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David Juurlink

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Internal Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology/Toxicology and drug safety research @Sunnybrook and @UofTMedicine. Inexplicably fortunate husband.
Toronto ices.on.ca/About-ICES/ICE… Joined January 2012
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David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink
I’ve spent 15 years challenging a flawed explanation for an infant’s death. Credit to @NewYorker for patient investigative journalism that corrected the record when institutions did not.
The New Yorker Verified account @NewYorker Jan 26
A paper by a renowned toxicologist argued for the first case of opioid overdose by breast milk in history. But in the years that followed, researchers began to suspect that the science was bunk. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AUASqK
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David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink
For the love of god please stop withholding ceftriaxone in patients with anaphylaxis to penicillin
Josh Farkas MD 💊 Verified account @PulmCrit Jul 25
IMHO everyone in this thread is wrong.

PCN isn’t cross-allergic with ceftriaxone.

If someone is allergic to PCN and CTX is the best antibiotic for them, then just give the CTX! Simple.

(Yes, even anaphylaxis to PCN)

You even have guidelines to back you up now.
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David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink
As a general rule, do not take the big aspirin. The little aspirin works just fine.
Dr Charlie Ward Verified account @DrcharlieWardQ Jul 14
BREAKING 🚨 Reporter: “We saw the bruising on your hand. Are you okay?”

President Trump: “I’m very good. I clipped it on the table. So I put a little—what do they call it—cream on it. But I clipped it. I would say take aspirin if you like your heart, but don’t take aspirin if you don’t want to have a little bruising.”

“I take the big aspirin. And when you take the big aspirin, they tell you that you bruise. The doctors said, ‘You don’t have to take that, sir. You’'re very healthy.’ I said, ‘I’m not taking any chances.’ That’s one of the side effectseffects. of taking aspirin.”
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