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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 23

Excess deaths in the US vs other high-income countries.
Coming down relative to prior US data but still the outlier
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Feb 27

Book recommendation: Breath by James Nestor
VERY interesting weaving of how sinuses, chewing, mouth breathing, carbon dioxide, and so much more intersect to affect our health. Everything from crooked teeth to sinus infections to ADHD and more.
www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath-book
#booksky

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art — MRJAMESNESTOR

www.mrjamesnestor.com

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Feb 9

Love this by Shawn Martin of the AAFP. Ideas for improving rural medicine access to care
#Medsky #Rural #RuralMedicine #AAFP #FamilyMedicine

7 bold policies to reshape rural healthcare

The CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians argues for policies to incentivize growth in the rural primary care workforce.

www.healthcaredive.com

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Griffin Cupstid, MD, FAAFP @cupstid.net · Feb 9

Statement from leading physician groups on removal of data and guidance from federal websites. #AAFP, #AAP, #ACOG, #ACP, #AOA, #APA

Statement from Leading Physician Groups on Removal of Data and Guidance from Federal Websites

The removal of datasets and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) websites to comply with the President’s recent executive order pu...

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Yul Ejnes @ejnes.net · Feb 7

Statement from Leading Physician Groups on Removal of Data and Guidance from Federal Websites | ACP Online www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...

Statement from Leading Physician Groups on Removal of Data and Guidance from Federal Websites | ACP Online

February 6, 2025 The statement below is issued by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College o...

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Anthony Lau, PharmD BCPS @alaurx.bsky.social · Jan 31

Patient self-directed sliding scale furosemide is an underutilized tool in CHF management

Can a simple weight-based dosing strategy empower patients to manage CHF, prevent exacerbations, and reduce ED visits? Let's dive in! 👇 #medsky #pharmsky #cardiosky #EMsky #GPsky #MedEd 1/

a person is measuring their weight on a scale that goes up to 40

ALT: a person is measuring their weight on a scale that goes up to 40

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jan 28

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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Jfruthmd @jfruth.bsky.social · Jan 27

Proud of my professional organization and the “Group of 6” for taking a stand on the dangerous EO to withdraw from the WHO #AAFP #ACP #AOA #AAP #ACOG #APA #WHO
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Statement from Leading Physician Groups on Announcement to Withdraw U.S. from the World Health Organization

The recent announcement to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) will limit our ability to collaborate and coordinate on public health issues that impact individuals and ...

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 28

GREAT Book! I second this recommendation!
Lots of high value info to improve healthspan. #booksky

Nick Lawyer, PA-C, PI @nicklawyer.bsky.social · Nov 17

Book Rec
OUTLIVE, by Dr Peter Attia

This book has been practice changing for me.

I now talk with (most) of my patients about chronic disease prevention and healthy lifestyles on a +30y time horizon.

It’s well worth a read, especially if you want to manage your health in very unhealthy times.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jan 25

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social

Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 22

Very weird. Based on my recent clinical encounters (Sanders County) I would expect something other than green for Montana 🤧😷🥴🤮🤒

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 21

I had the opportunity to listed to Dr. Ibrahim speak this past weekend. Highly promising green light therapy studies for chronic pain/migraines/fibromyalgia/PTSD. #IntegrativeMedicine #AWCIM

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 21

Green Light Therapy "Overall, green light exposure reduced the number of headache days per month by an average of about 60%. A majority of participants in the study reported a more than 50% reduction in headache days per month." In refractory migraine headache patients! #Medsky

Shining a Green Light on a New Preventive Therapy for Migraine

People who suffer from migraine are reducing their pain and improving their quality of life thanks to pain specialists at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and their green light research.

healthsciences.arizona.edu

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 21

Thanks for sharing

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 11

Two months??? How can that be?

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Annals of Family Medicine @annfammed.bsky.social · Jan 2

To begin the new year, we showcase an article from our most recent issue where the authors identify and elaborate on 10 observable indicators of patient-clinician communication that work together to co-create unhurried conversations. #FMsky #Medsky

📰 - www.annfammed.org/content/22/6...

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 3

VERY interesting. Docs caring for patients with high social needs are more likely to be burned out? Or docs with less support to address social needs (do they do it themselves) are more burned out?

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Frank Cacace MD FACP @gimapreceptor.bsky.social · Jan 3

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky #wellness interested #burnout mitigators

If our wellness committees and C suites, and chief wellness officers and guru conferences are still putting out book clubs, special interest groups, meditation training, and new recognition events as burnout remedies .. -> 1/2

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Jan 1

Right? This one was memorable because it was so egregious. But it happens a lot where the inpatient stay is initially denied. So much stress for patients to not know if their insurance will cover them and ridiculous waste of clinician and staff time preparing peer-to-peers and appeals

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Dec 31

I think this is a great question. Certainly insurance isn’t meant to provide unlimited care. But it seems like it’s gone overboard with denials. People are entitled to use their insurance for medical needs. Some insurances seem to routinely not be holding up their end of the bargain

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Dec 30

Hospitalist
Sodium <110. Symptomatic. 3% saline infusion. Expected time to correct this safely was estimated at 3 days, with intensive labs and fluid monitoring. Admitted to ICU status. Insurance denied, stated it should be observation.

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Dec 30

Hey #MedSky I'm writing a long-form piece on how bad prior authorization has become, and how burdensome it is on patients and docs. Can you share:
—A story (without PHI)
—The amount of time/$$ you spend
—The most ridiculous thing you've had to argue for
—etc

(And please share this post)

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Andy Szava-Kovats 🇨🇦 @andyszavakovats.bsky.social · Dec 29

Fun fact: The 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵-𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 radiology report in 1896 started with the 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Dr. Francis H. Williams wrote: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑋-𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑦. And then added technical details after. 🩻

A timeless structure—why bury the lede?

#MedSky #RadSky

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Nick Genes @genes.bsky.social · Dec 19

Fascinating JAMIA paper compares EHR note volume to literature. Emergency physicians went from reading Orwell (2006) to Moby Dick (2023) per patient.

The metaphor feels apt - we're all just searching for meaning, amidst vast seas of text. #EMedSky
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Call me Dr Ishmael: trends in electronic health record notes available at emergency department visits and admissions

Numerous studies have identified information overload as a key issue for electronic health records (EHRs). This study describes the amount of text data across all notes available to emergency physicia...

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Jessica Valentine @drjval.medsky.social · Dec 21

This is sad and ridiculous

ScreamingMD @screamingmd.bsky.social · Dec 21

A story of how burnout happens that happened to my colleague:

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