Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD

There once was a dream that was the NHS On watching Michael Sheen play Aneurin Bevan, and reflections on universal healthcare during an American crisis

As always, @thelakshmik.bsky.social blows my mind with her excellent analysis. Perfect example of how #histmed & #medhum impact health policy (& culture) today.

Checkout her latest post: drlakshmikrishnan.substack.com/p/there-once...

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Vaccine skepticism used to be more grassroots; it's now fortified with federal power. Check out my new post on RFK’s clean sweep.

drlakshmikrishnan.substack.com/p/a-clean-sw...

IT'S OUT!

"Don’t Pick Up Your Binoculars Unless You Know What You’re Looking At” A detective walks into the White House and immediately tells everyone they’re wrong about everything.

"Don't pick up your binoculars 🦅 unless you know what you're looking at."

What watching THE RESIDENCE revealed abt the connections between birdwatching, microscopes, & medicine -- & what we do with our attention

My first Substack is live! Please read & subscribe to The Workup

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🔄 Our socioecological framework reveals how multi-level factors shape diagnostic journeys and identifies new pathways to diagnostic health equity!

#DiagnosticEquity #HealthDisparities

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Roads diverge: mapping the journey towards diagnostic health equity Background Diagnostic disparities significantly impact health outcomes, with various factors influencing differential access and treatment across communities. This paper explores the complex landscape...

📊 Our new paper introduces the "diagnostic environment" model:

🌫️ Atmospheric: Societal factors
👥 Surface: Healthcare interactions
🔍 Subterranean: Hidden structures / norms

Now out in #BMJOpenQuality @bmj.com! ⬇️
bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/14/2...

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Advancing Equity in Diagnostic Excellence to Reduce Health Disparities: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief Read online, download a free PDF.

Just published! 📊 Thrilled to see our findings from the @nationalacademies.org workshop on "Advancing Equity in Diagnostic Excellence to Reduce Health Disparities" now available. Download the proceedings brief: nap.edu/28573 #HealthEquity #DiagnosticExcellence

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship [Williams, Dana A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

Quieting the noise for a sec to spotlight a colleague, wise woman, scholar-leader par excellence, a very great writer and an even better friend @danaawilliams.bsky.social. Pre-order Toni at Random NOW!

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Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

- Joy Harjo, Perhaps The World Ends Here

Join us Monday, Feb. 10, 3:00 PM - Annual Carlton Haywood, Jr, PhD Memorial Symposium. Keynote - Keith Wailoo, PhD, "Sickle Cell Disease – A History of Peril and Progress" - w panel Lydia Pecker, Yoram Unguru, Teonna Woolford. Open to all. Link for free registration: mailchi.mp/jhu/registra...

Cool to see my piece on diagnosis and AI out @statnews.com. Thanks @thekibosch.bsky.social for brilliant editing.

Event, Jan 31, 2025, 5p | Rx: Conversations about Medicine and Writing, featuring Lenny Grant and Lakshmi Krishnan, and moderated by JHU’s own Jeremy Greene. Open to all. Link for free registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

NAVSA 2025 now open for submissions! (Deadline 3/17) Please reach out to me or our brilliant digital genius @lindseyeroneil.bsky.social with any questions at all 💜

The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.

The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social: theatln.tc/e1Ng2ddw

Migrated from Twitter. Literary scholar by training, physician by trade, friend of history, and believer that poetry might be the only thing that saves us.

Following #medicalhumanities, #historyofmedicine, #poets, and #medsky

(Time, swift to fasten and swift to sever
Hand from hand, as we stand by the sea)

A.C. Swinburne, The Triumph of Time

Overheard:

A bookish 7 year old arrives in the town library and standing on his toes demands to check out the book called "Ibid." which, he says loudly, "is cited by all kinds of primary sources" and his little fist lands on the library counter in satisfaction.

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects.....
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It is difficult to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there

- William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

thanks for sharing, Scott!

📚 What would you add to the list?

#MedicalHumanities #ClimateHealth #Literature

Grateful to @howardfrumkin.bsky.social, Sarah Grossman, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social for the conversation that helped spark this exploration of fiction's role in understanding climate health.

👂 thebmjpodcast.podbean.com/e/climate-le...

Delighted to share my new @bmj.com piece exploring literature's long history of environmental health warnings - climate fiction before "cli-fi"

From Gaskell's industrial smog to Butler's climate futures, lit. offers special insights into our planetary health crisis.

🔗 bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2583

If you have access to @bmj.com, check out this timeless list of Climate Fiction provided by @thelakshmik.bsky.social. There are a few that I still need to read!

doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

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Baudelaire:

"It is much easier to declare that everything in the garments of a period is absolutely ugly than to apply oneself to the extraction of the mysterious beauty which they contain.”

Still marveling at how wholesome #onhere is

Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries A timely look at the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding brain injury and collision sports.American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a produc...

Altho it's been out in the world, today is the official publication day for my book!!! The title indicates it's a book about concussion and American tackle football, which is true, but really this is a book about regulated industries' use of the #ManufactureOfDoubt in ways that harm public health.