Andrew Jensen, MD MPH
@andrewjensen.bsky.social
Family doctor in rural Southwest, democratic socialist, bit of a music nerd.
Posts from 2014-21 were ported over from twitter, where my display name was “Vaccines are a human right, MD MPH.”
Free Palestine.
Posts from 2014-21 were ported over from twitter, where my display name was “Vaccines are a human right, MD MPH.”
Free Palestine.
Congratulations on not reading the article.
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Congratulations on not reading the article.
Reposted by Andrew Jensen, MD MPH
September 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Since mayors don’t have running mates, this is an exciting innovation; have eleventy jillion votes.
August 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Since mayors don’t have running mates, this is an exciting innovation; have eleventy jillion votes.
Q Who, when Q hauls the Enterprise D way way far out, and they meet the Borg for the first time.
August 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Q Who, when Q hauls the Enterprise D way way far out, and they meet the Borg for the first time.
Twitter *was* good for that five or ten years ago, but now maybe nothing is?
July 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Twitter *was* good for that five or ten years ago, but now maybe nothing is?
Practicing in rural New Mexico, a previously healthy patient who suddenly needs an ICU, and has thrombocytopenia as only finding on workup, would make me think of hantavirus, except they need intubation and then ECMO, not pressors.
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Practicing in rural New Mexico, a previously healthy patient who suddenly needs an ICU, and has thrombocytopenia as only finding on workup, would make me think of hantavirus, except they need intubation and then ECMO, not pressors.
Thank you for all that you do.
June 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Thank you for all that you do.
There’s two political spectra in this country: public opinion and elite opinion. Political terminology, like “centrist” or “progressive,” is defined in DC by reference to elite opinion, which is much more economically conservative than popular opinion is.
June 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There’s two political spectra in this country: public opinion and elite opinion. Political terminology, like “centrist” or “progressive,” is defined in DC by reference to elite opinion, which is much more economically conservative than popular opinion is.
We bought a real molcajete, thinking the ones on the shelves right now are cheaper than the tariffed ones will be in a few weeks.
April 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
We bought a real molcajete, thinking the ones on the shelves right now are cheaper than the tariffed ones will be in a few weeks.
TSP, the federal equivalent of 401k, doesn’t give me that option. I pulled out of US equities and into a three way split of the TSP index funds for treasuries, corporate bonds, and foreign stocks. Here’s hoping that holds up.
April 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
TSP, the federal equivalent of 401k, doesn’t give me that option. I pulled out of US equities and into a three way split of the TSP index funds for treasuries, corporate bonds, and foreign stocks. Here’s hoping that holds up.
Hey thanks! I’d read “The Marching Morons” as a kid, seen Idiocracy, and understood that both were pretty unsavory and eugenicist, but it’s very nice to have this concise essay laying out what’s wrong with them.
March 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Hey thanks! I’d read “The Marching Morons” as a kid, seen Idiocracy, and understood that both were pretty unsavory and eugenicist, but it’s very nice to have this concise essay laying out what’s wrong with them.
Me too! Good luck with whatever’s coming next.
January 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Me too! Good luck with whatever’s coming next.
Thus did a teenaged idiot hit the highest serum sodium concentration ever recorded in a person to survive without neurological injury.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23735849/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23735849/
Survival of acute hypernatremia due to massive soy sauce ingestion - PubMed
Emergency physicians should consider rapidly lowering serum sodium with hypotonic intravenous fluids as a potential management strategy for acute severe hypernatremia secondary to massive salt ingesti...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Thus did a teenaged idiot hit the highest serum sodium concentration ever recorded in a person to survive without neurological injury.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23735849/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23735849/
1. Dems had no contingency plan for Biden dropping out.
2. Should politicians earn people's votes by improving their lives? No: elections are won by correct messaging.
3. Not only must Harris never be criticized, but it's almost disrespectful to say her name; "the vice president" is preferred.
2. Should politicians earn people's votes by improving their lives? No: elections are won by correct messaging.
3. Not only must Harris never be criticized, but it's almost disrespectful to say her name; "the vice president" is preferred.
December 10, 2024 at 4:54 PM
1. Dems had no contingency plan for Biden dropping out.
2. Should politicians earn people's votes by improving their lives? No: elections are won by correct messaging.
3. Not only must Harris never be criticized, but it's almost disrespectful to say her name; "the vice president" is preferred.
2. Should politicians earn people's votes by improving their lives? No: elections are won by correct messaging.
3. Not only must Harris never be criticized, but it's almost disrespectful to say her name; "the vice president" is preferred.
Good questions, which the authors ought to have answered, or at least cited the answers to, in the introduction or methods section.
December 8, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Good questions, which the authors ought to have answered, or at least cited the answers to, in the introduction or methods section.