Matt Bushart

Critical Care & Emergency Medicine PA in NY | Father to M & W | Husband to J | Views expressed are my own

[Matt Bushart @mbushart10]

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist 72

[Doc Malik @DocAhmadMalik]

So let me get this right.
The US can find and kill a leader of a foreign country halfway around the world.
But they can't find any of the paedophiles and child traffickers from the Epstein list and arrest any of them in their own country?

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.

[chris collins @chrisco11ins]

being a bills fan summed up in 81 seconds

[Matt Bushart @mbushart10]

@RiggsBarstool @TaylorMadeGolf 84

[Built in Buffalo @BuiltInBuffalo_]

Don’t Stop BILLIEVING! 🔵⚪️🦬

One last ride at the Ralph!!! Let’s go out on top!

Shout out to @LOXGOD17 for the amazing video. 🔥

#BillsMafia #BuiltinBuffalo

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Who America is rooting for in the Super Bowl

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite Charlie Munger story:

In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.

Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.

His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.

The leukemia was incurable.

No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.

Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.

Teddy died at the age of 9.

Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.

99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)

Munger never did.

Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.

Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.

When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:

"It's time for me to learn braille!"

The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.

RIP.

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Munger on Self-Pity:

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.

Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…

Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.

Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.

There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

[Sneaky Joe @SneakyJoeSports]

If I’m the president of NBC, i am calling Goodell every minute all week until he lets me put Bills-Dolphins in for Chiefs-Jets.

“Bleep your rules, I am giving you billions of dollars a year, you are giving me a one time Zach Wilson exception.”

[Barstool Philly @BarstoolPhilly]

Legendary Eagles training camp joke 😭

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Los Angeles Country Club is one of the world's most exclusive golf clubs.

• $250,000 initiation fees
• No celebrities or social media posts

And they use a 45-year-old tax loophole to save $80 million annually.

Here's how it works:

LACC sits on 320 acres in the heart of LA.

It's one of the country's nicest (and strictest) country clubs.

They don't allow celebrities to join, and every new member is handed a 1,000+ page rulebook.

LACC Rules
• No shorts (tailored pants only)
• Sport coats in the clubhouse after 6 pm
• No changing shoes in the parking lot
• No headphones, earbuds, or athletic clothes
• No photos or videos of the club on social media

Members can also only make phone calls from their parked car or a phone booth in the locker room.

And the club is so exclusive that many of the world's best players are seeing it for the first time this week.

Rory McIlroy, for instance, hasn't paid for a round of golf in 20 years. But he had never played LACC before this week's US Open, so he says he prepared by watching videos of the course on YouTube.

Still, the craziest part about LACC isn't its $250,000 initiation fee or its 1,000+ page rulebook.

The craziest part about LACC is its real estate.

The 320-acre piece of land sits smack dab in the middle of Beverly Hills — between the famous roads of Sunset Blvd, Wilshire Blvd, and Santa Monica Blvd.

The land alone is reportedly worth $8 billion, making it the second most valuable piece of real estate (not developed for housing) behind Central Park in NYC.

But here's the craziest part...

An $8 billion assessed land value would typically mean hundreds of millions in property taxes alone.

But LACC only pays $220,000 in annual taxes.

This is because of two rules:

1. LACC is owned by its members and registered as a non-profit. So they benefited when California voters passed a ballot in 1960 that lowered the value at which officials were allowed to assess non-profit golf courses.

This non-profit rule also applies to other LA-based golf clubs, like Bel Air Country Club, Brentwood Country Club, and Wilshire Country Club.

2. Then, in 1978, voters passed Proposition 13. This new law rolled back the assessed land value to its 1975 level and more or less froze that value in time.

So even if the market value of the land tripled in value, the property's assessed value can only grow by 2% a year or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.

And Proposition 13 also capped property taxes at 1% of assessed value (vs. the previous average of 2.67%).

So, in simple terms, Los Angeles Country Club would be paying about $80 million (1%) in annual property taxes because its land is worth $8 billion-plus.

But because of these two laws enacted more than 45 years ago, LACC’s land is currently assessed at just $22 million, and they only pay $220,000 in property taxes.

LACC Tax Breakdown (estimates)
• True value of the land: $8 billion
• Assessed value of the land: $22 million
• Annual property tax savings: $80 million

Now, Proposition 13 wasn’t put in place specifically for golf courses — its true purpose was to protect homeowners who are older, retired, and living on fixed income from payment shock when their property values dramatically increase over a short period of time.

But given the financial savings it has provided exclusive golf clubs over the years, it’s no wonder why Los Angeles Country Club wants to keep things exactly as they are.

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[Matt Bushart @mbushart10]

@PhysicianDoodle We saw an increase in our LWBS as people would often interpret there own results in the waiting room before getting full evaluation by provider. Have since put a 12 hr delay on release of results.

[Eric M. Thomas @EMthomasMed]

How I forecast the weather:

Weekend off = cold and pour rain.

Weekend at work = warm and gorgeous.

[Amy Silverstein, author @ajsilverstein16]

I will be closing down my Twitter in 2 weeks. Meanwhile:
My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon https://t.co/9ko3Eu53oK

[Grow-NY @grow_ny]

@CraftCannery owner and CEO @PaulyGoogs put it best in his pitch: “When you support Craft Cannery, you support hundreds of businesses.” Watch the full pitch from this 2022 #GrowNY $500K winner at https://t.co/8XWQ1ly1wW

[University of Rochester Medicine @UR_Med]

The future is in our hands at UR Medicine. 👐

Hand-held ultrasounds for faster screenings, diagnosis and potential treatment for our patients. 🦋 #AdvancesHappenHere @butterflynetinc

[Maia Dorsett @maiadorsett]

EMS Agencies across our region are offering bystander CPR & AED training to their communities.

Thanks to those who are seizing this moment to change outcomes in the future.
@GatesAmbulance

[Matt Bushart @mbushart10]

@EMthomasMed Paid to be wrong

[Matt Bushart @mbushart10]

@PaulyGoogs We’ll be right down

[Eric M. Thomas @EMthomasMed]

Great day of talks and learning at @UR_Med first annual acute shock symposium. Multidisciplinary approach to C-Shock, MCS, and AHF in house! @URochesterSurg @URMed_AHF