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[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

Jehovah Witnesses can now receive all 4 major components of blood (RBCs, platelets, WBCs, and plasma). This change will save a lot of lives.
https://t.co/Oy5nofQ5By

[Venk Murthy MD PhD @venkmurthy]

ACC/AHA guideline writers assigned Class I indications (strong recommendations in favor) for multiple CAC and Lp(a) testing uses

After just a few months both failed in RCTs

It's time for ACC/AHA to do some soul searching as to why and how that happened

[Academic Cardiologist @AcademicTruther]

The move away from "hard" endpoints to surrogate ones would be applauded by big pharma and industry who can show their therapies "work" on the basis of some BS while patients show no benefit.
The disclosures for this paper are an entire page!
It's literally written by industry

[C. Michael Gibson MD @CMichaelGibson]

Breaking and MASSIVE:
Lowering Lp(a) with #pelacarsen in patients with elevated Lp(a) and heart disease does NOT improve cardiovascular outcomes in Phase 3 trial https://t.co/QrN5I3NNlc

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

We pay the premiums. We pay the deductibles. We pay the copays.

Then when we actually need care, an insurance company gets to decide whether it will pay.

Healthcare should exist to keep people alive and healthy, not to maximize shareholder returns.

Something has to change.

[Sandy @schaugai]

Education empowers citizens. Keep them stupid so they vote for you and never question you. Phase out H1B but fill those teaching spots first. Kids deserve quality education

[Governor Hot Wheels @GovHotWheels_TX]

In Texas, we don’t want our teachers to be holders of H1-B visas.

Why? We have plenty of skilled teachers right here in Texas.

Teachers should be Texans teaching Texans.

[Michael Nanna @MichaelGNanna]

I have to say, this is pretty wild. The CEO and financial stakeholders of a company that stands to benefit from replacing physicians with AI publish a Perspective in @JAMA_current arguing for that technology, then take to social media to promote it and tag @CMSGov?

[Sandy @schaugai]

More like admit/discharge team

[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

30 years ago today, L Goldman & I coined the term "hospitalist" in @NEJM. I suspected the field would matter; I didn't guess it would be the fastest-growing specialty in US history. To the docs who turned an idea into something real–& now essential–thanks!
https://t.co/c5G1NLbSLN

[Sandy @schaugai]

@DrRajeshG1 Congratulations Dr Rajesh

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 in a fraudulent paper.

It's was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross medical malpractice

And here we are 28 years later RFK Jr is dredging it up and using it to inform vaccine policy

[Sandy @schaugai]

@travisakers Compared to those who didn’t and have died ?

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

I emailed Dr. Tony Fauci today to tell him how disgusted and sad I was with how he has been being treated. I told him he is a hero and has my support and my admiration.

I reminded him who I was: the “aerosol activist.” During COVID I pushed him — and pushed him, and would not let it go — until he said out loud that the SARS-2 virus travels through the air. He graciously heard me out in a Zoom meeting. He changed what he said. That is not a small thing in a man with that much on his shoulders.

So today I sent a note of thanks, and shared our latest work on the Tijuana River at the US-Mexico border. I almost didn’t send it. He is flooded right now, and I figured it might never reach him.

He wrote back within the hour. Thanked me, and told me to keep up the great work.

A man under relentless attack still made time to answer someone he owed nothing to — and to encourage her work while he’s fighting for his own name. Gracious, ethical, kind. Exactly the qualities the people going after him are trying to strip out of our society.

I stand with Dr. Fauci. He is a hero. Sad times in America continue.

[C. Michael Gibson MD @CMichaelGibson]

Doctors are pushing to organize the 10,000 attending physicians
within the University of California system, setting in motion what could become the largest union of employed physicians.
Factors driving the organization effort include hiring freezes, increasing patient loads, long hours, and clinician burnout.

Do you support this?
https://t.co/Va8SIsFnTc

[Leah Rain ✝️🇺🇸🎸🏝️ @LeahRain77]

This is happening in Jacksonville, Florida at a 55+ community. A 28-year-old girl was living there with her father who was ill when he passed. He gave the home to his daughter, and she wants to remain living in the community.. well the HOA has decided to enforce the 55 and over law, and is asking for $1000 from 155 members in the community to sue her to get her out of the neighborhood because she’s 28 years old, not 55+. In my opinion, this is despicable. These HOA‘s have way too much power. This sh!t has to stop.

[Sandy @schaugai]

@AnilMakam Normalizing Mg with IV infusions

[C. Michael Gibson MD @CMichaelGibson]

50 plus slides of what you already know + the word “alignment” = 15 million per hospital and the illusion of a “Strategy” … #cmgsays

[Sandy @schaugai]

@NedaSa_ @SpeakSamuel Except it may take more than a year just to get an interview with no guarantee of success. Kind of hard for people who have called US home and built a life / family here. Not to mention the loss for US as a country

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

US nonprofit hospitals spent $7.8 billion on management consultants from 2009 to 2023, but contracts were not associated with meaningful changes in finance, operations, or quality of care. 🧵

https://t.co/QQswMYxrG8

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

Healthcare administration costs should never exceed patient care costs.