Matt McCord

Pleased to share my favorite high-resolution capture of the Artemis II launch- the moment the SLS is clearing the tower, captured by a sound-triggered camera placed near the pad. I'll have prints linked in my bio for this one, and here's a short thread about how it was captured

In our latest episode of @BlockIt_Hot_Pod #BILIH OUT NOW - @jeffgadsden & I talk to @LouiseMoran75 & @200UB313 ! This episode features shout outs to @docmorne @PeterMerjavy @nigeb444 @jmcd12 @Camnerveblocks - plus jokes & the history of the pecs block! blockitlikeitshot.com/s4-e4-our-conv…

1 in 8 adults in the U.S. uses a GLP-1 — and those weight loss drugs are already impacting the economy. Harvard University professor and CBS News contributor Roland Fryer breaks down why economists are predicting the medications could add to America’s GDP and shares some concerns about how diets might be impacted.

This is long overdue. Only the U.S. and New Zealand allow pharma ads on TV—and it shows. We’ve built a culture of drug consumers instead of healthy people. Worse, pharma dollars help drive media narratives. COVID made that impossible to ignore.

I will repeat as a 3+ decades healthcare lawyer. Where were the federal HHS OIG and state fraud investigators while this degree of fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) was being conducted? OIG audits hospitals, physicians and even health plans on a regular and systematic basis. How could FWA at this level have been missed by both federal and state investigators whose sworn jobs is to audit and recover FWA?

Everyone in Washington wants to blame drug companies for high prices. But the biggest profits in healthcare aren't going to drugmakers. They're going to middlemen — insurers, PBMs, and wholesalers. dcjournal.com/the-real-profi…

🚨 BREAKING: White House anti-fraud task force chair JD Vance confirms an OVER $50 MILLION DOLLAR hospice and healthcare fraud scheme just got busted in an early morning FBI raid in California Gavin Newsom is SHOOK! 🔥 VANCE: "Our task force isn’t wasting any time cracking down on fraud. This morning in the LA area, federal law enforcement is taking down fraudsters who stole $50M+ from Americans by defrauding our healthcare and hospice systems."

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

I’m a fan Ed. I’m still on the front lines part time. Just resharing as another data point.

The cholesterol wars are over. LDL won. New guidelines. Four landmark trials. An oral PCSK9 inhibitor that matches injectables. And data proving we should be treating patients we currently aren't. Here's everything clinicians need to know. 🧵

“The secret to life is so simple. You don’t have a lot of envy, you don’t have a lot of resentment, you stay cheerful despite your troubles. All these are simple rules.” “And I was 7 years old when I figured this out.” - Charlie Munger. 2019

LOL. @DutchRojas, does the coat have a big target on its back?

Well done @DrMakaryFDA!

Much touted AI scribes freed up 15 min per day, allowed 0.5 more pt visits per week, and no change in at-home work by physicians. Certainly far less than transformative. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

There is simply no exercise physiology podcast with the level of rigor, breadth and depth and practical applications as PERFORM with @DrAndyGalpin This is listen asap and archive to keep coming back to stuff.

Another peer-to-peer call. The reviewer was kind. Really kind. But, respectfully, not my peer. He listened as I explained why my patient needs lymphovenous bypass surgery. It’s a surgery that can treat the painful swelling in her arm caused by breast cancer treatment and prevent it from getting worse. She has done everything right. Compression. Therapy. Expensive garments. She’s changed her life to spend an hour a day with every resource she can afford. It’s affecting her ability to work as a nurse. And she is getting worse. This is the window where we can fix it. Early enough that surgery can actually change the course. We can do this surgery outpatient. Two hours. CMS even has a code for it. The man on the phone agreed it would help her… But he couldn’t approve it… Because he’s not a plastic surgeon and doesn’t have the specific knowledge necessary to make this recommendation. He gave me the help he felt he could. He told me to appeal and told me not to expedite it, because that wouldn’t work in my favor. Every human involved in this case knows what we should do. But the system is inhumane.

Last week on Fox Business with @MariaBartiromo, alongside @TomBrady, we announced our $200M Series A at a $2B+ valuation. We’re building how healthcare should actually work. For employers: better adherence, better outcomes, lower total cost. GLP-1s only work if people stay on them. We solve that at @eMedHealth. DMs open. 📩

Med students may be interested to know that physician compensation varies by specialty, as does time worked per year (based on weeks time off a year and hours worked per week on).

Hello @CeciConnolly. I hope that you are well.

Props to those who have said that big hospitals are the problem. In this case you are definitely right. Props to Cynthia Fischer at @PtRightsAdvoc You are making a difference! wsj.com/health/healthc…