Zach Lauer

EPIC progress note author, University of Minnesota Hospitalist, Paris of the Plains Connoisseur

[Beth Joyner Waldron @BethWaldron]

🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE AUDIO of senior CVS Caremark executives disparaging patients as "brand terrorists" who Tweet about poor PBM service accessing medications or score them low on satisfaction surveys.🧵1/

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

Yet nobody in mainstream media is COVERING this at length. Gross

[ABC News @ABC]

EXCLUSIVE: Arnulfo Reyes, teacher wounded in Uvalde shooting, to @arobach: “I will not let these children and my coworkers die in vain. I will not. I will go to the end of the world to not let my students die in vain.” https://t.co/QVFp3mciRo

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Zeneta Everhart brought a searing and emotional firsthand account to Congress of the damage done to her son, an employee at the Tops supermarket, by a racist gunman armed with an assault-style weapon in the Buffalo mass shooting. https://t.co/JMkX7UrIuZ

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The gunman who killed four people at a Tulsa medical building underwent back surgery last month and the doctor who performed it was one of the victims, police said. His weapons included an AR-15-style rifle he bought hours before the attack. https://t.co/lddrAIQxdj

[Axios @axios]

Guns have become the top injury-related cause of death for U.S. kids https://t.co/4qo2zqhrdj

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Amerie Jo Garza's father, a med aide, says he found out she was one of the victims when he arrived on the scene and was helping another little girl covered in blood. She told him her best friend had been shot. When he asked her name, she said his daughter's. There aren't words.

[Stephanie Ruhle @SRuhle]

Imagine dropping your 8yr old off at school & needing a DNA test to indentify them upon return.

[Charlie M. Wray, DO, MS @WrayCharles]

Seatbelts don't work this well, yet we've accepted that as a public health measure.

>500,000 vaccinated w/second dose
544 diagnosed w/coronavirus
4 w/severe disease
0 deaths

I continue to believe we are underselling the effectiveness of this vaccine

https://t.co/guZTPPFHTW

[Zach Lauer @RealZachLauer]

@IntMedatIowa @IowaMed @JalalDiana @taherhi @IceyGee_ @uiowa_kidneys @uiowadsmIM @UIowaCancer @IM_Iowa Always a privilege to work with such motivated, thoughtful, and outstanding students from @IowaMed. The future is bright 🙌

[Tricia Pendergrast, MD @trpender]

⬆️ The average medical school debt is rising.
⬆️ The number of medical students graduating without debt is rising.

= An increasing amount of debt is concentrated on a smaller number of students.

[NEJM @NEJM]

Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The Editors note that although we came into this crisis with enormous advantages, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.

[NPR @NPR]

A federal judge who dismissed a slander lawsuit filed against Tucker Carlson said the Fox News host "is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.'"
https://t.co/oE3bw417mP

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

This is the most frightening answer I have ever received to any question I have ever asked. I’ve interviewed convicted killers with more empathy. @realDonaldTrump is advocating Civil War.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (3/10/16): "I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Olivia Troye, the former top homeland security aide to Vice President Mike Pence, endorsed Joe Biden on Thursday and accused President Trump of weak leadership and of dramatically mismanaging the response to the coronavirus crisis. https://t.co/0VuuiuKpUM

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Was anyone remotely concerned about the health of a North Korean dictator in the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 191,000 Americans?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump admitted on tape to Bob Woodward that he played down the threat of coronavirus. Share this far and wide. #TrumpKnew

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

JANUARY 28th:
“This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency. This is going to be the roughest thing you face.”
~ Trump National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien to Trump

FEBRUARY 28th:
“This is their new hoax.”
~Trump in Iowa on COVID 19