RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF). This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Am also actual “mid” as the kids say too

I’m thinking physicians could still prescribe this off label, right? But obviously just sows more vaccine doubt.

www.medicaleconomics.com/view/mark-cu... Thank you again @mcuban.bsky.social !

Most people tune out when doctors rage about prior auth, opaque pricing, or middlemen sucking value out of the system. Except @mcuban.bsky.social. Where we all see complexity, he sees opportunity. And he trusts doctors. Full episode: www.offcall.com/learn/podcas...

"The relationship between doctors and insurance companies has become an abusive one." — Dr. Elisabeth Potter who went viral after posting about United Healthcare's prior auth practices online Our full conversation here: www.offcall.com/learn/podcas...

This feels like a Parkland shooting moment. If Americans don't care about dead kids we aren't gonna get gun control. If they don't care about their OWN DEAD KIDS then I'm not sure how you fight back against that

We've massively lost the ability to perform critical thinking We've massively lost the ability to spot incorrect and misinformation And we have so much information at our fingertips yet lack the ability to know if said information actually answers the question we have

Other countries socialize their medical problems. America medicalizes its social problems.

MAHA Measles Anti-vax Hypocrisy Afterthought

The pro-death party

I love it when @joho.bsky.social calls out @ucsfhealth.bsky.social docs lamenting Trump's attacks on NIH and CDC, like @anilmakam.bsky.social , @ewidera.bsky.social, and Monica Gandhi, after having amplified the misinformation that got us here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/ucsfapathy/

Why can't you say BOMB at an airport but you can threaten nurses in a hospital? In the past week: 1) Nurse was beaten in Florida 2) HCWs tied up and wounded at an ICU at UPMC 3) ER doc and staff stabbed in Chicago Why are threats to TSA more serious than threats to healthcare workers?

Anyone in Alabama State Gov or with a large employer in the state ? You are getting RIPPED off by PBMs. www.linkedin.com/posts/gregre...

Timeline cleanse with nicest day we’ve had all year in San Francisco

If only we had medical experts who could have predicted this and warned that this would happen /s

Be kinder to yourself. I am nicer and more empathetic to the fictional doctors on The Pitt than I am to my real-life self practicing real-life emergency medicine. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/a...

BREAKING: Almost everything

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

This piece was initially similar to @choo.bsky.social's fantastic BMJ opinion piece, but the more I wrote the more I really felt like all of this is about loss of trust in institutions, experts, and healthcare professionals. www.offcall.com/learn/opinio... www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Medicare Disadvantage

Someone start a Gofundme where we pitch in to hire Mayor @petebuttigieg.bsky.social to just do a daily fact checking in DC. And if we're lucky maybe @mcuban.bsky.social will support it too

if you're in nashville or at vive see you next week!

This is why Dr. Titanji is such an expert - and why expertise and insight matter greatly. This is bonkers-level stupidity that the CDC can’t report their findings for testing that… has to be done at the CDC.

Hey doctors, give me concrete examples of how this administration's changes to healthcare 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. Working on another op-ed about how doctors are feeling about these changes and the impact. Ex: Harder to know appropriate guidelines for STI testing and treatment regiments

Back up as of this post, but who knows how many hundreds of thousands of hours of peoples' time was wasted when they went down. If a bureaucracy is supposed to at least do one thing well, it's stability.

Numerous health websites are down this morning — hhs.gov, healthit.gov, and the most important one, the National Provider ID API keeps going down as well: npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov This one is used millions of times a day to lookup NPI numbers for providers.

"Mr. King and his Queen" I AM GAGGING

web.archive.org/web/20250201... CDC.gov mirror from @archive.org — if you click links you may need to select the back arrow at the top of the screen as newer pages will load that have been scrubbed and re-archived by its automatic process.

data.cdc.gov is dead, blamed on fucking bullshit DEI executive orders

CDC contraceptive guidance for clinicians has disappeared Apparently we are just to make more humans

Imagine if we changed our rules and regulations and laws after mass shootings, and not just the first commercial air disaster in US airspace in 15 years. #YesAnd

Hey look, it's some good news for today from good people trying to make a difference

Rep. Rich McCormick is an ER doctor who apparently thinks 5 year-olds who want a free school lunch should go work at a fast food restaurant to pay for them. What a disgrace to our specialty that proudly takes care of any patient regardless of ability to pay. newrepublic.com/post/190804/...

One of the things I absolutely love about both St. Denis Medical and The Pitt is the Filipino representation on both shows. Tagalog is spoken in both! It's a tiny acknowledgement of Filipinos' impact on American healthcare and way, way overdue.

Want a great slogan for midterms? "If you FAFO and are struggling because of Trump policies, we understand. The Dems are here for you. Tell us how we can help you " You get the point. FAFO will be the theme. Be the solution.

Reminded of and crying about the fact that Rev. Budde is also the person who provided Matthew Shepard's family with a safe haven for their son's remains. This is the person these fascists trying to brand themselves as Christians are targeting with hate, right now. www.npr.org/2018/10/26/6....

WOW, IT'S AS IF THERE'S VALUE IN HAVING PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND GOVERNMENT ENTITIES MONITOR THE SITUATION IN HEALTHCARE AND PROVIDE WARNINGS AND COMMUNICATIONS TO DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS

Too bad if there happens to be a recall on food tainted with salmonella or other, or an uptick of H5N1 activity in humans, or a new outbreak of any other infectious disease. No alerts, no problem. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Make sure you are up to date on recomnended vaccines at the minimum www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

A fertilized egg (conception!) cannot produce reproductive cells, neither large nor small. Fuck, did Trump just make everyone non-binary?

I am in this photo and i do not like it

It takes some real courage for a physician to admit when they're burned out. Or that their chosen specialty isn't working out for them anymore. Now Dr. Phil DiGiacomo helps other physicians find jobs outside of clinical medicine. www.offcall.com/learn/podcas...

Had this case in residency. Got methylene blue, caused anemia from cell lysis, and then that caused jaundice from bilirubin, the byproduct of red cell turnover

good idea www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Remind me in a month when these grifters cause a shortage and we actually *need* methlyene blue for the rare cases where it is the only cure we have available

I love it when a diabetic patient gets new insurance effective January 1 and they’re sending me letters by January 10 because the patient hasn’t filled a statin yet - because they filled a 90 day supply in November. This is how insurers “improve patient outcomes”, right?

Fully disabled Apple Intelligence on my devices. What a disappointment. I'd rather have the battery life.

It took me a few decades, but American healthcare finally makes total sense to me: 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱. What’s 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, and how does it work in healthcare? A 🧵

Dr. Resa Lewiss (author of MicroSkills, POCUS leader in emergency medicine): Medicine, and particularly academic medicine, does not teach us how to take care of ourselves.