JNC Early Career Editorial Board: Call for Applications, due by April 4 www.asnc.org/news-publica... @asnc.bsky.social

Most physicians practice where they train, among FM docs, CA, MN, OR, TX, VT retained >70% between 2007 and 2018, while <40% remained in RI, DC, and WY.https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.01003

Burnout in primary care was 44% in the US, similar to UK, Canada, and New Zealand. Lowest in Netherlands/Sweden around 15-20%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

From 2018-2022, 451 Private equity primary care buyouts, staffing increased by 0.39 clinicians per practice, offset by departure of 0.22 www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

Why is tricuspid valve endocarditis is more common in persons who inject IV drugs? curiousclinicians.libsyn.com/archive-more... @curiousclinpod.bsky.social

Should we use a lottery for residency selection? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4a... @jbcarmody.bsky.social Agree about UME incentives, that was one of the reasons that NBME used to justify creation of Step 2 CK

"Are Thousands of Medical Cures Hiding in Plain Sight?" @freakonomics.bsky.social freakonomics.com/podcast/are-...

New guidelines on pulmonary embolus are out, they provide a framework for escalating therapy based on risk, derived from clinical, imaging, and lab assessment. The at-a-glance document provides a great quick summary. @accintouch.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.... www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

How does calcium "stabilize the membranes" in hyperkalemia? The Curious Clinicians lay out the evidence curiousclinicians.libsyn.com/reboot-hyper...

Survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that the public's #1 healthcare concern is prior auth, nearly half of Americans have been denied, delayed, or forced into alternative care www.kff.org/public-opini...

Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation with @cardionerds

More than half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals at risk of closure, report finds www.wapt.com/article/more... actual report: chqpr.org/downloads/Ru... Among Florida's rural hospitals, 36% at risk

References on the increase in US healthcare spending from 1776 to present day www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/... www.cms.gov/research-sta... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Non-medical androgen use and risk of CV events onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

First in human, ischemia-free, beating heart transplantation www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #cardiosky

“Chapters are a great way for members to participate in ACC activities at a local level and get to do it in their own backyard.” -#ACCBOG Chair @drdavemd.bsky.social in a 🆕 REMARKable Conversations w/ #ACCPresident @chriskramermd.bsky.social#ACCBOG#ACCPresidentnd Dr. Eugene Yang. Hear more 👉 https://bit.ly/4qCrmLL

Differences in cardiac output based on thermodilution vs. direct Fick www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #cardiosky

Glad to share this summary of @accintouch.bsky.social Legislative conference in JACC Advances @jaccjournals.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.... #cardiosky

REMARKable Conversations with @chriskramermd.bsky.social and Dr. Eugene Yang about @accintouch.bsky.social Chapters and Sections www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLY...

1.1 mil doctors in US. In 2013, 3.5% (~38,500) stopped practice. In 2019, that increased to 4.9% (~53,900). There were ~40,000 PGY1 spots last year. The math suggests that as of 7 years ago, the US physician workforce was shrinking by >10,000 a year www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Defining ultra-processed foods is difficult, this new document from @accintouch.bsky.social and by Dr. Kim Williams et al does that and much more www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... #cardiosky

"After private equity acquisition, hospitals on average reduced salaries and staffing relative to nonacquired hospitals, notably in the EDs and ICUs, which are higher-acuity and staffing-sensitive areas." www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Multimodality Imaging in the Diagnostic Work-Up of Patients With Cardiac Masses www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #cardiosky

'The prevalence and magnitude of CAD did not differ between recreational athletes with high vs low postexercise cTn, suggesting that most of the variation in exercise-induced cTn elevations is not attributable to occult CAD' @jaccjournals.bsky.social

New meta-analysis in @jaccjournals.bsky.social finds that antiplatelet treatment informed by genetic testing may reduce risk of adverse events www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Part four of @Freakonomics Guide to Getting Better on the current state of AI in healthcare freakonomics.com/podcast/can-...

Exploring mechanisms of how adipose tissue may contribute to HF www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #Cardiosky

91% of cardiologists recommend physical activity, 69% accomplish guideline recommendations for themselves @cardio10s @JACCJournals www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10....

A mentor of mine used to say that clinic was like a gas and would expand to occupy all available space (i.e. time). Seems that this observation also applies to EHR time. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

Study suggests that healthcare worker "Pata-Gucci" fleece jackets are more likely to carry pathogens than other long sleeved items, including white coats www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

REBOOT episode of @thecurbsiders with @MKIttlesonMD on HFpEF audioboom.com/posts/878408... #cardiosky

Among patients with periop MI, management by a cardiologist was associated with improved clinical outcomes #cardiosky academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...

A thought provoking hypothesis about simultaneous measurement of myocardial and renal blood flow, using PET www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #cardiosky

@jaccjournals.bsky.social and @hmkyale.bsky.social introducing novel submission categories for the cardiology community to contribute www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... #cardiosky

I am honored to have had the opportunity to work with Dr. Bahr, pioneer of the concept of a Chest Pain Center to promote Early Heart Attack Care. www.acc.org/Latest-in-Ca...

The final album from @megadethdelisi.bsky.social features "Let There be Shred" open.spotify.com/track/0E6gLY...

Another video from @jbcarmody.bsky.social with pure gold advice, this time on how to assemble your rank list www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMD1... Sell: work hours, Buy: good attitude colleagues 💯

What is bendopnea? @curiousclinpod.bsky.social curiousclinicians.libsyn.com/reboot-bendo...

Meta-analysis, 5 RCTs of colchicine after MI, no significant effect: (8.2% versus 9.3%; RR, 0.83 [95% CI, 0.66–1.04]) www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #cardiosky

Abstracts submitted to SCCT2026 are eligible for major awards, including the Karlsberg Best Abstract Award, with prizes of up to $5,000, free registration to SCCT2027, travel support and SCCT membership. https://ow.ly/FBeX50Y1oiy

🚀 Issue #6 90-Second Cardio-OB Journal Scan with @cardioobdoc.bsky.social Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Long-Term Risk of Atrial Fibrillation 🗞️ Jan 26, 2026 article @jamacardiology.com 🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #ACCRepOB #ACCCardioOB #CardioObstetrics #Epeeps #CardioSky

An amazing start to 2026 with the Jan issue of JNC, articles on O15 vs Rb82, impact of anemia, and how to do flow using SPECT www.journalofnuclearcardiology.org/current #cardiosky #CVNuc

Causes of troponin elevation in patients <60, ASCVD #1, T2MI #2. In women, SCAD comes in as the #3, followed by embolism, spasm, and MINOCA-U (other causes) @jaccjournals.bsky.social @yadersandoval.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

How to use #WhyCMR to evaluate HFpEF www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #cardiosky

Closing out the week with this great sports story from @radiolab.bsky.social radiolab.org/podcast/the-...

"Shifting only 5% of cardiac ablations from hospitals to ASCs could yield savings of $160 million in 2026 alone, rising to $3.3 billion by 2035." @JACCJournals @dkenigsberg @ChrisKramerMD www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Pooling data from >5 mil participants, the lowest risk SBP for all cause mortality was 135, with values from 120-150 all below a relative risk of 1.0 www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social

When Do Clinical Trials Expire?: Reflections on Beta-Blockers and the Half-Life of Evidence @JACCJournals @hmkyale www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Real world self-reported data from >40K pulse field ablations found <1% major complications and no esophageal fistulas, pulm vein stenosis, or phrenic palsy www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... #cardiosky #epeeps

Applications being accepted for @accintouch.bsky.social QI grants!! cvquality.acc.org/accreditatio... #cardiosky