You Can Know Things

On a bright, sunny Thursday afternoon, I met my very first patient of attendinghood.

Last week my feed was full of discussion about this JAMA perspective piece, which argues that AI won’t just assist physicians, it may soon replace them.

At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, I had a simple and naive thought: if I just explain the science clearly enough, people will understand and stop believing misinformation!

Yesterday several text messages from Fauci’s government phone were released, and headlines immediately suggested they revealed a cover up.

A few years ago I gave a lecture to my emergency medicine co-residents about using social media as a physician.

A confession — Twitter used to be my favorite platform for science communication, by far.

Two days ago I decided to throw out my bagged greens and strawberries due to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak and give them to my chickens.

Welcome to Episode 5 of The Communication Lab — my series teaching you science communication on social media (if you’re new to this series, start here).

Let me tell you about a small snippet of hell called new mom instagram.

Welcome to Episode 4 of The Communication Lab — my series teaching you how to do science communication on social media (if you’re new to this series, start here).

Welcome to Episode 3 of The Communication Lab — where I’m going to teach you how to use social media for science communication (if you’re new to this series, start here).

Welcome to Episode 2 of The Communication Lab — where I’m going to teach you my tips and tricks for science and health communication on social media (if you’re new to this series, start here).

The Communication Lab episode 1: Imposter syndrome, vulnerability hangovers, and just getting started Welcome to the first episode of The Communication Lab — my series teaching tips and tricks for science communication (scicomm) on social media!

Over the past several months I’ve been working on a few new projects, and I finally get to share them with you.

I'm sending this not because I'm worried, but because the internet is stressing The internet is stressing over the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak.

Nope.