Víctor M Montori MD

This is such a lineup! Bring your science to ISDM2026 - our community of science of care needs to come together in these difficult times. See you all there!!

Shared decision-making as a method of care Care happens in interaction between the patient and the clinician, in conversation where the patient and clinician uncover or develop a shared understanding of the problematic situation of the patient...

A decisão compartilhada como eixo da ação médica. #Medicina (🧵1)

Victor Montori e colegas propõem que o shared decision-making (SDM) não deve ser visto como uma tarefa a mais. (Free👇) ebm.bmj.com/content/28/4...

Guidelines aren't one-size-fits-all. So how do you tailor decisions to the needs of each patient? Join us next Tuesday, October 21 at 4pm Eastern for our free #WorldEBHCDay webinar with Dr. Victor Montori to discuss just that. Register ahead at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

We MUST CARE!
Care, a practice by which a human sets out to solve the problematic situation of another human, is replaced by the processing of their data. Care becomes depersonalized, dehumanized, disembodied.“- VM Montori MD.

We shall ready the town!!

Otherwise, users are held accountable while unable to opt out, give informed consent given the opacity of your tools features and flaws, or appraise and override their outputs.

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐢𝐧-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩
(7/7)

Only these tools people can use carefully, and be held responsible for what they deliberately do with them.

When not, the solution is to keep tinkering. It ain’t to release prematurely, protected by transferring responsibility to tool’s users.

(6/7)

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐢𝐧-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩

Yes, people need to use tools responsibly, but tools that are understandable, legible, truthful, designed to extend and enable human expression, effort, and values, firmly under human comprehension + control.
(5/7)

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐢𝐧-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩

Clinicians, patients, teachers, students, families, communities. We are not the unpaid, unprogrammed, cost-saving, minimal-viable-product enabling bit. We are not your moral crumple zones, your accountability sinks, your scapegoats.
(4/7)

This is critical in healthcare where care is way more important than efficiency, productivity, speed, or convenience. (3/7)

Developers must steer, design, and implement tools to enable personal + community flourishing, keep people safe, and support work + play, not the other way around.

If you won’t, then you are NOT ready to implement. You are NOT to be trusted with their governance. (2/7)

A bronze statue by August Rodin - shows suffering face of a man, Jean d'Aire. Part of the The Burghers of Calais.

I think it is time to reaffirm and defend our human dignity.

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐢𝐧-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩 (1/7)

Wonderful news from the super talented @ranaawdish.bsky.social - go get it!!!!

So #medsky, the secret is out. BIG NEWS!! I am sooo very excited to share my thoughts on healing that truly honors the body’s wisdom and innate healing. I’ve learned so much in the process of writing this. I hope it can be a companion in your journey, as a healer or someone who is seeking healing ❤️‍🩹

A must-read. So much in there about what matters, and how to preserve it. 🙏

Thank you @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social

The Un-Mattering of People: The Present and Near-Future of Surveillance Capitalism and the Fate of Care in Healthcare The encroachment of surveillance capitalism into healthcare takes place as healthcare becomes increasingly industrialized.

A great discussion paper by Montori et al. for @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social.

They warn that surveillance capitalism is reshaping healthcare into a system focused on data rather than people, enabling Big Tech to commodify human experience and consolidate power:

www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

Oscar J. Ponce-Ponte, David Toro-Tobon, Luis F. Figueroa, Michael Gionfriddo, Megan Branda, Victor M. Montori, Saturnino Luz, Juan P. Brito
Developing an AI framework to automatically detect shared decision-making in patient-doctor conversations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18439

Ponce-Ponte, Toro-Tobon, Figueroa, Gionfriddo, Branda, Montori, Luz, Brito: Developing an AI framework to automatically detect shared decision-making in patient-doctor conversations https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18439 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18439 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.18439

Food Intelligence by Julia Belluz, Kevin Hall, PhD: 9780593332306 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books “Food Intelligence dispels many popular myths we have about weight loss and breaks down the real drivers of the obesity crisis based on decades of research. I really hope everyone gets a chance to...

New book out TODAY: Food Intelligence by Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall, PhD, explores the science of nutrition and metabolism and how today’s food environment drives what and how we eat—and the impacts on health.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334...

Distinguishing the Difference Between Curing and Caring When Treating Patients Dr. Victor Montori, MD, MSc, Robert H. and Susan M. Rewoldt Professor of Medicine and leader of the Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) Unit at the Mayo Clinic and Co-Founder of The Patient Rev...

Distinguishing the Difference Between Curing and Caring When Treating Patients | NEJM Catalyst catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @patientrevolution.org

Trust is central to science based policies + care. Careful + kind care demands mutual trust bw patients & clinicians; bw clinicians & the organizations that set up the material, regulatory, scientific and financial conditions for care. I see you at this timely @patientrevolution.org town hall!

@patientrevolution.org Trust in healthcare in imperative! Join when 3 panelists explore the dynamics of #trustincare; the influences, processes & systemic forces that shape how care is given/received—trust must be earned, not assumed. tinyurl.com/registerTHTr... to register. @vmontori.bsky.social

Best use of “motherfucking” I’ve heard in a long time.

This was too much fun!!! Listen to the episode (there is some great music in it) and find out about our movement for care @patientrevolution.org

Guest Victor Montori's book, "Why We Revolt," decries the Industrialization of #healthcare. Clinicians become busier & patients are tasked with more work to self manage. #medsky

👉 Full episode at bit.ly/GeriPalEp367
😀 Hosts @alexsmithmd.bsky.social | @ewidera.bsky.social
😀 Guest: Victor Montori

Priorizar a los pacientes con las mayores necesidades de atención: es hora de que los médicos de familia lideren

por Amanda Niklasson a, Victor M. Montori, Minna Johansson Traducción del original en Am Fam Physician. 2025;111(4):302-303 a Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Gothenburg,…

And this too… the little red book - Why We Revolt - now in Greek (does this make it a “classic”? ;-)). A labor of love, of careful and kind care, by my friend and brilliant colleague Prof. Apostolos Tsapas and his friends Http://patientrevolution.org/book

This happened in Thessaloniki.

“We are honored to welcome Professor Victor M. Montori, as an Honorary Doctor of the School of Health Sciences, Department of Medicine at AUSOM.

Welcome to our community, Professor!

Photo credits: Yannis Tsouflidis”

Can you believe this program? Care that fits is in Paris. Oct 7-10 with a who’s who on the science and practice of care inc. AI and care! This is the time for community. This is the time for a revolution of care. See you there!
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