Looks like it’ll be a solid tumor bonanza at the #ASCO26 plenary - prostate, liposarcoma, NSCLCx2, pancreas. High level of interest in the daraxonrasib data meetings.asco.org/meetings/202...

Dichromius

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

While there is so much to be heartsick over since 1/20/25, as a native-born Washingtonian, few things have saddened me as much as the desecration of the Kennedy Center. Truly nauseating www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

This summary really is something

ONC Standards Bulletin 2026-1 Learn more about ASTP/ONC's role at the forefront of the federal government's efforts to make health information digitally accessible for all individuals and communities.

Great to see the USCDI continue to evolve. Draft v7 now available for public comment healthit.gov/standards-an...

Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms

I’m sure by now many of you have heard that RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board has “leaked” a report claiming that there is a chronic condition, similar to LongCOVID, that is caused by the COVID19 vaccine.

I wanted to take some time with it before I posted, and now I have, so here comes a thread.

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

Hello, COVID-19 mRNA vaccination lowers the risk of death from severe COVID-19 and does not increase 4 yr all-cause mortality in a JAMA study of 22.7M vaccinated persons in France jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How it started/how it’s going (Oceanside, CA)

What a Scribe Taught Me About the Future EHR The Era of Summarized Living will drive a new EHR format

Another insightful essay by the always-thought provoking Dr V ➡️ What a Scribe Taught Me About the Future EHR
open.substack.com/pub/liminalm...

Keith Jarrett plays a very tender ballad YouTube video by Michael Lucke

Keith Jarrett plays the tender ballad “Then I’ll Be Tired Of You” youtu.be/PrdtGgiLgig?... His ability to alternately improvise melody, harmony, and rhythm is just incredible

Addressing Common Medications That Influence Immunotherapy Response in Solid Tumors

This is really quite fascinating and I was largely unaware of some of these data re the impact of commonly used concomitant meds on checkpoint blockade efficacy. Seems like a great opportunity to use RWD to look for more signals like this ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....

Laufey - Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell cover) ft. BBC Concert Orchestra | Radio 2 Piano Room YouTube video by BBC Music

What an amazing cover of Both Sides Now by Laufey. Love the ostinato that starts in the strings youtu.be/6yWMrNJ8DjY?...

La Jolla afternoon vibes

Good Oncologist: Doctoring Lessons From the Art of Oncology

Good Oncologist: Doctoring Lessons From the Art of Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.... <—quite a taxonomy! Well-said

Opinion | The MAHA Coalition Is Falling Apart

The public health of spite. A great piece by @dwallacewells.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Correspondence “When our patients go without medical care, the harm is not theoretical. It is measurable. Fear doesn’t just keep people away from clinics and EDs, it pushes patients into crisis.” “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, M.D., for Minnesota Physician Voices

Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.

Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G

Opinion | Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life

@bobwachter.bsky.social's NTY opinion piece outlines how medical AI is transforming the "curbside consult" into digital queries.

While imperfect, demanding perfection halts progress in a strained system. To be valuable, these tools need only outperform the status quo.
#MedSky #MedAI

We congratulate 2018-19 ASCO President Dr. Monica Bertagnolli on her election as President of the @nam.edu.

Quiet Work of Clarity

A very beautiful insight, written by an ophthalmology resident—>Quiet Work of Clarity | Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....

Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare — but maybe not as a chatbot | TechCrunch OpenAI and Anthropic have each launched healthcare-focused products over the last week.

AI is not a silver bullet. While patient-facing models struggle with hallucinations, the true utility lies in backend automation. Reducing administrative overhead offers a pragmatic path to successful deployment.
#MedSky

Treatment of Multiple Myeloma: ASCO–Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) Living Guideline ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with comprehensive review and analyses of the relevant literature for each recommendation, following the guideline development process as outlined in the ASCO G...

ASCO has published a new Living Guideline on the management of multiple myeloma ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/.... Read the highlights here dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/evolving-...

Heartbeats (Official Performance Video) YouTube video by AlexisFfrenchVEVO

“Heartbeats” from British pianist, composer, and arranger Alexis Ffrench, from his 2020 album Dreamland. With the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQhQ...

DOJ Sent Letters to Medical Journals. Then What Happened? Worrying probe into publications' partisanship may have lost steam

DOJ Sent Letters to Medical Journals. Then What Happened? www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

The ABIM is among the first to welcome me to 2026 #moc

Jon Batiste & Stay Human Perform 'Auld Lang Syne' YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The amazing Jon Batiste, with Stay Human, perform “Auld Lang Syne” in 2018 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiB...

2026 here I come

Happy New Year Bluesky fam! I celebrated with a spicy margarita at dinner tonight

Sing Joy YouTube video by Church of the Nativity

A lovely version of Peter Mayer’s “Sing Joy” by the in-house worship band of our online parish, Church of the Nativity in Timonium, MD from Christmas Eve Mass at the Maryland State Fairgrounds 12/24/25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_D...

Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year

So @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social is on the @nytimes.com editorial board. She has been a voice of reason for many years at the paper (as have many of their health/science reporters) on infectious diseases. This is a great piece from her to close out 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...