therapy. Full CHORD phase 1–2 study results: nej.md/4o7ky8f  

#MedSky #Otolaryngology

AAO-HNSF 2025 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO

Original Article | OCT 12, 2025 | NEJM.org
DB-OTO Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness

Figure 3. Auditory Brain-Stem Response at Week 24.

NEJM identity sits at the bottom.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

I find this essay confusing because a huge amount of Taylor Swift's catalog is about being sad, not happy? Same with the other female artists she name checks for existing on "a higher plane of cute, breezy fun"? It's hard not to read this as internalized misogyny tbh.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

Rewatching True Blood for spooky season

but humans are shocking susceptible to just about

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

What is hypotension, anyway, other than a blood pressure that we infer to be harmful to health based on its numeric lowness?

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

"[The] long-standing research focus on correcting hypotension may have diverted attention from investigation of many other factors—eg, bleeding risk, cardiovascular comorbidities, anesthetic drug dosing, surgical techniques—that may directly affect outcomes and also cause hypotension."

JAMA @jama.com · 2d

💬 Editorial: Personalized perioperative blood pressure management did not reduce organ injury or disability compared with standard MAP targets.

#ANES25 @asahq.bsky.social

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A page from JAMA, published online October 12, 2025, featuring an editorial titled "Perioperative Outcomes—The Limits of Blood Pressure-Centered Strategies" by Matthieu Legrand et al. The article discusses intraoperative hypotension.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

Beta blocking sinus tachycardia

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

rocks that your body needs

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

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:

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

To me, the early seasons of ER are the gold standard against which all other medical dramas must be measured.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

The Pitt occupies a weird part of the uncanny valley for me, it's accurate enough that I don't enjoy watching because it feels like being at work but they get enough details wrong that I'm also annoyed the whole time. And I genuinely enjoy a lot of other medical shows, just can't watch this one.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

"And why was the test obtained?", the unofficial slogan of internal medicine. See also: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning for patient risk stratification: standing on, or looking over, the shoulders of clinicians? - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - Machine learning for patient risk stratification: standing on, or looking over, the shoulders of clinicians?

www.nature.com

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

I'm fascinated by this idea of "existing lab information from routine blood work." Whose routine? Why does that information exist?

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

Um, unrelatedly I guess,

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 4d

I am open to the idea that there are people who don't have and don't want to gain the skills to engage directly with their data but every single day that I do I learn the answer to a question you'd never even think to ask unless you were personally staring into the abyss of an uncleaned dataset.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 4d

seeing a lot of hubris these days and not a lot of greek mythology type consequences

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 4d

Reddit has been recommending the hematology subreddit to me for some reason and I can't overstate how many posts there are from patients (who are probably mildly dehydrated) scared they have polycythemia vera.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 5d

It wasn't clear in the screenshot but the problem is not that it was sycophantic, the problem is that it wrote a pytorch script that just used whatever weights were in the model at the end of the training loop instead of loading the best weights. Which a vibe coder would probably not notice.

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