Andy Johnson

Chicago born, transplant Kansan. Family Medicine and Sports Medicine Physician. Probably liking tweets about KU basketball and or Bill Self.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

If you want more doctors doing house calls, not selling their practices and going to work for the big HC conglomerates, make public med school free.

A little gov intervention, so that rather than having 100s of thousands in debt guiding their decisions , they can do primary care or be a family physician and spend as much time with patients as they want.

They can take cash. They can take chickens.

If you had 250k after almost a decade of school, do you think that would impact your decisions ?

And if you own a big HC conglomerate, does knowing they are drowning in debt impact your decision and how you compete and contract with them ?

Fuck yeah it does.

You pressure them till they have to sell out to you in an acquihire. They can’t afford to survive on their own and every huge HC company takes advantage of them

About 32k students enter med school and DO school a year. 75k for a grant each. Thats 2.4b annually for each class.

That’s it.

You want better healthcare for everyone. That’s the place to start.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

44% less depression. 38% less anxiety. 47% less substance use.

95,490 people with pre-existing mental illness, tracked against themselves on and off semaglutide. 13 years of Swedish national data.

“Ozempic personality” dominated headlines last month. The fear: GLP-1 drugs flatten your ability to feel pleasure.

But the mechanism tells a different story. These drugs quiet compulsive craving without suppressing genuine satisfaction. Less “I need this.” Same capacity for joy.

If semaglutide stole pleasure at scale, depression would climb.

It fell by nearly half.

Taipale et al., Lancet Psychiatry 2026.

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

@AndrewJSauer I interacted with Dr Heddings as a medical student and to this day he is one of the nicest and most genuine docs I have met. This was on a busy ortho trauma service. He is an example of leading with kindness for both patients and learners.

[Kevin W. Farmer, MD @kevinfarmermd]

I’m late to the party, but as athletic trainining month comes to a close, I want to express my gratitude. There is no single profession more valuable to the field of sports medicine than athletic training. They make our jobs, as physicians, easier. They are the first person the athlete wants to see after an injury. More than the doctor, more than the coach, and, in most cases, more than their parents. They are the unsung heroes of sports medicine. For every championship, there is likely an athletic trainer making sure the star athlete is on the field, and, in some cases saving someone’s career, or life. I can not fully express my respect and gratitude for all in the profession. I can not list everyone I’ve worked with during the course of my career, but please know how much I appreciate and respect all you do 🙏

[James Noake @DrJN_SportsMed]

For the people at the back -

1. Distance runner with ramp in load +/- REDS risk factors
2. Positive hop test
3. Positive FADDIR
4. Weak / painful on iliopsoas testing

This is 99.9% likely to be a neck of femur stress injury

IT ISN'T A TIGHT HIP FLEXOR

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

Tylenol.

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

Monkeys can get pre-eclampsia? 😦

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A baby gorilla was delivered prematurely via emergency caesarean section at a zoo in the US due to its mother experiencing preeclampsia

This is baby Jameela

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

What it’s like for a food scientist to hear misinformation about raw milk:

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

"[AIDS] is not being caused by a virus. It's not a virus... These people are dying because of 'poppers'... they were people who were part of a gay lifestyle... "

"This is not a viral disease, but it's a disease that is environmental."

- HHS Secretary Nominee RFK Jr

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[Brady @19brady9]

When I was a tiny baby a witch put a curse on me to eat chips

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

COVID has set us back in multiple ways. In general I am sensing more mistrust in doctors and more hostility/overt aggression.

We want to help patients, that is why we got into this - but not at the price of our safety.

Let’s all show each other a little bit of grace.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Attacks at U.S. hospitals and medical centers have helped make health care one of the nation’s most violent fields.

Data shows American health care workers now suffer more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than workers in any other profession. https://t.co/E1mXiUB2df

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

Super soakers are back. So back.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Water pistol.

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

HUGE

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

Sources tell me that Tirzepatide is on track to be approved for chronic weight management and obesity before the end of the year and as early as October 2023.

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

@mintjuul 10/10 tweet perfection

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

I want this guy arrested. Directly to jail.

[Ramp Capital @RampCapitalLLC]

I will never sleep at another hotel for as long as I live

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

Extremely niche Mother’s Day - organelle meme. Even the reference to mitochondrial RNA inheritance. Well done 👏🏻

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

The perfect Mother’s Day card doesn’t exi—

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards. Most of them were comatose & dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Others were being placed on extremely strict diets, which inevitably led to starvation.

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

Home run derby in Mexico City every year. Give them metal bats too.

[Jay Cuda @JayCuda]

This is how extreme the elevation was at the Padres/Giants Mexico City games, even compared to Coors

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

One of the medical GOATs. Dr DeBakey.

[Medicine's Bizarre History @FaisalGhani_]

THE PATIENT WHO DEVISED HIS OWN SURGERY!

The patient Dr. Michael DeBakey (seated), himself benefited from heart surgery he had devised. In 2005, DeBakey suffered from aortic dissection. Years prior, he had pioneered surgical treatment to treat this condition.

[Andy Johnson @shmandyjohnson]

@john_pauldine A little Easter gabagool?