The conquest of the CDC by antivax liars is up there with Dobbs as the most depressing health event of my lifetime

no it won't

When patients don't trust their health insurance, cancer diagnostic delays double (30%→60%). Coverage uncertainty itself disrupts care. Read more and watch the interview on this new research: codex.ucsf.edu/coverage-unc... @ajsharmamd.bsky.social

I'm glad the authors noted that "incorporating patient's preferences for music...may have resulted in different findings" because exposure to slow-tempo relaxing contemporary music is about the most reliable way to increase my pain and anxiety jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

AI is transforming healthcare fast—but how do we ensure it actually improves diagnosis? UCSF CODEX brought together 30 healthcare leaders to develop practical metrics for measuring AI's impact on diagnostic excellence. Full story: codex.ucsf.edu/news/healthc...

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do: -Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families -Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear -Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

Highlighting some of the many current pitfalls of A.I. in health care @newyorker.com @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It is grimly ironic to write “I am concerned about MAHA” in the chart

I wrote a little thing about Chicago, my beautiful complicated city, on the eve of occupation. dansinker.com/posts/202…

This essentially is sending #autism discussions back sixty years back to the days when society blamed unloving mothers for their children becoming #ActuallyAutistic. It's going to inflict endless guilt among moms across the country. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

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"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents. “He’s much more of a criminal than I am”" streetsensemedia.org/article/home...

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The fact that some of the most prominent proponents of artificial intelligence are inveterate racists should be more of a concern than it seems to be right now

As a doctor in a hospital that serves the urban poor, Lindsay Ryan's patients already face such a gantlet of obstacles that modest barriers to accessing government programs can effectively screen them out.

Amid [everything], there is a new Hüsker Dü live album coming out, so there is still some hope for 2025

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

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Vaccine recommendations coming from this administration have no legitimacy. ACIP, FDA, CDC - all fatally compromised by RFK Jr's lunacy. Whatever they say on vaccines should be ignored.

Written three or four Middle East wars ago….

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This will probably happen with clinical notes produced by ambient scribes and AI chart summarization tools. Unlikely that busy clinicians will catch AI errors since that doesn’t happen now with copy-and-paste errors.

If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.

The Pope at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. No wonder the White Sox swept the ‘Stros

Glad to disseminate this paper which really calls for a critical health equity lens when considering #AI in evaluation and treatment. What jumped out for me was de-biasing prompts only improved 67% of the scenarios. I also appreciated the #intersectionality lens to see how bias can be compounded.

📌 New CODEX Editor's Pick: "Comparison of Initial Artificial Intelligence (Al) and Final Physician Recommendations in Al-Assisted Virtual Urgent Care Visits" in @annalsofim.bsky.social Read our take on the bottom line, why this matters, and who it impacts: codex.ucsf.edu/news/editors...

The defining trend of 2025 is people searching desperately for secret, complex logic behind choices that defy it.

Eliminating AHRQ will make patients less safe and will make it harder to fix our health care system. Such a thoughtless and destructive decision. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

right now i’m worried most AI tools’ biggest contribution is offering a permission structure for devaluing a lot of human work & that its cultural impact is something like giving ppl a private equity mindset - looking at the world & saying ‘what can i strip mine to increase margins/productivity?’

In this context “institutionalized” often means hospitalized, because disabled people who can’t care for themselves in the community inevitably get sick. They then remain hospitalized even after recovering because there is no safe place for them to go. Bad for everyone.

No it won’t www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...

Gee, I wonder what that study on vaccines and autism will show www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... "Geier and his father, Mark Geier, have published papers claiming vaccines increase the risk of autism, a theory that has been studied for decades and scientifically debunked."

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Sitting very uncomfortably with the realization that the disruption to equity-related research will probably disproportionately affect early and mid-career women in academia, who are still recovering from being disproportionately impacted by the pandemic

Please do yourself a favor and listen to Sen. Hassan emotionally comment and blast RFKJr on his stance on vaccine and autism and spreading lies. This is emotional, brilliant. As father who has lived this as well this blew me away. Thank you Senator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zG...

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Merry Christmas! youtu.be/r326c3DewuE?...

R.I.P. Bob “Slim” Dunlap. The former Replacements guitarist died at home in Minneapolis today due to complications from a severe stroke he suffered in 2012. Dunlap replaced Bob Stinson in the ‘Mats in 1987 and played on their final two albums before releasing two solo LPs in the ‘90s. He was 73.

My editorial on this study is in JAMA Network Open and is linked below. The tl;dr - don’t believe the AI hype (yet). #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

My editorial on this study is in JAMA Network Open and is linked below. The tl;dr - don’t believe the AI hype (yet). #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The conscious embrace and enabling of anti-vax by the GOP leaders, the ones who know better, is probably one of the most unambiguously evil things I’ve seen in my lifetime.