Conner Howard

OU Alum | OSU Medicine Alum | Sports Medicine | OU FM Resident Physician | All Things Sports | 🤼 🏈 | Senior PGA Hopeful ⛳️

[Scott Hadland, MD @DrScottHadland]

New JAMA study out today: In 5.2 million US babies: the % skipping vit K shot at birth more than doubled since 2017. And babies who skipped it had >2x the risk of a brain bleed.

Vitamin K is not a vaccine. It is a vitamin babies are in low in at birth. One shot saves lives.

[George Stoia III @GeorgeStoia]

Oklahoma - 27
Texas - 24

FINAL

[Eddie Radosevich @Eddie_Rado]

If you are in Ann Arbor on Saturday, take out your phones and send us your best clips from the game or gameday. Tag your post with #FreeEddie and include @SoonerScoop.

[George Stoia III @GeorgeStoia]

Packed house in Norman for Oklahoma’s season opener on a Friday night. The temperature is a crisp 96 degrees.

[InvestingDoc @InvestingDoc]

Primary care is the lowest-paid physician specialty.

Wanna see what my day looked like today?

And somehow I’m constantly doing specialist work because patients can’t afford the specialist, don’t want to go, or literally can’t get an appointment for months.

People on Twitter keep telling me AI is going to automate primary care.

Good luck. I'm more focused on how to get paid more appropriately for all the things that I'm doing.

Here was my day today. Nothing unusual. Just an average day in primary care:

1. High cholesterol follow-up + weight-loss medication management.

2. “Annual physical.” Found a suspicious skin lesion concerning for cancer. Also noticed word-finding difficulty → started a dementia workup.

3. Hospital follow-up after a recent heart attack complicated by cardiogenic shock.

4. New dysphagia + anxiety → started workup.

5. “Annual physical.” Also menopause + hormone replacement therapy management.

6. “Annual physical.” Also follow-up after discharge from an inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.

7. 72-year-old with unintentional weight loss + coughing up blood. Concern for a new cancer → started the workup.

8. “Annual physical.” Also severe agoraphobia. He has essentially isolated himself on his property in a bunker for two years. We talked about how to start getting him back into society.

9. Annual physical. An actual annual physical!

10. “Annual physical.” Also managing multiple side effects from chemotherapy.

11. “Annual physical.” Found another suspicious skin lesion. Also started weight-loss medication and hypertension treatment.

12. “Annual physical.” Also started treatment for alcohol use disorder and connected the patient with resources.

13. “Annual physical.” Also discussed pregnancy, a recent miscarriage, and the anxiety and stress surrounding it.

14. Annual physical for a healthy guy who wanted to nerd out with me over additional biomarkers.

15. Psychiatric medication issue because the patient can’t get into psychiatry. Concern for a manic/bipolar episode + lab follow-up.

16. “Annual physical.” Also anxiety treatment, weight-loss medication management, and hypertension treatment.

17. Pulmonary fibrosis with worsening shortness of breath and anxiety. Discussed end-of-life wishes. Signed an out-of-hospital DNR and arranged additional support.

18. STI visit and treatment.

19. Type 1 diabetes + insulin pump management because the patient can’t get into endocrinology. So now primary care is managing it.

20. Virtual visit for a newly diagnosed Parkinson’s patient. Starting treatment because neurology is booked out for the next NINE MONTHS.

That was one day.

Dermatology. Cardiology. Psychiatry. Oncology. Endocrinology. Neurology. Women’s health. Addiction medicine. Palliative care.

And buried underneath all of it: prevention, hypertension, cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, medications, labs, and the actual annual physicals.

Primary care increasingly feels like the specialty that absorbs whatever the rest of the healthcare system cannot handle.

We’re paid less because what we do is labeled “primary.”

There’s nothing primary about it.

So yes, AI will absolutely change my job. I hope it does. There is plenty of administrative garbage I’d love to automate.

But replacing the person who has to walk into 20 completely different rooms, figure out what actually matters, recognize what doesn't fit, know when something is dangerous, manage what the patient can't get managed elsewhere, and then immediately reset for the next completely unrelated problem?

Good luck automating that day. Yes some of it can be automated ..but the majority..not anytime soon.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

[George Stoia III @GeorgeStoia]

@slagle747 @Eddie_Rado out

[Danny Slagle @slagle747]

The people must help
Decide before the friend group is torn apart. Safe or out?

[Oklahoma Football @OU_Football]

Clear eyes, full hearts, two weeks.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The HPV vaccine is CRUSHING cervical cancer and at this rate will eliminate it!!

An anti cancer vaccine!

It's a modern medical miracle

RFK Jr is, of course, against it

He'd rather your daughter get cervical cancer than a vaccine

[Tim @trouble_man90]

We went from passing climate bills and funding for cancer research to “if you eat the blueberries you will die” in less than two years.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Drug companies Moderna and Merck have just announced a vaccine that could stop cancer from spreading, funded with an mRNA NIH research grant.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. chose to end 22 similar mRNA research projects worth $500M in 2025.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

We’ve all heard the claims that mRNA vaccines cause “turbo cancer.” But fascinating research is starting to suggest the exact opposite.

In a preliminary study, glioblastoma patients who received a COVID vaccine had more than double the median survival of unvaccinated patients.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The people who want mRNA technology to be banned are looking especially ridiculous right now

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has succeeded in a Phase 3 trial for melanoma.

It uses the same fundamental mRNA platform as the COVID vaccines and could open an entirely new chapter in cancer treatment.

This is why we fund mRNA technology research.

[Patricia Yamane @yamane_patricia]

🙄

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

For years anti-vaxxers have cited a paper as evidence that COVID vaccines caused 3.1 million deaths across 47 countries.

It has now been retracted for misinformation.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

A systematic review of 511 studies showed that COVID-19, RSV, and flu vaccines are safe and effective

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The MMR vaccine has been studied in more than 23 million children across six decades, much of that work funded by the department @SecKennedy now runs.

Last night on CNN he told American parents it is hard to determine whether it is safe.

He is lying. Here is the evidence. 🧵