This is the @nejm.org study that examined non-opioid analgesic, VX-548 (suzetrigine/Journavx), in acute postoperative pain (bunionectomy & paniculectomy). 100 mg load, then 50 mg for maintenance was comparable to 5- mg of hydrocodone. Low dose no better than placebo. www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Why does Chick-Fil-A run commercials on Sunday?

90 minutes…

Post sunset. No filters.

Everyone else on social media today: Happy New Year!! 🎊🍾🎉 ABIM today: You have more test questions to answer starting today. 🙄

Happy New Year!!

Sunset sailboat… 👇🏼

Pre-sunset pic…

Christmas Eve Sunset…

Here’s a happy sunset for the happy place!

In our seats early at the Big Ten Football Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium in chilly Indianapolis! #WeAre

November and hurricane season both end with a spectacular sunset!

Sunset dolphin action…

Goodnight, Sun. 🌞

Pre-Thanksgiving dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico!! 🐬

Restoring compassionate pain care: a call to action kevinmd.com/2024/11/restor… via @kevinmd Well done!! 👏🏼 An excellent commentary with solid opioid policy recommendations from @ravensspirit68. 👇🏼#CompassionatePainCarere

Dear followers, If you can help... LIKE and REPOST. Many thanks! #PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice

Falling a bit behind here, so if I haven’t followed you back yet, don’t fret. (Wow, I sound like such a dad!🤦🏻‍♂️) Working on a textbook chapter on opioid law and policy, but I will try to keep up here, too.

Goodnight, sun.

Hey #HPM and #HaPC friends, It’s looking like @aahpm.bsky.social is also making the transition to “The Good Place.” Let’s get them messaging more on the True Blue app.

I’m having trouble keeping up with my new follows here, but I’m getting there…

The opposite of woke is asleep. Trust no one who wants to you to sleepwalk through life.

Tonight’s sunset…

BOT Report 18, "Expanding Palliative Care," also adopted at the AMA 2024 Interim Meeting earlier this week. Note Item 7: AMA "opposes the imposition of criminal and civil penalties or other retaliatory efforts against physicians for… providing palliative care services, including hospice.”

Here are screen shots of a new Ethical Opinion for the AMA Code of Ethics that will expand access to palliative care, including the treatment of pain and suffering for patients with serious, chronic, complex, or critical illness, regardless of prognosis. #HPM #HAPC #PainCareCrisis

Today the AMA House of delegates passed a resolution that supports state and federal efforts to provide subsidies for undocumented immigrants to purchase health insurance, including by extending eligibility for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions to purchase ACA plans.

The greatest revelation for me at the 2024 AMA Interim Meeting is that the AMA House of Delegates now falls to the left of mainstream America on the political spectrum.

Early voting opened yesterday in Florida. You all know what to do.

My comments to @JAMANetworkOpen on "Strategies to Deimplement Opioid Prescribing" are now posted (click the Comments tab). Our patients deserve a more thoughtful approach to pain care policy than one that blindly embraces unilateral opioid reductionism." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Realized I never posted this article on @bsky.app!! “Providing outpatient palliative care longitudinally over four years offered lasting treatment-related reductions in pain intensity, preservation of performance status, and reduction in overall overdose risk.” www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Haven’t posted here in awhile. So, enjoy last evening’s sunset!

Haven’t posted for awhile. But hiking in Sedona seems like a good reason to share some pics!

Merry Christmas from Ranger!! (Our grand-fur-baby!)🎄🎁🎅🏼

It’s been awhile, so I’ll post a sunset here tonight…

Been awhile since I posted here, but - as Elon ponders completely monetizing “The Bad Place” - I’m thankful for this Good Place!!

Tonight’s sunset is a good one…

Cloudy. No chance of meatballs…

Good news!! My co-presenter, Beth Boyer Kollas, and I have been accepted to the 2024 Annual Assembly of Hospice & Palliative Care on the topic, "Liability for Under-prescribing Opioids in Vulnerable Patients with Severe Pain. See you in March 2024 in Phoenix, AAHPM peeps!!

Tonight’s sunset…

I finished residency in 1992, so I missed out on lifetime certification. But I’m old enough to remember how strongly ABIM assured us that older physicians would recertify voluntarily! 🙄 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

First sunset pic on BlueSky, complete with a curious pelican!

As I’m getting used to BlueSky, I see that a lot of the great folks I used to follow on Twitter/X have made their way to “The Good Place.” So good to see you all!! 🙌🏼

@chadkollas.bsky.social is here! Follow him, friends!

For outpatients with chronic pain receiving palliative care, opioid therapy reduced pain intensity, preserved function & decreased overdose risk over four years. Perhaps we should focus on "right prescribing," instead of #OpioidReductionism... 🤔 doi.org/10.1089/jpm....