As a med student, I often felt like a useless, warm body on clinical rotations. As an intern, I freaking love my med students. Their help with calls to update PCPs, notes, and focus on MedEd make my day SO much better. Med students—you are essential members of our teams!

An experience I can empathize all too well with. Beyond financial barriers there's the regular reminders you don't come from background of most peers in medicine. Systemic reform is needed to ensure medicine isn't a guild of the privileged class #MedEd nytimes.com/2019/11/25/hea…

Patients buying fish antibiotics online, another symptom of our flawed healthcare system. Before I went into medicine I often got my antibiotics from farm supply store because it was cheaper. Had a patient today tell me they were using veterinary drugs. theguardian.com/us-news/2019/d…

I know we're ~over~ health care questions in debates, but I would not be mad if a moderator asked the candidates what lessons they draw from the difficulty of passing surprise billing legislation as they advance much more ambitious and disruptive reforms

Out now: our paper in JAMA on "surprise" out-of-network billing in elective surgery. 1 in 5 patients having surgery with in-network surgeons & hospitals still gets out-of-network bills, averaging $2,011 more than what insurance would pay. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

This is massive! #USMLE #step1 going to pass/fail scoring is major disruption of #MedEd, and will hopefully help reduce the burnout of medical trainees. Now we just need to address gross disparity of income between specialities that drove score escalation. usmle.org/incus/#decision

Higher co-infection rates (>20%) in COVID19 at Stanford med. Can't rely on stepwise triage algorithm. (E.g., Patient RSV or Flu+, enough chance of COVID19 that you can't rule it out) link.medium.com/alOn6PZLX4

Janitorial staff and kitchen crew keep us clinicians safe and fed. In all these stories about healthcare heros, let’s not forget about the folks that may not have medical degrees yet face just as much risk (if not greater) than we do at a fraction of the pay. 🙏

Tribulations of employer and state based insurance: Discovered I'm effectively uninsured for dental since University of Washington plan doesn't have in-network providers in Boise. Told I might need to go to Washington for necessary dental care in the middle of #COVID19 response

With #COVID19 surging across the US, many newly minted attending physicians find themselves with a gap today between starting their new positions and completing their residencies/fellowships. This is a likely untapped resource for surge staffing.

Public health is about keeping all of us safe and healthy, but it's been neglected for decades. If we fail to invest in public health, we're condemning ourselves—and our children—to preventable illness, injury, disability, and death.