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Dr Eric Levi
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Dr Eric Levi
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Otolaryngologist Airway Head & Neck Surgeon | Speaker | Podcaster | Threads, Instagram, TikTok & Facebook. Views mine, not any orgs.
Note about covid test. You can get tested on Monday. Be exposed to covid on Tuesday. Get a negative result on Wednesday. Go out to meet people on Thursday. Be mildly symptomatic on Friday (“But I was negative”) . Then get tested on Saturday. Only to be positive on Monday.- Humans of New York on Instagram hitting the spot where it hurts for many docs.
- 23 patients this morning! Can’t wait! Christmas suit? Yes / no ?
- We’re not post-pandemic. We’re in-pandemic.
- You are replaceable at work. You’re not replaceable at home.
- Happy 2022. May you swab your nose anatomically correctly this year.
00:00 - Let’s just stop saying “no beds”. Let’s just say “no staff”. Because that’s the reality. The beds may be available but without the staff, there’s no hospital care.
- I accidentally found this. This hurts so much. I hope your kids will never have to write anything like this.
- I’ve been triple vaccinated and I still wear a mask and check in everywhere. I’m living my life freely with a mask on. I adjust my choice of destinations, preferring outdoors over indoors. Hope you do the same too to protect yourself & loved ones against this airborne virus.
- What did Melbourne, Australia do to get our covid numbers down from 700+ a day to zero in the last 48h? Here’s a list: 5km travelling limit 1 hour outside the home Leave home only for essential work, essential activities, medical, care, health/exercise reasons. Curfew 8pm-5am
- I’m a surgeon. But surgery is always the last thing I offer. I start with: Words, advice, education. Lifestyle change. Medical therapy. Minimally invasive therapy. Finally, the knife, laser, drills, burrs, etc. Lots of patience in between.
- What makes up the ICU is not the machines. It’s the experienced staff (especially nursing staff) who intensively care for patients 1 on 1, minute by minute. It’s the “Intensive Care Unit” not the “Lots of Ventilators Unit”.
- The nasopharynx goes back, not up. When you take a nasopharyngeal swab or insert nasogastric tube, NEVER aim upwards towards the brain. Go LOW and go SLOW.
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