First day on the legendary Osler internal medicine service tomorrow! Excited is an understatement. The patient stories, the phenomenal teaching… I’m ecstatic with the amount of learning and growth ahead of me. #hopkinsmedicine #MedTwitter #Medstudent

Don’t tell my neurology preceptor how many times I fell on my head 😅 #MedTwitter #medschool #MedStudentTwitter

After studying for #step2 I can never look at cottage cheese the same way ever again #MedStudentTwitter

Huge if corroborated. Would have far-reaching implications in healthcare (MRIs) and energy transmission. What a time to be alive

This #orthoresearch team set out to evaluate the ability of the Pathologic Fracture Mortality Index (PFMI) to predict the risk of 30-day morbidity after pathologic fracture fixation, as well as compared it to other frailty and comorbidity indexes. bit.ly/3sdFlzB

Had an absolute blast training for and running the TCS New York City Marathon! Our American Cancer Society society team raised $1.2+ million in the process!

Grateful for holiday skiing with med school friends! Learning to ski later in life has reinforced the importance of lifelong learning. I'm lucky to have friends who support me, especially as I ‘yard sale’ on the slopes! Here’s to embracing new challenges! #LifelongLearning

Back from my first #AAOS2024! Immersed in the latest #orthopaedics breakthroughs, from medical education to innovations and leadership. A future bright with diversity, equity, and inclusion. Excited to contribute to advancing #orthopaedicsurgery . Here's to many more!

Finalized my acting internships in orthopaedics for the next several months! It’s finally getting real! #orthopedics #match2025 #orthomatch

Say hi to our September Medical Student Member of the Month, Ashish Vankara, BS! Ashish Vankara loves to run and his current habit has been journaling. However, he’s yet to find the perfect app or tool. Help him out by sharing your suggestions or strategies in the replies! 📝

Physician conversion factors: 2000: $36.6173 2003: $36.7856 2006: $37.8975 2009: $36.0666 2012: $34.0376 2015: $35.7547 2018: $35.9996 2021: $34.8931 2024: $32.7442 UHC stock up 8,556% Insurance premiums up 342% Inflation up 86% Physician pay down 10% We should keep cutting

From 0 to 10K followers before graduating! It’s been such a rewarding and fun journey to adapt to the age of social media. Follow us to see what life is like in medical school at Johns Hopkins Medicine

Boeing failed because business people dictated how engineers should build airplanes Legacy media failed because business people dictated how journalists should report the news Healthcare in 🇺🇸 is failing because business people are dictating how physicians should practice

The United States has the highest healthcare admin costs (per capita) compared to OECD countries.

Physicians in the United States are banned from owning hospitals. That’s not a conspiracy theory—it’s Section 6001 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010. Here’s how it happened: •Congress needed votes for the ACA. •The American Hospital Association (AHA) made a

Bill Ackman Elon Musk Department of Government Efficiency This is a bad explanation. To be sure, I think the system is intransparent and full of middlemen needlessly taking margin. But this explanation is naive and effectively incorrect. The way this really works takes some brain to understand though. - For generic drugs, the pharmacy

Want to know one of the biggest problems in healthcare? Deductibles. Deductibles are defined by the plans the insurance companies design. Then they are approved to be offered by the feds or employers. Then we the people decide what deductible we want when we choose our plans.

Interesting (and disheartening) piece outlining how well-intentioned policy can be co-opted to increase revenue for health systems without any benefit to the consumer open.substack.com/pub/prestonale…

New: Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that physician-owned hospitals (POHs) are negotiating 18% LOWER prices for outpatients procedures compared to other hospitals in the same market. Still, ACA rules prevent new POHs from entering the market. Dutch Rojas Ann Kempski

I know this might sound crazy, but people who have real direct patient care experience should own and operate our healthcare system.