Hospital admins do you want so speed up discharges and unload the ER census???

Instead of sending emails to docs to prioritize discharges how about you invest in more social workers and case managers.

Thank you Jose L. Lopez, MD for updating our infographic & giving the doctor curly hair like I wanted 🤣

17 lives. 17 families. 17 individuals who allowed us the privilege of being part of their🫀transplant journey

🙏🏽 in year 2 we can ease the financial burden for many more families

holy moly, child poverty rate rose from all-time low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% (!!!) in 2022, reflecting end of temporary child allowance and other programs.

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.

“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & The Capitol Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”

The inside story 🧵

How could medical schools reorient their mission away from producing 'healthcare leaders' to instead train doctors as solidarity-based partners in bottom-up, community-led movements? The health-systems revolution we need won't be led by doctors, but we have a key role to play.

😱 HOLY COW, @ALEXMORGAN13

Many know that the Carter Center, founded by Jimmy Carter, has been working towards eradicating neglected diseases like Guinea worm.

But fewer know how successful this has been.

In 1989, there were >890,000 cases worldwide.

In 2021, there were 15.
ourworldindata.org/guinea-worm-pa…

Online module for burnout prevention

Residency is one of the most physically and mentally taxing things I’ve ever done. Here is a phenomenal narrative medicine perspective by one of my very own attendings Rick Boulay,MD about protecting our own. Thank you for sharing your story, Drs. Boulay NEJM #narrativemedicine

Nine of the U.S. News & World Report Top 20 medical schools have announced they’ll no longer participate in their rankings.

At this point, the USNWR Top 20 list tells us more about the aspirations and strategy of the institutions that are choosing to continue to participate.

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it.” Thank you ⁦Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.⁩. Quote: ⁦Barack Obama nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

One day, just one day, I would like to see pregnant physicians brag abt how their institution made accommodations for the antepartum period, instead of all the “I worked until I was literally in labor” superwoman posts

'...we have to look beyond our ability to just prescribe medications and do treatments in the hospital; we have to look at the larger financial context of our patients' lives.'

BMC's Lucy Marcil, MD explains antipoverty medicine on #HealthCity ⬇️: bit.ly/3IH68KG

Sadly, you get what you pay for. I wish this country cared about its children. nytimes.com/video/opinion/…

Meet Richies 👋🏾 He’s 10 years old and likes video games, playing pranks & social studies. He also has sickle cell disease.

W/ the help of our pediatrics sickle cell experts & support from our community, Richies is able to receive the best care at BMC. ❤️

Watch Richies’ story 🎥

Appreciating the advocacy & views of colleague Dr Amanda Stewart Boston Children's
& Boston Medical Center's Megan Sandel's research informed POV on #homeless families using ERs for shelter-- a symptom of larger #housing system dysfunction.
Noted: innovation needed! wbur.fm/3BRCPRq

Read the powerful words of Ayesha Dholakia, MD regarding gun violence. 'In the 10 years since, the unthinkable has happened again, and again, begging the question: when did the murder of innocent children no longer qualify as unthinkable?' @the_BMC @BCRP wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…

Percentage of pediatric and internal medicine specialty programs that filled in this week’s NRMP fellowship match.

No amoxicillin.
No amox-clav.
No cefdinir.
No high-flow circuits.
No oseltamivir.
Limited nurses.
Limited ICU beds.
Limited services.
Limited life-saving care.

Tell me again how everything is fine?
#PedsInCrisis

Telling pediatricians, PEM, and PICU HCW to “brace for a winter surge” is like issuing a warning about an ice berg to the titanic 1.5 months after the crash. We have been treading water longer than we should, and need more resources, support and public health measures YESTERDAY.