Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd

Family medicine physician-educator at @TJUHospital | Underserved care | Education enthusiast | MD, Michigan Medical School | BA, University of Michigan

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

getting paid by the government per vaccine and you need to think for yourself”

This is deeply troubling and is harbinger; we MUST protect medical education.

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

Got this text today from a colleague in an NP grad program (not at Jefferson):

“our ENT guest lecturer just ended his lecture with the covid vaccines were a government conspiracy and the only reason hospitals and other places mandated you get them was because they were…

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

Massive. These price cuts will hopefully begin to address disparities in who does and doesn’t get these critical medications @UREssien

[McKenzie Wilson @McKenzieAWilson]

🚨 HUGE NEWS FROM THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION:

Today, 10 of the most expensive and frequently dispensed drugs for seniors are getting a massive price cut: 9 out of 10 of these drugs are getting their price slashed in *half.*

https://t.co/SXisufveWB

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

@UMichSurgery @jdimick1 Congratulations Dr. Hughes

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

Look what you can buy at the Grab-N-Go in the airport in the Dominican Republic!

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

New fave thing to teach the residents is ferritin levels and iron deficiency anemia, all thanks to @acweyand!

[Shematologist, MD @acweyand]

My face seeing some of these trash ferritin reference intervals.

As a reminder, ferritin in adults should at minimum be 25 and ideally 50+

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

@UMichMedSchool And @jdimick1 obviously

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

@UMichMedSchool If you want to see somebody cheese really hard, get Dr. Stalburg next to that trophy!

[Gillian Kolla, PhD @GillianKolla]

Very strong editorial from @TorontoStar today on the need to expand safer supply programs. Evidence in top medical journals shows these small, pilot programs have been saving the lives & improving the health of the people who’ve been able to access them https://t.co/zY4RLuD02C

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

@RyanMarino Anybody got a spare mass spectrometer around??

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

Super insightful conversation, useful for any academic person looking to do research in partnership with historically exploited communities.

Gaining trust, being flexible with goals, demonstrating community benefit from research were all big takeaways.

[Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @MyHarmReduction]

In case you missed our incredibly instructive and inspiring December #DrugResearchersRT, you can tune in and watch it here: https://t.co/9sJe5h6WT5

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

@RyanMarino Any thoughts of putting drug-checking capabilities at these sites to test substances for things like xylazine, fentanyl, etc to decrease overdoses on-site?

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

Outstanding

[Dak Prescott @dak]

Probably gonna get a lot of $h!t for this. @LeadFromBehind

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

@MyHarmReduction @BridgeToTx This is awesome, thanks for posting.

@BridgeToTx’s resource page is an absolute gold mine.

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

“A growing workforce of addiction medicine physicians is now positioned to join those of addiction psychiatry to drive system-level change… by serving as expert clinicians, teachers and faculty, and community or government-level change agents.”

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

Studying for the addiction boards, a few striking quotes from the @ASAMorg Essentials of Addiction Medicine:

“In the United States, unhealthy substance use and addiction cause 23% of all deaths”

[Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd @GregJaffeMD]

“It is the ethical responsibility of every physician to provide competent medical care and to incorporate current scientific knowledge into his or her practice. Yet SUDs have historically been the unattended orphan of the medical profession”

[Brittani James, MD @DrBrittaniJ]

I woke up yesterday morning, looked out my window and saw the neighbors had hung this flag on their children’s playground.

Pull up a seat, and join me, friends, for The Chronicles of Being Black in a Rich, White suburb

A thread 💀

[Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD @el_sabawi]

Another 🌶️new study🌶️ showing that providing MOUD in jails and prisons saves lives! https://t.co/FAbNxmlmKN

[The Associated Press @AP]

Only 1 in 4 residential treatment centers for teens offers a recommended medicine for opioid addiction, according to a study that exposes an important gap in care. https://t.co/TwNN8RgW5B