Donated!

An author whose books changed my worldview again and again. May his memory be a blessing.

Can I say for sure why this company is declining to recall raw cheddar linked to an outbreak of illness that can shut down your kidneys and kill you? No.

But a HHS secretary extolling the benefits of raw dairy has to be part of it 😳

100%. Can’t wait to read and thank you for sharing your journey.

Thankful for my colleagues that saved my life. Also has forever changed my patient care given my “unremarkable” imaging myself.

Can’t wait to read, preordered!Had my own in 2023–3 imaging studies all said my gallbladder was fine, ruptured 1 week later. Sepsis, months of drains, surgery. Left with chronic nausea and have lost >30% of my body weight. Healing has been complex both as a patient and an MD.

Please, my friends… get your colon cancer screening.

NEWS: CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico and ordered him not to mention the cancellation over fear of FCC chair Brendan Carr.

Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.

“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/

RFK Jr just said, “I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.’ Is this really who is leading public health right now?

@drplantel.bsky.social
#medsky

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”

- John Lewis #RIP

Summary of what happened at Temu ACIP this morning:

As expected, they overturned the 30+ year recommendation for the birth dose of HepB vaccine, which has reduced the incidence of pediatric HepB by 99%.

They provided no credible evidence to support this decision.

Robert Reich v @RBReich X.com Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use Al to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one. 12:03 PM • 9/2/25 • 426K Views.

AI and prior authorizations, together at last

“I’m done!” is proclaimed at the end of every meal by at least 1 of our boys, but really means “can I get up now?” I respond with “Your status is noted.” We all wait until one asks if they can get up. I explain they could have just asked that. We do this every day. This is apparently parent life. 🤪

Linda Gail Bekker highlighted the critical importance of oral loading with lenacapavir. Missing it significantly delays (to 28 days) the time taken to achieve target concentrations which are reached by day 2 with loading

#IAS2025
@iasociety.bsky.social

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Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

Atul Gawande on Instagram: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantling of USAID (even assuming... 9 likes, 0 comments - atul.gawande on May 24, 2025: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantlin...

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far.

In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

Here is your occasional reminder that

The United States has plenty of resources to feed, house, and provide medical care for everyone

We have made a choice as a society that, rather than doing that, we would rather allow people to selfishly hoard these resources

This is a choice

Good morning.

Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would throw 13M people off their insurance. All for a tax cut for the rich.

That’s the combined population of

West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Maine
Montana
Rhode Island
both Dakotas
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

Varenicline for Youth Nicotine Vaping Cessation This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of varenicline plus behavioral counseling, compared with placebo plus behavioral counseling or with enhanced usual care (behavioral counseling alone), for nicotine vaping cessation in youth who do not smoke tobacco regularly.

Varenicline significantly boosts nicotine vaping cessation rates among youth compared to placebo and enhanced usual care.

by Evins AE, Cather C (...) Schuster RM et 12 al. in JAMA #MedSky

👉 get more here

📖 read the article:

I hope medical students do the same re: schools standing up to attacks on medical education.

The Indiana General Assembly just passed HB 1515 and at the last minute slipped in a provision that all allied health professional schools must be on an A-F or similar merit system

93% of medical schools have left the A-F system because it does not improve learning

This is really really bad

Preventing people from becoming ill is what should unite leaders, not divide us. RFK Jr. is sabotaging public trust in vaccines. This will only continue to have dangerous consequences for our public health.

www.axios.com/2025/04/23/m...

Last month, the CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis found the source of a Hepatitis C outbreak in Florida that state officials had been unable to solve since December. Now the entire Division has been fired, leaving investigations of outbreaks in OR, PA, MA, NM, WI, WV and GA, unsolved in addition to FL

This is an amazingly brave and well written letter of resignation by a PCCM physician and public servant who has decided that staying in a role at the NIH caused such moral dissonance that he had to leave

Kudos, Josh

IN EL SALVADOR: Senator Van Hollen says Trump is in violation of court orders — and is paying El Salvador to imprison an innocent man. (And #KilmarÁbregoGarcía is not the only one)

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”

— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

Screenshot of news headline: “RFK Jr says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September” Headline is accompanied by a picture of Trump with some members of his cabinet, including RFK Jr and Marco Rubio. (IDK who the third guy there is, sorry not sorry🤷🏼‍♀️)

How to “determine the cause of autism by September”:

Step 1: decide you already know the cause.
Step 2: skip all the typical study design, ethics review, and data collection steps.
Step 3: cherry-pick, p-hack, and fudge your way to data that declare “success”.