pulmonary & ICU doc @mghmedicine @harvardpulm | aspiring scientist @harvardmed | husband to @lucyschulson | dad to pen & izzy | opinions my own

Boston, MA
Joined July 2016
childcare fell through. back up childcare fell through. back up back up childcare fell through. mom and dad splitting the day. toddler now has URI, awaiting PCR. hurricane en route. despite this, here is how I wrote 10 manuscripts and 5 grants this weekend 🧵1/68 👇🏼
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look forward to all the cardiologists leading the way on this critical work 🙏🏼
It’s still unclear whether Hantavirus is scary enough to guarantee 1,000 publications in Nature.
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refreshing era commons after study section
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wait until they learn about carbon with only one oxygen atom
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if I get my next grant, there will be signs
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respiratory physiology works in mysterious ways
BREAKING: Pope Francis suffered two episodes of "acute respiratory failure" on Monday, but the pontiff continues to be "alert," the Vatican said. abcnews.link/XRaEpvN
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well being is officially cancelled
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well, at least crippling academic medical centers on the precipice of another pandemic means we can use the defunct lab spaces for surge ICUs
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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due to malevolent billionaires, the future of biomedical research may rely on benevolent billionaires
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now I have someone else to blame for my grant not getting discussed
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8-year-old me when bob ross said “there are no mistakes, only happy little accidents”
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And on the pedestal, these words appear: my name is Ozymandias, king of kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.
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the vibes are very bad in the hospital. the implications for healthcare, science, and H5N1 pandemic preparedness…bleak.
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evergreen
officially four years until the most important election of our lifetimes
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officially four years until the most important election of our lifetimes
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we’ve tried replacing circulating blood volume with albumin in critically ill patients for decades and it’s worked great
Completed my first total plasma exchange (TPE). Removing all the plasma in my body and replacing with Albumin. This is different from what I did last year: removing 1 L of plasma from my body and then replacing it with 1 L of plasma from my blood boy @talmagejohnson_ . I gave my one liter of plasma to my father. This time around there's no blood boy involved. TPE removes all of my body’s plasma and replaces it with Albumin. The therapy objectives are to remove toxins from my body. The evidence is emergent. Others use TPE for autoimmune disorders, blood disorders, neurological conditions, transplant-related complications, and replacement of missing plasma components. As we normally do, we completed a bunch of baseline measurements before this therapy including toxins but other things too such as speed of aging, organ ages, microplastics and many other biomarkers. I'll do six total treatments. The operator, who’s been doing TPE for 9 years, said my plasma is the cleanest he’s ever seen. By far. He couldn’t get over it. When we finished, he couldn’t bring himself to throw it away. He was imagining all the good that it could do in the world. On people’s face as PRP therapy. In their body, rejuvenating organs. There is probably a path to auction off or donate my plasma on this next go around. Liquid gold. Remember that when my father received 1 L of my plasma his speed of aging dropped by 25 years and stayed that way for six months. We don’t know if it was from my super plasma or if it was from removing his plasma, but the results are interesting nonetheless. The whole procedure took just under 2 hours.
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rockstar @NnekaUfereMD @MassGenBrigham presenting her work on #palliativehepatology at the annual #HaroldAmosMFDP meeting
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maybe I could play with the spacing on “I have concepts of a plan” to fill up my specific aims page
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