Diane E Meier

Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

Great interview on the Big Budget Bomb that is now before the Senate. Asked to summarize the impacts, @crampell.bsky.social said the bill is "a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, from the young to the old and from the future to the past."

Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.

Trump Republicanism in action.

www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers

“Six years ago, I found myself face to face with a white farmer preparing for the government to take his land.

This did not happen in South Africa. It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Trump considers redirecting $3 billion in Harvard grants to US trade schools President Donald Trump said he is considering taking $3 billion of previously awarded grant money for scientific and engineering research away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools.

“Most of that grant money is appropriated by Congress for the National Institutes of Health to disburse to fund biomedical research after a lengthy application process by individual scientists, work that is not typically done at trade schools…”

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Comparative Safety of Medications for Severe Agitation: A Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 Systematic Review. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dr. Amrita Shrestha emphasises the irreplaceable role of human connection in palliative care. True care goes beyond treatment; it's about empathy, presence, and addressing all aspects of a patient's needs. Technology alone isn’t enough; people make the difference. #PalliativeCare #UKAidMatch

Hospital Membership: Maximize your #palliative care team’s quality, efficiency and success. Just one CAPC membership fee provides both your entire team—and your org's entire staff—with full access to CAPC training, tools and expert resources.

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Recent research from Dr. Robert "Tyler" Braun and colleagues examines the consequences of U.S. #hospice acquisitions by private equity firms and publicly traded corporations on key financial and clinical outcomes. Learn more: www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...

Notes from a Family Meeting | Josh Briscoe | Substack Discussions at the intersection of health and the human condition. Click to read Notes from a Family Meeting, by Josh Briscoe, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Notes from a Family Meeting
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NYC SUNDAYS: Worth Fighting For – Target Majority NYC Community Meetings · American Progress Hello, friend. As we enter the first 100 days of Trump 2.0, we need to gather for mutual support and collective action, because we together, we can help shape the road ahead. Join us in building resi...

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Hundreds of Thousands Will Die The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

Unreal.
"Hundreds of Thousands Will Die: The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world."

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Looking forward to this! Come see @geripal.bsky.social live! #hapc #geriatrics

Join virtual office hours with Allison Silvers, MB, and Sonia Malhotra, MD, MS, FAAP, to ask questions, discuss challenges and share creative solutions with #palliative care clinicians from palliative care programs in #rural and safety-net organizations. >> buff.ly/40BkhS8

Hospital Membership: Maximize your #palliative care team’s quality, efficiency and success. Just one CAPC membership fee provides both your entire team—and your org's entire staff—with full access to CAPC training, tools and expert resources.

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It's been 50 years since the first Palliative Care unit was opened in Quebec. But have we lost something along the way? #medsky

Guests Sue Britton (1st nurse hired at that 1st PC unit), Michael Kearney, & Justin Sanders.

bit.ly/GeriPalEp347 - hosts @alexsmithmd.bsky.social | @ewidera.bsky.social

“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.

"The White House has directed the military to draw up options for increasing the US troop presence in Panama to achieve Trump’s goal of 'reclaiming' the Panama Canal"

And *yes*, this does include:

the "option of U.S. troops seizing the Panama Canal by force"

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

They installed the TV...

At his request...

So he can play video games...

In his office...

In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

White House withdraws Trump's pick Dave Weldon as CDC director pick The White House is withdrawing President Donald Trump's nomination of Republican former congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon to serve as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a source briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

Trump just withdrew the bad CDC nominee after public blowback about the measles vaccine.

Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
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At the protest for veterans in DC.

Autonomous Patients, Isolated People What Beliefs About People Do to the Care of Bodies

The question isn't, "Should medicine and politics mix," but "How do medicine and politics mix?" open.substack.com/pub/familyme... #medsky

Your work deserves the spotlight! Submit your poster abstract for the #CAPCSeminar25 by March 28. Topic areas include ensuring care quality in the context of limited resources, team well-being, advancing equitable care, and more. www.capc.org/seminar/post... #hapc #hpm #CAPCSeminar25

The DOGE Helpline Comms from Armageddon

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🗺️ Our recent study mapped the evidence that exists regarding the delivery of palliative and end-of-life care for adolescents and young adults living with cancer

👇Check it out:

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#AYACSM #AYACancer #TYACancer #BCSM #BTSM #CancerResearch #HPM #PalliativeCare

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

Out of Pocket Getting Out of Hand — Reducing the Financial Toxicity of Rapidly Approved Drugs | NEJM The FDA often exercises flexibility in deciding whether to approve highly promising drugs for patients in desperate need of treatment options. But it doesn’t consider a drug’s likely financial toxi...

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@j-palliativemed.bsky.social Discover the Collection of "Top Ten Tips In Palliative Care"
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Humility doesn't make you small; it allows you to move through the world being open to potential, awe, and wonder, getting us closer to deeper understanding (others, ourselves, communities, and other communities #hapc25 opening plenary with Lucus Johnson and Krista Tippett

Sacrificing the agency of clinicians for the sake of the "objectivity" of the machine is predicated on seeing patients like machines. If we truly saw our patients as humans, we'd recognize they need humans to care for them.