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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

18 May

1/ *** Thread: ***
Pseudo-experts mangling child suicide data for political purposes.
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This thread has statistics, but it also calls out shitty people & shitty behaviour.

Stats now. Drama at #13.

2/ There is a CDC report out that again is being misunderstood and manipulated by wannabe-epidemiologists to advance their political agenda. I refer to this report:

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

3/ It uses the National Syndromic Surveillance Program, a program monitoring about 71% of the Emergency Departments in the US.

It shows the drastic change of ED presentations during the pandemic. I've highlighted kids 0-18:

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

18 May

https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg/status/1394399698937548800

In the past 5 years, the suicide rate for California kids under the age of 18 has been:

2015: 2.0 (🔼15%)
2016: 2.5 (🔼27%)
2017: 2.5 (🔽1%)
2018: 2.4 (🔽5%)
2019: 2.1 (🔽9%)
2020: (if the 136 is true): 2.6 (🔼24%)

Understanding statistics is crucial before you interpret them.

https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg/status/1394399698937548800

In the past 20 years, the suicide rate in this age bracket has increased more than 24% 4 times:

2004 (34%)
2009 (26%)
2013 (29%)
and 2016 (27%)

In none of those times was COVID/lockdowns to blame.

In short, though every child suicide is a tragedy, this is not a "tsunami" or even an anomalous increase in suicides. This is the 5th time in 20 years its happened.

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

30 Apr

Medtwitter acting like [picture]. #cringe

I can get behind positive body and selfie stuff, I'm all for it. "I love this selfie" amen brother/sister preach!!

But "thirst trap"?? C'mon peeps. #BeBetter

Let's not add "photos to increase your sexual desire" to our memes.

I'm old, so maybe this generational.

I'm sex positive and hold nothing against sexual pictures generally or my beautiful inside and out colleagues.

I'm sure this tweet is going to catch me hell, but whatever. My principles are what they are. Have a good weekend everybody.

I thought some people approach this meme very innocently, posted amazing selfies, probably not thinking out their paricipation and who it would exclude or make feel bad.

I don't begrudge the creator who is funny AF

But no, this is not a good look for medtwitter.

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

30 Apr

As we approach May 9th

Mother's Day is not a celebration for many people. Trauma, grief, disappointment, and anger are common emotions to feel for many.

Please don't go around asking casually how they celebrated Mother's Day.

I say this from professional experience: have worked with 100s of kids who were mistreated and abused by their mothers. Not "oh they had fights," abuse so horrific I can't bear to write it.

I say this from personal experience: I feel a zillion conflicted emotions when thinking about my own mother in this first may since she's passed away.

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

27 Apr

https://twitter.com/AllenFrancesMD/status/1387117578292662273

I mean, yes of course I hope these things can be helpful. On the other hand, to have someone so prominent in psychiatry to give such a generic list as if those things haven't been tried when meds and psychotherapy fail is... Disturbingly condescending and a bit ableist

https://twitter.com/AllenFrancesMD/status/1387117578292662273

When someone has depression that has resisted pharmacotherapy AND psychotherapy, a hard look should be given to:
* Reexamine diagnosis
* Examine therapy modalities and search for new strategies (med groups or therapy modalities)
* Consider combination treatments/ect

* Advocate for social + financial support for disabling symptoms

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

16 Apr

1/ Thread: "Pseudo-profound headlines"

One of the worst examples of the media moral panic about suicides during the pandemic occurred when western media got a hold of Japanese suicide rates.

@CNN

2/ @CNN @CBSNews wrote scary articles with scary headlines ... even my good friend and excellent writer @drjessigold wrote about as nuanced a piece about it one could do in Forbes (without getting a quote from me?!?!?!??!!), and look at the headline.

3/ I call this a "pseudoprofound headline." Automatically interesting, but fails with any scrutiny or thought. Dr. Gold's article goes into some of it with respect to the lack of data compared to real-time Japanese data, (now we know the US did NOT show this same effect), but...

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