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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd

@info-mastery.medsky.social
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Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University, Boston. Medical educator, researcher, EBMer. #fmsky #evidence-based-medicine #medsky #medtwitter #primarycare #fammed

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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 10/07/2026
I love this disclosure:
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 19/04/2026
You had one job . . . (25th printing of this book) @picadorbooks.bsky.social
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 22/02/2026
A Starbucks I was at, in the middle of the afternoon, when their customer internet was down
A picture of an empty Starbucks when the customer internet was down
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 20/02/2026
This brand didn’t age well.
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 03/09/2025
In Boston it’s called Allston Christmas www.nbcboston.com/news/local/a...
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 07/08/2025
Probiotics are not new -- Rx from 1915 It consisted of Lactobacillus bulgaricus produced by a “Professor Metchnikoff” of France. According to an ad, it "pits the vigorous lactic ferment against the less resistant organisms of decomposition, with the result that the latter are immediately destroyed.”
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 04/08/2025
All “Feedback” Is Not the Same: Use Correction, Criticism, Feedback, Feedforward, and Grades at the Appropriate Time www.stfm.org/publications...
A graphic relating the different types of feedback described in the article to the time delivered after the event and the number of events
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 18/07/2025
Our hosp's mandatory training says that sadness, social distancing, complaining, confusion, and poor personal hygiene are warning signs of workplace violence. I call it a typical Monday morning
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 14/06/2025
Anyone else heard from Elon yet?
Text message purportedly from an HR person at Tesla
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 04/03/2025
Old but still relevant editorial cartoon #medsky
An editorial cartoon showing two lines of people; a long line of people following a sign directing them to "simply but wrong" answers and a single person, seemingly lost, following a sign to "complex but right" answers.
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 11/02/2025
RIP Tom Robbins
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 23/01/2025
Three goals:
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 18/01/2025
Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching (#65) #medicaleducation
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 14/01/2025
When wondering how ivermectin and other drugs capture the fancy of the masses, remember this isn’t a new idea. This book touted phenytoin - phenytoin! - in the 80s for all sorts of things. Probably can find examples of fads like this in every decade #bloodletting
A picture of a book cover, “an incredible medicine has been overlooked” by jack dreyfus
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 14/01/2025
Also hospitals in RI and PA. And then there’s the Stewart Health Care in Mass
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 03/01/2025
Throwing our recent editorial about weight.based marginalization into the convo. #medsky #fammed #meded #familymedicine www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/iss...
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 08/12/2024
Another old paper: statistical analysis and the illusion of objectivity: #medsky www2.hawaii.edu/~cbaajwe/Ph....
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 24/11/2024
Critical thought requires more than a surface understanding or a reliance on the thinking of others #medsky #medicaleducation
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 21/11/2024
Morning inspiration from the Tao Te Ching:
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ferns, lichens, and mosses from my back yard living their best lives in a terrarium #medsky
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 17/11/2024
Correcting iron deficiency might increase resistance or resilience to a broad range of problems that cause hospitalizations in patients with heart failure. #medsky #evidence-based-medicine doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 17/11/2024
Anyone heard or seen of this product, a nasal epinephrine for anaphylaxis?
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 17/11/2024
Peaceful easy feeling
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Allen F Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd @info-mastery.medsky.social · 17/11/2024
FAll in new England
leaves falling on a stairway
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