Dr. Jon
@TheDrJon
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#EmergencyMedicine, #EMS Nerd. Passionate about #harmreduction. Here to talk EMS, sports, and medical misinfo. Sorry for the swearing. Opinions are mine alone.
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Joined July 2020
This may be a surprise to Harry, but we actually see sepsis in the ER basically every day. There isn’t an ER nurse in the world who would say “we’ve been seeing a lot of sepsis lately”, because we see a lot of sepsis lately all the time, and have done so for all of forever.
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Hi,. I am doctor. Specifically, an emergency doctor. Every teenager who goes into cardiac arrest sees myself or one of my colleagues. There is no increase in teenagers collapsing or going into cardiac arrest. You’re just more aware of it, and have a political motive to care.
Hi. I’m not a doctor. I’m just a simple man of 37 years who pays attention to trends we can see with our own eyes. I’m here to tell you that it is NOT NORMAL for thousands of healthy teenage athletes to be collapsing - some dying - from cardiac arrest. Now ask: Why?. 🧐.
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Important reminder: Naomi Wolf is not a medical doctor. She’s not a medical anything. She isn’t qualified to park cars in the hospital garage. If she sits next to you on a plane and offers medical advice, roll your eyes and ignore her. I’m sure “silence” was painful for her.
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@gertieok I spent years working in EMS and am an EMS physician. Many ER docs are former EMTs and paramedics. This isn't an issue of being pompous, it's an issue of an insufferable imbecile relentlessly pushing a conspiracy theory for his own benefit, at the expense of his peers.
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This degree of stupidity suggests we have, for now, overcome natural selection.
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Twitter. Where one of the world’s best all around people gets piled on by humanity’s absolute garbage. It was bad before Elon, but it’s beyond the point of being a cesspool now. @PeterHotez is what we should all strive to be. How he gets demonized is inconceivable to me.
Elon: Maybe you weren’t aware but in 2020 we asked you to support our lab that ultimately made low-cost, patent-free Covid vaccines, 100 million doses administered. Even though you couldn’t help us then, we still need help for our low-cost XBB booster + universal CoV versions.
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Weird, this whole time I’ve maintained an ability to communicate with patients while wearing a mask, like a functional adult who is at least minimally resilient.
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1. I don’t care how far you are, you do not cric someone in an ambulance while it’s moving. 2. I don’t care how sick the pt is, there’s no reason to go 90 in an ambulance. Pointless endeavor if you all die to save 45 seconds. 3. Nobody degrades paramedics more than Harry.
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Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most:
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@gertieok The real life data unambiguously shows COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives. Of course they have harmed people, there isn't a medicine on the planet that hasn't caused harm in someone, but the benefits so vastly outweigh the risks it's not even a debate among the rational.
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Antivaxxers: “I’m not antivax, I’m just against this one vaccine!”. Also antivaxxers: (see attached). I am among many who have been trying to warn….this is the inevitable result. This is why COVID vaccine disinformation is so dangerous.
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Antivaxxers having difficulty with the concept of cause and effect again…
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Look, I'm not generally a fan of taking a person's twitter persona and having them kicked out of med school for it. but saying "The only thing keeping me from being completely untethered from any moral/ethical standards was being a med student" seems to re-affirm this decision.
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@DrNice2022 It’s continuously disgusting to see how many people believe his blatant bullshit.
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I’m sure the majority of functional adults don’t need to be told this, but in case it wasn’t obvious:. This is a lie. Nobody taking care of you in the hospital cares who you vote for.
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Because we want our kids to grow up to be healthy adults. Vaccines cause adults. People like this cannot fathom how privileged they are to live in a time when we have so many safeguards against natural selection that they face practically zero consequences for morbid stupidity.
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Last week it was “DNA in the vaccines”, this week it’s going to be “hydrogel”, also known as air bubbles on the microscope slide. It’s just all so stupid. It’s wildly entertaining, but dangerously stupid.
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Plastic surgeon could spend his day diving into a pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck, but instead decided to teach a toxicologist about his own specialty.
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Please do not poison your children based on the advice of a scam artist who has the same medical credentials as Mayor McCheese.
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Everywhere this dude goes someone is either dropping dead “due to the shots” or talking about Covid shots. Meanwhile, the only place this topic comes up in my life is on Twitter. Anyone else wandering the streets hearing people talk about Covid vaccines at every turn?
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@LouMerloni Why is it unacceptable? It’s not an unearned reputation and there’s no rule saying you have to like the city in which you partially own a business.
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…otherwise known as a standard day in the ER. None of these are uncommon. I saw three chest pain patients under 30 today as well. All of them were fine.
