Lou Hart, MD

Medical Director of Health Equity @YNHH. Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hospital Medicine @YaleMed - Alum @VanderbiltU @UCSDMedSchool - Tweets are my own

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

Fascinating conversation on race, structural racism, genetics and ancestry and how they all play out in medicine and health inequity. Thank you #NEJM for providing the platform for this historically under prioritized conversation. https://t.co/a7JBlwFGkW

[STAT @statnews]

"What you want to have is a system in which for every dollar collected in premiums, $1 is spent in care of patients."
@donberwick talks about Medicare’s future at the #STATSummit

[Joel Bervell @joelbervell]

In medicine, there’s a prenatal blood test called an “alpha-fetoprotein test” that is recommended to every pregnant person; but it includes a race adjustment. Let’s talk about it.

[Joel Bervell @joelbervell]

Have you ever had to donate blood or receive a blood transfusion? If so, you have this Black surgeon to thank.

Let’s talk about Dr. Charles Drew, the “father of blood bankingL whose work has literally saved millions of lives. #wokeblackhistory ##blackhistorymonth

[Komal Bajaj MD, MS-HPEd @KomalBajajMD]

Effective 1/2023, @TJCommission has new & revised requirements to reduce healthcare disparities. Accreditation standards are an important lever to change healthcare delivery. Full report can be downloaded from the link below.

A short 🧵:

https://t.co/iXR1tmdJkN

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

It's fascinating watching the government use the same playbook from 40 years ago.

Every single excuse Milton Friedman said they'd use is word-for-word what's being said today.

https://t.co/NAwheT5KR4

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

Let's take a moment to remember the good times.

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

@kristenak003 We need to organize for better working conditions & pay. The far majority of people writing our checks are not physicians. We’ve relinquished healthcare leadership to a cartel of non-clinical leaders who profit handsomely off our licenses. Who does our current system benefit most

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

Get it my brother! @joelbervell

[Joel Bervell @joelbervell]

Feeling so thankful to be at such a supportive medical school! Thank you for this profile about the work I'm doing on social media to fight and educate audiences about racial biases via short form content. #medtwitter #healthdisparities
https://t.co/ZaijvKD14Z

[Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH @joefigs2]

New @Health_Affairs study shows Black patients had *2.5 times* higher odds of negative descriptors (eg "non-adherent,” "agitated”) in EHRs even after SES/risk adjustment.

Concerning for racial bias/racist thinking by docs/RNs

Led by M.Sun @DrMonicaPeek E.Tung, T.Oliwa @UChicago

[UCSF Dept. of Family & Community Medicine @UCSFFamilyMed]

Physicians have been taught that Black patients w/hypertension should be treated with a narrower range of medication options than all other racial groups. This approach has no apparent patient benefit, according to a @UCSF FCM study in https://t.co/JF3nUnUGti #healthequity

[NHFPL @NHFPL]

Many thanks to Delores Williams of People Get Ready, Dr. Margai Luba, Dr. Elana Cook, Dr. Kristin Reese, & Dr. Adam Berkwitt of Yale Pediatrics, & Monica Monk-Flake of Monk Youth, Jazz & STEAM Collective Inc. for a wonderful program! There was even a special drop off from Santa!

[ErfanKarim @ErfanKarim]

I'm hiring! Come join my expanding @NYCHealthSystem ExpressCare team.

Looking for clinicians who are driven to address health equity gaps by bringing care into the homes of NYers. https://t.co/EmjthvbNrM via @LinkedIn

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

@kidney_boy @trpendz @NYCHealthSystem was an early adopter in abolishing race-based medicine from eGFR with clinical consensus obtained by September 2020 and implemented shortly thereafter. NYC H+H is our nation's largest integrated safety-net health system.

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

The racial wealth gap in our country draws its root to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War... To say the US government didn't have a role in creating this wealth inequity implies you don't understand our country's tortuous history.

https://t.co/bbpCXY6Qrf

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

Extremely insightful article by my colleague @tsaiduck77 that warns of the inadequacy of racial biology, its misguided and shameful past, and how its framework, if not appropriately critiqued, harms us all.
Our past decisions still haunt us today!

https://t.co/bZdNpupVbH

[Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH @AmandaJoyMD]

When I’m quiet for awhile you KNOW I’ve been writing! Check out my piece on the crisis of Black youth suicide in @PsychTimes. Shout out to @TheOpEdProject and @NeilJYoung17 for training my op-Ed writing muscle! 🤙🏽https://t.co/BzBuUWS1fi

[NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi |North Central Bronx @JacobiNCBHosp]

Great news! 🎊🎉 Today we opened our very own Pride Health Center which will provide access to care for our #LGBTQ community, who often face barriers when trying to access healthcare.
Learn more about the first Pride Health Center in the Bronx:
https://t.co/moc2NBSCml

[NYC Health + Hospitals @NYCHealthSystem]

Dr. Ted Long, the Executive Director of the #NYCTestandTrace Corps, says the new #NYCPublicHealthCorps will prioritize health equity in communities hardest hit by the #COVID19 pandemic. Learn more: https://t.co/KwLTOSOifV

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

The racial disparities seen during America’s “War on Drugs” has been referred by some as Jim Crow 2.0 https://t.co/WWy8C3LO08

[Lou Hart, MD @DrLouHart]

Substance use disorder and opioid use disorder are behavioral health diagnoses. The criminalization of these mental health conditions has had devastating impacts for all Americans, unfortunately more so for historically marginalized communities #Equity4All https://t.co/kmYhnwczOJ