When your conference friends —let’s call them conferiends—are also some of your best friends! AAFP #aafpfmx #aafpcod Tobie Smith Conrad L. Flick, MD Allen Greiner Lori Heim Marc Price, DO

National election days are stark reminders of the injustice of the nearly 700,000 DC residents, who pay the same federal taxes as residents of states, having no voting representation in Congress and only limited, revocable local self-governing authority.

Care coordination doesn't address social determinants. You can't fix the impact of centuries of racist laws & policies with a tech platform. Systemic issues can only be mitigated by systemic solutions...P👏🏼O👏🏼L👏🏼I👏🏼C👏🏼Y👏🏼

Clinicians have been taught to consider race while managing HTN - it is well documented race is a social construct, the AAFP encourages family physicians to be aware of the inappropriate use of race as a proxy for genetics in decision-making ✔️

“Family medicine is not just about whether cancer screenings are met, or HEDIS scores are measured. It is about understanding the patient within the context of their community and family system and providing the care they need.” - Lalita Abhyankar MD, MHS, FAAFP healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

⁦Don Berwick⁩ changing the mantra of no margin no mission to something far more healing…something far more central to understanding what matters to each of us in healthcare ⁦Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)⁩ #ihiforum

This list is so painful to read. No one should die because they can't afford housing. Period. Thank you to WashingtonPFFC for honoring the lives of our neighbors & for leading the fight to make sure everyone in DC has a home. Serve Your City/Ward 6 Mutual Aid #HousingIsAHumanRight

I introduced my #DCStatehood bill, to finally give the nearly 700,000 residents of the nation's capital voting representation in Congress and full self-government. Statement: bit.ly/3QvOonf

So good to see Georgetown Medicine #AHECScholar Whitney Peterson MD AAFP cluster this weekend in her role on the Commission on Health of the Public and Science! Congratulations on all of your accomplishments Whitney! DC Area Health Education Center National AHEC GU Family Medicine

Family physicians treat millions of patients with diabetes, but many of our patients cannot afford their #insulin. The AAFP thanks President Donald J. Trump, the The White House and Congress for their work to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs. #SOTU  aafp.org/dam/AAFP/docum…

District One’s residents have the right to self-governance and so do the nearly 700,000 people who live in Washington, D.C. I don’t live there, and neither do House Republicans. It’s time for #DCStatehood.

The Hill is not having it. The umbrella brigade is out in full force, not just in front of Crazy Aunt Helen’s but on the whole 700 block of Barracks Row Main Street Edmund reports the proud boys are coming to break up TaraHoot Drag Story hour

State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.

#Match2023 didn't work out in your favor? Pick yourself up, hang your head high, your MD awaits and you are still an amazing physician. Here are some resources to help with the process aafp.org/students-resid… @AAFP_FMIG #MedStudentTwitter #SOAP2023

I'm light of Missouri Republicans trying to ban public libraries, let's have another come to Jesus moment about what "libraries" and "public" mean. We'll just use today as an example. Just today. Ten hours of a shift at a very rural public library. 1/

"There is no doubt that the growing backlash against unhoused people – & against proven solutions to ending homelessness – has become increasingly dangerous."

“Street Medicine” is an intrinsically unnatural act in society. It is an inversion of power dynamics” - medical professionals going to work alongside and under society’s most marginalized. Thank you, Dr. Withers!

NEW: Tonight two of America’s most decorated Olympic swimmers -- Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt -- will ask Congress to hold WADA accountable for failing to properly police allegations of cheating by elite Chinese athletes. w/Jenny Vrentas nytimes.com/2024/06/25/spo…