Dear @Humana: it speaks volumes that you won't even cover a numbing cream that makes accessing a patient's Port more comfortable, and instead invent a specious argument about it "not being a drug" Do better (like @mcuban, who saved this patient money through @costplusdrugs)

https://t.co/lzcKWt046Y Steward Health Care files for Chapter 11. They claim that it is due to low Government health reimbursements, high labor costs and challenges from a post Covid world. The real reason is that they took a series of safety net hospitals that were already

1/x True story that highlights the loss of autonomy and agency by physicians - the force that results in more burnout than any other: A physician colleague of mine in a different practice that was recently acquired by a major financial firm was on back-up call…..

Not one doc I know likes giving $ every year to ABIM just to keep practicing medicine. Takes 30 seconds to sign it. Please do your part.

1/Please share this thread on behalf of my physician colleague, Eunice Stallman, who is facing the nightmare of her 9mo daughter, Zoey, being diagnosed with brain cancer several weeks ago. @BlueCrossIdaho has added to their anguish by obstructing access to vital treatment.

When your mentors can teach you to wire coronaries and carry the team in Top Golf, you know you’re in a great #HouseOfCards @uclaCVfellows @rushiparikh11 @olcayaksoymd @dannyjaphil @realjaympatel

🧵 We have sacrificed so much for you over these past 18 months. And it took only 3 days for you to destroy one of the last things I was hanging onto - the ability to keep my kids safe. A big fear, more than for my own safety caring for hospitalized COVID patients, was … 1/

A children's book explanation of what's happening: 1. If you are "smart money" you are allowed to take your $1 and leverage it up to $15+ 2. You can now buy $15 of stock AND if you promise to short companies, you can short $15 of stock as well

Have an Apple Watch 4 (or newer)? Help us study heart health & #COVID19. Enroll in the TRACking Electrocardiographic changes in COVID-19 (TRACE COVID-19) study. Click here for details: https://t.co/Mlx5rBtaPi

Doctor as a doctor: “Please call immediately if you have any of these 24 symptoms.” Doctor as a patient: “Ok I’ll call if I’m dying but only if somebody makes me and only on my day off”

Classic India

If you like South Korean whipped coffee you should try their COVID testing strategy

New intern orientation

Microsoft, UPS and health care companies create app so you can donate masks to hospitals - USA TODAY ⁦@boback⁩ ⁦@JeffHsuMD⁩ ⁦@AliNsairMD⁩

For all of my colleagues running codes

Let’s work on improving ourselves and focus on staying positive and healthy. I’m proud to represent ⁦@UCLAHealth⁩ and I want to share some advice Coach use to give us. Coach Wooden used to always say: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do”

My first tweet ever - contains a few thoughts from NYC….to my fellow ACC Cardiology Fellowship Program Directors.I hope it is helpful to the community at large. #COVID19 @KBerlacher @ElaineWanMD @gabyweissman @DrJCheungEP @cardiacpolymath @ddefariayeh @erichorlick @DrHenryTran

At least 35 health care workers in California have tested positive for COVID-19. Trump must use the full force of the Defense Production Act so our health care workers have the protective equipment they need. There’s no reason to delay this any longer.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, most trusted member of the White House #COVID19 Task Force, just said: *POSTPONE ALL ELECTIVE PROCEDURES* Not doing so puts patients & healthcare workers at risk and depletes our #GetMePPE supply.

#EchoFirst community, wake up! If you were to perform a TEE in a pt with suspected/confirmed #COVIDー19 in Zhejiang University affiliated hospital, you will be wearing a n95 and full face respirator. Keep in mind new NEJM letter showing aerosol potential. https://t.co/YwE34AbJH3