Dan Kirshenbaum

Cardiologist @BIDMilton | Alumnus of @BUcards, @BMCimRES, @BUMedicine, @BUCompSci | #MedEd #DigitalHeath #PersonalFinance | Father, husband

[BMC|BU Cardiology Fellows @BUcards]

Congrats to Dr @frederickruberg for being appointed Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine @BUcards and @The_BMC, and the Thomas Ryan Professor of Medicine @BUMedicine

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Congratulations to my incredible wife Laura Kirshenbaum on her promotion to partner at Rose Law Partners! She is a brilliant and hard-working attorney and dedicates herself to her clients. I am so proud of all that she has accomplished!

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@OneMoreDrPatel @TPP_MD Glad I could be helpful! It’s an important topic that doesn’t get enough attention. When it does, it’s often just to scare doctors into using expensive financial advisors unnecessarily. Spread the knowledge!

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@jpirruccello I just asked GPT-3 to describe itself and it did a way better job.

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@sebsuarezmd The best solution is a smart spreadsheet that makes your work easy, checks for errors, and ensures the schedule is fair. That’s what the spreadsheet I designed does.

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@sebsuarezmd Even when a computer struggles to solve something, sometimes the human brain can still do it well. Like chess. Massive computing power and smart algorithms can overcome that though. Again, like AlphaZero and chess. Sadly, nobody has asked AlphaZero to solve resident scheduling.

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@philbak1 @olsonplanner A simple change, but so accurate.

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@Optum_Support Patient's insurance drug benefit switches from @ExpressScripts to @OptumRx and suddenly a medication he has been on for years is denied, even after appealing. Unbelievable that this type of thing can happen.

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Spent 2hrs on the phone w/ @ExpressScripts to help a patient, bounced between 5 depts, disconnected 3 times, asked my callback # each time but no call back when disconnected (later said they CAN’T make outgoing calls 🤦🏻‍♂️- so why even ask for #?) and no resolution at the end. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@eemoin I assume you also calculated how much you would have made by investing your 401k in the S&P 500 over that time period and not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on medical school too?

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@eemoin So true, and if you click too fast the GUI has a delayed shift and you end up clicking the wrong button, resulting in further delays. Basic GUI design failure.

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BID-Plymouth Hospital, also commonly referred to as "Twice daily Plymouth" in my dictated notes as I have recently discovered.

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@Jmarksloan Completely true. Just glad to see a doctor in that position at least who wasn’t being irrational. Also, I assume he was immediately fired for being helpful to me.

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I had the friendliest peer-to-peer call today. He started with, "Hi Dr. K, how I can help your test be approved today?" He quickly read my note, told me it made sense, approved the test, and said he would bump it up for review to avoid this mistake in the future. Refreshing.

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4yo's review of Siri/Google:

"Siri isn't very smart. She plays the wrong song and doesn't know which song to play next. Google is smart and she plays the right songs. I think Siri and Google are sisters and Google is the smart one. Dad, you're smarter than both." @Google @Apple

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More amazing cookies from my wife @lawandbatter @laurakirshEsq - attorney by day, cookier by night!

https://t.co/ueCTeMWT1l

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@ChrisWorsham @Jeopardy Shameful choice. Alex Trebek believed in science and was a skeptic (the good kind). @DrOz is a pseudoscientist and snake oil salesman.

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@MarkELindsay I don’t do it when I know which hospital. If I don’t know which hospital and it’s not important to figure it out for the specific situation, I might write OSH to save time. Rarely happens.

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@JamesCHudspeth @DrYadavalli @aravindamenon @TeekMD @paullongMD A quick review of the literature reveals that a surprising number of internet strangers believe that the raspberry or 🍓are the best ripe fruit. We haven’t even discussed those.

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@TeekMD @paullongMD Honestly, not a bad idea.