Joseph Locker

BC ‘91. /Orthopaedic surgeon at The Orthopaedic Institute/ very amateur golfer/tweets my own and not medical advice

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@DutchRojas Thoughts on this? I am living in this.
https://t.co/siRSTtRzVI

[Deeg @DeegSports]

NFL All Pros by College — Since 2000

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@ajdillon7 Ever to Excel

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Many of my Republican colleagues champion “merit” - meeting basic standards for a job.
The Surgeon General MUST be a member of the USPHS Commissioned Corps. To serve as a physician in the Corps, you MUST hold an active medical license.

I -and every prior SG- was held to that standard.

If the administration lowers (or creates a back door around) those standards, and the Senate confirms Casey Means (who has let her license go inactive and didn't complete residency), they undermine every argument they've made about merit, standards, and opposing “DEI” shortcuts. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[BC Men's Hockey @BC_MHockey]

BOSTON IS MAROON AND GOLD 🦅

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@PeltMD @ArthroToday @g_lonza005 @alexneuwirthMD @CenterRotation @raineyvb I’ve done this for several years. Quicker, efficient, and almost impossible for a resident to team eccentrically. A must-sharp reamers

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@GoCFBaseball 👀

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@bcatleagle I’m kind of happy he is annoyed here. Annoying loss- before CFP we’d be done for. Just need to take care of ACC business. This loss will mean nothing

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@EagsEagsEags @CommitToBoB BC and Goldens-can’t lose

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@generalorthomd @OrthoBroPA Exhibit #99896- we make much better surgeons than patients

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@hjluks @doctorinigo Howard as you know and I preach daily to patients- if exercise was a drug its effects would make it the most important drug of all time

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

30 years! @foofighters Rendon Inn in the Hangar 9/8/95 New Orleans. Will never forget that show

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

Dear @WHOOP @willahmed I like the long lasting battery. If only it measured my HR adequately 🤷🏻‍♂️. Everyone’s strain gets cut in half in one day. It’s like @TheLeftoversHBO

[Joseph Locker @DrLocker]

@txsportsdoc I just threw my statins in the garbage

[BC Men's Hockey @BC_MHockey]

New season starts tonight 🦅

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Every professional organization in medicine should denounce the involvement of private equity in healthcare. They should send a clear message to their young physician members that PE is bad for hospitals, private practices, and patients.

They won’t do it, but they should.

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

New swag box from @BCFootball just came in and WOW do I love it.

Thank you Coach O’Brien and the rest of the Eagles!

[BC Men's Hockey @BC_MHockey]

Fans lining up already for tonight’s game!

Thank you to our students for their dedication and support! 👏🏼

[Lauri @LaurisRetired]

@Eternal_Kernal @ZLevyMD @UHC

[Tyler Olson, EA @olsonplanner]

If you think physicians are overpaid, maybe you should take the necessary course work in undergrad, take and pass the MCAT, apply for med schools, pay hundreds of thousands for tuition, learn for 4 years in a very high pressure learning environment, then pay thousands more to apply for a training job that you may or may not get, then if you do get it, you get to work 80 hours a week making $15/hour for 3 - 9 years wherein more than one day off in a row is a rarity, all the while many normal life events and processes get pushed to the side, then you FINALLY get a “real” job that’ll pay very well but you’ll realize your patients are not your customers (the insurance companies are), they are the product, and you’ll realize you have a lot to learn about the business of medicine in order to advocate for your patients and for yourself in order to be okay.

Then YOU can say “no thanks I don’t deserve to make that much.”

Or you can just skip all of that, realize now that the insurance and hospital system complexes are trying to hoodwink you, and appreciate the life work and care physicians commit to all of us, recognizing that while all things in medicine play a role in what we see today, physicians themselves are not the villain.

They are on our side.