Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM

Primary Care + Obesity Medicine in the Safety Net | Alum @Stanford @MUEducation @UCSFMedicine | Oregon🌲born INTJ, ❤️ ☔️🛶🍫☕️🌍⚾️🏀🏈🏌️🐶| Views mine

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

Love metformin :)

[Berci Meskó, MD, PhD @Berci]

Will Metformin become like a vitamin to take?

Of course, I'm exaggerating, but studies have shown that it has enormous potential in many positive health benefits.

Now the authors plan to raise US$50 million to study the drug in a trial of 3,000 people. https://t.co/87vvGiwK4C

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@Berci Completely agree w you. One of the safest and most widely beneficial meds we have. For weight loss specifically, it’s been show to benefit those who don’t even have insulin resistance. It’s a shame that patients harbor myths about it (#1 being that it hurts the kidneys)

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@WilliamRichJr @phd_KDee Great point

[Will @WilliamRichJr]

Re: Tua

It’s so crazy how a lot of men can respect another man’s decision to choose what’s best for his body.

But let it be a woman telling you she wants to be able to choose what’s best for her body and now a lot of those same men wanna get upset.

The irony is crazy.

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

LOL 😂

[Adi @IDdocAdi]

Graduating from residency to start fellowship

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@arghavan_salles Loquat?

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@AnthemBCBS you are payer for ~5% of my patients, but make up majority of my order denials. Last time it was a liver scan (I fought for it, we detected liver cancer). Now it’s a chest scan in a smoker with clubbing. How can you live with yourselves?!? This shouldn’t require P2P

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@alexjwilkinson Peds —> IM (still primary care though!)

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

New level stupidity of U.S. healthcare system:

Doc sends rx for 3 days of antibiotic

Insurer declines; will pay for 4+ days but not less

Pharmacist calls me to get my approval to dispense 4 days worth and tell patient to discard the rest.

#MEDICALWASTE
#WHATAREWEDOING?!?!?!

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

Obesity treatment is a…

❌ 3 months…

❌ 6 months…

❌ 12 months…

…lifelong commitment. ✅

[Beverly G. Tchang, MD @BevTchangMD]

via ⁦@nytimes⁩

Yup.

#Ozempic: turning everyone into a cheap date https://t.co/wgf0NfwRJc

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

Racist much?

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Chris Stapleton just sang the most beautiful national anthem at the Super Bowl.

But we could have gone without the rest of the wokeness.

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@DrEenfeldt Ice cream

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@EWidera Loving the cart!

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@amybtatom @DrGRuralMD Got the same denial this week. 😡
It’s as if stomach ulcers are NBD

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@BevTchangMD This is so frustrating.

My spin on it these days: overbook the patient for a visit (which insurance will have to pay for) to re-chart weight. It’s ridiculous but gotta stick it to them somehow. If we all do this maybe they’ll realize just paying for the med saves them money

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@olsonplanner Obstructing standard care

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

Game-changer.

[Harry Thomas @DrHarryThomas]

Cleveland Clinic to start charging for certain messages in MyChart

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

Wear sunscreen, y’all.

https://t.co/uwLoPLF3u7

[Avi Bitterman, MD @AviBittMD]

Cheek and neck of a 92-year-old female, who used UV-protective moisturizers on her face but not on the neck for 40+ years.

https://t.co/Q8wWxY2tDE

[Joe Cartwright, MD, MEd, Diplomate of ABOM @jjjcart]

@OffWhiteCoat @DGlaucomflecken O M G