Take the time to contact your rep to cancel the proposed Medicare cut

Well well well.

Comes as no surprise thatchairman of American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Trustees is not participating in MOC.
-- Do as I say, not as I do . .

📣📣📣CALLING ALL APPLICANTS!!

Join us to learn more about our UAB
⭐️Internal Medicine
⭐️Med-Peds
⭐️Pediatrics
Residency Programs and DEI Initiatives from our faculty & URIM Residents on Wed, Sept 27th, 6-7pm CST

Link: bit.ly/UABDEIOpenHouse

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finally consistent about remembering to tell complicated patients : “there r many specialists following w/ large teams. You may hear conflicting info but we r all talking behind the scenes. If u have ???s I am the go-to person”. it works so well to prevent frustration.

To know Carlie Stein is to see her genuine passion for fighting for equity and inclusion and advocating for diversity at every level. She is a role model and leader in the medical system and our community as a whole! Grateful to call her a friend and mentor! UAB Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program

Congrats to our amazing PD Carlie Stein on her Dean’s Excellence Award for DEI! She is an inspiration to all who have the opportunity to work with her and know her 💚 UAB Heersink School of Medicine UAB GIM UAB Department of Pediatrics #MedEd #DEI
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Race is a social construct and NOT a biological explanation for differences in reference ranges.

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Love this article. It’s important to have good people on the administration side of things. Love the #VisualAbstract ! Kierstin Kennedy, MD MSHA FACP SFHM Kimberly D. Manning, MD Suchita Shah Sata, MD

Did you hear that Gov. Kay Ivey is planning to take $100 million away from Alabama's education budget so that she can use it to build prisons instead? Our kids deserve so much better than this. Please join me in writing lawmakers to say NO! actionnetwork.org/letters/action…

Calling all med-peds alumni! There’s now an association just for us…and it’s FREE to be a member! Sign up here: associationmedpeds.org
National Med-Peds Residents’ Association #MP4L

Never met someone who deserved this award more. Congrats Ben Kinnear !!! APPD #mppda2023 #appd2023 #mp4l #medpeds #meded

The work that Marisha Burden, MD, MBA and Angela Keniston are doing to define/measure hospitalist work and conceptualize workload is so important — for the field and for patients. #SHMConverge23

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Marsha Blackburn has received over $1.3 million in donations from the National Rifle Association to oppose any attempts at common sense gun reform, making her one of their top funding recipients.

On average there are almost 1300 gun deaths per year in her state of Tennessee.

Glad to see North Carolina signing Medicaid Expansion into law today after being passed by their Republican-majority legislature. We must do the same to #CoverAlabama and put people’s lives and health over politics. 80% of states have expanded - let’s not wait to be the last!

Ran into Blair Golden presenting awesome work at #SHMConverge23 .

Putting chairs 🪑 in the patients’ rooms resulted in ⬆️ patient-reported resident communication behaviors - including spending enough time at the bedside.

Simple and elegant intervention. Just. Sit. Down. 🪑

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.

“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & The Capitol Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”

The inside story 🧵

Patient-time spent npo for procedures should be a process measure all hospitals monitor. #hospitalist #hangrypatients #hypoglycemia #foodismedicine #twdfnr

Today I went to my sons Birmingham City Schools🎓 for #ReadAcrossAmerica2023 to read to some young scholars and #futuredoc about poop. SO. MUCH. FUN. Even got to plug #coloncancerawarenessmonth #poopjokes #MedEd #kidslovepoop #somanyquestions