Hot take: HIPAA hinders patient care

If Docs Have to Buy Malpractice Insurance, So Should Health Insurers, Says Lawmaker medpagetoday.com/practicemanage…

When you realize that you actually live at work and only visit your house

I am so happy Trey Murphy is a Pelican. Two HUGE shots in the 4th to take control of this game

NOT ON HERB?!

My favorite wellness hack is staying far away from people who think high cholesterol is a “myth” while cardiovascular disease remains the #1 killer.

It's crazy that 2 Oreos are 140 calories.

Data can be manipulated - the greatest of all conspiracies. Close your eyes and don't look because we don't want to see data, or read it - because it can be manipulated. You know what is easy to manipulate, someone who doesn't read data.

No one wants to be on a prescription drug - but I'd rather get my drug monthly than have a heart attack or stroke prematurely. It is a question of where you draw the line - you seem to draw it at places that exceeds the data. I prefer my doctor stick to current data and not make

Good oral hygiene is associated with a 51% reduction in risk of cardiovascular death (18 year study) (Turns out the mouth might be more important than we doctors thought) Janket et al 2023 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC98…

It’s like vigilante said…

New study further demonstrates the stress-buffering role of high aerobic fitness. Main finding: Mental stress is less damaging to cardiometabolic health if you’re aerobically fit. Aerobic exercise = stress management

A 100 percent patient satisfaction score does not always mean you are a great doctor. Sometimes it just means you are a people pleaser. Physicians are conditioned to panic over negative feedback. One bad review can trigger a complete nervous system meltdown, causing sleepless

Medicine rewards those who can function on no sleep, no food, and no emotional support. Then acts surprised when doctors burn out.

People are just lumps of passive aggressive inertia and have no possible way on their own to learn how to sleep better, move more, or eat healthier, so they should add tremendous expense to our healthcare system by asking a physician to teach them things that their parents should

Quack

when I come across a good tweet but twitter refreshes

Statins are associated with ~20% lower dementia risk in pooled analyses (PMID: 34871380). Association, not proof — but no harm signal. But the functional medicine types do like to amplify risks and yet always have a checkout lane

"so all you do is eat, sleep, get money, and go to the gym?" me:

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