Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA

Meds-Peds Physician at Baylor Scott & White | MD-MA Design in Healthcare Dell Med ‘21 | UK Med-Peds '25 | altMBA 39 | Cat Dad | Runner, Yogi, Sci Fi & Fantasy

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

I can hear your concern, and I too am worried about the state of society for young people, but questioning medication so vocally may not be the best strategy. Keep talking about it, the kids are our future!

Love,
- An Austin-area Internal Medicine *and* Pediatrics doctor

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

Hey @Jason I'd be careful about the words you're using when talking about adolescent and teen mental health. It almost sounds like you're suggesting that overmedication is the cause of certain issues being observed among young people.

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

Rather than first saying "kids are overmedicated, this is terrible!" I'd recommend viewing it first as a symptom of something else. Medication is more readily available than things like therapy, coaching, and financial stability - the rest of that is a more wicked problem.

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

Now if I try and address all of this in a 15 or 20 minute clinic visit, it's nearly impossible to do, especially when trying to really listen to someone explain their concerns and engage in any form of behavior change counseling. This is SUCH a hard issue for us providers!

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

@Jason you briefly mentioned vaccines on the most recent pod so here are my brief thoughts as both an internist and pediatrician:
First and most important, it feels like both sides are very extreme in their positions and seem to get tilted extremely easily so discussion is hard

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

Complicating all of this is, well, how complicated the immune system is. I'd venture a guess and say it's the most dynamic, involved, and complicated system in the body, and so that makes everything (immunization schedules, types of vaccines, boosters, etc.) harder to explain

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

@Emaperidol Ditto for the medical education complex still referring to them as golden weekends, no thank you gaslighting

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

I've enjoyed trying out @GoogleAI Gemini 1.5 Pro with Deep Research for some medical topics, but can't for the life of me figure out why they've blocked this phrase without any way to get around it. It's an important question I'd love to get some answers to

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

@tony_breu Treat to target versus fixed-dose vitamin D supplementation versus standard of care in older adults

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

@Garmin I’ll take the link to the papers, thanks!

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

Trying to shop for a new @Garmin and am beyond confused by all this 'recovery insight', 'training readiness', 'training stress', 'fitness age', 'body battery', 'sleep coach', 'sleep score', etc. What are all these things?

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

Curiously, heart rate recovery isn't a feature despite how easy it would be to test. Though I'm still not even sure that matters! Anyone have any insight on what actually matters for non-elite training besides the basics of nutrition, sleep, stress, and listening to your body?

[Joshua L. Morris, MD, MA @JoshMedPeds]

I have a hard time thinking any of this matters, and while not mentioned above, does HRV even matter other than just something to look at? Beyond things like grip strength and VO2 max, are there any other sports metrics that even matter?