Today I think our view of the gut microbiome has been as wishful as those who looked at the sky, and thought that the Sun was going around Earth. When multiple hypotheses can explain the same data, will humans always choose the exciting over the simple? We're such romantics :)

Come take a ride with us on Sam Balto's Alameda Elementary School Bike Bus in Portland, Oregon!🚲🚌 #BikeRollToSchoolDay

Amazing session around REMOVING BARRIERS TO HIGH VALUE IBD CARE! So thankful for the opportunity to share my patient story! Together, we are the change! @RotonyaC Amit Patel, MD, AGAF, FACG Anthony Sofia SarahStreettMD Peter Margolis @LGlovesSicil #AGAIBDInfluencer #COCCI #DDW2023 #HereforDDW

Lee Mazurek had been on medication to keep his chronic disease at bay for nine years when a Cigna Healthcare employee flagged his case for review. The company estimated it could save $98,000+ if he switched parts of his treatment plan. Then came the denial. 🧵👇👇

Influential #IMPhysician of the Month: Joseph B. Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D. (1909-2012). Dr. Kirsner’s ground-breaking work led to a better understanding of #InflammatoryBowelDisease. He was among the first to recognize the increased risk of #ColonCancer in patients with #IBD. #IMProud

So awesome getting to join the Peabody Elementary School #BikeBus in Cambridge today!! Thanks so much for having me อเวจีสีชมพู Katherine B Mark Boswell @franschrandez Cambridge Bicycle Safety

Congrats to Anthony Sofia, #FouadOtaki, #JaniceJou on their promotions! Time to celebrate all your contributions you have made to OHSU Gastroenterology & Hepatology and OHSU School of Medicine!

For decades now, we have spent trillions to retrofit our cities, our public spaces and our society to cater for cars. It just hasn't worked. If only we had an alternative. If only... 🚲 (London by@PeterStuart3)

Excited to see my perspective piece in NEJM re:“hospital problems” Have a read & thanks to all who have shared already! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. 1/

*carving out times for meetings during hours where childcare is provided. To be clear, I'm advocating that we recognize the difficulty of multiple weekly 7am meetings for those with young children.

For anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, this is stunning data.

Radical change of mobility requires new imaginaries! After counting all 12.000 votes across our platforms, the winner of the most powerful #MobilityMeme of 2023 is: 'Street Storage' by Dave Walker! Share it to keep opening up eyes in your networks!

THREAD: There is a massive, totally legal bribery scheme driving up drug prices in America. And pharmacy benefit managers—shady middlemen you’ve probably never heard of—are right at the center.

#8 Portland, OR's 97212 with 11.72% cycling

JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the CHEST 2022 guideline on perioperative management of patients taking oral anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy who are undergoing an elective surgery or procedure. ja.ma/3YycljK

Stanford study: Western N. America should expect unprecedented heat waves by the 2020s; blistering heat by 2030s. http://bit.ly/ac5llq

The largest perfect word square in the English language is a 9-by-9 grid of letters that can be read both horizontally and vertically.