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@NewEmergingKing Do you take teenagers??

Boys should know how to grocery shop. $150 budget. Family of four. Don’t miss nothing. And yeah… if you don’t know what she meant on that list, you better call your wife 😂 (All wives are different — don’t take it personal)

If that brave corgi story is AI I'm going to burn everything down.

@DrEricDing @ariccio outrageous

Fact: COVID is **not** merely a “common cold”. Cities and states and schools that say this should be held accountable for child endangerment.

After suffering a cardiac event during a May 9, 2025 game that led to heart surgery, Savy King, the 21-year-old Angel City defender has returned to the field for the first time.

Public health this last decade.

The US is rationing penicillin in 2026. A drug invented in 1943. We let syphilis spiral out of control and now there isn't enough of the only medication that keeps babies from being born with it. This is a policy failure, not a supply chain mystery.

@aclong111 @kjdelay1 💯

An uncomfortable reality: medicine leaves explanatory gaps. And people don't like uncertainty. And because of that, gaps rarely stay empty. They get filled with all sorts of things, when sometimes we’d be better off just admitting what we do and do not know.

@kiityc @YouAreLobbyLud @Parody_RCGP 👏🏽

@Parody_RCGP I am neither trained nor indemnified to provide a specialist occupational health assessment. If a patient tells me they are unfit to work, I believe them. The State or their Employer can formally assess their fitness by commissioning an appropriately trained person to do so.

Yep. Why deal with the complaints when every bit of the system is out to screw you. "May be fit" for the win!

that hour we lost to daylight savings was the hour i was gonna get my life together

Dear @CMSGov I was looking through some Medicare expenditure data, which I assume is not how most people spend their evenings, but I do… And something jumped out at me. Across five specialties, independent physicians had the lowest total Medicare expenditures: $26,377 per beneficiary per year. Okay. So that’s the baseline. Now let’s look at the other models. Private equity–affiliated practices: $26,824. Corporate practices: $27,769. Hospital-affiliated physicians: $30,416. So just to make sure I understand this correctly… The most expensive model in the system is the one where doctors are employed by hospitals. And the least expensive model is the one where doctors run independent practices. That’s a $4,039 difference per Medicare beneficiary every year. Which would seem like the sort of thing policymakers might want to pay attention to. But it gets better. When physicians transition from independent practice to private equity, Medicare spending decreases by about $963 per beneficiary per year. Okay. Interesting. But when physicians transition to hospital employment, spending increases by $1,327 per beneficiary per year. Corporate affiliation? Also increases costs, by about $1,140. So the pattern here seems… fairly consistent. The model everyone keeps saying is “unsustainable” actually produces the lowest costs in the system. Meanwhile, the model that keeps absorbing those practices is also the one that drives spending up. And every time an independent physician disappears into a health system… Costs go up. Every time. Which raises a small question: If the goal is controlling healthcare costs… why is the United States Government steadily replacing the least expensive model with the most expensive one? Just asking…. -Rojas out

Video of a shepherd in #Lebanon evacuating with his herd of goats & sheep from Naqoura on Israel’s border to western Beqaa. They’ve already been walking for 2 days and expect 3 more to go. War doesn’t spare anyone …

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

We really have not had a single day of peace since March 13, 2020.

@WUTangKids Gross

Did FIFA seriously post this AI slop about soccer stadiums in Gaza before they have running water, food, medicine, housing and a million other needed necessities….we all know it’s all about money for them but they can’t seriously be this tone deaf smh

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/6011Aa3Et

SHE GOT GAME. July 16-19. Viva Las Vegas.

Today one of my breast cancer patients was placed under general anesthesia before I had seen her, marked her, or signed her chart. That should never happen. This is not the first time I have walked into a hospital and found that the rules were treated like suggestions. Surgery is not an assembly line. These are human beings. They deserve to be seen, evaluated, marked, and spoken to before anesthesia is administered. When I asked for an explanation, I was met with defensiveness instead of accountability. And here is the deeper issue. I am often told by insurance companies where I am allowed to operate. Even when I know that another facility is safer. Even when patterns like this have already occurred. Physicians should be able to choose the safest environment for their patients. Insurance contracts should not override safety standards. I am tired. But I am not going to be quiet. We have to build a system where surgeons can vote with their feet and take patients where protocols are followed and safety comes first. Our patients deserve better.

Hospital parking should be free for staff in general. But, definitely free during winter storms, where many come in hours early to be there for patients, relieve their fellow colleagues, and assure operations continue smoothly, while other colleagues may have to stay longer as they clear their cars of snow. I will die on this hill.

@DocDifferently Yep!

A pediatrician colleague in her 40’s passed away after a short illness. After 15 yrs working at this job: - No email announcement sent from the hospital. - No call made to her family. - No memorial or grief support for the department. - Her job posted for hiring the next week.