“Emergency Medicine is the science of making it Internal Medicine’s problem” is a quote I just heard that I am stealing

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I do miss walking around Jamaica Pond

I may not be able to control much but by god I can control this

The more deep learning I do, the more I like logistic regression

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

I may not be able to control much but by god I can control this

Devoting a few hours to my endless and deeply inconsistent fight against entropy

Ann Arbor killing it with the Halloween decorations, 10/10, no notes

I am conscious? Again???

Last night I dreamed I was performing a song with 3 part harmony at a wedding. I was the soprano, but then to my dismay I showed up at the event and the other female singer also thought she was singing soprano, so I had 30 minutes to learn the alto part before the ceremony. Woke up in a panic 😱

Ann Arbor killing it with the Halloween decorations, 10/10, no notes

News anchor: And now, let’s check in with American scientists

feels like as good a day as any to share an excerpt from my dissertation acknowledgements 🧪⚒️

Me hitting the post-grant cycle submission dysphoria wall

Birthday party crafts

#NoKings #AnnArbor

Greetings from the Ypsilanti No Kings March!

#NoKings #AnnArbor

If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.

Or if you’re a hospitalist! They want hospitalists too!!!! (Sorry guys, you are amazing, thank you for fixing all those heart failure exacerbations that I failed to prevent)

If you’re a primary care doctor looking to donate to a good cause, join the Society for General Internal Medicine: www.SGIM.org They have SUED the Trump administration to try to preserve funding for primary care research, and they need your support.

Or if you’re a hospitalist! They want hospitalists too!!!! (Sorry guys, you are amazing, thank you for fixing all those heart failure exacerbations that I failed to prevent)

If you’re a primary care doctor looking to donate to a good cause, join the Society for General Internal Medicine: www.SGIM.org They have SUED the Trump administration to try to preserve funding for primary care research, and they need your support.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

So exhausting..

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

You've heard me talk about it. You've seen me write about it. And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it! cup.org/4nfM2IM

Shanah Tovah. If you are a Jewish health professional, please consider signing this letter calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. As we begin the days of awe, as we welcome in a new year, now is the time. We must do better. We cannot remain silent. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Shanah Tovah. If you are a Jewish health professional, please consider signing this letter calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. As we begin the days of awe, as we welcome in a new year, now is the time. We must do better. We cannot remain silent. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

This makes me sad because my kids love Disney movies, but it had to be done. I’ll guess I’ll be buying a lot of used DVDs in the next month few months.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

The FBI used hidden cameras to record Tom Homan taking a $50,000 bribe (in cold, hard cash) last year from undercover agents posing as business executives who Homan promised government contracts in a new Trump administration. The Trump DOJ has now shut down the probe. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

Turns out when you capitulate you still lose your job. That should be a lesson to everyone

Isn't it crazy that the leader of our country is able to get comedians fired for their jokes? Pic unrelated

Let’s mock them still

The United States is in an authoritarian crisis. Trump said he wanted to be a dictator on day one and it turns out he wasn’t lying. People who criticize or speak up against the regime are targeted and punished. Cowardly institutions are going along with it, refusing to assert their rights.

Reporter: Credit scores are falling at the fastest pace since the Great Recession as Americans struggle to keep up with the rising cost of living. FICO says the delinquency rates are at the highest level since 2009 on car loans, credit cards, and personal loans.

Amazing chyron as the Vice President of the United States jokes about the <checks notes> indiscriminate murder of civilians in international waters, in blatant violation of domestic law & multiple international treaties we have signed & ratified.

The average out-of-pocket costs for pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum care for women with employer coverage is $2,743. Newborns also have healthcare needs, adding an additional $475 for care in the first three months of life: https://on.kff.org/4gpAdNB

Or worse still: letting the wolves into the fold, even while they are in the middle of slaughtering the herd, based on nothing more than our vague sense that it would be rude to call them wolves

If you refuse to identify lying, bad faith, and malice, you are its easiest target. You let the wolves into the fold based on nothing more than their periodic insistence that they are, in fact, sheep

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/