Caesar

CMO, emergency medicine

[Chris Powell @RealChrisPowell]

I wish i knew this years ago. I've had one shoulder surgery already, and refused to do another becuase the recovery was so brutal...and now that i'm doing this...thank goodness that I didnt!

Your shoulder pain might have a free solution. And it sounds almost too simple to be true.

Hanging from a bar.

According to Wolff's Law, you can actually change the shape of a bone based on the degree of mechanical loading. Dr. John Kirsch discovered that when you hang from a pull-up bar, you impose enough force to start reshaping a bone in your shoulder blade called the acromion.

Years of bad posture and the weight of our arms literally HOOK this bone, and it pinches everything in your shoulder when you raise your arms overhead.

In his research, 90 out of 92 patients avoided surgery just by hanging consistently. That is a 98% success rate. And it costs zero dollars!

Now here is the catch. You need to hang for longer than a minute to see real benefits. If you cannot hang that long yet, start with your feet still on the ground, sink into it, and build from there.

Shout out to Scott Bailey for this incredible breakdown. Give him a follow if you want to move better and feel better in your body.

#ShoulderPain #Hanging #WolffsLaw #Mobility #TransformNation #ChrisPowell 💪🏼

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Many years ago I hurt my knee playing sports. I was referred to the orthopedist for one of the local pro teams. After keeping me waiting for 2.5 hours, he diagnosed a cartilage tear and recommended surgery. I was so mad at his manner and tardiness I left without scheduling.

The next week I got a second opinion from a much younger doc who was likely more current on the recent medical literature. He looked at the same MRI. He said he could do surgery now but his advice was to wait 30 days and see if it healed on its own. It did.

Medical reversal is when a practice that became widely used is later shown to be ineffective or even harmful. Examples like meniscus surgery show the need to keep gathering evidence. A not immaterial part of the practice of modern medicine doesn't improve health, and may be net harmful.

[University of Michigan Library @UMichLibrary]

Fingernail calligraphy! Remy Djavaherian (BA '25) shares a blog post drawn from his work with an album in our Islamic Manuscripts Collection. "Invisible gifts, strings attached: an investigation into a Qajar fingernail album": https://t.co/qiC6COPEeW

[Caesar @EvidencedMed]

Very healthy.

[Caesar @EvidencedMed]

Exhausted after a brutal overnight ER shift, but @Tesla FSD drove me 2 hours to Palo Alto FLAWLESSLY. Arrived refreshed, not drained. Game-changer for healthcare workers! 🚗💤 #TeslaFSD #AutoPilot

[kunle.app @ay_o]

Who's building the AI scribe for patients?
- Record doctors visit on your phone
- Deepresearch agent for finding stuff patients want (side effects, specialists for 2nd opinion, clinical trials, therapies etc all using your visit as context)
- group chat for caregivers/family

[Caesar @EvidencedMed]

Today’s scientific journals? Instagram—polished, paywalled, poser vibes.

Tomorrow’s should be X—raw, open, real debates, no filter.

[Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @VoicesUnheard]

It's being called the largest research fraud in medical history.

Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer's speakers' bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals.

Now being reported across the mainstream media is the fact that Dr. Reuben accepted a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to study Celebrex in 2005. His research, which was published in a medical journal, has since been quoted by hundreds of other doctors and researchers as "proof" that Celebrex helped reduce pain during post-surgical recovery. There's only one problem with all this: No patients were ever enrolled in the study!

Dr. Scott Reuben, it turns out, faked the entire study and got it published anyway.

It wasn't the first study faked by Dr. Reuben: He also faked study data onBextra and Vioxx drugs, reports the Wall Street Journal.

As a result of Dr. Reuben's faked studies, the peer-reviewed medical journal Anesthesia & Analgesia was forced to retract 10 "scientific" papers authored by Reuben. The Day of London reports that 21 articles written by Dr. Reuben that appear in medical journals have apparently been fabricated, too, and must be retracted.

After being caught fabricating research for Big Pharma, Dr. Reuben has reportedly signed a plea agreement that will require him to return $420,000 that he received from drug companies. He also faces up to a 10-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine.

He was also fired from his job at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass. after an internal audit there found that Dr. Reuben had been faking research data for 13 years.

No worries, they don't fake research studies when it's concerning vaccines. 😳

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

Can someone explain why the AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION is actively lobbying for government-funded soda?

[Caesar @EvidencedMed]

The only thing that outperform the Oura ring in telling you if you’ve slept well is your own body. No subscription fee either. https://t.co/T6r4TWqKn4

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@pmarca AI diagnostics will be amazing

[Caesar @EvidencedMed]

Anyone who has had a parent with Parkinson’s Disease will immediately recognize the similarities to @POTUS’s movements and masked facies. https://t.co/CWmdnCVVvI

[Myoung Cha @myoungcha]

1/ Excited to announce @CarbonHealth's first at-risk primary care deal in the commercial PPO market in California with @UHC starting Jan 2024. Very novel deal which should benefit employers and members in California who are facing unprecedented premium increases right now. 🧵

[Myoung Cha @myoungcha]

1/ One of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes is about how computers are the equivalent of a bicycle for the mind.

With AI-enabled hands-free charting @CarbonHealth, it feels like we have finally unlocked the bicycle for the doctor’s mind. 🧵

[Caesar @EvidencedMed]

Thank to @erenbali and @gdb , I’m never going to see patients without this technology ever again at @CarbonHealth.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

GPT-4 in @CarbonHealth — cuts the time to create a medical record to four mins, saving doctors 10 minutes: https://t.co/INLtUBI3Ht

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Despite our best efforts to negotiate with Anthem, they continue to deny us at Carbon Health a fair reimbursement for our services.

The worst part is how many patients' healthcare this negatively impacts.

Sharing an email from one of our patients (with permission)

[Mohana Ravindranath @ravindranize]

Got a rare window into a heated dispute between primary care tech startup Carbon and Elevance/Anthem Blue Cross, which it says paid less than competitors: https://t.co/e5OZP2OmWE

[STAT @statnews]

Carbon Health blasted health insurer Elevance on Monday for paying it less than competitors — a rare public escalation of the behind-the-scenes disputes between providers and payers. https://t.co/d8ef5AbD6J

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Last year, Elevance, one of the largest health insurance companies and more commonly known as Anthem, made $157b in revenue and posted $8b in profit.

Yet they refuse to pay their providers a livable wage.

https://t.co/PD3aYgCZjz

[Christina Farr @chrissyfarr]

My go-to resources postpartum:

- @OathCare for questions related to baby acne, breastfeeding & sleep.
- @CarbonHealth for primary care.
- WhatsApp for connecting with moms in a similar stage of life for q’s around getting back to work etc.

[Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell @DR_BCW]

This Saturday, February 18th, I will be taking the stage with an amazing lineup of speakers at @TEDxRutgers University. It is an honor to have the opportunity to come together with such an incredible group of humans to share ideas worth spreading! #Dr_BCW #BeyondClinicalWalls