INSIDE LOOK 👀 From the upcoming issue (July 8): A retrospective study of 3,999 patients showed similar in-hospital mortality & a higher risk of C. difficile colitis in the extended anaerobic coverage group compared w/ the limited anaerobic coverage group. hubs.la/Q02F98Jz0

It’s about damn time. Drugs compose ~10% of our over-inflated healthcare cost. For the sake of our patients, communities, and our national economy, we need to give Medicare a spine to stand up to otherwise predatory drug pricing practices!

🚨 Hot Off Press UCSF Department of Medicine Health System Leadership Pathway's work reporting on-the-ground successes and challenges with Department of Health Care Services's Enhanced Care Management Program - a novel, statewide endeavor to provide enhanced care to our vulnerable populations Link: chcf.org/publication/ec…

Residents also generally don’t get pay-for-performance bonuses… When you’re already rotating across different rotations, working hard to relearn different systems/workflows, it’s hard to have the bandwidth to ALSO focus on quality measures that you don’t believe in…