Leah Rorvig, MD, MS

COMMUNITY GERIATRICIAN @petalumahealth👩‍⚕️ UCSF med school + family med residency + geri fellowship ✊ Fired up re: older adults, med ed & @AmendatUCSF 🔥

[Leah Rorvig, MD, MS @GeriPowerMD]

🚨📢PSA📢🚨 among geriatricians we prefer the humanizing term ✨OLDER ADULTS✨ rather than 👎elderly👎. #geriatrician

[Ethan Nadelmann @ethannadelmann]

This has been a long time coming - much too long, for no good reason - but thank you, President Biden, for doing it. You did a lot of harm as a leading #DrugWar proponent from the 80s to the 00s. This makes some amends.

https://t.co/zGWAZEArCQ

[Alastair McAlpine, MD @AlastairMcA30]

It is hard to overstate what a terrible decision this is.

RFK Jr has no medical training.
He is a hardcore antivaccine and misinformation peddler.

The last time he meddled in a state’s medical affairs (Samoa), 83 children died of measles…

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

This is a softball interview aimed at an audience Biden badly needs to win over: Young men who get their news on YouTube. I don't know how you can watch this and say he still has the campaigning skills to do it. https://t.co/QuCm8P8cNq

[James Deardorff @wjdeardorff]

"Risk Assessment & Prevention of Falls in Older Community-Dwelling Adults" (JAMA 2024) - ">25% of older adults fall each year & falls are the leading cause of injury-related death in persons >65. Functional exercises & tai chi decrease the risk of falls" - https://t.co/cSGKpQ1OSs

[Leah Rorvig, MD, MS @GeriPowerMD]

@wjdeardorff Well shoot 😫

[Leah Rorvig, MD, MS @GeriPowerMD]

Too true

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

PRO TIP: if you’re a doctor stuck inside for the eclipse you can still experience 4 minutes of total darkness by scheduling a peer review call with a colleague outside your specialty who denies one of your patients the treatment they need

[Leah Rorvig, MD, MS @GeriPowerMD]

Cardiologists Can deprescribe too!!!

[Danielle Belardo, MD @DBelardoMD]

Today was my career record for de-prescribing supplements: lovely new patient with CAD taking a total of 132 supplements per day(yes you read that right!) thanks to all of the “longevity” experts who love a grift. We replaced them all with $4 rosuvastatin. Wellness is unwell.

[Leah Rorvig, MD, MS @GeriPowerMD]

@cardskrish Do these studies usually have enough older adults (over 75yo) to do a good subset analysis? Would be very helpful

[Leah Rorvig, MD, MS @GeriPowerMD]

Anyone know of studies on impact of entresto specifically on QOL in older adults? WHO ARE MY GERI CARDS PEEPS OUT THERE?? I know it helps the middle aged but I see soooo much hypotension in older adults on this med. #cardiology #geriatrician #HFrEF

[Sonja Rosen MD, FACP, AGSF @SonjaRosenMD]

We are thrilled to be hiring for an additional #geriatrician in our ambulatory geriatrics program @CedarsSinai . Please spread the word to your geriatrician colleagues! @CedarsSinaiMed

https://t.co/Bp3tQkY3De

[Leah Rorvig, MD, MS @GeriPowerMD]

@DGlaucomflecken Good thing no one is living to old age since there won’t be any geriatricians 😭 #geriatrician

[Eric Widera, MD @EWidera]

Brilliant article on what constitutes a clinically meaningful benefit from treatment for #Alzheimer's disease, and how to actually measure it. #EndAlz
https://t.co/iBdAj3uGSb

[Leah Witt, MD @LeahJWitt]

Beyond proud of this episode with my friend and inhaler guru @AmberMartirosov. Special thanks to @HRSAgov GACA for supporting me to think about this important topic the last 4 years. #geripulm #inhalersareconfusing #learnPartD @AmerGeriatrics @atscommunity @CMSGov @UCSFHospitals

[Ken Covinsky @geri_doc]

Did you know persons over age 80 dont get COPD?
Well I didn't either COPD VERY common in older persons Yet study of novel new RX for COPD + eosinophilia excluded age >80
Ageist Inexcusable Once again NEJM publishes without even noting this as limitation https://t.co/Pe7oJ2KNet

[Ethan Nadelmann @ethannadelmann]

JUST OUT: An impressive study in @JAMAPsych concludes that the #Oregon decrim initiative (and a similar law in #Washington) DID NOT result in an increase in #overdose fatalities. Evidence-based studies were & are crucial to sustaining support for #decrim
https://t.co/YJhfff5jR0

[The Nocturnists @thenocturnists]

Today we launch our 7-episode series, @thenocturnists Post Roe America. In the premiere, we hear about the day Roe fell, and follow a clinician in Tennessee as she scrambles to interpret the law in her state. https://t.co/j3VuCacI4w 🏜️ #medx #MedTwitter

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing the first 10 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiation.

Seniors paid $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs for these 10 drugs in 2022. President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is working to bring down those costs.

[Ken Covinsky @geri_doc]

The 2023 updated AGS Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults is a tour de force! Reading this will make you a better and safer prescriber of medicines in older persons. https://t.co/w3Ov5vtCh6

[Kevin Grumbach @kgrumbach]

Powerful local take on moral injury for PCPs, 1 day clinician strike at FQHC. Adding to the chorus of canaries in the coal mine. Big changes needed now. Dedicated doctors are leaving medicine. This isn’t burnout. It’s a medical crisis https://t.co/FLl2QzQ6nY

[Anjana E Sharma @AJSharmaMD]

Sobering track of a trainee through the medical education industrial complex by excellent work by @DrJSatterfield
arguably a similar trajectory for those passionate about #primarycare and #CommunityEngagement