“Meek” painted at HHS in the great hall.

Painting at HHS

#cinderblocks2025 book rec www.thriftbooks.com/w/recalling-...

Welcome to The Walking Gallery of Healthcare Bob Thomas with your jacket “This is the church.”

@claudia-williams.bsky.social I am really enjoying your podcast and listening to it as I prepare for cinderblocks

Fyi @reginaholliday.bsky.social

To everyone who read the encyclopedia for fun when they were children, you are my people.

So what the hell happened to United Health Group earlier this month? Should we be buying the dip? Jeff Charles Goldsmith is on THCB with his analysis and he thinks that the 40 year party is coming to a sticky end. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/04...

Why sleep loss is so detrimental. It disrupts our metabolism throughout the body. science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tonight I’m doing my 3rd Beginner’s guide to street art session, where we’ll cover everything a new sticker artist and/or wheatpaster needs to know to get started. Algorithms isolate us. Come learn how to get messages literally in front of people! Tonight, 8pm ET/5pm PT RSVP here: lu.ma/2zosbsxy

Lede sounds like lead and led sounds like lead, and this is why the English language can’t have nice things.

On a recent episode of The Other 80 Alexandra Drane shared a shocking stat 52% of sandwich generation caregivers have thought about suicide in the last 30 days Listen to whole episode here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... If Medicaid is cut, that number will only increase

This week in the hospital I cared for multiple patients with no health insurance, multiple pts with insurance who STILL can’t afford their meds, and one kidney transplant pt who recently lost his insurance so now can’t afford anti-rejection meds This is what I mean when I say medicine is political

I'm thinking today about families who are caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's, re-evaluating how they can better support primary caregivers. Too often people sink under the burden of care work, unaware they are drowning, invisible to the rest of the family.

450 people signed up for this 😈

Yesterday's #RallyforRare was a community-led event featuring talks on genetic testing, clinical trial design, data registries, and peer-to-peer health care. It was a room of scientists & advocates who care about rare & undiagnosed patients & families. Defiant. Fierce. Incredible.

I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

I am reminded today that healthcare isn't actually healthcare if you don't have access to care. My husband has a torn rotator cuff. He also has an ICD. He can't get an MRI in the @Hopkins system until February of 2026! We're trying to find alternatives but have been astonished the paucity of options

“The real problem, I think, is the way that antisemitism is being weaponized, and they tried to use it on me,” Ganz said of recent conservative-led attacks on Harvard” No, the real problem is antisemitism.

My town recently bought a church in need of repair plus the grounds and plan to build a community center. They have sent out invitations for everyone to come and share what they would like in the community center. I’m hoping for public restrooms and public showers for the Car homeless.

Cinderblocks 2025 is in Somerset Pennsylvania May 19-20, www.eventbrite.com/e/1253959479...

Save the Date! Cinderblocks 2025 is Monday May 19 and Tuesday May 20 at Trinity Lutheran fellowship, hall, pavilion, and hiking trail in Somerset Pennsylvania I will add ticket link as soon as it is available.

So much snow is here and more is on the way.

Coming from a family with a high DNA ratio from Neanderthals I find this very interesting news.clemson.edu/study-implic...

just participated in an inspiring public health organizing call. It feels good to do things.

It’s always grounding to be reminded at these events that ultimately, it’s the *patient’s* data. Not provider data. Not HIE data. Not EHR data.

I gave the children curtain rings, and beads, and string with hunks of clay and let them play, and they made ART

This is so perfect. 🤩 Hey #RSNA24, have you tried your blueskyroast.com Share insights. Have fun. #RadSky @emoryradiology.bsky.social @rsnasky.bsky.social @angiowoman.bsky.social @judywawira.bsky.social

I've referred to myself as "expat clergy," indicating my frustration with the state of American Christianity. But today I gave the local ELCA church another look. I worshipped, was nourished, and...well, I'm baking cookies for the luncheon this Wednesday. I guess I'm still in. #church

Sometimes thankfulness is best described by being happy that the Dollar General has duct tape in the same color as your car. Regina-0 Deer-1

That moment when you’re reading #StephenKing that you just have to pause for a while because you know the really bad stuff is gonna start happening.

Wondering how folks are navigating this change from Facebook. I'm not inclined to post personal material on public settings, for instance. Welcoming to hear how others are bridging support formerly found within privacy settings of FB.

PCORI had a great session on Achieving Patient-Centeredness in Artificial Intelligence(AI) at their annual meeting. I continue to refer back to it. Available online (freel here www.pcori.org/events/2024/... #healthservices #healthcare

IMAGE: A neurosurgeon and neuro-oncologist pose w/ their shared patient, @thelizarmy.bsky.social, demonstrating patient-centered care at the @neuroonc.bsky.social Annual Meeting on the eve of her being presented with the Jan Esenwein Award for Public Service in neuro-oncology. 🤘💥🥰 #SNO2024 #btsm

Some blacksmithing and fine wood work combined. This one is available at mikeedelmanart.com. #sculpture #art #blacksmith #welding #metalart #interiordesign #metalsmith #silversmith #wallart

ChatGPT alone did better (LOTS better) than doctors USING ChatGPT. What does this mean for PATIENTS who use AI and bring the results TO the doctor?? It was a tiny study (n=50) but a bigger follow-up is underway. #PatientsUseAI open.substack.com/pub/patients...

Super-exciting news from Down Under: today Health Minister Butler introduced legislation to Parliament to mandate sharing of pathology results and medical imaging to patients through the #MyHealthRecord portal. We call it #ShareByDefault 😎🥰🥳 www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

What would happen if peoples first reaction to the unknown person or situation was curiosity rather than fear?

How might clinicians play a role in “producing” the patient story? @myopennotes.bsky.social was inspired today by @rickrubin.bsky.social “live in Conversation” w/ the gang from #Abridge. Listening to Slayer at a health tech meeting is ALWAYS on my bingo card. 🎯 #opennotes

Halving premature deaths (death between birth and age 70) around the world by 2050 is feasible. The US isn't doing well vs peer countries. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Character is being generous again and again and again… Dr. Rev. Nelson Rivera #ELCA

Dr. Rev Nelson Rivera is speaking about ethics in relation to the Holy Spirit at Church of the Abiding Presence at ULS in Gettysburg PA #ELCA

It took me a while to write up the election and what is likely to happen in health care under Trump. My answer is, not too much--in health care at least! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2024/11...

This is part 3 of Seth Joseph's series about Epic that has generated much interest and a little controversy and we are happy to host it on THCB. Part 1 and Part 2 were published on Forbes earlier this year thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2024/11...

The Best parts about a public Mural is that it advocates 24 hours a day and you can’t tell a Wall to shut up.

I’m glad to see so many of my friends here.