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🧂Hyponatremia is a common the ICU, but correcting it smoothly & safely can be challenging.
🧠Rapid correction risks serious complications like ODS/CPM
📈That's why I built NaPathway - a free app - to help clinicians monitor sodium correction
Try it criticalcaretime.com/tools/h…
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Just got even worse. EWR is now on ground stop too (previously it just had 4 hour delays…)
You can watch airport shutdowns & delays increasing in realtime. What a disaster!
nasstatus.faa.gov/list
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with the individual mandate already neutered, moving subsidies into HSAs means a lot of the youngest and healthiest folks will opt out of insurance entirely, which in turn will put massive pressure on the remaining risk pool and drive up premiums even further
A lot of people on the left say they prefer direct cash payments over in-kind transfers. Will @mattyglesias endorse?
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ICE gets paid. Air traffic controllers don’t.
Trump’s shutdown priorities in one sentence.
You can watch airport shutdowns & delays increasing in realtime. What a disaster!
nasstatus.faa.gov/list
Can you imagine the political fallout if Trump can’t reopen the government by Thanksgiving?
Millions of unpaid federal workers.
12% of Americans without food because of withholding SNAP funds.
Thousands of flights cancelled before the busiest travel days of the year.
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Dude needs a polysomnogram…
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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"More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, and it's another parallel to Iraq. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities they govern.” publicnotice.co/p/don-moynih…
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If a judge orders you to release funds for hungry children and you continue to fight it, it’s time to take a step back and re-evaluate how you got there. No political leverage is worth corrupting your soul.
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Just a thought… instead of reducing U.S. commercial flights, FAA should start by cancelling all billionaire and corporate private jet travel!
As far as I’m concerned there’s only job that needs a return to office mandate: the US Congress.
If members had to show up at work maybe we’d get people who took the job seriously and retired when they were too old to do so.
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If you are a physician in academic or community practice,
Make sure that those under your training (med students and residents)
Have Disability Insurance taken care of early and correctly.
This simply is not on the radar of most younger docs.
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Amazing piece of geography trivia in map form. This graphic ranks the 10 most densely populated 2-square-mile, 4-sided polygons in US cities. Fun to look at. Source: teddit.net/user/simongerman6…
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Conservatives remain perpetually confused by the concept of population density.
