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Dan Freedman, DO
@dfreedman7
Board certified child neurologist & neurophysiologist
Joined April 2015
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UCSF Benioff SF
@UCSFChildrens
A new report on #COVID vaccines debunks “the fallacy that they’re causing significant harm," UCSF's Dr.
@Bob_Wachter
says. “We have more evidence than for any other vaccine or disease... that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines greatly outweigh the risks.”
sfchronicle.com
COVID in California: Hybrid immunity protects better than infection alone
Hybrid immunity — the response when a person has been both infected and vaccinated —...
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Benjamin Mazer
@BenMazer
Source: An ex-medical examiner sharing unproven anecdotes on Berenson's substack. The Danish study used death certificates and excess deaths as a gold standard. They looked at a measure that counted all deaths within 30 days. And they point out death certificates underestimate.
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Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD
@TracyBethHoeg
Excellent piece👇 "Former Milwaukee County chief medical examiner [found]of some 4,000 COVID deaths..during the pandemic..nearly half had no link to COVID or in some cases..marginal" +peer reviewed data from Denmark finding 65-75% incidental deaths in 2022 time.com/6249841/covid-
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Dan Freedman, DO
@dfreedman7
Great essay about empathy for patients with FND symptoms
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Alan Carson
@AlanCarson15
Replying to @WFKARS
Reading this thread makes me think of @popkirov excellent essay winning the @Brain1878 prize this year. academic.oup.com/brain/article/
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@dfreedman7
This show is a journey. Maybe the best example of freeing someone from their own deeply held thought process--their own confirmation bias. That can only happen with the trust that Jason earned. Watch #paultgoldman
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jason woliner
@jwoliner
The Paul T. Goldman finale is streaming now on @peacock. It’s just over an hour. I recommend watching it in a dark room, at a good volume, with some others if you can. Thanks, and thanks for all of the support. #PaulTGoldman
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Dan Freedman, DO
@dfreedman7
Please don't mock patients suffering from nonepileptic seizures. I can tell you from experience that they are hurting & healthcare workers cause them so much more pain with this alienation. It drives them further away from effective treatment (brain retraining psychotherapy)./end
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Dan Freedman, DO
@dfreedman7
So what is it? It looks similar to an epiletic seizure but is not driven by electrical discharges in the brain picked up on EEG. It's a more distributed network problem that we do not have a test for. We do know that these symptoms are not fake & they can be very disabling. 3/
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Dan Freedman, DO
@dfreedman7
FS is largely replacing PNES as the name for these symptoms. "Functional" refers to disordered functioning of the nervous system & is etiologically nonspecific whereas "psychogenic" assumes a psych cause. We don't know what causes them tho psych factors can be a risk factor. 2/
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@dfreedman7
Old videos of people suffering from neuro symptoms allegedly after the COVID vaccine are circulating again. Some of these patients appear to have been diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) or functional seizures (FS). So a thread on #FNDaware 1/
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Dan Freedman, DO
@dfreedman7
These comments...yikes
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Bryan Carmody
@jbcarmody
WSJ covered resident unions today. Article dropped 3h ago; 400+ comments already. My fave is “There was no issue with work-life balance until women became MDs!” But don’t worry, Stockholm syndrome, the bootstraps brigade, and socialized medicine fearmongering are there, too.
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Comment hypothesizing that women are to blame for this phenomenon, as there was no problem with “work life balance” until women entered medicine.
Warning from a physician who said that he felt abused in residency for $12,500 a year but now feels that it was his best learning experience.
Comments, noting that these cry babies didn’t get into veterinary school; gonna be a rude awakening when they start dealing with the insurance industry; and that the hours don’t get better after training.
Retired cardiologist noting that his best learning was at 3am.
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Meaghan Kall
@kallmemeg
With so much vaccine misinfo on Twitter these days, remember 💭 Nobody denies that vaccines can have serious side effects. The question is how severe and how often they occur compared to effects of infection. For adults COVID vaccines have always been safer than infection.💉
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Ivor Mectin 🇺🇦🗿七七 (2ND EDITION OUT NOW!!)
@IvorMectin1
It appears the Spanish teen from this video deleted her TikTok account... I don't know how long ago... I suspect that she may have got mobbed and trolled by a load of AVers... she wanted the vaxx but had a fear of needles hence why she showed the video!!
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James Cintolo, RN FN CPT
@healthbyjames
Never forget what they did to our children. Girl cries "no, please! no, please! I don't want it, please!" while 5 masked hospital workers stand over her and force the COVID vaccine. When a patient says no, you stop.
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@dfreedman7
These were the Figs of 1970s
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Michelle Cohen, MD
@DocMCohen
Synthetic fabrics pretty quickly took over starched cotton in the second half of the 20th century. Much easier to wear and maintain. Comfort and practicality still came along with a conscious desire for a highly feminine look.
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Michelle Cohen, MD
@DocMCohen
At a recent retirement lunch for a nurse colleague we had a very interesting convo about Canadian nursing uniforms and how they'd changed over her career. I did some googling - thinking there might be a cool blog on this topic. To my delight I discovered an entire book! 🧵
A Cultural History of The Nurse's Uniform by Christina Bates
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Dr Matt Kneale 
@drmattuk
Let's be clear: Dr Malhotra lost the respect of the profession when he forfeited evidence-based medicine, proceeded to review his own academic work, and went beyond his remit to sell false truths on social media and in the media. He no longer holds an NHS consultant post.
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Vigne Kozacek
@vigne_k
Let's be clear: Dr Malhotra is a respected cardiologist & advocate for evidence-based medicine. He speaks his mind & challenges the status quo, regardless of who it may upset. #MedicalCommunity #Science twitter.com/DrAseemMalhotr…
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@dfreedman7
If you're quibbling over 495 being a "less qualified MCAT score" than your 511, I can guarantee you it wasn't about your grades, scores, race or gender. It was about you.
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Bryan Carmody
@jbcarmody
A medical school applicant who was denied admission to medical schools in Texas has sued, alleging discrimination based on his status as a white male. aflegal.org/wp-content/upl (🧵)
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Paragraphs 36 and 37 from the lawsuit, noting that the applicant had a GPA of 3.96 in college and an MCAT of 511. Paragraph 37n notes that he obtained admissions records through an open records request.
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