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@AnilMakam Good catch! Could this be some sort of artifact or error in their regression model?

3| Here, getting bariatric surgery INSTANTLY decreases the hazard by half on the day of surgery, and is sustained throughout study period! This lack of time lag worries me that though observed differences balanced, something else driving risk reduction

1| Fascinating @JAMA_current observational study showing #bariatric surgery associated with fewer macrovascular events & death compared to usual care for obese patients with type 2 #diabetes. Too good to be true? jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

@ezraklein would otherwise agree except for the part linking these conventional tendencies to the rise of Trump. Gross overstatement!

Doctors and Public Health Professionals Call for Congress to End the Ban on Gun Research act.drsforamerica.org/cms/thanks/end…

This is incredible. Hopefully @GeisingerHealth plans to evaluate and publish their findings beckershospitalreview.com/finance/geisin…

Rampant overuse in resident clinic today - overtesting, overscreening, overtreating. Need to instill a 'right care' culture

Big news today from Medicare: end-of-life counseling now covered abcn.ws/1GSp4BG

Five UCSF Faculty Elected to National Academy of Medicine ucsf.edu/news/2015/10/1…

California governor signs bill to automatically register people to vote vox.com/2015/9/14/9319… via @voxdotcom

Strive to find #purpose - the intersection of passion, mission, vocation, and profession

Finding time to read is finding time to succeed entm.ag/1Ipoghu

NIH awards @UCSF $9.8M for #DigitalHealth research platform mobihealthnews.com/47259/nih-awar… #WearableTech

Charting the course for improving ambulatory safety using mHealth. @UrmimalaSarkar #AHRQResearch Conf. @ucsfcvp

@UrmimalaSarkar explains how #mHealth fits into Wagner's Chronic Care model. @ucsfcvp

Most research spending is wasted on bad studies. These billionaires want to change that. vox.com/2015/10/4/9440… via @voxdotcom

You can still be an entrepreneur at heart while earning a paycheck at someone else's company entm.ag/1wdw6WX

Right on. Future doctors will wonder how we ever provided primary care knowing so little about our patients twitter.com/EricTopol/stat…

Single best & consistent way to ↓ hospital readmission is to setup followup visits before discharge commonwealthfund.org/publications/b… @commonwealthfnd

Sugar is killing us. Here's how you can help. Check out this video. Share the Love, Share the Water youtu.be/aJjDoKlN7Lw via @YouTube

.@RobertPearlMD: It’s wrong to force pts to come to our office, miss school/work, for care we could deliver via technology. #caredesign15

An invigorating panel on precision medicine and patient-driven care wb.md/1jxGby7 @Medscape @WebMD