Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA

OHSU Urologist interested in Male and Female Voiding Dysfunction and Urologic Reconstruction. UPRS trained @muschealth

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

@CanesDavid @AnthemBCBS It’s pretty unbelievable that we are needing to resort to tweeting at insurance companies to help our patients. What a time to be a doctor

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

@adamstatonsmith Just come to Bay Club, they have the AirFit®️ Altitude Training Studio which is like the same thing

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

@adamstatonsmith Adam Smith for Mayor

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

@RRGonzalezMD @SocietyofBPD @ChughtaiMD @Dr_KevinZorn @BladderBud @Endo_Society @HMethodistUro Great topic! Did anyone record this debate? Would loved to have seen this

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

3-5 years? Fallacy here is thinking that surgeons are simply technicians in the OR.
Tell me you know nothing about surgery without telling me you know nothing about surgery.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Elon Musk's Startling Forecast:

Peter Diamandis: Something like... don't go to medical school?

Elon Musk: Yes. Pointless.

Peter Diamandis: Really?

Elon Musk: Yeah. I mean, in roughly three years, I think Optimus will be a better surgeon than any human surgeon on Earth... at scale. And then like four or five years from now? Not even close. The best medicine in the world will be free, literally better than what the President gets today. Everyone will have access to superhuman medical care. Because there won't be a shortage of great surgeons anymore. Optimus doesn't get tired, doesn't have shaky hands, can operate at micron-level precision, learns instantly from every procedure across the fleet... It's game over for human surgeons in terms of raw capability.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

Even if we stipulate—for the sake of argument—that ‘Globalize the Intifada’ is not a call to violence (even though it clearly is), what matters is not the speaker’s intent but how the phrase is received by many in the Jewish community.

The far left should try extending to Jews the same empathy and sensitivity it so readily affords others.

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

@SecKennedy @CDCgov @grok please verify the legitimacy of these claims and then provide a summary of the factual nature of this post

[Anthony Grande @HealthcareVox]

Congressman, your comment reflects a dangerous misunderstanding of what modern healthcare work actually entails—and frankly, it’s part of the problem.

You talk about “devotion” and “dedication” as if those words can power a broken system. As if moral injury, burnout, suicide, and the mass exodus of healthcare professionals are just side effects of a generation unwilling to “tough it out.”

But here’s the truth:
Doctors today spend more time battling administrative burdens than treating patients. Studies published in Annals of Internal Medicine show that for every hour physicians spend with patients, they spend two hours on documentation and compliance. They’re drowning in red tape, not because they lack dedication, but because the system values forms more than human lives.

Your idea of the job—romanticised, outdated, and frankly insulting—ignores that medicine today is not just a calling. It’s also a battlefield of bureaucracy. And those who enter it are not looking for an “easy life”—they’re fighting to keep the profession alive despite the damage caused by poor policy and political negligence.

So when doctors and professionals like myself speak up, it’s not whining.
It’s a warning.
And leaders who dismiss those warnings aren’t brave—they’re complicit.

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

PREACH

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

What is the rationale for this other than making life more difficult for many seniors?

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

Agreed! Why are we just waking up to this when doctors been screaming about this for years

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

BlueCross BlueShield does not count chemo therapy towards annual max. Sutter Hill charged $30k per treatment. So a friend with stomach cancer now has a bill of nearly $100k. He also had to wait weeks for insurance approval before chemo despite having cancer. System is broken.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

BlueCross BlueShield does not count chemo therapy towards annual max. Sutter Hill charged $30k per treatment. So a friend with stomach cancer now has a bill of nearly $100k. He also had to wait weeks for insurance approval before chemo despite having cancer. System is broken.

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

@SenBillCassidy Tell that to your pal @RobertKennedyJr who you confirmed last week 👍🏼

[Daniel Furlong, MD, MBA @WebMDaniel]

@VPrasadMDMPH You trained at NIH and owe your career to that training. This is a purely dishonest take to rile up your base, and you know there is more nuance to this. Also- are placebo-controlled RCTs now NOT ethical? You can’t take both sides.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Science is under threat.

[Jay Giri @jaygirimd]

🧵 Many “hot takes” about the reduction of @NIH indirect grant costs to 15%.

Let’s lay out the facts about the university grant management process & accounting. And then use this to project likely short and longer term impacts of the policy.

[Jonathan Kagan @jkagan1]

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.

[F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE @fperrywilson]

NIH has announced a cut in the "indirect rate" to 15% across the board, in a move that appears to be retroactive to even existing grants. This is a bloodbath for research institutions throughout the country.
Brief explainer for those not in this world:

https://t.co/VUP7tWat7O

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Blaming physicians as ‘overpaid’ is not only misguided but also a blatant misunderstanding of reality.

Physician compensation has decreased in real terms over the years, even as their workloads and administrative burdens have skyrocketed.

Meanwhile, journalists and reporters, like Vox guy below, rarely go after the real culprits—insurance companies and health systems—because that’s where their bread is buttered.

Advertising revenue from these entities keeps their publications afloat, so instead of holding the true power players accountable, they target doctors.

It’s easier, it’s sensational, and it deflects attention from the inefficiencies and price gouging that make healthcare unaffordable.

Physicians aren’t the problem—they’re the ones keeping the system from collapsing entirely.

#healthcare

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Doctors, don’t ever let a hospital claim they are losing money on your salary.

If you’re employed and they are just comparing professional fee collections to your paycheck, they’re trying to trick you.

You generate far more revenue than your professional fees. There’s the DRGs for all the hospitalizations. There’s the facility fees for outpatient services. There’s the downstream revenue of every lab test, imaging and PT order. There’s the revenue they generate by having you cover call, allowing them to be a trauma center or stroke center or cardiac center.

Doctors have the leverage. They need us. And once we reverse the ban on physician owned hospitals, we won’t need them.

@DutchRojas @anish_koka @cscla