Doctors’ Oscars Memes; MyChart Etiquette; The Cost of Measles Misinfo

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Doctors meme-ified the Oscars red carpet outfits, including hospitalist Clement Lee, MD, MSc, who compared Sarah Paulson’s lumpy red dress to “the blood clot in the left atrial appendage when the patient stops taking warfarin.”

Meanwhile, the semi-retired 102-year-old neurologist Howard Tucker, MD, reacted to the “in memoriam” portion of the Academy Awards ceremony with dark humor.

Internal medicine resident Julia Cater, MD, MPH, explained who can access the online patient portal MyChart, and shared how patients can sometimes get “out of control” on the platform.

A cat’s favorite toy got ophthalmologist Dr. Glaucomflecken’s approval.

“Little things go a long way in healthcare,” said neurosurgeon @ladyspinedoc, revealing the reason she keeps a massive supply of neon hair ties in her locker.

“This is the cost of not valuing facts and science. Your children. Your children are the cost,” said pediatrician @thepedipals on TikTok, reacting to the Texas measles outbreak, which led to the death of an unvaccinated child.

Another pediatrician, @dr_rossome, took to TikTok to answer some frequently asked questions about measles prevention.

“Managing measles is about prevention (vaccines), not quack treatments,” Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, said on X, criticizing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Fox News interview on the outbreak.

Infectious disease biologist Mallory Harris, PhD, live-posted on Bluesky during the senate confirmation hearing for Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, criticizing the NIH director nominee for leaving the “door open to wasting taxpayer money & scientists’ time” re-litigating the debunked link between vaccines and autism.

In a reaction video, family medicine resident Bronte Remsik, DO, rejected ideas from Tucker Carlson that Black female surgeons are under-qualified.

Allergist Zachary Rubin, MD, suggested that leaving your bed unmade in the morning may help those with dust mite allergies.

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