Eric Widera, MD

Professor of Med @UCSF. Focused on Geriatrics, Hospice, Palliative care, and medical education. Podcasts at

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

San Francisco Tesla dealership is busy today (at least the sidewalk is)

[Electrek.co @ElectrekCo]

Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend #teslatakeover

https://t.co/EKlbelA0xH

[Kariem Ezzat @Kariem_Ezzat]

@PAULJLAMONT @EWidera @pash22 @gpgrazioli @SuzanneESchind1 @ProfRobHoward @LonSchneiderMD @LogarithmicDis @MemoryDoc @AlbertoEspay @nvillain_alz @seb_walsh @LTCShop @MadhavThambiset @RenegadeSynapse @dr_shibley @_michael_scholl @StefanoSensi14 @Gill_Livingston @DrTFromKC @jasonkarlawish @JamesRuFletcher @AdamMBrickman @ManlyEpic @SFAckley @howard_gleckman @kathy_y_liu @r_merrick @nlundebjerg @NathanielChinMD @EmmyBetz @DrJoRyan @MaggieAime @OskarHansson9 @DavidJonesBrain @PTenigma @Ayisha_Sharma97 @EMA_News @NICEComms @TGAgovau @CDA_AMC @KaplanLab_Tufts @MeganMolteni @JoshuaPCohen1 @chiara_bruck Dismantling institutions & eroding people's trust in them is meant to create a cynical void where powerful people create their own version of reality & avoid being accountable to any rule or standard. I agree with @EWidera, we should move this discussion to Bluesky. 2/2

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@MaximizeQOL @ChadDKollas We’ve built it before with old Twitter. We can build it again on BlueSky

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@pash22 @gpgrazioli @Kariem_Ezzat @PAULJLAMONT @SuzanneESchind1 @ProfRobHoward @LonSchneiderMD @LogarithmicDis @MemoryDoc @AlbertoEspay @nvillain_alz @seb_walsh @LTCShop @MadhavThambiset @RenegadeSynapse @dr_shibley @_michael_scholl @StefanoSensi14 @Gill_Livingston @DrTFromKC @jasonkarlawish @JamesRuFletcher @AdamMBrickman @ManlyEpic @SFAckley @howard_gleckman @kathy_y_liu @r_merrick @nlundebjerg @NathanielChinMD @EmmyBetz @DrJoRyan @MaggieAime @OskarHansson9 @DavidJonesBrain @PTenigma @Ayisha_Sharma97 @EMA_News @NICEComms @TGAgovau @CDA_AMC @KaplanLab_Tufts @MeganMolteni @JoshuaPCohen1 @chiara_bruck Time to move on

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@pash22 @kevinmd @ProfRobHoward @ajlees @dr_shibley @seb_walsh @gpgrazioli https://t.co/xkHPejgKlB

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@MaximizeQOL @ChadDKollas We are at a fork in the road. Every tweet (like this one) gives Twitter more content and Elon more power.

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@ChadDKollas My feed yesterday was Elon, Elon, and then Alex Jones. I think I’m just gonna burn my twitter account to the ground by tweeting crap about Elon and promoting Bluesky

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@ChadDKollas My feed yesterday was Elon, Elon, and then Alex Jones. I think I’m just gonna burn my twitter account to the ground by tweeting crap about Elon and promoting Bluesky

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

We are living in a dangerous and unprecedented moment in American history.

I’m getting a lot of calls from people who are not only upset about what’s happening, but are wondering how we best go forward.

Here are my thoughts:

[Rep. Gwen Moore @RepGwenMoore]

Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues to expand his power grab, and this time he wants Americans’ most sensitive information, including their Social Security numbers and banking information.

We should all be asking why he wants it. https://t.co/9BqjS3TwrJ

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

What they are really saying is that they want to drive care away from government programs to private companies like UnitedHealth, where "productivity" is encouraged through upcoding and profit is maximized for shareholders and CEO salaries.
3/3🧵
https://t.co/0WYAC0RMKJ

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

Up-coding diagnoses in MA plans “Insurer-driven diagnoses by UnitedHealth for diseases that no doctor treated generated $8.7 billion in 2021 payments to the company, the Journal’s analysis showed. UnitedHealth’s net income that year was about $17 billion.” https://t.co/4hXteQt3cZ

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

Government employees are being encouraged to resign from "lower productivity in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector." This is a false narrative. Example: VA healthcare system does no worse and is often better than non-VA care in most outcomes
1/3🧵

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

We have data from a 2024 systematic review that concludes most published studies show that Veterans getting care from the VA get the same or better clinical quality than Vets getting community care or the general public getting non-VA care.
2/3🧵
https://t.co/vxdrz7Lmww

[GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast @GeriPalBlog]

We talk with Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, & @DrVickiJackson about their recent JAMA article on #Telehealth vs In-Person #PalliativeCare. Which option gives the best quality of life to the patient? Guest host Lynn Flint.

https://t.co/Yz5JpfJRw2 - hosts @AlexSmithMD | @EWidera

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

Does he even know what nurses and doctors do?

Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@javid_lab Right? How the heck is this even a question.

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

If someone refuses vaccines or any other tx, you build trust, listen to concerns, share your worries. Influence but not control. But to not even try? Refuse healthcare to a child for a decision that their parent is making?? That’s wrong. Opinion 1 is right
https://t.co/GC3aHRFQlE

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

It takes competence to fix something or make it better. Any fool can brake it even further. RFK Jr is in the latter group.

https://t.co/0gZ9pQFANi

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

@dementiamites With that said…

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

Imagine you open your email and find everyone in your hospital system is encouraged to retire next week and in return they get a 7 month severance period in which they no longer are expected to work (at all). That’s just what happened at the VA today.
https://t.co/Y54Ninl20o