Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question “What are you doing?” via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 9th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):
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steverubel Steve Pavilina is walking away from $100k/year in Adsense revenue http://tinyurl.com/57osuf 7:10 PM Oct 23rd from TwitterBar
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: I’m so cool–I’m hand-drawing vent flow graphics into PhotoStudio, a simple image-editor I got with my Canon flatbed scanner. 5:05 PM Oct 23rd from web
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fredwilson First acupuncture session went well. The e-stim was a bit intense and the needle in my forehead felt funny. I liked it and will keep it up 4:58 PM Oct 23rd from txt
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: Learning about plateau pressures! I’ve always wanted to understand plateau pressures! 4:56 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: But I have discovered here that many hospitalists do NOT manage ICU patients–enough intensivists to take that out of their hands. 4:44 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: Surprised by some of the questions here. I was expecting to be the most ignorant person in the room. 4:43 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: Not that ventilator alarms should be a familiar sound, but they are. 4:41 PM Oct 23rd from web
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AllergyNotes CPR study on rhythm/song: Reportedly “Another one bites the dust” has the same rhythm as “Staying alive” but conveys the wrong message… … 4:22 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: Not the world’s greatest speaker, poor bloke. I know the RT is a good teacher. 3:56 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring Been talking to other hospitalists at this meeting. Note to my group: seeing up to 20 pts a day, including ventilated folks, not the norm. 3:46 PM Oct 23rd from web
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fredwilson About to try acupuncture for the first time. Hoping it will be a good compliment to the PT I am doing for my shoulder 3:24 PM Oct 23rd from txt
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AllergyNotes You have to love the term the Twitter team pioneered for social network buddies — “followers.” It makes you sound almost prophetic. 3:19 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: “We don’t think about [encephalitis] often enough.” I do! Or at least I think I do. 2:03 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: “Delirium: A Stress Test for the Brain.” I like it. 2:01 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: Ah, the UCSF physician’s demeanor. The brisk confidence, the articulate and slightly self-mocking humor. I’d forgotten. 1:11 PM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: Now talking about CA-MRSA pneumonia. Yes I’ve seen it, even in Rural. 1:06 PM Oct 23rd from web
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sandnsurf Twittepathical interjection…we have many strange beasts and venomous creatures down under - but a neurohospitalist - woke me from my sleep 11:53 AM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring #SHM: We now move on to talk by “neurohospitalist” S. Andrew Jacobson. No such animal has ever been sighted in Rural. 11:47 AM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring Think I’ve passed my stress test–no chest pain. Near-syncope a few times, but no chest pain. 11:14 AM Oct 23rd from web
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ruraldoctoring Finally arrived at SHM meeting after sweaty sprint up 16% grade San Francisco hills. 11:14 AM Oct 23rd from web
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Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people.
You can read more here: A Doctor’s Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and
visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.
Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.)
