ALERT: The Brighton branch of the Boston Public Library is collecting eclipse glasses now through May 31 to be sent to Astronomers Without Borders, who will redistribute them ahead of the August eclipse in South America.

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Don’t worry Caitlin, it gets better once you finish residency and become an attending basketball player

On why the doctor is running late:

Join us in commemorating TB day 2024 by learning about drug resistant forms of the disease. In this detailed review we examine burden, gaps and innovations in care!

The world’s first genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a living recipient was performed at Mass General last Saturday. Years of research, pre-clinical studies and collaboration by Mass General Transplant has led to this historic achievement. Learn more from the The New York Times:

Feliz Día de la Independencia Dominicana a mi querida isla y gente! 🇩🇴

Compartiendo de nuevo esta belleza!

“The tree-ringed lagoon glowed a color you usually see only in the mouthwash aisle, and under the surface of its glassy water, fallen branches looked like open hands ready to make a catch.”

Diving Into the Dominican Republic’s Springs and Rivers nytimes.com/2024/01/15/tra…

Excellent Journal Club discussions today by F2 Louisa Mounsey and F1 Michael Kelly on the BOREAS & ENHANCE trials for COPD! Drs. Mounsey and Kelly did a great job presenting the strengths/weaknesses of each trial and placing the results in context with current clinical practices.

In a recent Science Magazine publication, researchers from Ragon Institute MGH Division of Infectious Diseases and colleagues found a link between smoking and the immune cells that invade the lungs, and it may increase the risk of tuberculosis.

Read more: massgeneral.org/news/press-rel… MedoffLab Doug Kwon

Respiratory care is one of the absolute best (but surprisingly unknown) pulmonary critical care journals.

When I’m researching a topic, I just love finding an in-depth article in RC.

F3 Drs. Marvah Hill Pierre-Louis (Marvah Hill) and Raymond Parrish led a great journal club discussion about the use of phage therapy in patients with drug-resistant mycobacterial disease (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35676823/) and rituximab in patients with ILD, NSIP (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37230499/)

If you are starting PCCM fellowship this upcoming year and will be going to ATS, I highly recommend you apply for the resident boot camp! It was a great primer to fellowship overall taught by amazing faculty and you get to network with other incoming fellows from all over the US.

We are absolutely delighted to welcome this amazing class of new fellows to the MGH/BIDMC Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in July 2024!
MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
BIDMC Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Congrats 👏 to Dr. Grace Lisius for leading the paper in iScience journal studying plasma microbial cell-free DNA (mcfDNA) 🩸🦠🧬 in patients with #COVID19 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37965142/
Simple ?: is it just #Covid or is there bacterial/fungal superinfection?
Answer not so simple... 🧵

The doctor today was reading up on uptodate after I explained my problem. After I told him I was also a doctor, he turned his screen towards me and we both read it together 😭

This is going to be a fun time! Looking forward to serving with these folks on the IDSA IDA&E committee! 🩷

My first lung procurement is in the books

Great Grand Rounds by F1 Mike Kelly about drug-induced lung injury! A patient with metastatic breast cancer sought care for worsening dyspnea, and it was determined to be due to toxicity related to trastuzumab deruxtecan, an antibody-drug conjugate for cancer treatment.