Eric Widera, MD

San Francisco Tesla dealership is busy today (at least the sidewalk is)

Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend #teslatakeover electrek.co/2025/02/13/tes…

@PAULJLAMONT @EWidera @pash22 @gpgrazioli @SuzanneESchind1 @ProfRobHoward @LonSchneiderMD @LogarithmicDis @MemoryDoc @AlbertoEspay @nvillain_alz @seb_walsh @LTCShop @MadhavThambiset @RenegadeSynapse @dr_shibley @_michael_scholl @StefanoSensi14 @Gill_Livingston @DrTFromKC @jasonkarlawish @JamesRuFletcher @AdamMBrickman @ManlyEpic @SFAckley @howard_gleckman @kathy_y_liu @r_merrick @nlundebjerg @NathanielChinMD @EmmyBetz @DrJoRyan @MaggieAime @OskarHansson9 @DavidJonesBrain @PTenigma @Ayisha_Sharma97 @EMA_News @NICEComms @TGAgovau @CDA_AMC @KaplanLab_Tufts @MeganMolteni @JoshuaPCohen1 @chiara_bruck Dismantling institutions & eroding people's trust in them is meant to create a cynical void where powerful people create their own version of reality & avoid being accountable to any rule or standard. I agree with @EWidera, we should move this discussion to Bluesky. 2/2

@MaximizeQOL @ChadDKollas We’ve built it before with old Twitter. We can build it again on BlueSky

@EWidera @ChadDKollas Truth But I admit I miss my team of peeps sending out summaries of articles from across the medical spectrum & our sharing interpretations, which saved me time & also made me a better clinician 🤷🏻‍♀️ That’s my bias. Due to doofus, my team has now shrunk to a trickle….

@pash22 @gpgrazioli @Kariem_Ezzat @PAULJLAMONT @SuzanneESchind1 @ProfRobHoward @LonSchneiderMD @LogarithmicDis @MemoryDoc @AlbertoEspay @nvillain_alz @seb_walsh @LTCShop @MadhavThambiset @RenegadeSynapse @dr_shibley @_michael_scholl @StefanoSensi14 @Gill_Livingston @DrTFromKC @jasonkarlawish @JamesRuFletcher @AdamMBrickman @ManlyEpic @SFAckley @howard_gleckman @kathy_y_liu @r_merrick @nlundebjerg @NathanielChinMD @EmmyBetz @DrJoRyan @MaggieAime @OskarHansson9 @DavidJonesBrain @PTenigma @Ayisha_Sharma97 @EMA_News @NICEComms @TGAgovau @CDA_AMC @KaplanLab_Tufts @MeganMolteni @JoshuaPCohen1 @chiara_bruck Time to move on

@gpgrazioli @Kariem_Ezzat @PAULJLAMONT @SuzanneESchind1 @ProfRobHoward @LonSchneiderMD @LogarithmicDis @MemoryDoc @AlbertoEspay @nvillain_alz @seb_walsh @EWidera @LTCShop @MadhavThambiset @RenegadeSynapse @dr_shibley @PhilAlz @_michael_scholl @StefanoSensi14 @Gill_Livingston @DrTFromKC @jasonkarlawish @JamesRuFletcher @AdamMBrickman @ManlyEpic @SFAckley @howard_gleckman @kathy_y_liu @r_merrick @nlundebjerg @NathanielChinMD @EmmyBetz @DrJoRyan @MaggieAime @OskarHansson9 @DavidJonesBrain @PTenigma @Ayisha_Sharma97 @EMA_News @NICEComms @TGAgovau @CDA_AMC @KaplanLab_Tufts @MeganMolteni @JoshuaPCohen1 Time to nursing home admission and death in people with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis bmj.com/content/388/bm… via @chiara_bruck et al

