Dad of 4 | I belong to @Bossletmd | Asst Dean of Fac Dev @iumedschool | he/him | I run to stay sane | You can find me on bluesky with the same handle
Sep 29 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Hey
Now is the time to request your absentee ballot in Indiana if you haven't already
Forward this to your college kid
This 🧵 will have all the info you need and a step-by-step guide with screenshots
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You have until 12 days before the election to request your absentee ballot BUT THERE IS NO REASON TO WAIT
Do it now
My sons already received their ballots
Your ballot has to be received (not postmarked) by 6 p.m. on election day to be counted
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Sep 5 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
How is it that vouchers take money from public schools?
Isn't it just the tax dollars following the student?
A quick 🧵 on how vouchers are a reverse Robin Hood setup (they rob from the poorer to give to the richer)
This will be Indiana specific but applicable to all states
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Before vouchers, there were two separate funding sources for kids who attended school: tax dollars (public schools) and private dollars (private schools)
Choosing private school meant you dumped your own money (private dollars) into the school funding system
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Jun 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I have been a faculty member for 13 years and have the pleasure of writing multiple letters of recommendation every year
A few tips on this from a faculty perspective- how I go about it, organize it, and think about it
A very quick 🧵
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First, organize your LOR folders in a way that is useful
I used to have a single unorganized folder full of them; that became a disaster over time
Now I have a folder for each type of LOR and within each folder I have folders for each year
This way I can find one quickly
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Feb 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I asked #ChatGPT to write a progress note for a fictional 78 year old male hospitalized with COPD
Then I asked #chatgpt to do it in the voice of other writers, shared in this thread
Here is the original note it authored (it is good)
By Dr. Bob Dylan
Nov 21, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Everyone should understand what is going on with the Indiana Attorney General and @drcaitbernard
A quick thread on why Mastodon is superior to Twitter and how to do it for those who are initimidated
(It is not hard but is a bit more lo-fi than Twitter)
You can read more from a 30,000 foot view about mastodon and the fediverse here fedi.guide
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Mastodon is a decentralized network
Rather than being a single server handling all posts, it is a bunch of servers, each with individual administrators
But all the "federated" networks talk to each other- like email clients
So there is no single corporate overlord
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Nov 2, 2022 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Yesterday was the 1-year mark from the last time I had a drink
I'm gonna put a few thoughts down here about why I did this and what it has been like for me to be sober for a year after an adulthood of alcohol being a major part of my life
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First, sobriety is not for everyone
I am jealous of folks who can have a reasonable relationship with alcohol
And if I see you IRL I will still want to go have a drink with you, even at breweries and wine bars- I love that stuff
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Oct 22, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
There is a Supreme Court case (Talevski v. Health and Hospital Corp) that originated in Indiana that has major implications for federal safety net programs
This thread will outline the details and end with an advocacy opportunity
This case originates in Indy, which is why I am so aware of it- but it has nationwide implications and now is the time we need to put on pressure to drop this case
Indiana needs your help
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Oct 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Indianapolis early voting thread
In this thread you can find links to the Marion and donut counties early voting hours (weekday for now but weekends start next Saturday, 10/29)
You can vote at any early voting site in your county
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A new report out of the United Kingdom suggests several things: 1. Omicron seems to hospitalize at about half the rate of Delta 2. Vaccination is protective against hospitalization, and boosters are important to extend this risk
If you are attending a large New Year celebration with strangers, please know that in many areas of the country you are contributing to the collapse of the health care system.
This applies regardless of your vaccination status.
I know this sounds dramatic- please read on.
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I am not chicken little when it comes to COVID
I have been a proponent of pulling back restrictions and mask requirements for the vaccinated
But the goal of public health measures is to protect hospital capacity
mRNA injected into deltoid cells lasts about 72 hours and do not travel to distant sites in the body.
I get asked about this all of the time, so I went to find the primary science on this.
A couple of quick tweets
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The first paper I can find on this was in @ScienceMagazine in 1990 and showed the half-life of RNA in muscle cells to be less than 24 hours- RNA encoding the luciferase protein was injected into mouse quads and luciferase was undetectable at 60 hours. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1690918/
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Jul 22, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Earlier this summer I was adamant that school would be reasonable without masks, even for the ages for which vaccines are not available.
I have changed my tune. A quick 🧵as to why.
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Most data suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 virus affects kids in a generally quite benign way.
I know people get frustrated when COVID is compared to the flu, but for kids the data suggest the comparison is reasonable. And this accounts for "long COVID" and MIS-C.
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Apr 13, 2021 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
This week our manuscript on the role of in-person school on community spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Indiana was published online in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Over the last about 6 years I have adopted the practice of not checking email AT ALL on vacation.
When I mention this, many scoff and say that would never work for them.
I said the same thing when I started.
Join me for a 🧵 about my journey to vacation email freedom.
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I have a relatively busy job as a clinician, fellowship director, and assistant dean for faculty development/affairs.
I average 70-100 emails per day.
So committing to not checking it for a week (or 2!) away is admittedly no small task.
