Physician-entrepreneur & kidney doctor | Ex-Nephrology Program Director | Founder of https://t.co/bCrkreCvLt & https://t.co/C7ZOHwsW7g https://t.co/U6hT8yvlJU
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Sep 22, 2022 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
1/ Finance questions by medical students are prudent. Follow your heart & dreams, AND know what obligations you are incurring. @olsonplanner had a great question asked.
In this tweetorial, I go through the question and quantify the answer.
#meded#FOAMed2/ The questioner wants to know if paying down one's loan is worth postponing an attending salary for one year. What we will do in this tweetorial is find the "indifference point" - the point at which the cost of one option is equal to the cost of the other.
Nov 8, 2021 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
/the information dilemma_
A 17-tweet summary of my academic contribution to the #KidneyWk 2021 meeting. @ASNKidney: Thanks for selecting my work for presentation...I appreciate it.
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My disclosures
I am a physician-programmer. I analyze #SoMe data, with a keen focus on Twitter. I primarily analyze tweets in #NephTwitter and #CardioTwitter, and I have analyzed tweets for Oncology and Endocrinology organizations as well.
Mar 19, 2021 • 40 tweets • 35 min read
Happening now at #RPA21:
The Challenges of Social Media Education: A data-driven specialty-specific introspection
1/ Welcome to the Saturday Poster session at #KidneyWk. On behalf of Hector and Edgar, I’d like to welcome you to our tweet thread on • Gender disparities in #SoMe and #MedEd•. You can view our poster (&🗣w/us) live TODAY from 10-12 PM (#27) or learn more about our work below 2/ #SoMe is exploding in medicine & #Nephrology leads the way in many metrics & most certainly in #SoMe research. Many #SoMe *users* are becoming active #SoMe *educators* & share valuable educational information to the larger online community. datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/… #KidneyWk
Aug 4, 2019 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
Medical visualizations (vizs; #visualAbstract, #infographic, or #graphicalAbstract) are ⬆︎popular. In this tweetorial I'm going to detail how I make vizs to help you in your #meded/#FOAMed endeavors. Here's my portfolio for background: twitter.com/i/moments/1057…
There are four large domains that I consider when making a viz: Design, Structure, Content, and Textual Context (mostly in the parent tweet).
Let's go through each of these and discuss various facets that one might want to consider when designing a medical viz
Oct 27, 2018 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
•PLEX in ANCA vasculitis @ #kidneywk• 1/n
"pheresis" = remove forcibly
1914: PLEX used to treat toxemia
1970s: PLEX reported to be used to treat Goodpasture's syndrome
•PLEX in ANCA vasculitis @ #kidneywk• 2/n
PLEX comes in 2 modalities: filtration (blood pumped through a filter) and centrifugation (blood separated into components and then the selected component is aspirated)