Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

Welcome Duke Dept of Medicine interns! We are so glad you are here and look forward to working with you. Thanks Dr. AimeeZaasDukeIMPD and Jenny Van Kirk for planning such a great retreat! Duke Department of Medicine

A few pre-race shots from 11th annual #SteadTread 5k walk/run to benefit Lincoln this weekend. Loved being a part of this special Duke IM Residency tradition, and seeing our Durham community come together to help make this happen!

Thanks again to all our organizers, participants, sponsors, & supporters (esp 📸by auston, md) for all your efforts for the #SteadTread22 Lincoln Duke Department of Medicine!

Sludge built into charity care is awful.. takes tremendous toll on pts & is inconsistent w/ principles of medicine (less importanltly—it is also soo short-sighted of health systems who could lower costs by supporting better access to primary care through charity care)

Way to go! Stellar work by the talented duo, Nick Frisco Nick Frisco & Alex Gunn Alex Gunn from our new MTC database👏👏👏 "MTC with RET V804M mutation: more indolent than expected?" sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Nick, congrats on your 1st publication! The sky is the limit👊

Grateful to be a part of this amazing team!! Congrats Nick Frisco

Mandatory listening for all healthcare workers, but especially those who work at “non profit” hospitals #medtwitter

Lets go Duke IM Residency great game against UNC IM Chiefs #DukeFam 1-0 next game at Duke University

For Durham residents only: Please consider signing this petition to expand the HEART program, which provides crisis call diversion, care navigation, and community response for those experiencing nonviolent mental health crises or quality of life concerns. durhambeyondpolicing.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/petiti…

Drum roll please!!! 🎉 🥁 Congratulations to the newly matched medical students joining our Duke IM Residency programs! We are thrilled to welcome you this summer! #MatchDay2023 See Match Results: tinyurl.com/2w8j45fr

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 🧵

Thanks to everyone who came out to support our Blue Devils for this year's Duke IM Residency v UNC Department of Medicine matchup at Cameron Friday night. Enjoy our photo album from the game! Looking forward to making it a new tradition. #DukeFam 😈🏀👏👏👏 flic.kr/s/aHBqjAzs3t

No one should go in financial ruin for getting sick. Medically necessary debt doesn't belong on credit reports. commondreams.org/news/medical-d…

"We compared the changes in charity care spending versus cash reserve balances associated with changes in profits from 2012 to 2019… increases in profit at nonprofit hospitals were not correlated with increases in charity care" healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13… 🔎 for that left panel

Across the country, millions are being exposed to dangerous heat. Here, Dr. Jonathan Jay and I describe dangerous heat's impact on health equity and gun violence, and advocate for the community health benefits that come with investing in tree canopies. wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…

~1 in 5 US households have medical debt with average debt of ~$20k/person. Our largest national health reforms have not fully fixed this problem. Medicaid expansion under the ACA led to some debt reductions, but in Medicaid-expansion states, 1 in 10 adults still carry debt. 2/10

Wow. Another tragic story from Noam Levey in the KFF Health News NPR Diagnosis:Debt project. What kind of health system forces patients to make such choices? kffhealthnews.org/news/article/a…

Today, we published a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed study in The Green Journal showing how virtual doula care on Maven improves birth outcomes. Read our press release: prn.to/3RavfYX

Merry Christmas from the Durham VA Health Care System! An honor to get to care for our veterans at the holidays alongside these stellar Duke IM Residency physicians 🎄