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Really goes to show how pointless it is to argue with antivaxxers (not that I can help myself). They want to discuss studies and obscure immune concepts, you give them the time of day to explain those things, but they get confused about the etiology of congenital disorders.
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Got doxxed by one of the sociopath, antivax “mouse” people. I don’t work particularly hard to stay anonymous, but it’s yet another reminder that there is no “pro-vax” equivalent to this kind of vile behavior, which Musk encourages. This is an actual attempt at silencing someone.
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Said it before, and I’ll say it again:. Fuck Steve Kirsch. That is all.
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Am I imagining things, or was Rasmussen once respectable? Like, I know they’ve always been kind of right wing, but were they always lunatic-level politically extremist?
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COVID contrarians: We require a 3 million person RCT and six decades of data tracking to even consider that vaccines may potentially be safe. Also COVID contrarians: THIS GUY BROKE HIS TOE 9 MONTHS AFTER VACCINATION IT IS A SEVERE AE AND IT IS EVIDENCE FOR NUREMBERG 2.
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@Wendell25 These articles are discussing the increase in heart attacks, also called myocardial infarction, not sudden cardiac arrest. While the media uses the term “heart attack” in both scenarios, that is not correct usage. The trend above is markedly worsening, but has been for a while.
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Thalidomide was not FDA approved. It was rejected by the FDA due to safety concerns. Regulatory oversight of pharmaceuticals isn’t a joke. No serious person claims the pharmaceutical industry “does no wrong”. It’s an antivax straw man.
According to the cult, the pharmaceutical industry can "do no wrong"
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This guy sells:.- a book with mostly vague nonsense advice.- a worthless home lab test.- a sponsored podcast.- paid Twitter engagement. Unlike your doctor, who can’t be paid to prescribe drugs, he profits off of every transaction. Beware of wellness grifters.
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Does any profession get more laypeople confidently telling them (incorrectly) how to do their jobs than healthcare workers? I’m including all members of the team, not just doctors.
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Do these people have any idea how frequently we all comply with government mandates without even thinking about it? A traffic light is also a test of compliance lmao.
@btysonmd Covid was a test of compliance….
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The inevitable “I’m not antivax, just anti COVID vax” to full blown antivax clown car continues to fill:
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The “climate cult”, composed primarily of scientists with decades of experience and education, do not predict, but rather warn, and routinely are shown to be correct. But Catturd knows more, having spent 5 minutes on RationalWiki reading about the topic while picking his nose.
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Have you ever heard or read something so stupid you didn’t know how to respond?
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@fourth_aale @1Chillwind Sure, but it’s a huge pain to see them. And they’re frequently incomplete.
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I see “the FDA says ivermectin actually does work for COVID” is the newest conspiracy theorist talking point flavor of the week, so we should address this:. No they didn’t. They said they lacked the authority to prevent docs from prescribing it, which they never claimed to have.
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@BRosolowskiMD Intuition and gestalt are examples of your subconscious ability to process lots of complicated, sometimes subtle information and, because you’ve seen it before, you know what to do. It’s great when medicine becomes second nature.
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Jessica accidentally demonstrated exactly why the antivax movement is a nefarious movement, starting innocuously and culminating in full-blown lunacy.
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PSA: “Turbo Cancer” is not a thing. It’s not just not caused by vaccines, it doesn’t exist at all. It’s not being seen, grifters like William Makis are inventing this concept because, at least in his case, he can’t practice legitimate medicine and is making a name for himself.
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The FDA is already our top vaccine skeptic. Vaccine skepticism means one needs to be convinced of safety and efficacy before using the drug. That’s what clinical trials do. Denialism isn’t “skepticism”. Skepticism implies knowing too much; antivaxxers know nothing at all.
Don't preach to the choir. The ONLY way to restore vaccine confidence is to put a vaccine skeptic like @RobertKennedyJr in charge of an evidence-based vaccine research agenda.
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@stopharassers I work in a large practice of emergency physicians and we don’t report this. Vaccinated or not, history of Covid or not, we are seeing the same number of young people with “cardiac events” as we always did, and the data reflects this.
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In today’s episode of Antivaxxers Not Knowing How to Read/What Things Mean:
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Am I on here primarily to troll? No. Do I thoroughly enjoy refusing to tell antivaxxers when my last vaccine was because I know it bothers them? Absolutely.
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Vaccines do not cause autism. Fact, not opinion. Grifters like this just want to prey on vulnerable parents.
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@JenniferMarguli Strep and COVID. Not the vaccine, the actual virus. You’re a journalist? They gave you the answer right in a social media post… did you even talk to them? What disgusting behavior, misrepresenting their painful experience for political points and social media clout.
