Many of the same actors who've sought to undermine public health agencies & guidance as untrustworthy or not evidence-based are now in charge of them and bringing about the very things they've long claimed: that these agencies and their guidance are untrustworthy & not evidence-based.

“To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who does not care about any of them is to be told - simply - to keep quiet.” - Omar El Akkad in his National Book Award winning One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

CDC Updates Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation, Cites Kennedy’s Anti-Vax Allies www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...

This is...sort of brilliant.

Bill requiring anti-abortion video in Ohio high schools heads to House floor by Jo Ingles www.statenews.org/government-p...

Ahead of the upcoming ACIP meeting on the child immunization schedule, it’s important to remember immunizations are about more than individual decisions — immunizations affect communities, including babies too young to be vaccinated

"Managing Competing Interests Between Appointed Surrogates and Extended Family in End-of-Life Care" Physician, ethicist, and social worker perspectives on case requiring resolving decision-making challenges for an incapacitated young adult patient in a pediatric hospital.

“The journal’s website will remain online with all content freely available, ‘in keeping with our guiding premise that ethics inquiry is a public good,’ Audiey C. Kao, editor-in-chief of the AMA Journal of Ethics”

“My feeling was that there was not sufficient data to suggest that this is a procedure that should be outlawed, particularly given that there were multiple religious communities for whom this was an important practice. But I also didn’t think paediatricians should be recommending it.” - D. Diekema

“My feeling was that there was not sufficient data to suggest that this is a procedure that should be outlawed, particularly given that there were multiple religious communities for whom this was an important practice. But I also didn’t think paediatricians should be recommending it.” - D. Diekema

We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway. Video essay gift link NYT

There's a lot we can win. There really is. But it's a consistent fight.

make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out “Olivia!”

“The journal’s website will remain online with all content freely available, ‘in keeping with our guiding premise that ethics inquiry is a public good,’ Audiey C. Kao, editor-in-chief of the AMA Journal of Ethics”

"Managing Competing Interests Between Appointed Surrogates and Extended Family in End-of-Life Care" Physician, ethicist, and social worker perspectives on case requiring resolving decision-making challenges for an incapacitated young adult patient in a pediatric hospital.

Being clever with Johnny Cash lyrics is against the terms of service.

congrats to everyone (glares at UCSF) who helped make this happen. someone who is antivax and has actual knowledge of drug policy levers is extraordinarily dangerous

people complain about the journal of controversial ideas, but they have managed to really streamline the peer review process and i think that's awesome

I am interested in speaking to DC community health activists about how general internists / primary care doctors can help support their efforts. If anyone is interested in this or has ideas, I would love your comments and connections! Thank you.

I’ve heard this loud and clear from my constituents, too. They want a real bipartisan agreement to reopen the government and protect their healthcare. I assume all of us that have been fighting to protect our constituents from soaring healthcare costs will vote against this. (2/2)

My 8 year old knows what magnets are.

Here is my latest for @msnbc.com, on Trump's ill-advised concept of a plan for health care, which entails repealing the ACA, and redistributing private insurers' tax breaks to the people for what would essentially amount to an HSA, which is unhelpful if not wealthy. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Dems: No Kings!! Nancy Pelosi: now that I finally retire at the age of 275 it is time my daughter takes my spot as is the tradition.

We're at "concepts of concepts" at best

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

I get mail.

We have had enough winning. by Senate Democrats

At this point, it’s clear that the Hamburglar, Dr Evil, and Sideshow Bob are advising Chuck Schumer.

Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?

Literally trying to take food out of the mouths of children.

basic problem is none of these folks is capable of saying “i was wrong”

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:

"[Models] may be engineered to reduce bias more readily than human reviewers can control and disclose their own biases" Citation needed? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ugh. More “not if, but how” uptake of AI. Here at the highest levels of academic medicine publishing.

My local chapter of Students for a National Health Plan (@snahpnational.bsky.social @pnhp.bsky.social) is partnering with other student orgs to raise money for the Mid Ohio Food Collective. Join us in our SNaHP for SNAP campaign! Just $50 feeds over 100 people here in Central Ohio! #MedSky

And if writing or thinking on a topic alone is hard, then coauthor! Collaborations are great to generate thinking and writing together that you might not on your own, to spark creativity, and to bring complementary skills and knowledge to the table that make the work better. No LLM needed.

Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.

Oh, I’ve got a publication about this!

I really need MDs to understand that there’s more to medical humanities than narrative medicine.

Among other things, young people are students who are often having to do “critical triaging” around basic needs, parents trying to feed their kids, & human beings who need food for themselves. When you don’t have access to critical resources like SNAP, “it can have ripple effects even beyond food.”

Live look at me in the workplace.

Hard same

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Take your daughter to ruin the workplace day.

Sometimes I see a pre-print and pray to the science communication gods that it isn’t reported in the news as though it is a peer reviewed study.

Sometimes I see a pre-print and can only pray that the peer review gods will bring it to me.

I thought they used dollars?