Explosive Diarrhea’s Nemesis; On Call at Ariana Grande Concert; RN’s Netflix Trailer

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One trick explosive diarrhea doesn’t want you to know? Clean your produce. The Illinois Department of Public Health shared the tip on Instagram as cases of cyclosporiasis have been reported in at least 18 states.

“Girl r u on call at the hospital”? A TikTok featuring a health worker in scrubs at an Ariana Grande concert went viral.

“The free market cannot and will not replace public health and fundamental science,” said NIH program officer Jenna Norton, PhD, MPH, responding to an opinion piece from Scott Atlas, MD, calling for the NIH to be abolished.

“Healthcare doesn’t have to be this expensive. There are solutions. We just have to be willing to build them,” said plastic surgeon Elisabeth Potter, MD, calling for greater transparency in hospital pricing.

Which American Girl doll are you? The MGH Institute of Health Professions matched dolls with their appropriate health fields.

“I swear these things just keep getting worse and worse.” Ophthalmologist @drglaucomflecken highlighted “another massive healthcare private equity takeover” in California.

Using an epidural needle as a reminder of what women endure in pregnancy, anesthesia resident @reaundrar encouraged patients’ loved ones to “buy her a push present.”

What more do you want, my soul? Borrowing a soundbite from “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” nursing student Lane Pelfrey bemoaned his start-of-school paperwork.

The “Netflix trailers” trend continued this week, with @nurse.alexrn “exposing” nursing school, and radiology tech @ashxoxoo recounting her close call with “the purple wipes.”

Orthopedic trauma surgeon @mock.doc1 “reacted” to a medical emergency the only way he knew how: put a boot on it.

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