A good read for any doctor wondering why their patients or their families refuse hospice. The Hospice Paradox: How Medicare Fails Americans At The End Of Life | Health Affairs Forefront healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/for…

Free speech strikes again foodsafetynews.com/2022/03/federa… #Tofurky #foodanddruglaw

Curious to see how this plays out. It seems to me that regulation and clarity in this space is more of a boost to VBP than regulation impeding its advance previously fiercehealthcare.com/payers/biparti… #HealthPolicy #HealthLaw #ValueBasedCare #DrugPricing #Medicaid

Celebrating the end of Public Health Week: What if we put as much emphasis on Public Health as we do on Research in medical training? Physician–Public Health Practitioners—The Missing Academic Medicine Career Track ja.ma/3ujgFUB JAMA Network

.JAMA examines why physicians, specifically #womeninmedicine, may benefit from policy changes, teamwork & workflow improvements that reduce documentation #burnout. spr.ly/6010KLvSA

Monisha Bhatia, Miami VA and excited to #JHMChat with everyone

Some quality-improvement efforts tap into physicians’ intrinsic motivations for giving their patients the best possible care. How can we scale up such promising approaches? nej.md/3xNk14t

Orrin Hatch’s Road To Bipartisanship And Key Health Care Victories disq.us/t/47ftlh6

Postpartum and participating! 🤱🏻👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Happy to see this topic on the docket #JHMChat

A1: Navigating a shifting schedule both at work and at home was tough. I didn’t get parental leave but used up other leave as maternity leave, and was worried about baby switching to bottle in time #JHMChat

Loss of civility is one of the roots of our current political crisis…Without recognizing each other’s humanity, compromise, dialogue, and solutions remain a distant memory

PrEP for COVID? Whoa. “Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling suggest that activity against currently circulating subvariants (Omicron BA.2, BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5) appears to be retained for 6 months…” #covid #fda empr.com/home/news/repe…

So many questions about implications for diagnostic testing and screening maneuvers on physical exam cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/artific…

Making the case for vaccination in a patient-centered way is key to making progress on the maternal vaccination rate: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… #publichealth #VaccinesWork #pregnancy #CovidIsNotOver

Such a cool program to see in real time as a medical student. Nice to see the outcomes like length of stay improving years later… slowly acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/… #hospitalist

Felt truly seen while reading this 😭 Unsure of how we could make their suggestions a reality at the majority of healthcare organizations Childcare Stress and Professional Outcomes Among US Health Care Workers During COVID-19 ja.ma/3cEx7bu via JAMA Network Open

When residents are working 80+ hours per week, the last thing they need is additional clerical work… yet logging duty hours is just that. But when compared to a gold-standard of GPS monitoring, use of the EMR correlates well with work hours. From: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34507910/

#medtwitter: Please watch #thisisgoingtohurt on AMC+ Aside from not wearing appropriate eye protection during deliveries… it’s almost a little too accurate

Happy to finally see this one in print! "Using phenotypic data from the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to predict discharge" 😀✅📰 Ed Vasilevskis Jesse Ehrenfeld MD MPH Vanderbilt Health rdcu.be/dgCDB

“These drugs don't prevent people from going into nursing homes or developing severe dementia in the future,” [UC San Francisco geriatrician Eric] Widera said. “So we’re not preventing those costs — we're just delaying them by a quarter- to a half-year.” tradeoffs.org/2023/07/25/med…