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How dare the New York Times use colors that communicate danger in order to communicate danger!
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What a surprise, McCullough withdrew yet another nonsensical Covid paper.
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Wow! Who could have predicted that Steve Kirsch, a rich idiot, would go from anti-COVID vaccine to full antivax?
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Antivaxxers, 2021: “it is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS to know whether or not I’m vaccinated, and HOW DARE you ask!”. Antivaxxers, today: “Well how do you know it isn’t a vAcCiNe InJuRy if you don’t even ask absolutely everyone their vax status?!?”.
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Anybody else develop bleeding out of every orifice and an insatiable craving for eating brains, starting around 2:30pm today? Or is that just me?.
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@katie_k8nurse I mean it’s kind of always fast moving. I had a patient with Fournier gangrene who went from room air to intubated and triple pressed in three hours.
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@RndmStreetMedic I didn’t have enough characters to dig through all that is wrong with this tweet.
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Looks like Grifty McGriftface got mad I kept pointing out what a bad faith grifter he is! . What a pathetic waste he is.
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@mamadoctoo This is from over a decade prior to COVID. The upward trend in youth cardiac arrests is essentially unchanged, but not what the Twitter herd is talking about anyway. I don’t want to be mistaken— I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, I’m saying to stop blaming COVID vaccines.
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Antivaxxers: THE CDC IS HIDING DATA THE VA**X💉💉XES CAUSE STROKES AND DEATH AND AUTISM AND THERE HIDING THE DATA. *CDC announces they investigated a safety signal and it’s nbd*. Antivaxxers: SEE?!? THE CDC SAYS VACCINES CAUSE STROKES AND DEATH AND AUTISM AND EVERYTHING BAAAAD!!!.
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If your primary care physician talks like this, run as fast as you can to basically anyone else.
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@RyanMarino The fact that she overdosed too is just so emblematic of the misguided nature of these kinds of charges. Obviously she wasn’t trying to let her friends die. It also is important to note that most dealers are using the same drugs sell, as happened here (if she actually dealt them).
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@Pravduh15 @RyanMarino It’s their job to get a blood glucose unless they explicitly know it’s opioid overdose. That includes if there are needles on scene— Diabetics use needles for insulin, which can cause hypoglycemia and a similar presentation. Bracelets are helpful, but medics need to check glucose.
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Pfizer didn’t “admit” anything, antivaxxers just didn’t understand that you can’t test for transmission. Covid vaccines were ~90% effective at preventing symptomatic infection in the clinical trials (MRNA + Pfizer). Efficacy waned as the virus changed. Not complicated.
The vaccine doesn’t reduce infection. Pfizer has admitted they never even tested for it. More people died in 2021 from Covid after the vaccine rollout by nearly 50% than in 2020….
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I’m sure you will be STUNNED to learn that this is complete nonsense. Per usual.
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Anti-science/Anti-vaxxers: “You scientists/doctors are big egotistical meanies!!!”. Also anti-science/anti-vaxxers: “I have taught myself every scientific concept on Wikipedia and Google, and I’m here to tell you scientists and doctors that you know nothing about science!”
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Struggling with cause and effect, per usual. Also, lol “fact checked”
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It’s impossible to distinguish between who is a troll and who is a massively overconfident imbecile:
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And yes, I’m going to continue to swear, call people out for being liars and frauds, belittle ignoramuses who spread lies despite being shown how wrong they are, and all my usual activity, because a.) I don’t actually have much of a following, and b.) it’s part of my job.
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“Expert”. He has zero publications on influenza and this is the first anyone has heard of Malone even mentioning influenza. A true charlatan’s charlatan.
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@stopharassers I’m sure other kids have died before, unfortunately. It’s a thing that happens. You’re reporting rumors and hearsay, which doesn’t add to the conversation. I note that your account is a right wing troll account, so nothing you say should or will be taken seriously anyway.
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Don’t ever let antivaxxers get away with tone policing. These people (or bots, as some are) come up with some of the most vile verbal filth on the internet. Murder fantasy? ☑️.Antisemitism/holocaust minimizing? ☑️.Homophobic slurs? ☑️. Hitting all the abhorrent antivax points!
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In case you needed more evidence of what a profoundly shitty person Steve Kirsch is, here he is bragging about harassing a physician at work:
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Eli is garbage. Why can’t people be anti-mask and anti-vax but otherwise rational? Why do they always go all-in on being the worst people they can possibly be?
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To be clear, @stkirsch already tarnished his own reputation by spreading obvious lies. He guaranteed that Damar Hamlin was braindead, for example. He now plans to abuse the legal system to harass and bully anyone who confronts him on his for-profit antivaccine business venture.
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