Neel Shah, MD
@neel_shah
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chief medical officer @mavenclinic, founder @marchformoms @costsofcare // building a world where every person can choose to grow their family with dignity
Boston, MA
Joined February 2009
1/ How American childbirth outcomes have changed over the last generation: . - we’ve decided to intervene with major abdominal surgery 500% more often. - term infants have become 0% better off. - moms have become 50% MORE likely to die.
America’s propensity for cesarean surgeries at childbirth has come with no clear benefit, writes Dr. @neel_shah.
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RT @lindaavey: An important and moving piece on preeclampsia by @neel_shah with a personal story from @deenashakir. The good news--looks li….
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RT @eaudenonsense: Really excellent piece of science writing by @neel_shah on solving the mysteries of preeclampsia. I love hearing about i….
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RT @deenashakir: I often credit @mavenclinic’s @neel_shah with saving my life. His latest substack, out today, brought me to tears relivi….
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RT @AFriedmanPeahl: *The 1st new prenatal care guideline in 100 years is LIVE today!*.This new guideline from @acog recommends tailoring ca….
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RT @acrossthemersey: A woman gave birth in Lubbock, Texas and doctors didn’t realize until she had been admitted and went into labor, that….
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RT @AnupamBJena: We have an interesting new paper in @JAMAInternalMed that shows that although in the rest of society (including high incom….
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RT @SStevenWang: Cutting NIH to save budget is like cutting the front lobe of brain to lose weight. It’s <1% of body weight yet it governs….
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RT @olgakhazan: So here’s how motherhood changed me—mostly for the better:
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I knew that becoming a parent would change me—but I had no idea how.
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RT @KatieMSandlin: Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭. It was truly the honor of my life to work w….
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RT @Farzad_MD: 1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Offic….
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RT @DrTomFrieden: Epidemic intelligence service officers are the cream of the cream. They're top doctors, veterinarians, and other health p….
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RT @HelenBranswell: Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the @CDCgov's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligenc….
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Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
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RT @RepGregStanton: The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to car….
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RT @BarbMcQuade: Read the letter of resignation from SDNY AUSA Hagan Scotten, Bronze Star recipient, former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts.….
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RT @VetAffairsDems: 🚨BREAKING: VA slashes 1000 jobs of disabled veterans, military spouses & medical researchers in massive cuts. $98M in c….
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RT @srikosuri: It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendr….
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RT @Atul_Gawande: “You cannot pause a plane in midflight and expect that everything is going to be O.K. That’s what they were trying to do….
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“You cannot pause a plane in midflight and expect that everything is going to be O.K.,” Gawande says. “That’s what they were trying to do with lifesaving health and humanitarian assistance around the...
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RT @Atul_Gawande: This is shameful. And the utter indifference to loss of life, our people abroad, America's standing, and American securit….
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