Biannual call to #staysprung 🦉
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Every few weeks, David H. Freedman puts on a hospital gown and describes a set of symptoms that he doesn’t really have. The fakery reveals what the U.S. medical system isn’t doing for its patients:
LOVE that clinical informatics is getting featured on The Pitt but the idea that an informaticist would implement loose papers adding manual check boxes to physician workflows is a misunderstanding of the field....
With “The Pitt,” Noah Wyle and his castmates turned one harrowing day at an emergency room into an unforgettable season of television. The writer Sam Anderson visited the set during the filming of the second season to see how far the team went to make the hospital drama feel so real.
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People are always surprised that clinical informatics is a boarded specialty, but the stakes are so high for getting technology right in healthcare settings
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
First opinions, 2nd opinions, analyzing lab tests, preparing for a clinic visit, helping to make difficult diagnoses, and more use cases. Its popularity will keep increasing despite lack of objective data for benefit or harm
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
"You can’t become de-skilled if you were never skilled in the first place."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It's a fundamental misunderstanding to think that AI chatbots "want" to be helpful- that's how you end up with folie a ordinadeux
Instead, they "want" to be liked: they will try to tell you what you want to hear (so have fun but with a grain of salt)
The Trump administration is using the government shutdown to dismantle our public health infrastructure.
The people laid off from the CDC are our first line of response for disease outbreaks. This will cost lives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
#goblue 💙💛
The peace prize for investigating a common theory that's been around for decades 👏👏👏
The American appetite for sushi is bigger than ever.
Most of that growth is not happening in pricey omakase restaurants. It is happening in gas stations and big-box stores, bowling alleys and stadiums, U.S. Army commissaries and amusement parks.
“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” write nine former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
OHSU officials say it’s one of the largest single donations given to a college in the country.
The highly contagious #norovirus stomach bug causes about 200 000 deaths annually.
Following failed vaccine efforts, a new pill showed protection potential in a phase 2 clinical trial.
#MedSky #MedicalResearch
Birthday girl 🎉
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My latest in the New York Times. An attempt to warn the public that their health is about to get much worse.
![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH BLACK HAT: Compatibility and interoperability are so important. (2) [Black hat shows diagram to two people] BLACK HAT: For example, most subway rails are 143.5cm apart. But many roller coasters use a narrower 110cm gauge. (3) BLACK HAT: For the last few years, our company has been quietly retrofitting roller coasters to use 143.5cm tracks. (4) BLACK HAT: Soon, we can begin Phase 2. PERSON 2: Maybe interoperability is actually bad. BLACK HAT: If you listen to the destination announcement while boarding, you’ll be fine.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibulxlgpjt6l63ppm4ouklqzmlahx2fuu2szwwrhfrcfv6fgkjd2e)
Interoperability
xkcd.com/3105/
Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten care at U.S. hospitals that depend on international medical residents.
The right way to change medical practice is through innovation, causal inference, and publication. Shortcuts will lead to harm
![[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid7lnvd7afmasx3nxi6anxmyhbatpaw54za3kiw3eaoclrf722faq)
Mass Spec
xkcd.com/3094/
The loss data (~$10B) support and N of grants terminated is updated below, but this op-ed by @euanashley.bsky.social hits all the important points @latimes.com @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
