Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Howard University AI Panel YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Opinion | José Andrés: Let People Eat (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/o...

HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS

An infographic with various healthcare professionals and some action items for accessing primary care

Looking to read more about #interprofessional #primarycare teams including clear action bit.ly/3PyWUCn
@theconversationca.bsky.social
@rachelleashcroft.bsky.social me

To clarify, the “someone else” was NIHR’s own writing team who worked collaboratively with us!

US FDA drops web pages on improving clinical trial diversity The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies to test medicines and devices in diverse populations as part of a purge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at U.S. health agencies.

One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it.

#Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.

I think the general public were more alarmed by the Hollywood writers’ strike than the current NIH shut-down

We gotta work on that 🧬🔬🧪🥼🧫

Typology of virtual primary care in Canada Across Canada, provincial and territorial governments are pursuing different approaches to virtual primary care. Ontario, for example, preferentially funds virtual care within an established patient–p...

In this article, @uoftmedicine’s Sheryl Spithoff et al propose a typology for models of virtual primary care in Canada. They recommend that stakeholders advocate for expansion of regulated primary care provider (PCP) and non-profit models. www.cfp.ca/content/70/1...

Promotional graphic for NHS Research Scotland featuring a crowd of people, with text highlighting the news story: "NHS Research Scotland Champion urges action after groundbreaking study into multiple long-term health conditions". Published on 16 January 2025. Visit nrs.org.uk/news for more information.

A pioneering study led by NHS Research Scotland's Primary Care Network Champion has found that certain combinations of long-term health conditions are associated with worse quality of life — but can benefit from tailored treatments and interventions.

🔗 www.nhsresearchscotland.org.uk/news/nhs-res...

And AI in primary care needs to be constantly tested and reviewed by a panel of experienced primary care practitioners. Forever.

New study reveals the surprising volume of mental health cases in primary care A study found that 12% of primary care visits in Norway were for mental health conditions, matching rates for infections and cardiovascular issues. This highlights the need for improved physician training, integrated care, and workforce planning for…

A study found that 12% of primary care visits in Norway were for mental health conditions, matching rates for infections and cardiovascular issues. This highlights the need for improved physician training, integrated care, and… #MentalHealth #PrimaryCare #Healthcare #Norway #MedicalTraining

Screenshot of tweet at top of Twitter thread with text: Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 23-Dec 6, 2024 SEVERE: all provinces, regions About 1 in 43 people in Canada are currently infected. Below the tweet is a dashboard showing dials with the Forecast score and rating for all provinces (SEVERE for all). Forecast scores range from 16.1 in British Columbia to 30.0 in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. A score of 15 or more means that COVID infections this week are expected to cause at least 830 untimely (excess) weekly deaths in Canada.

Canadian COVID Forecast
Nov 24-Dec 6, 2024

We haven't started cross-posting from Twitter to BlueSky yet, and won't be done the transition until January.

For now, here's the ScreenReader link:

threadreader.770703d5ded79dbd0e5d977b1c4b85e6.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/pdfs/0/moria...

US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 - Journal of General Internal Medicine Background Despite efforts to mitigate a projected primary care physician (PCP) shortage required to meet an aging, growing, and increasingly insured population, shortages remain, compounded by the CO...

Study after study shows we're behind in growing #PrimaryCare. It's honestly really simple: pay people specifically to become PCPs and then pay practicing PCPs better.

"US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Advanced Practice Nurses in Primary Care and Their Impact on Health Service Utilisation, Costs and Access Globally: A Scoping Review Aim Synthesise evidence on advanced practice nurses' impact on health services utilisation, healthcare costs, access and quality of care globally. Design Scoping review. Methods A scoping review...

Happy to share a new publication (from my MPH practicum) with Columbia Nursing HDRI team in the Journal of Clinical Nursing: "Advanced Practice Nurses in Primary Care and Their Impact on Health Service Utilisation, Costs and Access Globally: A Scoping Review"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What works: Funding models to address health inequalities - Health Equity Evidence Centre Mortality rates are higher in areas of greater deprivation, and life expectancy a decade shorter in the least affluent areas compared to most affluent areas in England. Addressing inequalities through...

