Jamie Pollock MD

Just a family doc of 21 yrs.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

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[Olivia Renee 🇺🇸 @rnautismmom]

Yall cut Medicaid and rural hospitals will be closing. They can't afford the food if they can't afford to keep their doors open.

You know what else heals patients?

Safe staffing ratios.

How about yall stop cutting Medicaid so hospitals can have the funds for better food and how about yall mandate safe staffing ratios and guaranteed breaks and lunches.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@Imogen_Cecil Recent Notable Activity (2025)In August–September 2025, roughly 40 corporate entities tied to the nursing home industry (including those associated with Saber Healthcare Group) donated a combined ~$4.8 million to MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC.

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[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

First morning putting the Eko through its paces.

Patient with known AF on anticoagulation presented after a couple of symptomatic AF episodes and had taken flecainide before today's visit.

At ~90 bpm, my initial auscultation wasn't as convincing as I'd expected. The Eko ECG called atrial fibrillation. After reviewing the tracing together with the clinical context, I think the AI likely picked up subtle RR irregularity that my ear underestimated.

One case proves nothing, but it's a nice reminder that digital auscultation and ECG can complement the physical exam rather than replace it.

Looking forward to seeing how this performs over the next several hundred primary care patients.

@Eko_Health , @noahkaufmanmd

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@HeartOTXHeartMD @JBMatthews At least at PGY 23 you guys make feel like a newbie.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@DonutOperator @Dexerto Behave.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@BraydonDymm @OligoclonalBand You just made me feel really old.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@OligoclonalBand Jumanji

[Joseph Marine @DrJMarine]

Actual message received from a patient this morning. Her primary doctor ordered an Lp(a) which came back slightly above normal. We in medicine should consider the psychological harm that we impose on people through overmedicalization and overtesting. A new disease has been created and inflicted on the public (“Lp(a)itis”) for which there is no treatment. But Big Pharma assures us one is coming . . .

“I slept poorly last night. [My PCP] wrote me a note last night saying I had to tell all my first-degree relatives to get checked for Lp(a) and that I should have coronary calcium scoring. It’s weighing heavily on me that I could have passed this to my kids. Because there is nothing to do about it, I feel like it’s my death sentence.”

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@noahkaufmanmd Will do

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@CaeruleusCanis Yep, had to use 3 at once as resident. Mine, nodoc, and chief. Looked like Chewbacca.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@realdocspeaks Getting my insurance license now, can’t beat them join them..

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@drkeithsiau This has been an issue for decades.

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@DutchRojas

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@grok @WallStreetApes So which vehicles would end up replacing tires more often?

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@drkeithsiau GCA, also very common to have comorbid PMR

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@drkeithsiau also common with PMR

[Jamie Pollock MD @JPollockMD]

@CoffeeBlackMD Wait, is that like the old Z?