Curmudgeon Cardiologist
@curmudgeoncard
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Exposing the shenanigans in Healthcare, Medicine, & #medtwitter one tweet at a time. Passion for #meded, #EBM, & ethics. Patients over profits. Less is more.
Joined July 2020
The older I get the more I realize that professional success & wealth doesn’t come from hard work—it comes from who you know. Whether you’re a doctor, teacher, lawyer, or garbage man, who knows you matters. Competence doesn’t even matter because there are many dummies in charge.
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There are some good points made in this thread. Many folks go into medicine because of the money and status. Don’t get it twisted, they aren’t doing it for the altruism. That’s a myth. I had classmates talking about money as an MS1.
I hate to write this, but seems relevant to share…. Should a person go into medicine for the money?. Short answer: No. Long answer: Hell no. And here’s why:.
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Absolutely and they work in the Emergency Department.
@MHPoison1 @pinkprincessin1 @leahfrombklyn @Noobventor @alexandertyler @RogueBumbleBee @FNULNU1 For years there has always been a population of HCWs who are fundamentally racist and/or find their validity in their connection to law enforcement. They are also likely to be the least competent of their peers, in my experience.
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This is how you burn out doctors and lower the quality of care. Multitasking is nothing to brag about in medicine. It lowers quality, makes folks dumber and less meticulous (proven by science), This is not a badge of honor.
20 office patients .25 inpatients with 5 new consults .1 TEE.2 PCIs.3 LHCs.8 calls from Pacu for sinus tachycardia . Friday on call 💀 #Cardiology.
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Where’s the #MAHA folks on this one?.
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos–backed Wildtype just got FDA approval to sell lab-grown salmon, after the agency skipped independent testing and animal trials, rubber-stamping it as “safe” based solely on the company’s own data. Corporate science just wrote its own permission slip.
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To suggest that shared decision making is inherent to doctoring implies all doctors are non-coercive, free of bias, honorable, and inclusive of all patients values and that is not the case. That’s naive, willfully ignorant, and contributes to medical exceptionalism.
One more thing: shared decision making has been a huge net negative in real life. We did not need this concept as it is inherent in proper doctoring. Always was.
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RT @DGlaucomflecken: Obviously I’m being a bit hyperbolic here, but shouldn’t research be done by people who literally cannot help themselv….
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And he likely voted against his best interest as this demographic commonly does. 🤦♂️.
American is upset because for the last 2 years he’s gotten a raise at his job, and both years his health insurance premiums have been increased to take his entire raises plus $217 per month. Americans can’t catch a break, every year things just get more expensive. “Same thing two
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RT @ChristosArgyrop: @RepGregMurphy Peer Review is used as an excuse to avoid critically evaluating the research that is being reported. "I….
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Many of those with eminence in the field of cardiology have ulterior motives—often monetary. There’s little data to support using several of these recommendations. Unfortunately, in corporatized healthcare things like below will continue to happen.
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Jordan gets it. The narcissist doesn’t. 👎.
The difference between Jordan & LeBron:. Michael Jordan: “Who is the best of all time? I can’t ever accept that. When I hear it, I cringe a little bit”. LeBron James: “That right there made me the greatest player of all time”.
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This dude might be the tackiest POTUS in history. Just look at the Oval Office. 🤦♂️.
Trump’s Rose Garden patio is complete. The drainage grates are in the shapes of American flags and there’s a Presidential Seal in all four corners. Amazing job. 🇺🇸
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Some doctors overestimate their value to healthcare systems. Want to know your value? Try and come off call and see how much your salary is reduced. Second, when you die, your job will likely be posted before your obituary. We aren’t as important as we think we are.
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This is all part of the plan. Fewer doctors, and more APPs. This is all part of the plan.
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Quoting Reagan, endorsing the AMA, and your history of tweets make it not too difficult to deduce. Remember, you said doctors are good independent thinkers.
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I shouldn’t laugh but 🤣.
#Breaking: Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has suddenly departed after a series of controversial decisions about a treatment for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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One must always be cautious of who is delivering the message. Be cautious of those who are anti-union, belong to the AMA, and quote Ronald Reagan. Doctors unionizing is the only path forward. But it’s like herding cats to get them to not be self-centered.
Unionization is not the way to go for physicians. The public is already itching to replace us with AI.
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I almost spit up my drink. Most doctors are not good independent thinkers. The paradox is most of us have been brainwashed since entering medical school are too myopic to realize it. It’s ironic that most doctors didn’t have a problem with federal guidelines until 2024. 🤔.
My controversial take: doctors are actually good independent thinkers and don't need federal guidelines. More decentralized decision making will be good for medicine. See: Hayek, FA “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” American Economic Review, XXXV, No. 4; September, 1945.
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