Samuel Kim

Medical Student @UMKCmedschool | Christian, Scientist, and Educator | Founder, Chairman @Dr_eamjournal | Founder, Executive Director of @RooLinkUMKC |

[Samuel Kim @SamJoeKim]

After two years of challenges and battles, through the leadership of @MichaelMoncure and Dr. Stephanie Ellison and the council of Dr. Apurva Bhatt, we were able to implement firearm injury prevention education from @BulletPtsProj to the general surgery curriculum @UMKCmedschool

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Private enterprise is more efficient than government at providing private goods.

Healthcare is mostly a private good (both rivalrous and excludable).

Healthcare should be provided by private enterprises.

It’s the most efficient, and therefore the most compassionate.

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

Congratulations to @UCSFHospitals neurosurgeon @JohnKYueMD on receiving the William H. Sweet Young Investigator Award from @AANSNeuro 🎉 Don't miss his award-winning talk at #AANS2026 in San Antonio on May 2 at 5:05 pm! @ZSFGCare

[UMKC School of Medicine @UMKCmedschool]

Thank you to Jeffrey W. Wall, M.D., senior director of clinical products for Oracle, for joining us as the guest speaker for our annual AOA Lecture.

Wall delivered a thought‑provoking lecture titled “The Geometry of Meaning: Einstein, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Clinical Understanding,” exploring how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we think about medicine and patient care. Thank you, Dr. Wall, for sharing your insight and expertise with our students, faculty and community.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Did an emergency crani in the middle of the night for a young girl with an epidural hematoma and a blown pupil.

Got scolded by an administrator the next day for failing to include a 10-point review of systems in my H&P.

[BarrowNeurological @BarrowNeuro]

"There's a great quote by C.S. Lewis," #BarrowNeurologicalInstitute President and CEO @mtlawton, MD, told the Barrow neurosurgery trainees during afternoon teaching rounds. "He says, 'Integrity is doing the right thing when no one's watching,' and that's it in a nutshell."

And sometimes, having integrity requires putting yourself second so that you can do the right thing for a patient, Dr. Lawton added.

"That means leaving the hospital late, missing one of your kid's soccer games—many things that would otherwise bring joy," he said. "But when faced with that choice, if you're going to do the right thing, you have to give that up."

In episode nine of #BarrowNeurosurgeryBaseCamp season four, Barrow faculty and trainees discuss what integrity looks like and why it's nonnegotiable in #neurosurgery. They are also joined by special guest Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, FACS, Professor and Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at @UWMedNSI.

Watch the full episode at https://t.co/YH94NQBybM, and stay tuned for our season finale!

[Society of Neurological Surgeons @SNS_Neurosurg]

We invite you to apply to two exciting Fellowship opportunities that support Neurosurgeon-Educators and Leadership in Neurosurgery!

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

This is a really bad thing.

These jobs in healthcare aren’t nurses or doctors.

They’re middle managers, billing specialists, and people whose sole job is to extract the maximum amount of government dollars for large hospital systems.

They don’t make care better. In fact, they make it much worse. They harass the frontline workers, physicians and nurses, driving them to early exits from clinical medicine. They consider patients nothing more than widgets.

Worst of all, they make your cost of healthcare higher. They are so parasitic that they consume all non-healthcare jobs. Employers can’t hire more workers and companies can’t expand because these parasites just destroy wealth.

This trend is a bigger threat to America than anything else.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

I remember learning that Watergate shattered a lot of people’s faith in government.

Whether that is overstated or not, the last few years did something similar on a much broader scale:

The media, academia, and scientific institutions.

[Stanford Neurosurgery @StanfordNsurg]

Today is Match Day!

We are so excited to announce the newest additions to the Stanford Neurosurgery residency program! Welcome to the farm!🌲

Maria Isabel (Bel) Barros Guinle
Brandon Bergsneider, https://t.co/lOFAJWh2tx
Cameron Hill
Sameer Sundrani

#Match2026 #stanford

[PHA @physicianhosp]

Amazing work today by @DrDiGiorgio - member of @CNS_Update and @AANSNeuro - advocating for patients today in Congress.

It’s time to end the arbitrary ban on physician-led hospitals put in place by special interest lobbyists.

@neurosurgery @AmerMedicalAssn

[Diane I. Ghanem, MD, MPH @DianeGhanem]

Excited to share that applications are open for the Boucher Orthopaedic Trauma Research Fellowship at @HopkinsOrtho. This 1-year fellowship offers mentorship, hands-on #research, clinical exposure, and stipend support for U.S. medical students pursuing #ortho. Apply by April 1, 2026.

Details: https://t.co/Qv4A4MFZAV

[Alexis Price-Moyer, MS @lexipricemoyer]

I’m disappointed to announce that I did not match to neurological surgery. Delayed does not mean denied. I have faced adversity before. I refuse to let this define me. That said, I am seeking a US preliminary surgery position and will work tirelessly, if given the opportunity. ✊🏽

[Martina Stippler @MartinaStippler]

2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ➡️ 2.5% efficiency cut to most procedural codes ‼️Get more efficient, and CMS will simply assume the work got easier. We know that our patients are older, sicker, and more complex — not simpler #Advocacy @Neurosurgery
https://t.co/yeYzzjpX42

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

I’m honored to testify before the @HouseCommerce Health Subcommittee on March 18 as Congress examines the background, scale, and consequences of rising health care costs.

Health care affordability is one of the defining policy failures of our time.

[Michael Levitt, MD @DrMichaelLevitt]

A very insightful editorial about a worrisome trend in neurosurgery (and academic medicine in general). Before writing that meta-analysis, research that topic and ask what has changed since the last review was published.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Rural communities don’t have enough access to healthcare so we need to support a law that prevents more healthcare facilities from opening up.

[UMKC School of Medicine @UMKCmedschool]

Congratulations to our newest Gold Humanism Honor Society inductees! This distinction honors year five B.A./M.D. and year three M.D. medical students, residents and faculty who demonstrate exceptional compassion, leadership, clinical excellence and service to others.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

AI is one solution. I don’t oppose that.

But a more transformative solution is to ensure competition in healthcare.

A landscape of independent physician led clinics, surgery centers, and hospitals will compete with the large systems and bring down costs.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Did you remember to document the availability of an interpreter for your English speaking patient?

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Hospitals have convinced a generation of doctors that the building is the value.

(Funny how that theory disappears the second there is a lawsuit)

Without doctors: no admissions, no surgeries, no procedures, no E&M billing, no facility fees, no DRGs, no MCC/CC capture, no 340B scripts, no quality metrics.

The building collects the fee.
The doctor creates the value.

That is the relationship. Time physicians started acting like it.