Everyone: “whoa even Walmart failed at healthcare…!”

Me: 🙄Maybe that’s because…
👏HEALTHCARE👏IS 👏NOT👏A👏COMMODITY👏

Doctors are not widgets.
Nurses are not widgets.
HCWs are not widgets.
Patients are not widgets.

The problem with these big box “healthcare” initiatives

Healthcare: pay more, get less.

22% increase in healthcare premiums since 2018 (pay more⬆️⬆️⬆️)

10-15% increase in claims denials each year (get less👎👎👎)

Meanwhile, average family healthcare insurance premiums in 2023 is $23,968 or a whopping ONE-THIRD of the median US

What must the aliens think when they see millions of humans staring up at them at the same time wearing cheap paper glasses…

Wonder if they’re like “oh the tin foil hat humans have multiplied”.

🌑Some eclipse tips:

🌒Don’t come to the ER if you stared too long/hard at the

So let’s talk this through:

@change_hc, the largest healthcare payment system in the US (owned by United UnitedHealthcare) has a ransomware attack that shuts them down for 4 weeks and counting.

Meanwhile, this means physician practices aren’t getting any payments, losing millions of

You call it healthcare/ your life / your body / your health…

Healthcare insurers call it a “medical LOSS ratio”…as in YOUR care is their financial loss…🤬

They care about your premiums.
They do not care about you.
They care to deny as much as they can of your medical

Being pregnant and having a cough is a high intensity ab workout.

That is all.
🤰🏻😷😵‍💫

ICYMI…turns out, women need to exercise less time for the same/more cardiovascular benefit than men do…sounds great, but few things to note:

📑This was a 10 year survey study of self-reported exercise habit, so my hypothesis is that women drastically underestimate their

A Battle to Save Lives and Residency Programs ⁦Medscape⁩ ⁦ACEP Members⁩ ⁦AAEM⁩ ⁦AAEM/RSA⁩ ⁦CHRISTUS Spohn⁩ ⁦SAEM⁩ ⁦Ali S. Raja, MD⁩ medscape.com/viewarticle/99…

National Women Physicians Day…

The day a year we ‘celebrate’ #womeninmedicine to try to make up for the fact that:

👩🏻‍⚕️female doctors have MUCH higher infertility and pregnancy complication rates than the general population

👩🏼‍⚕️40% of women physicians go part time or quit

Snack foods that make the ER cringe:

Flaming Hot Cheetos: the culprit for many benign chest pains

Blue hard candy/popsicles: the cause of many “bruises” or “blue lips/fingers” for kids

Red candy/popsicles: “blood” in vomit

Hotdogs: choking hazard for all ages…

What say

💯💯💯
I stayed <24hours in the hospital post partum because I was like NO ONE CAN GET ANY REST HERE. Plus the food is 🤢

0300: baby vitals check
0430: mom (my) vitals check
0515: give medication
0645: night shift RN check out
0715: day shift RN check in / bedside handoff
0730:

I told a vendor that I double checked his recommendation against another vendor (who offered a different approach).

Vendor #1 was very offended by this.

I’m like, in medicine we just call this a “second opinion”…and it’s just a normal
part of life and workflow.

Is this

If you want to know someone’s deepest darkest secrets…

Just look at their targeted ads on their social media feeds…it will tell you everything you ever wanted to know…and even more that you never wanted to know.

‼️Remember in today’s world, data=💰💰💰…which makes the idea

#icymi 🔥🔥🔥 commentary by Leon Adelman Ivy Clinicians on why debt of a company matters to the employee…

Here’s the TLDR (my interpretation):

If you are a physician considering working for a debt-laden (ahem, private equity backed) group, and have no problem with the fact

Explain this to me: why do hospitals have the absolute worst tissues?

Everyone has flu, covid and RSV right now, and here we are offering awkward half-size single-ply cardboard…

Me: * walking out of house for a holiday party *
Hubs: “Oh, it’s an ugly sweater party?”
Me: “…no…it’s a normal holiday party…”

😦😦😦

Savage.

Proud to see this @medscape piece as a reference Chuck Schumer letter to The FAA ✈️ on urgent need for #autoinjectors on #airlines
Great panel with Dr. Robert Glatter Amy Faith Ho, MD MPH Andrea Merrill, MD FACS
medscape.com/viewarticle/97…