@LonSchneiderMD @pash22 @Jeff_Browndyke @AlbertoEspay @nvillain_alz @seb_walsh @EWidera @MemoryDoc @LTCShop @PAULJLAMONT @ProfRobHoward @MadhavThambiset @KasperKepp @RenegadeSynapse @DanielErsk1ne @dr_shibley @PhilAlz @_michael_scholl @VincentPlanche @StefanoSensi14 @Gill_Livingston @DrTFromKC @jfballenger @jasonkarlawish @JamesRuFletcher @AdamMBrickman @ManlyEpic @SFAckley @howard_gleckman @kathy_y_liu @r_merrick @nlundebjerg @NathanielChinMD @EmmyBetz @DrJoRyan @MaggieAime @OskarHansson9 @DavidJonesBrain @PTenigma @Ayisha_Sharma97 @adamhdyer @DrewQJoseph @jocelynkaiser @jmschott @ayton_scott @Kariem_Ezzat @AE_MD @SpichakSimon @NIH @cpiller There’s blood in the waters here: Cassava Sciences Simufilam went to P3 on fabricated and withheld P2b data. Former execs and researcher charged by SEC today. DOJ arrested Dr. Wang and continues to investigate the two former exec husband/wife duo. x.com/LogarithmicDis…

@pash22 @kevinmd @ProfRobHoward @ajlees @dr_shibley @seb_walsh @gpgrazioli x.com/ewidera/status…

Are new blood tests for Alzheimer's and cancer worth the hype? kevinmd.com/2024/12/are-ne… via @kevinmd & #MBennetBroner @ProfRobHoward @ajlees @dr_shibley @seb_walsh @gpgrazioli @EWidera

@MaximizeQOL @ChadDKollas We are at a fork in the road. Every tweet (like this one) gives Twitter more content and Elon more power.

@EWidera @ChadDKollas Have you blocked junk &/or clicked “see less often”? Your feed may just need a cleanup I only follow science-, medicine-, & policy-related folks. And if people post garbage (eg attacking people rather than ideas), I unfollow & usually block them Makes a big difference

@ChadDKollas My feed yesterday was Elon, Elon, and then Alex Jones. I think I’m just gonna burn my twitter account to the ground by tweeting crap about Elon and promoting Bluesky

@EWidera I struggle with that every day.

We are living in a dangerous and unprecedented moment in American history. I’m getting a lot of calls from people who are not only upset about what’s happening, but are wondering how we best go forward. Here are my thoughts:

Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues to expand his power grab, and this time he wants Americans’ most sensitive information, including their Social Security numbers and banking information. We should all be asking why he wants it. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

What they are really saying is that they want to drive care away from government programs to private companies like UnitedHealth, where "productivity" is encouraged through upcoding and profit is maximized for shareholders and CEO salaries. 3/3🧵 x.com/EWidera/status…

We have data from a 2024 systematic review that concludes most published studies show that Veterans getting care from the VA get the same or better clinical quality than Vets getting community care or the general public getting non-VA care. 2/3🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Government employees are being encouraged to resign from "lower productivity in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector." This is a false narrative. Example: VA healthcare system does no worse and is often better than non-VA care in most outcomes 1/3🧵

We talk with Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, & @DrVickiJackson about their recent JAMA article on #Telehealth vs In-Person #PalliativeCare. Which option gives the best quality of life to the patient? Guest host Lynn Flint. bit.ly/GeriPalEp341 - hosts @AlexSmithMD | @EWidera

Does he even know what nurses and doctors do? Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year

@javid_lab Right? How the heck is this even a question.

@EWidera How is refusing an unvaxxed kid even worthy of ethical debate? This is how and why the anti-vax lobby gains support. We don't marginalize/exclude adults who make *very questionable* life choices for themselves, but we do kids for whom their parents made a choice?

If someone refuses vaccines or any other tx, you build trust, listen to concerns, share your worries. Influence but not control. But to not even try? Refuse healthcare to a child for a decision that their parent is making?? That’s wrong. Opinion 1 is right nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

It takes competence to fix something or make it better. Any fool can brake it even further. RFK Jr is in the latter group. nytimes.com/2025/01/29/hea…

@dementiamites With that said…

Imagine you open your email and find everyone in your hospital system is encouraged to retire next week and in return they get a 7 month severance period in which they no longer are expected to work (at all). That’s just what happened at the VA today. opm.gov/fork