MD here. This particular Twitter account maintained by Dr. Tony Breu is an outstanding repository of clinical information with a large physician following. His clinical threads which he has helpfully grouped (MedTweetorials) for easier access are a miscellany of medical information with even some surprises for old timers like me. The information he includes in his threads includes some interesting links specific to the particular tweet in the the sequence. He conveys the information in a way doctors can appreciate and learn from but also accessible to non physicians. He also runs a podcast. I mean, criticize Twitter threads if you must, but you’re missing how useful this format is in a platform such as Twitter. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the most insightful and current information has been delivered this way by top virologists, epidemiologist, and many frontline clinicians learning and sharing the best diagnostic and treatment options known as of the time of the Tweet. I believe in many cases, this rapid real time sharing led to saving lives.
Not a thing but this is the setting: I’m a physician who follows many other physicians on Twitter. I’m already there with the Twitter client in my phone. I see this great threat. I read it right there and share it with other colleagues who have already become accustomed to exchanging important clinical information this way: quick and easy. I previously explained how the information shared this way during the past couple of years may have saved lives. Extra steps directing me to a blog are just a waste particularly as many fellow physicians jumped (during the worst COVID periods) from one intubated patient to another. Tony Breu is a Hospitalist after all. He is caring for the sickest patients compared to an outpatient office.