Andrew Wright MD

One of those things might be easier to attain than the other, but 100% in agreement

No

I don't normally care who reads my stuff but I really hope the CEO of Target dude sees this because it's true. You fucked up. You're only sorry because it cost you money. when you shit on DEI you're alienating way more people than the turds who yell at you about being "woke" and that's facts

De La Soul 🤝 NPR Tiny Desk

Listened to the whole album this weekend. Gorillas has long been one of my favorite bands, this may be one of their best albums, start to finish. Rewards listening straight through. This short animation is really good.

Favorite book series of the last several years. Audiobook is next level

Could have been published in 1990 or any number of other times. Long history of failed American intervention in the Middle East.

Published: March 26, 2003

This statement goes hard. Love it.

Having been faculty for several ADOPT courses, I can confirm they are the single best model for expansion of practice for surgeons. Fantastic work from @sages.org

As a professor of surgery (with a liberal arts education) I think courses in English, Philosophy, and Ethics are _more_ valuable to my medical students and residents than physics or organic chemistry. I work harder on their writing and critical thinking skills than I do on the science.

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant commu...

Yep! She brings her knitting every game. I guess the wood knitting needles concerned them, but never been an issue before. To be fair she was knitting red hats for the protests. www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...

They had to call a supervisor over to check my wife’s knitting supplies

if you read nothing else from rodger sherman in your entire life please read these paragraphs from the end of his newsletter, possibly the most important paragraphs anyone has ever written about Team USA

Great choice!

I’ll go for one of my favorite Mountain Goats albums “Songs for Pierre Chuvin.” Low-fi goodness themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

Moments like this are when it’s nice to have a dual monitor setup in clinic. US v. Canada for Women’s Hockey gold. 5 Seattle Torrent @pwhltorrent.bsky.social players in this game!

The attached video combines two of my great loves. The Muppets and Beastie Boys. How have I not seen this before?

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

LIKE I WAS SAYING

Something else to see Green Day perform American Idiot at the Super Bowl here, where the lyrics written to protest the W Bush administration’s bullshit are even more relevant now, when the media is visibly controlled by fascist bootlickers

IMGs welcome. This is a one year non-clinical paid position, with potential to extend to 2 years.

Recent research projects have included outcomes of esophageal surgery, AI in surgery, robotics, and ergonomics in surgery. Fellows also staff our active esophageal motility lab including learning to interpret manometry, pH, and endoFLIP.

We have an opening for our 2026-27 University of Washington MIS Research Fellow. Applicants should be in or have completed a general surgery residency with demonstrated interest in Foregut, Bariatric, and/or Hernia Surgery. Contact cvesfel@uw.edu for more information or to apply.

Icon of American Surgery. A great person and role model. Thinking of his family today.

That D'Angelo/Roberta Flack tribute made the Grammy's worth watching. 🔥🔥🔥 indeed

Training montage seems an appropriate choice

I'm doing this for revenge
I'm doing this to try to stay true
I'm doing this for the ones they had to leave behind
I'm doing this for you

The biggest signal an American human can ever receive that they are deeply and profoundly fucking up is finding themselves as the bad guy in a Bruce Springsteen song.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com