Can we PLEASE stop calling them “hallucinations.” A hallucination is a false sensory perception. LLMs don’t *perceive* anything. These are “CONFABULATIONS.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

For a less important thought: “Liquid I.V.” is the stupidest name for a product I may have ever heard. Somehow, it’s simultaneously redundant AND incorrect.

Folks are asking a really good question about age cutoffs for colorectal cancer screening, suggesting it should be younger. A lot of rigorous and thoughtful work by experts goes into designing guidelines. It might seem that everyone should get a FIT test, but there are risks involved in this.

Shout out to Dr. Mary McDermott who was the first author of a study published in @jama.com about how certain medication doesn’t help people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) which’ll further impair walking performance. Read here: https://ow.ly/a7Nc50YbMC4

Great to see @drjengunter.bsky.social in this article @nytimes.com about Attia. She has a great take on longevity. bsky.app/profile/jeff... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Trump in 2004, on CNN: "You know, it's interesting, I've been now around long -- you know, I think of myself as a young guy, but I'm not so young anymore. And I've been around for a long time. And it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans."

Because this fits my priors so well, I will not subject this to any type of critical analysis or thought. It HAS to be true. (Plus, I realize, I know one of the authors. 👋Eric) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

You don't really want to know, but... 2021: 412 awards 2022: 430 awards 2023: 442 awards 2024: 497 awards 2025: 252 awards 2026 (to date): 0 awards

I was quoted today in this @nytimes.com article by Gina Kolata. @nuintmed.bsky.social @ipham.bsky.social @iaim-nu.bsky.social @nucatsinstitute.bsky.social @feinberg.northwestern.edu www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

This story is incredible and gripping.

wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

It was an honor to spend a day at Northwestern and IPAHM and meet some terrific faculty with a passion to do good work.

🎉Congratulations to LDI Fellow Shivan Mehta!

I hadn’t considered that he thinks he won in 2020 because he does not know how to math.

Who could have predicted!? bsky.app/profile/jeff...

The quotes and comments are [Chef’s Kiss]. Not even gonna try.

Please join us on Feb. 11th for our next #MedicalGrandRounds we will be joined by @drklam.bsky.social from @cuanschutz.bsky.social !

Rep. Jonathan Jackson of Illinois 1st!!

Very excited for @shwoolf.bsky.social's @ipham.bsky.social visit today. He co-authored one of my favorite papers arguing it's unlikely that new discoveries will provide more benefit that simply delivering what we already know works to more Americans www.annfammed.org/content/3/6/...

In the context of Peter Attia being in the Epstein files, @drjengunter.bsky.social nails the rot at the heart of the “longevity” movement, a grift that appeals to the ego of rich people.

#MedSky @dennisrenmd.bsky.social

I have been watching this Livestream. Lots of interesting topics with loads of misinformation, poor policy development, and evidence of selection bias. Here is a minor, insignificant point that still drove me nuts. 1/14

A couple of choice quotes from NYTs articles: “In order for police to be accepted in communities, they have to have permission to police those communities from the people who live there.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"People will just not let go of vitamin D" -- Me New study at AHA of an RCT of 630 adults with ACS at Intermountain Health, followed for a average of 4.2 years.... newsroom.heart.org/news/heart-a...

From the land of the mundane, just discovered the slider on Zoom multi-speaker view! It's great!! The slider is between the speakers and the gallery below. Multi-speaker view is great for big meetings.

Baffling to me that they named the company after eyes of evil that selectively displayed the truth

Whatever happens, sending tons of gratitude to Minneapolis ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

I thought we were told words do not equal violence and so to claim otherwise is a problem. What happened to that fucking crowd? Or do words equal violence now?

You should have an unfettered right to carry a firearm to keep yourself safe. Or, also, so government agents can use it as a pretext to murder you.

This is Alex Pretti.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Shout out to Dr. Cheryl Wilkes who was featured in a @wsj.com article discussing how healthcare is going all-in on AI, from reading patient scans to fighting insurance denials, but also its limitations. Read Here: https://ow.ly/XiTr50XXuhI

📖 Our new study in @jamainternalmed.com examines the primary care workforce serving fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries using a pragmatic, patient-centered measure: clinicians available for new patient visits per beneficiary. 👉Article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... (1/5)

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Is this whole thing just because he’s confused about the Mercator projection

Correct Listen for yourself www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvZa...

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today is a day of service. It's also a day to think about MLK and honor his legacy. Letter from a Birmingham Jail. If you've never read it, then reread it again. www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...

Marlise Pierre-Wright and I write about the potential for combined patient and clinician-directed nudges to address overuse. #medsky @ipham.bsky.social @nuintmed.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🤦‍♂️Presently reviewing a grant that has, average, 3 abbreviations per sentence. Many sentences have 6 or more. I'd throw out that if your text has more than one abbreviation per sentence -- which is already a lot -- you are just frustrating your reviewers. Don't make your reviewers hate you.

This is potentially good. Maybe we've peaked for this go round. (Though it's only one data point.) #MedSky #influenza #flu

So, I actually thought the final, Northwestern-produced video about antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias wasn’t terrible. Other modules were some of the most insipid, infuriating content I’ve ever had the misfortune to be assigned to me.

Join us and Dr. Eytan Stein TOMORROW for our Distinguished Alumni Lectureship sponsored by The Lewis Landsberg Society!

Hey, @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social! New jacket day! The arms are a bit short, I don't love that it has a hood, but MY GOD is it reflective!!

Napoleon turned and removed his laurel wreath and crowned himself and then crowned the kneeling Josephine with a small crown surmounted by a cross, which he had first placed on his own head. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronat...

I've been getting strung along by Copilot saying it was working on a search for me that it would deliver "by EOD" every day for the past week. Like the most unreliable, dishonest co-worker.