Conan So, MPH

MD student @UMmedschool. MPH @Harvard. Interested in PM&R, cost effectiveness, and healthcare outcomes.

[Ameer Farooq MD MPH FRCSC @ameerfarooq]

Beautifully written piece - how much in fact, does healing go both ways?

[Preeti Malani @PreetiNMalani]

ResPECT trial published in today's @JAMA_current, N95 respirators, compared with medical masks, resulted in no significant difference in the rates of laboratory-confirmed influenza in the outpatient setting. https://t.co/Mc5kea0NB6

[Ryan Nipp, MD, MPH, MBA, FASCO @RyanNipp]

Potentially burdensome transitions of care after hospital discharge in patients with #cancer: Predictors of discharge location and associations between discharge location and survival. https://t.co/0ulicAIRny #pallonc @dlage @JCO_ASCO @ASCO

[Conan So, MPH @conanso]

@Caulimovirus Would love this as well!

[Julia Reilly, MD @JuliaReillyMD]

"...Clinicians tend to see our role as trying our best to make people better. But sometimes our calling is simply to be there for patients and their families, even when medically there is nothing more to be done"

Bearing Witness | NEJM https://t.co/pHnro0wmhe

[Conan So, MPH @conanso]

Fascinating study by @hannahneprash that looks at how time of day and running late affects opioid prescriptions in primary care — would love to see this type of study for other areas of medicine such as antibiotics/imaging

[Sayed Tabatabai, M.D. @TheRealDoctorT]

It’s a strange feeling, to realize that everything you ever wanted and worked for was a dead end.

I am a third year medical student and I have no idea what to do with myself.

My whole life I’ve worked for this, and now... nothing. 1/

[Rhea Liang @LiangRhea]

This may be from a highly academic #MedEd conference, but I reckon every #cancer patient and #chronic illness sufferer can identify with it.

Why can't multi-modal care organise itself into a Central Post Office? #blueskythinking

[AAP Medical Student Council PM&R @AAPhysiatry_MSC]

Check out the August 2019 edition of the AAP Medical Student Newsletter! Get advice on choosing your top PM&R residency programs, sign up for a mentor, see what #Physiatry student interest groups across the country are doing, and more! https://t.co/t4wmXaaNbd

[Juliette Cubanski @jcubanski]

Since Medicare does not cover long-term care services, it can be a large financial burden for people with Medicare. Among all beneficiaries, LTC was the largest share of OOP spending on services in 2016 (32%).

LTC spending among LTC users only would be MUCH higher than this.

[Matt Klein @MKleinMD]

Scheduling interviews can be one of the more stressful aspects of the residency application process.

My colleagues at @NUFeinbergMed and I share some thoughts on how to make interview invites less disruptive in the latest issue of @JournalofGME

https://t.co/kvubeddfMl

[Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP @gradydoctor]

1/
“Can I run something by you?”

It was Saturday. I was already gone. She was still on the ward. I didn’t respond to that text. Instead, I called her directly.

Me: “Hey.”
Her: “I’m so sorry to bother you, Dr. Manning.”
Me: “Never be sorry.”

*silence*

Me: “I’m all ears."

[Michael L. Barnett @ml_barnett]

Here’s one medical decision doctors make all the time because of money:

“Sorry we can’t schedule an appointment, we don’t take Medicaid”

If money is not critical, it should be easy for someone on Medicaid to find a private psychiatrist/dentist/ophthalmologist

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Kidney injury occurs in 1 of 5 hospitalized patients. A deep learning #AI algorithm can predict 1-2 days before it strikes @Nature by @weballergy @joe_ledsam
@mustafasuleymn @DeepMind_Health
https://t.co/XTr2OsbgHe
My editorial https://t.co/5T9zA1uxPT @NatureNV

[Harvard Chan Dean @HarvardChanDean]

“We firmly believe there is no disease we cannot cure, gun violence included. But no epidemic can be eradicated without the efforts of a village.” In the @LATimes, @DrMaryTBassett & I write about the need to reframe gun violence as a public health crisis. https://t.co/y86xNw9DDa

[The Society of Thoracic Surgeons @STS_CTsurgery]

Is the infamous “July Effect” really a thing? Not for heart surgery #patients, according to research published online today in @annalsthorsurg. This study found no evidence that new doctors—fresh out of medical school—worsen patient outcomes. https://t.co/y53dENFgF4

[Conan So, MPH @conanso]

Good to see focus on confidence intervals in the place of p values, and to be wary of multiple testing @andreabellavia @RMShah91 @cosgriffc

[G Curigliano MD PhD @curijoey]

On the role of p value New Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in the Journal | NEJM https://t.co/7Q8wI3xUvP
@OncoAlert

[Anupam Jena @AnupamBJena]

Our new @JAMAInternalMed study w/ @ml_barnett looking at if diversion of Rx opioids & benzodiazepines occurs in families & to what extent. Hard ? to study

We looked at what happens when an index user has their Rx discontinued -> uptick in Rx to OTHER family members 1/x

[Conan So, MPH @conanso]

“I suspect that the evocative metaphor of keeping the pipe open makes the medication feel important. How can we make these other medications feel equally important” @LisaRosenbaum17 @NEJM

[Ankur Pandya @AnkurFactorial]

@venkmurthy @georgeta @DrLindaDykes @mikejohansenmd @leftbundle @drjohnm @Ed_Gerst @pash22 @mancunianmedic @DrAoifeMolloy @MarshallProf @drtimwilson @AndrewFoy82 @AFPJournal "I want to believe that if patients knew what I know, they would take their medicine. What I've learned is that if I felt what they feel, I'd understand why they don't." - @LisaRosenbaum17

https://t.co/S98jtyJ5l1