Working side-by-side with old and new friends in the hospital is the best. Wrapping up a joyous stretch learning cardiology from a lifelong friend and exceptional clinician, Suhas Gondi. It is a gift to train with such brilliant, gentle doctors.

Confirming widely held fears about private equity in health care, new study JAMA shows PE acquisition of hospitals is associated with over 25% increase in adverse events, esp falls & central line infections (38% increase). Clear harm for patients.
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1 in 3 hospitals (754 hospitals) reported taking legal action against patients for late or insufficient payments

It is so cool when you get to work with people fierce about health equity for people who use drugs. Kinna Thakarar (she/her) Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir (Dr.JAM) PharmD MPH Ayesha Appa and Kathleen Fairfield, Jessica Brown, Amelia Goff, Chasity Tuell. INSERT FIRE EMOJI HERE x 3. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Remarkable RCT from Norway demonstrating that starting HCV treatment in the hospital with newly diagnosed HCV among PWIDs is superior to deferring therapy to outpatient care in achieving HCV cure.

Results argue for broader use. Håvard Midgard SELIHEP doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

🧵NEW STUDY: Opening two safe injection sites in New York City DID NOT lead to increased crime or disorder, even though the NYPD stopped making most drug arrests around them. Read more in our paper, the first such published analysis, in JAMA Network Open.
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Big thx to @levfacher for inviting me to speak STAT summit. Methadone must be made available outside of the archaic clinic system that makes ppl jump through impossible hoops. We need solutions - 1 mill people are projected to die from OD by 2029.
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Generic #PrEP + #HIV screening every 3-mos could save both lives & money compared to annual HIV screening alone in young MSM at high-risk for HIV acquisition in the US, MPEC investigators find.