Evidence synthesis from the Health equity centre at QMUL:
#GPandPrimaryCare #BJGP
Unconditional additional funding for underserved populations is a key focus to close the #HealthEquity gap-let’s innovate and test to rapidly scale up at the #DeepEnd

www.heec.co.uk/resource/wha...

I still remember the news that day. I was 16. And I was horrified that women would be targeted to die because they were women who dared to learn. Remember their names:

Highly encourage folks to apply for TUTOR-PHC. I was a student, and now a mentor.

Collective action: Seeing just 25 patients a day has brought back the “joy of consulting,” says GP Four months after GPs in England voted in favour of taking collective action over contractual terms and funding,1 local medical committee (LMC) representatives gathered for their annual conference on ...

GPs' leader in England #KatieBramall-Stainer says GPs may need to step action to get more money for primary care. Read what action GPs are taking to draw attention to poor funding of primary care. For one GP seeing fewer patients has led to a renewed joy in his work
www.bmj.com/content/387/...

BJGPLife: Climate change and primary care: how to reduce the carbon footprint of your practice
bjgplife.com/climate...

Health Care Utilization After a Visit to a Within-Group Family Physician vs a Walk-In Clinic Physician PURPOSE Primary care access is a key health system metric, but little research has compared models to provide primary care access when one’s regular physician is not available. We compared health syst...

New paper alert!

@annfammed.bsky.social

Want to decrease emerg visits?

Provide primary care infrastructure supports so that patients can see a “within-group” provider (instead of a walk in clinic) after hours.

Decreasing fragmentation of care works!

www.annfammed.org/content/22/6...

Introducing the Jane Philpott Primary Care Fund They say all endings are really new beginnings. As the Queen’s community prepares to say farewell to Jane Philpott, she is leaving a parting gift that will have a lasting impact long after her time at...

Tomorrow is my last day as dean Queen's Health Sciences & CEO SEAMO. As a parting gift, I'm donating honoraria I've received this year & using the seed funds to launch the Jane Philpott Primary Care Fund to support research & innovation in primary health care. healthsci.queensu.ca/stories/feat...

Primary Care’s Essential Role in Advancing Health Equity The World Health Organization defines health equity as “the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demo...

"Research also demonstrates a strong connection between health equity and the other core elements of primary care, including continuity, coordination, and comprehensiveness of care." www.jabfm.org/content/37/S... #primarycare #healthequity

Virtual Primary Care for People With Opioid Use Disorder: Scoping Review of Current Strategies, Benefits, and Challenges Background: There is a pressing need to understand the implications of the rapid adoption of virtual primary care for people with opioid use disorder. Potential impacts, including disruptions to opiat...

New paper alert📢
Virtual primary care can be an effective tool to improve evidence-based care to folks with opioid use disorder.

Thanks to our research team who got this paper published!
@lindsayhedden.bsky.social
(SS, SN, EG)
@jmirpub.bsky.social

www.jmir.org/2024/1/e54015

.@CMAJ study: 5% of people don't take their medication because they can't afford it

Top 10 International Research Priorities for Primary Care,

"as identified by members of the public, health professionals working in primary care, researchers, and policymakers"
#BCPrimaryCare
#PrimaryCareResearch

Thanks @BradenONeill @NavPersaud, et al (cc:@tara_kiran)

Great to see this article #HAScholar @Health_Affairs on #reproductive justice & #value based care. Massachusetts’ innovative policy approach to expanding contraceptive options in primary care academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/art...

Making Primary Care Better: Experiments in Front-Line Medicine YouTube video by DocMikeEvans

Stumbled across this fab animation about the value of family medicine (general practice) - and primary care research in particular - for health systems (and society in general!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuy...