Phil Verhoef

fuck this. this sucks monica.

i feel like reposting this, with its manipulative shitty clickbait question (as though this weren’t settled) adds fuel to this fire. the source article title is lame but you shouldn’t increase the eyeballs that see it because it sows the seeds of (unfounded) doubt.

that’s an interesting article. 8 years on, i can’t imagine anyone choosing the US healthcare system compared to those others. things have gotten much much worse.

The White House Vowed a Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups

speaking as the immediate past president of a so called “liberal group” this is so not okay. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

check out @drtinashahnj.bsky.social i trained with her in chicago for fellowship and running for congress in NJ

it was pretty fun to hang out this morning.

Routine Access To Childhood Vaccinations No Longer Guaranteed - Honolulu Civil Beat Hawaii should be prepared to allocate funding for childhood vaccines in our state if federal funding is cut.

We told you so. It gives me no satisfaction that we were right. (December 2024 article warning vaccines were in jeopardy) @mauikidsdr.bsky.social @philipverhoef.bsky.social
www.civilbeat.org/2024/12/rout...

get vaccinated. appreciated the chance to talk about the recent wastewater detection of measles on the big island.

so fearful of what’s to come. the systematic dismantling of the CDC happened so so fast.

totally agree. the devil is in the methodological details. this mentality surely drives the fact that the results of so many papers can’t be replicated. the methods don’t have to be long but they have to be accurate, esp when so many papers use more and more complex stats to make their point.

i hear you. raised by (ex)calvinists right here.

we planted crown flowers in the hope that we get some and also to pollinate our lilikoi!

love that calvinball has made its way to the supreme court

you were clearly never a middle school boy

the new academic year is always a little thrilling, and it's also endearing: one of my interns enthusiastically keeps referring to the patient's "chlorine" level (not chloride) and talking about "sensational deficits" not "sensory deficits". may we never have "sensational deficits"!

right??? just watched hunger games with my eldest daughter (her first time) and it (sadly) inspired much conversation and comparisons to our current administration. the first thing we did after last novembers election was sit both our girls down and watch v for vendetta. what world do we live in?

marginalized communities are ALWAYS the most affected by EVERYTHING, and ALWAYS the least supported, which is 1 reason why the absolute gutting of the federal govt is so horrid. marginalized groups are not regarded as a profit opportunity ergo the current admin has no interest in them.

i say this all the time. i had to show my kids that goofy dog saying it so they’d get the joke.

she wouldn't say... but she was like "look, it's mango season!" i mean i get it, but wow

if you text me and you're someone from work and you say "call me asap" my gut response is "oh shit someone is dying gotta move quick"

the contractor working on my house says "call me asap" and i'm thinking "did you blow up my house?" and he says "just want to talk about tile choices."

a mango with a face on it is hanging on a tree ALT: a mango with a face on it is hanging on a tree

#alohalife. I admitted a patient who became hyperkalemic from eating too many mangos. Granted, she is dialysis-dependent at baseline, but still. she came in with a crazy high K and chest pain and was briefly on pressors and bipap and at the end of the day the culprit was too many mangos.

but also, to the original post, hard co-sign

whew i first read that as ICU and was like “oh no he didn’t”

the dems had more to do with that than the gop since they were in power. single payer advocates were excluded from the discussion (and arrested for trying to participate). obama started with a center-right plan (by US standards) though he knew better because he hoped for a bipartisan solution.

the linking of health insurance access to employment is one of the single greatest health care policy failures in our country’s history.

the linking of health insurance access to employment is one of the single greatest health care policy failures in our country’s history.

never fails does it

louder for the folks in the back. they’re not work requirements. they’re reporting requirements… specifically designed to make it harder to access this and therefore save $$ and hurt people. it’s conceptually no different than what private insurance does with prior auths and robo-denials.