Also featured in Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's book on modern medical quacks.

I'll take you up on your recommendation and order at @peoplesbooktakoma.com. Just finished and enjoyed a torn-cover copy of your "Next American Frontier" found in a little library.

"what matters is not what's spent but what is built"

Keep this guy away from the SECDEF.

Immunization best by far. But isn't #1 a part-truth? My training for humanitarian crises was that, without a stable cold chain, Vitamin A is helpful adjunct if there's a high prevalence of malnutrition. Not the case in TX.

BCBS Michigan to charge hospitals for repeated claims denial appeals

This BCBS policy is like NFL teams getting charged a timeout for a rejected challenge - except I trust NFL referees' call more www.beckerspayer.com/payer/bcbs-m...

This phenomenon also happened with the doctors and staff within the presidential unit at Walter Reed during the first Trump admin. Early on, minor stuff like gundecking weights. Later, major lapses like letting the COVID-infected patient go for a ride around base.

I'm a recent sign-up to Beckers Hospital Review daily news roundup. Almost every article about physician reimbursement gets quotes from neurosurgeons or orthopedists....

USAID friends are asking this video be shared on social media at 5:30pm eastern, as E**n M**k has spent $40M on a Super Bowl ad to trash USAID, which accounts for 1% of the federal budget. Please spread the word. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

If you're a pediatrician, pls ask info@pasmeeting.org to include Bluesky on PAS 2025 as an attendees' profile social media option. Right now, it's just X, LinkedIn, and FB.

@wired.com seems to be getting the scoops and reporting on events in a way that used to be the wheelhouse of the big daily papers

Seems 🥄 is emerging as the symbol of federal civil servant solidarity.

Are you en route to NOAA HQ in Silver Spring?

Wonder why this museum's site is down.

Can't escape current events in this medical/history book: the same person who helped write the 14th Amendment also was the last obstacle to getting rid of a loyalty/patronage-based civil service.

I appreciate the recent @vanhollen.senate.gov comms on these issues. The first I've seen not linked to a fundraising appeal.

Shawshank Redemption showed how this practice invites corruption

Great piece, this is what stuck with me: "The care I provided in the delivery room to ensure that this baby survived: 1.94 RVUs (code 99464)... Elsewhere in the hospital, if my physician colleagues perform 30 minutes of hair removal by electrolysis: 264.87 RVUs (code 17380)."

Here's the prep for OPM to contact civilian federal workforce directly and not go through Department or Agency.

Similar programs are used in medical training to teach empathy

Del Toro caps final days as Navy secretary by naming 19 future ships Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro in recent days has named more than a dozen future ships, including aircraft carriers and submarines, to culminate his time leading the sea service.

Ship names message Navy values. SECNAV names new amphibious ship class after Maj McClung - 1st female Marine officer and @USNA grad killed in Iraq. Plus more names for ships including a destroyer - USS Robert R. Ingram (DDG 149) - named for a Hospital Corpsman.

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This is true. But doesn't absolve govt and business from responsibility for those outcomes. Govt & biz have outsize role in an individual's built environment, access to clean air & water, suspectibility to manipulation to purchase unhealthy substances, health education and access to healthy food.

Why did this pt get a biopsy? Seems typical to me, except maybe a low C4. Maybe you held back on the Cr or some other atypical clinical features.

Clinical descriptors of hematuria were more colorful 60 yrs ago. Like this from the Acute GN chapter of the 1957 ed. of Fishberg.

Like this one.

Love to see a #pedsky case presented. Disappointed to see the accompanying illustration of the doctor listening to the chest through the shirt. One of my mentors remarked that auscultating directly on the skin was a sign of a well-trained doctor.

If the digital heath literacy and motivation are there, home BP entered or uploaded into an EHR portal app is even better. Shows up on flowsheet just like clinic and inpt readings. #patiententereddata #RHM

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2023

Match results are out and #pedneph report not looking good for maintaining the future workforce. 9 programs filled (vs 20 last year), lower % of positions filled, and 10 less fellows entering training this year. #nephsky #pedsky @asnkidney.bsky.social @abpeds.bsky.social

Don't forget the #pednephsky part of @asnkidney.bsky.social when discussing the future nephrology workforce - not as rosy a picture and a 🚨🚨🚨🔥.

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