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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o... The @nytimes.com should share this to every local newspaper across the land

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4... Hey #healthcare #primarycare employed physicians This episode 👇👇 Honoring physicians who still hold onto the indivisible fact that caring for the patient is the APEX of it all Every healthcare committee member on The Hill needs to listen

#baseballcards #thehobby The picture of athlete and humanitarian rising up above ill will - the Bob-re namers of the world Slowly getting back into the joy of vintage cards - this one finds a new home! @spoart.bsky.social @curtburner.bsky.social @culleys.bsky.social @metsuniverse.bsky.social

“USPSTF plays a critical, non-partisan role in guiding physicians’ efforts to prevent disease and improve the health of patients by helping to ensure access to evidence-based clinical preventive services. As such, we urge you to retain the previously appointed members of the USPSTF"

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #medsky #primarycaresky #ruralmedicinesky this pod should be mandatory 👂. This doc-advocate is incredible &bears compassionate witness on M’caid expansion &current threats 2it 2those who say med education should stay out of sociopolitical contributors, LISTEN 👇

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky When is enough enough? When does a legislature finally legislate? When is there a fiduciary responsibility when that is what should be legally expected? h/t @drmommy.bsky.social on the share Check the short doc out

“Driven by commercialism, direct-to-consumer advertising, and the pursuit of perfect health—a culture of “more is better”—modern medicine has fostered a culture of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.” open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

Hey #healthcare #medsky I think so much has to be done in our financialized spaces to hold onto our oath and patient relationships in the exam room … I don’t like how the word HERO has been used, eg w the pandemic Reeve’s second definition makes much more sense Be the ordinary person 👇

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky H/T 🎩 @wdeanmd.bsky.social and @dhpomerantz.bsky.social for the share Check this out for some #diplomaticdefiance skill building 👇👇 Of particular relevance, primary care … www.fixmoralinjury.org/centerline/t...

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky Might have typed this to a friend in an Epic meeting this morning, stirring pot (nah!) from early retirement: I want the EHRs to be as good at patient and panel centered documentation as they are at being billing instruments. That’s it, just say that and walk out.

Hey #primarycaresky #medsky So they’re coming for all our screening data now? www.axios.com/2025/07/09/r...

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky Mood:

Medical schools have warned the loan cap could discourage students from going into medicine at a time when the country is already on track to have a shortage of as many as 86,000 physicians by 2036, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Feeding people is so much cheaper than having them end up in the emergency room. Housing people is so much cheaper than having them end up in the emergency room. Covering primary/preventative healthcare is so much cheaper than having them end up in the emergency room. (It’s also morally right)

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky #pediatricssky Read on … www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...

Willie Stargell, 1970 #Pirates #Baseball

#medsky #primarycaresky #pediatricssky #obgynsky #geriatricssky Newly retired, just wrote this to a group that works on preserving #healthcare in US : -> 1/5

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky Just retired from medical center/residency teaching 33 year career reflection : Exit interviews are important, they’re ok I believe sooo much more in STAY interviews, though Support each other, touch base, mentor!

#medsky The very initial retirement reading list : Oh, and this one too :

I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.

#primarycaresky #medsky Political harm committed under the cover of ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ are bottomless Social determinants of health are political - redlining, caste protection, inertia When a single person w diabetes or asthma is bureaucratically denied coverage, it’s immoral &criminal

Hey #primarycaresky #medsky Budgets reveal values Intended widening of fortunes, good and ill, is an expression of values Hurting those who voted for you is betrayal, they’ll see it with the indignity of no access for medical care This is a #healthcare denial bill. And for what?

The senate fought hard against the bill. But we have to realize that some people have no conscience, and will allow for profits over people in a heartbeat. Let’s stay vigilant and hopeful. Thank you @murray.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov It’s up to us as doctors to continue advocating for patients

Watching this government deal with budgets is akin to: 1. private equity buys a hospital, squeezes it for all of its resources (leaving people without healthcare) 2. Then enriching themselves with the profit (no matter the human cost) #cansky #medsky Hahnemann’s story: cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-p...

I had a rheumatology doctor's appointment right before the House passed the bill. I can't help but think of people with autoimmune disorders who may be kicked off of Medicaid, in part because they're too sick but can't prove they're "disabled enough" for work requirement exemptions.

The cost of the BBB to medical education will be devastating. The elimination of Graduate PLUS loans and a $200k cap for federal loans means that medical students, who more than half have loans greater than $260k, will have to take out private loans with higher interest rates. #Medsky

If we want to build the next generation of primary care physicians we NEED to address this critical injustice to students loan borrowers now. Otherwise we’ll see fewer doctors in lower paying specialties at a time when we desperately need them.

Essentially 100% of patients I see for substance use are on Medicaid (or uninsured & working to get on Medicaid). Most cannot afford their lifesaving medications without coverage & I’ve seen devastating results from coverage lapses in the past. This bill’s new “requirements” are going to kill people

just put a camera on bobby witt jr. and leave it there

"We cannot and will not gamble with our patients’ health or the health of our communities. We must lean into what we, as medical physicians and experts, know works, based on decades of evidence. It’s a time for clarity, consistency, and courage."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o... Depressing for sure, that healthcare finds itself in the perpetual position of paying for oligarchical tax relief … in a rich stupid immoral country This Opinion transcript outlines a political strategy in 2026 and 2028. There is some pointed messaging here

The only pediatrician in Congress absolutely nailed it today. Maybe we should send more…

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... Hey #primarycare #proudtobeGIM #IMProud #medsky We all need internists, general physicians for all adults We are the roots to good care and extended health There are many ways to improve our conditions and survival rate Our structures have it ALL WRONG

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky Love 💕 posts like this. I learned Breath of the freshest air in days like these

"About one in five unvaccinated people with measles will be hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As many as one in 20 children contracts a secondary pneumonia infection. More than one in 1,000 dies."

“The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie —it is the lazy mind.” VOLTAIRE #MedSky @kaymd.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... Hey #medsky - working in our clinics/workshops/hospitalwards/advocacy spaces - undulations in our professional peace 4sure Well, 🙏🏻 @stefankertesz.bsky.social &Saul Weiner 4this profound/inspired pod, On Becoming Healer episode h/t @dhpomerantz.bsky.social share

Hey #medtwitter #primarycare 5 more days 2a commencement 4me .. Residency based proud 2be General Internist Oh what patients &learners are expressing! We must (I will) keep fighting for the interests and sustainability of our foundational humanistic work Primary care is investment not cost

International Medical Graduates provide important access to medical care for people all over the United States. I hope that these physicians can train and work without disruption this year and in future years. They are essential to US healthcare. #medsky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Vaccines have literally saved more than 150 million lives over the last 50 years and prevented much more morbidity but hold up guys somebody with a brain worm knows better

#medsky #primarycaresky There are just too many buffoons w horrific influence on our #patients right now Hubris kills Buffoons brimming with hubris and Dunning-Kruger, we’ve got to defend against them.

#medsky #primarycaresky #healthcare should be seen as a public good Not an object of financialization Swaths of humans are losing care sites, &financial cannibalism marches on Legislators: why? Where are you? CMS: Fee scales are compounding the mess Doc-leaders: Please don’t get engulfed

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4... Hey #healthcare world #medsky Private equity swoops in, the saviors inject capital/make promises, u know what comes next This is a NEVER event if we value dignity of health over immoral profiteering in our society Should be criminal

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky #hospitalmedicinesky Near retirement, next reflection There are a LOT of margin driven and greedy entities extrapolating profit off the backs of patients and communities in our spaces Why isn’t there a shred of regulation aimed at that predatory space?

“If decision-making power is in the hands of people thinking in four-year cycles, by definition you’re not going to be funding those big transformational ideas that take more time and effort. You’re going to be funding small thinking.” www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

#medsky #baseball is truly a cosmic game ….

All the big breakthroughs in cancer have started with NIH and NCI funded research. Every single medication or curative approach used in cancer patients is the direct or indirect result of NIH/NCI funded research.