From Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. Something I’ve been hammering home with my Social Problems course this semester: Not all institutions are good. All are imperfect. But institutions themselves are miracles & despotism emerges from their ashes. So improve the ones you care about.

As we focus our attention on (re)building trust in health care, let's not overlook the critical role of physician's trust in patients. Once upon a a time, it was taken for granted. Not sure that's an option anymore. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

"It’s not hyperbolic to say that trust is what the whole health care delivery system runs on—and where it’s absent, we see major breakdowns." Jodyn Platt Lauren A Taylor AcademyHealth healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Just chipped in $100 to Reverend Raphael Warnock for his final push. Congress could use more like him.

"Set Adrift Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate." Absolutely wild story nytimes.com/interactive/20…

If you are in Georgia, or know someone in Georgia, please make sure the vote goes for Senator Warnock! The last day of early voting is Friday Dec 2nd. You can vote early anywhere your Georgia county offers-- check county specific info here: elections.sos.ga.gov/Elections/coun…

“A vote is a kind of prayer about the kind of world you want to live in.” -Rev. Ralph Warnock I don't think he's wrong about that.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Bradley, who will receive a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from YaleGSAS for "her leading scholarship in public health, and her unwavering commitment to the health and wellbeing of local and global communities."

At the Mount Sinai Health System, there are over 2900 faculty members who work with resident physicians and medical students. Just 20 of them accounted for HALF of all complaints about trainee mistreatment. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

The most tender 70s academic job market rejection. From the Rubenstein Library at Duke via friend Katie B

CVS is being sued for asking customers to donate to the American Diabetes Association when they check out. Those donations are in fact *not* sent to the ADA, but instead reimburse the CVS for a legally binding obligation of $10M that CVS promised earlier lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cv…

'There is something seriously wrong with this this paper but I don't know what it is' We are having a Festival of Rejections Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) today. Faculty members share their rejection stories with journals

I don’t know if it’s fraud but it seems to be a salient difference to me. If my money goes “straight” to ADA, then by declining to give I am costing them (a charity). But as CVS has set it up, if I decline to give only CVS (biz) is hurt. Changes the calculus for me.

1/ Three studies, three different populations, three different exposures - automotive plant closures, the DACA program, and state-level college affirmative action bans. They all share the same theme in common: #opportunity matters for #health.

Delighted to see a careful article on community "power" in Health Affairs. Congrats, Pritpal S Tamber and California Endowment team. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

How COVID-19 – and money, politics and colonial history – rattled trust in an Ebola vaccine in the DRC | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance gavi.org/vaccineswork/h…

Is there a viable political path to Medicare for All? In my new @jhppl essay, I explore that question in the context of recent books on M4A by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Micah Johnson, MD & @gfriedma bit.ly/3uAtPfj (ungated & this time, link works!) CC:Harold Pollack Duke University Press

We need to do more to explain the difference between full-on cult membership and mental illness. Because we seem too afraid to accept the role of the latter. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Think I’m out of here for at least a while. Declining utility and increasing obnoxiousness.