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[EO @emtodell]

Extremely frustrating and disappointing customer service between @BloodConnection (Delisa English) @amazon , Tango and Blackhawk Networks (Talbott Roche). I’ve been in a redirection hell with these companies since July.

[Ryan Stanton MD, FACEP @EverydayMed]

New episode this week with ‘Frontline Headliners and Dr. Mel Herbert’. We talk about his path from the Australian outback to worldwide educational EM leader! @MelHerbert @emrap_tweets @EmergencyDocs @ACEPNation @emresidents https://t.co/MW753cwDdQ

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

People don’t realize how safe and effective acetaminophen is for pain and fever. By scaring people away from Tylenol, fevers will either go untreated (dangerous, especially for young children and fetuses) or NSAIDs will take its place, which carry much more significant side effects, like stomach ulcers or kidney injury. It’s not hyperbole to say the president yelling at people not to take this medication will lead to deaths.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

This will kill people

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: Two children were killed and at least 17 others were injured, including 14 kids, when a gunman fired shots through the windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, police said.

https://t.co/DDDRKlgkKo

[ABC News @ABC]

"Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks after at least two people were killed in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, sources said. https://t.co/DDDRKlgkKo

[EO @emtodell]

This process is so inefficient.

[EO @emtodell]

@Avis You need more employees at the Portland, ME airport.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

I’m sharing an actual recent peer-to-peer call that shows what physicians and patients face when trying to get a surgery approved. This call felt as absurd as it sounds.

The peer-to-peer call was to advocate for surgery to prevent and treat lymphedema for a patient with breast cancer. Her risk is high and we can perform a surgery to lower it.

The doctors from the insurance company on the call were an ophthalmologist with a subspecialty in oculoplastic surgery and a plastic surgeon who currently has a cosmetic practice. Neither doctor has ever performed lymph venous bypass…the surgery I was trying to get approved for my patient.

Neither doctor would provide their name or license number.

At the conclusion of the call, the doctors told me that they didn’t have the power to make a determination or decision to perform the surgery. They were just there to inform me of United’s decision to deny it.

The Medical Decision was not up to the doctors on the call. It had already been made by United.

So here I am, appealing again.

Medical decisions should be made by doctors who are well informed and patient-centered. Patients deserve access to the care that they paid for with their premiums.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

https://t.co/4DHTUyVpFU

I’m sharing this article in hopes that it’s instructive. We shouldn’t be in this position.

In the words of a United Healthcare representative quoted here…”the truth matters”.

I couldn’t agree more.

[EO @emtodell]

@ABMFacilityServ Your service in the CHS, SC visitors parking garage leaves much to be desired. I would not ever park there again .. leaving the CHS Music Hall concert took too long. Why was only one lane open? With the increased CHS population, why, just why?

[EO @emtodell]

@CHSMusicHall 10/10 do not recommend parking in Charleston Visitor Center parking…. Took way too long to get out of the garage. Ridiculous.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Three people were fatally shot outside a driver’s license office in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, and several people fled the scene in a vehicle, officials said. Local police are investigating and said they had not yet identified any suspects. https://t.co/Joj7el6x0D

[NBC News @NBCNews]

LIVE UPDATES: Police investigating a shooting at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin. https://t.co/OnscueemPo

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

United Health Group owned company is responsible for cyber attack

Medical practice goes bankrupt due to cyber attack

UHG tells regulators that failure to approve sale of bankrupt practice to UHG will force practice to close.

(Insert hot dog suit meme)

https://t.co/pmRuISF9X4

[EO @emtodell]

@CLTAirport Super long line to get through (stressful) security for a connecting flight. Sarcastic agents are not helpful.

[EO @emtodell]

‘What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care https://t.co/IYaU7wWchS

[Bridget Marcinkowski @bridget__marc]

Please see & share the GW Housestaff Union’s tribute to Dr. West & call to action. We cannot have the same conversations every time this happens, we need systemic change now. https://t.co/PJ9GgyqktR

[Bridget Marcinkowski @bridget__marc]

https://t.co/z8zlI4G00P

[Bridget Marcinkowski @bridget__marc]

TW: suicide
There is an empty corner desk in a resident workroom at GW. Now forever engraved in my mind, that desk is a harrowing reminder of the cost of medical training. In his final words, Dr. William West said that he was simply out of gas, that he had nothing left to give.