Greg Matthews

REAL Physician Influence @HealthQuant. KOL Identification & Strategy. Social analytics pioneer. Advisor: @MayoClinic SMN, @SxSW.

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

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[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@xurbanxcowboyx @LoewyLawFirm Believe me I wish I had one but the economics just don’t work in Austin anymore. The light rail proposal we have right now is a joke (and I voted for it!)

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@Taylor_McGregor Seriously - I almost forgot what it was like to watch a fun Cubs game. Of course, 99% of the fun happened in the bottom of the ninth, but I'll take it!

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@CaitlinCloud9 I could not agree more. The pendulum swung way, way too far away from institutionalization.

[Shockwave Medical @ShockwaveIVL]

For Healthcare Professionals Only: #ShockwaveC2Aero makes its debut in Spain!

The first cases in Spain mark an important milestone in the treatment of coronary calcium and for the Spanish interventional cardiology community. Early experience highlights how innovation can support physicians in addressing complex coronary lesions with greater precision.

By enabling controlled and efficient calcium modification, Shockwave C2 Aero is helping refine daily practice where it matters most. We’re proud to support Spanish clinicians as they continue advancing patient care.

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Shockwave C2 Aero is a CE marked medical device (CE2797). For professional use only.
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[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@TheRestHistory I’ve been a RIHC member for 2 years (just renewed in March). I joined and renewed on the website, not Apple Podcasts. However, this week Apple Podcasts insists on serving me ads even after deleting the pod and reconnecting based on the link in the members site. Happened on pocket casts too. PLEASE HELP!

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

Fascinating findings. The real question is how we can promote dietary changes that will actually allow it to mean something in the real world.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Fish oil is sold for your heart. The stranger result is what it does to behavior.

Researchers pooled 29 randomized trials, 3,918 people, half of them children. About a gram of omega-3 a day, for a few months, and aggression dropped. Both kinds: the hot, provoked, lash-out kind and the cold, planned kind. It held across ages, both sexes, and clinical diagnoses.

The effect is modest, roughly a fifth of a standard deviation, not a personality transplant. What makes it believable is where it acts. The omega-3 DHA is most concentrated in the prefrontal cortex, the patch of brain that does impulse control, and supplementing it seems to firm up the braking circuit between that region and the amygdala.

A cheap capsule, partly tuning a behavior we usually file under character. Small effect, hard data, and a mechanism that actually fits.

[Scott Shadiow @SSinSF]

We have officially entered the Aero era of IVL, and I'm happy to say, it delivers. #MyCompnay

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[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Ooooh, are we sharing fables? I got one for you.

So, there's this frog that enters public service, presumably for the right reasons. He spends years as a district judge, then gets elected to the state supreme court, then attorney general of that state.

Wouldn't you know it, that frog makes his way up to the U.S. Senate and gets reelected a few times. He seems to have a great path ahead.

Well, along comes this scorpion who's running for president and saying outright: if you don't support me, I'm gonna sting you.

The supposedly wise frog warns everyone else about the scorpion, tells them this scorpion is bad news, tells them this scorpion is gonna sting them with no regard for their support.

Alas, the scorpion is elected anyway, and the frog, despite knowing the scorpion is going to sting, keeps supporting the scorpion.

The frog, once wise, spends a decade defending the scorpion stinging others even though the frog knows there's a damn good chance he's gonna get stung himself because the scorpion doesn't do loyalty.

The frog, you see, is too chickenshit to speak out against the scorpion and decides to just wait out the scorpion's time. He's okay with others getting stung, though. He figures if he can appeal to the scorpion's ego and support him, he'll evade the eventual sting.

So, he spends years pandering to the scorpion and looking the other way while others get stung. And after a while, he figures he's gonna make it out okay.

Well, along comes this other frog who panders even harder. A truly corrupt and nasty frog. No integrity at all. Seems to have no soul.

And the frog thinks: there ain't no way the scorpion is gonna favor this other frog. I've bent over backwards for the scorpion. I've been loyal. This other frog is ugly as sin. No one likes the other frog. The scorpion ain't gonna choose him over me, right?

The frog is now neck-deep in delusion. He thinks the way to get out of this pickle is to pander to the scorpion even harder. He even tries to get a highway named after the scorpion.

Well... it didn't work. One day, the scorpion thanked the frog for his loyalty and then repeatedly stung him into oblivion. Stung him over and over. Seemed to enjoy it, honestly.

I think I read that in Aesop's or somewhere.

[Virtue of Crowds @VirtueofCrowds]

Austin is well-served by @JackCraver but there are two huge problems with his approach here, which reflects all too well what local leaders believe. 1/when my rant is over

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@JennMGreenberg I’m hiring Talarico as my Senator; not as my pastor. His biblical doctrine is weak, but he wants Citizens United overturned and gerrymandering banned. That makes him a better candidate than Paxton who is literally the worst “public servant” in the world.

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@Taylor_McGregor Thank goodness!

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@cmclymer I noticed that too.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@WhelanHealth @mcuban I think he’s fantasizing about doctors being able to make decisions that aren’t based on their ability to repay massive medical school debts. Interesting that your mind would go there though!

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@ClassicJukeboxx @SBakerMD Fair. I’m still early in the game. So far, so good.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

If you want more doctors doing house calls, not selling their practices and going to work for the big HC conglomerates, make public med school free.

A little gov intervention, so that rather than having 100s of thousands in debt guiding their decisions , they can do primary care or be a family physician and spend as much time with patients as they want.

They can take cash. They can take chickens.

If you had 250k after almost a decade of school, do you think that would impact your decisions ?

And if you own a big HC conglomerate, does knowing they are drowning in debt impact your decision and how you compete and contract with them ?

Fuck yeah it does.

You pressure them till they have to sell out to you in an acquihire. They can’t afford to survive on their own and every huge HC company takes advantage of them

About 32k students enter med school and DO school a year. 75k for a grant each. Thats 2.4b annually for each class.

That’s it.

You want better healthcare for everyone. That’s the place to start.

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@moonbeamer6 @SBakerMD Exactly

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

@ChiSportsDay You know who was a pretty darn good manager? David Ross.