Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.

Soon, students will have CONVERSATIONS with Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato rather than just reading about them.

This is how AI is REVOLUTIONIZING education.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…

Yes, medical residents are once again exempted from being paid overtime.

See p. 378 of the final rule PDF:

“The older you get, the more quiet you become.

Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve wasted time on.”

'The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered,'
William Mayo, M. D.
Co-founder of Mayo Clinic

I see people finishing their last day of med school.
Congratulations!
You're becoming a member of an ancient & honorable profession.
You'll never be a 'provider.'
That term was coined by govs & insurers wanting to decrease your input in the doctor-patient relationship
Fight them.

For clinicians, a medical event can be routine. For patients & their families, it rips a hole in their lives. It’s been 4 years since Dr. Glaucomflecken’s sudden cardiac arrest. That day, the ground fell out beneath us, & months of aftershocks followed, reshaping our landscape. 1/3

The doctor-patient relationship has been held as sacred for over 2,000 years.
In the US for over 30 years, it has been invaded almost at-will by corporations whose only concern is maximizing their profits.
The results have been catastrophic for patients and doctors alike.

I advise friends around the world not to do what the US has done, putting profit-driven mega-corporations in charge of most health care.
It has been an unmitigated disaster.

There are times when all your tests are normal but there’s still something wrong.

Because there are things about health and humans we still don’t know or understand.

Turns out medicine is imperfect.

Just like people.

How exercise promotes a healthy immune response, reduces inflammation, and may slow the aging process
cell.com/cell-metabolis… Cell Metabolism P. Kent Langston

I know patients have scanxiety but so do oncologists. Every time I open a new scan report of a patient on surveillance, I hold my breath and leap with joy when I read “no findings of locally recurrent or metastatic disease”.

Is private equity monetizing medicine at patients’ expense?

HMS research found that patients in hospitals owned by private equity firms suffered significantly more hospital-acquired adverse events. (via Harvard Magazine) harvardmagazine.com/2024/05/right-…

People can help you in many ways throughout life, but there are two things nobody can give you: curiosity and drive. They must be self-supplied.

If you are not interested and curious, all the information in the world can be at your fingertips, but it will be relatively useless.…

'Treat the disease, you win, you lose.
Treat the patient, I guarantee you'll always win.'
Patch Adams, M.D.

#BMJInvestigation Public health experts are calling for a ban on alcohol industry funded education programmes in UK universities and schools, which they say normalise drinking and downplay the long term health risks of #alcohol
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

It’s actually insane how drastically my burnout is reduced by the presence of a fountain Diet Coke machine in the ED.

This, but for real

We can get caught in bad habits like negative self talk. Instead of letting these ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) take over, retrain your brain. Work to view the things in a different light + see the opportunity. Speak to yourself the way you would speak to a good friend. #tip

The problem with our economy is never revenue but wasteful expenditure