Laura Juárez

Representing PA-C/Asociados Médicos in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Founder/Pres AAMPR, @UUtah @BYU grad, doctoral student, dog mom, lover of #MedEd. Asst Professor

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

My podcasting debut! Ever wonder why it’s #AsociadoMedico and not médico asistente? Or scope of practice for PAs in #PuertoRico ? What questions do you have? 🇵🇷 #boricua #salud https://t.co/9tcuxHigHY

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

Today’s ticking time problem in Puerto Rico:
An aging population relying on an even faster-aging, shrinking physician workforce.

To those patients waiting months for an appointment, what are your priorities?

-Fast relief of symptoms?

-Avoiding the ER?

-Reducing anxiety?

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

~1 in 60 Fiji adults have been diagnosed with the virus

Fiji Declares a National Emergency as H.I.V. Cases Skyrocket https://t.co/1aHcfUTkJk

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Hi! I'm attending Exxat Cohere Conference 2026. Let's start connecting with each other now. - via Whova event app https://t.co/aIhneoJvLd

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

For when I feel I don’t fit in, “If you're going to be wildly successful, you have to be wildly unusual.

Your life won't resemble the lives of the people around you. You can learn a lot from Outliers, but you can't copy them.

The style of your success has to fit who you are.”

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

La Legislatura actuó dos veces. Dos veces se vetó el P. de la C. 1032.

AAMPR solicita a @Jenniffer una explicación escrita y una reunión con su equipo de política pública.
Puerto Rico merece respuestas y un camino viable. @JohnnyMndez36 @AAPAorg @AsocMedicoPR @Asociado_medico

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

La Legislatura actuó dos veces. Dos veces se vetó la medida.

AAMPR solicita una explicación escrita de las objeciones al P. de la C. 1032 y una reunión con el equipo de política pública de la Gobernadora.

Puerto Rico merece respuestas y un camino viable hacia adelante. #SaludPR

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

“Johnny” Méndez lamenta veto de la gobernadora a proyecto que regularía profesión del Asociado Médico Certificado https://t.co/m6vwWxSK3h

[LUIS R DAVILA-COLON @DAVILACOLON]

Prometieron en campaña aumentar recursos salubristas ante la escasez de médicos, su propia legislatura aprueba proyecto para licenciar asistentes de médicos, y porque el mediquíto 🐁que dirige Salud entiende que eso es competencia, Su Alteza Real 👸veta el proyecto🚯ESO SI ES TRAICIONAR LA ESTADIDAD‼️

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

I’ll be attending Exxat Cohere Conference in Baltimore Inner Harbor. Let me know if you’re planning to attend so that we can say Hi! 👋
Or register now and join me at the event! https://t.co/TYYHlqWHaL

via #Whova event app

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

Words matter. So do names. This is what we are fighting for in Puerto Rico. #puertorico #physicianassociate https://t.co/0V1FHgW8Vv

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Coaching: The Leadership Superpower https://t.co/pT3bqm2vfY via @BobbyPowers_

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The PA profession called. It wants its origin story back. https://t.co/kfO4s9ALsb @AAPAorg @AsocMedicoPR @pas4t @Asociado_medico

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How living and practicing medicine abroad complicated my beliefs about universal health care systems https://t.co/BroabQRUD7 via @statnews

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Tiny Thoughts, about AI.

You can get the answer without effort, but you can't get the understanding.

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Support Lawler Bill to Designate PA Profession as "Professional" Tier for Student Loans https://t.co/fP7JWw6Nn3 @AAPAorg

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Establishing Global Dialogue: Initiating the International... : The Journal of Physician Assistant Education https://t.co/y8SSJTcARK #physicianassociate

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

When a patient is in the hospital, doctors used to use paper notes to communicate with one another.

In the EHR era, the note stopped being a clinical communication tool and became a billing and compliance artifact. The results have been a disaster.

One JAMA study found notes got 60.1% longer from 2009 to 2018, while redundancy rose 22%. ONC has explicitly acknowledged that clinicians use templates to stuff notes with unnecessary information into the chart to meet billing requirements, creating note bloat.

The clinical note was no longer a method of communication. It was a billing document.

So hospitals layered secure chat on top just to communicate the actual plan of care. And even that workaround is not working.

A 2024 JAMA study found more secure messaging was associated with more time on the phone, not less. Doctors needed to call to clarify the now constant message stream.

Another study found higher messaging volume was associated with higher odds of errors. More messages means a higher cognitive load with most of the information being low-importance. This increased cognitive load leads to more errors.

We took what should have been efficiency improving technology, a computerized chart, and so over-regulated it and misaligned incentives that it has led to harmful downstream effects.

Now, please don't do this with AI...

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

Credit Mike Rubin, MD @stopioid on #substack

[Laura Juárez @byubabe8]

“Medicine isn’t just science.
It’s exposure.
To suffering.
To decay.
To things most people will never see—and would never choose to.
They say medicine is a “calling.”
I saw what I was being called into.
Not just knowledge.
Not just skill.
But the willingness to witness.”