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Too often we are agnostic—we say “we don’t care” about someone’s race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion.
Humanity requires that we SHOULD care.
“We don’t not care.”
@TedLasso (S3, E9)
Dorian L. Beasley MD, FACC
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Dorian L. Beasley MD, FACC
@cardiojaydoc02
Photographer 📸, cinephile 🍿🎬📽, cyclist 🚴🏾♂️, who works as a General & Interventional Cardiologist 🩺 with interests in #SCAD, #FMD, & #tropomania.
- Claiming a Black person is an “affirmative action” or “diversity hire” is not the flex some would like. The end of Dr. Claudine Gay’s tenure as president of Harvard reminded me of this clip from Harvard alumna Joy Reid as to why.
- The Intern and Resident looking for P-waves on an ECG.
- A positive troponin is not an MI. A positive BNP is not heart failure. A positive lactate is not sepsis. Please for the good of society can this be properly taught in all medical training programs?A positive urinalysis is not a UTI. Please for the good of society can this be properly taught in all medical training programs?
- The Attending Interventional Cardiologist verifying stent position before deployment.
- “You see, you’ve gotta fix the sepsis, acidosis, electrolytes, fever, and volume status before trying to rate control AFRVR. These are the steps.” x.com/MomoMaicon/sta…
- I had two important jobs the other night. First, to save the life of a man having a STEMI. Second, to not judge that man for his racist white supremacy tattoos and to love him and connect with him. Both were challenging, but I think we succeeded. #blackmeninmedicine
- Many many years ago, I ran into her on Mass Street in Lawrence, KS before she was going to perform that evening. I secured an autograph but it got misplaced. What an incredible performance. #GRAMMYs #TracyChapman x.com/RealBrittain/s…
- How are Carole King, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, and Tina Turner not in the Rock and Roll HOF yet? 🤔 SMH.It's that time of year again: @rockhall ballots are due next month. You can pick up to 5. You can't do write-ins. Who ya got? Cc @JoeNBC @dcherring @CharlesPPierce @RadioFreeTom 🤘👨🎤🎸🥁🎶
- Peripheral edema does not equal heart failure Peripheral edema does not equal heart failure Peripheral edema does not equal heart failure Peripheral edema does not equal heart failure Peripheral edema does not equal heart failure
- McGregor: Furthermore, the troponin is an indicator of myocardial injury and not necessarily infarction. It’s up to the doctor to determine the difference. Infarction is injury plus ischemia. You can have injury without infarction.
- When the experienced Attending Interventional Cardiologist shows the rookie how it’s done.
- Ferritin is the new lactate which was the new procalcitonin which was the new BNP which was the new Troponin. #COVID19
- The BNP, Troponin, D-dimer, and lactate when ordered indiscriminately. x.com/Laughs_4_All/s…
