OK, this one has me feeling like some very alien intelligences are coming.

Meta’s Dangerously Carefree AI Chief, The Nonzero Newsletter open.substack.com/pub/nonzero/p/… “An LLM of the future may appraise its conversation partners so acutely (having processed their social media histories in a nanosecond) as to be preternaturally persuasive.” Like Sauron on Numenor

Jeff Sachs helpfully lists in one place a series of facts on COVID origins. When considering causation in human affairs and the choice is between conspiracy and stupidity, stupidity is usually the better bet. commondreams.org/opinion/covid-…

Legally, nonprofit hospitals don't have to spend money on charity care/community investment But since they get tax breaks...shouldn't they? And should research, Medicare shortfall and GME count? Some hospitals fall far short on this spending, study says statnews.com/2024/03/26/non…

A little more earthy than "stochastic parrot"

Actually i’m pretty sure Right Care Alliance called for $35 insulin when we marched on Sanofi Nov 2018. And T1 International did too. It just that it wasn’t covered or taken seriously. That’s a dizzying shift of the Overton window , but purchased at a horrific price of human suffering

Some news for my colleagues ... please RT and share!! bostonglobe.com/2024/11/18/bus…

Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead massive Medicare, Medicaid agency CMS cnb.cx/3CA1KMl Do Acai futures trade on the commodities exchange?

"generating enough savings through integrated care models to cover marketing and broker fees, the extra benefits, exec salaries, and profits is very hard." Hard, not impossible. Requires a serious dive into care processes at ground level & a total revamp of usual practice.

I haven't had a chance to review the methods, but very cool! I was also going to mention that this is a great follow-up to a NEJM paper out of the Framingham study, but forgot you're the first author of that, lol.

Paging Walter Benjamin - please pick up the white courtesy phone! The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents nytimes.com/2024/11/27/nyr…

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We need a paradigm shift. But it won't come until we can create a financial model that incentivizes health, not health care transactions.

🇨🇳 If you can fully understand and explain this photo from China, then you can grasp the course of history in the 21st century.

Happy to have a chance to talk about some of the key issues in American health care. Many thanks to Jonathan Hoogerbrug for his ability to range far and wide! clinicalchangemakers.com/p/a-philosophe…

As a physician with mild LC, none of this surprises me. What does surprise me is that it took 4 years for someone to publish this study, finally using proper control groups and that it's from Germany --- How much has the NIH spend on LC research? What do we have to show for it 5