Troy Fiesinger

Family doctor in Houston, Texas. Interested in healthcare policy and improving access to healthcare. Any and all opinions expressed are my own.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

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An open letter to @TheLancet from an Iranian-Jewish cardiologist.
Today, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals published a campaign to suspend the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association — the body founded after WWII to ensure physicians would never again be weaponized by political ideology.
I'm a cardiologist. I'm an Iranian Jew who grew up under a regime where medicine was subjugated to the state.
What The Lancet just did is a disgrace to my profession.
Here's what they published — and what they deliberately left out.

[Domestique @Domestique___]

🇬🇧 Oscar Onley found hanging in tree above deep ravine after horror crash

📰 https://t.co/Ki0QzyW6Hg

📸 Cor Vos

[🅰ntoine VAYER 📸🖋️ @festinaboy]

On dit que Seixas qui est tombé à 70 km/h et était " défoncé " ( sic, il l'a dit trois fois) est le successeur de Hinault qui, jeune aussi, était tombé aussi au #Dauphiné à 80 km/h le 4 juin 1977 dans un ravin. Hinault avait gagné, lui.

[Cycling on TNT Sports @cyclingontnt]

It's a FIRST-ever professional stage race victory for Isaac Del Toro 🏆

The young Mexican conquered Stage 7 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 🇲🇽

[Cyclocross24.com @cyclocross24]

🇧🇪 Thibau Nys will start his road season this weekend after his knee surgery in March. Sunday he will ride the 🇨🇭 GP Gippingen (1.1), where he finished 2nd last year and which he won in 2023. Next week he will ride the 🇨🇭 Tour de Suisse.

[Lidl-Trek @LidlTrek]

“ It's my 1st sprint I ever won, so that's also kind of cool”.

Read more about Quinn’s victory today on stage 4 of Auvergne Rhône Alpes.
https://t.co/0Y8IWXNpsg

[Jordan Abbott MD @JordanAbbottMD]

Physicians are not burned out because medicine is hard.

Medicine has always been hard. That is not new.

We are burned out because the things making it harder have nothing to do with medicine.

Fix the system. Keep the physicians.

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

US diabetes expert (& scheduled speaker) expelled from # ADA annual meeting for handing out this article: “Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States”

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

Will the last US surgeon to leave the OR turn out the lights?" National Analysis of Trends and Factors Associated with Surgical Attrition in US: Journal of American College of Surgeons #workforce #surgery #healthcare https://t.co/Rvo2MfCblw

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

How Health Insurance Coverage Denials Affect Americans https://t.co/ZusZmug0d5

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

New Vaccine Recommendations Could Lead to Coverage Headaches | Commonwealth Fund https://t.co/TJOK9GKI24

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Police removed diabetes scientists from the convention center here in New Orleans today after they attempted to pass out copies of an editorial from a peer-reviewed scientific journal (impact factor = 16.6) that was critical of NIH.

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

@lucxsronald De Líe seems to do best on wicked uphill sprints like this. I remember watching him win a stage at Etoiles de Besseges on TV several years ago on the same type of climb.

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

Equity Evaluation of an Intervention to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening at Federally Qualified Health Centers https://t.co/8WMFv8eCkf

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

Perspectives on Attrition Among Emergency Physicians | Health Policy | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network https://t.co/hqsiuayLcV

[Jordan Abbott MD @JordanAbbottMD]

The influencer telling you to distrust your doctor has no liability if they are wrong.

Your physician does.

That asymmetry matters. It should factor into who you listen to.

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

Patients taking angiotensin receptor blocker / calcium channel blocker & angiotensin receptor blocker / thiazide diuretic had fewer side effects vs placebo "Adverse Effects and Treatment Discontinuation of Blood Pressure–Lowering Drugs and Combinations" https://t.co/Ah78J7Vpvz

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

Promising study, especially if genomic testing better selection which patients need which cancer treatments: “Genomic test may help breast cancer patients safely skip chemotherapy” https://t.co/Gd8EdGR8Ug

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

New Brunswick should halt transition to new virtual-health-care provider: Opposition Tories https://t.co/shWFDntP6G?

[Troy Fiesinger @TroyTxFamilyDoc]

OpEd by Dr. Suleman Lalani, Texas geriatric physician and state representative "Islamophobia dominated GOP primaries. That could get Texans killed." Houston Chronicle https://t.co/Ja1lLCLitW