Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO
@fumikochino.bsky.social
#RadOnc. Reformed Artist. Cancer Widow. I study #FinancialToxicity #Access #Equity MD Anderson Cancer Center 📲me COI http://bit.ly/3OBu0Cn 🐦🪶🕊️ #medSky #oncSky migration
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For patients and doctors, insurance prior authorization can be a dangerous game | Opinion
Doctors trying to get patients necessary drugs and procedures stymied by health insurance prior authorization. It's not a game. It's life and death.
www.usatoday.com
"For both patients and providers, prior authorization can feel like an unfair game they are designed to lose."
Honored to work w/ Dr @nathangray.bsky.social on a graphic op-ed out now @usatoday.com on how #PriorAuth can leave some patients literally dying in pain.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Honored to work w/ Dr @nathangray.bsky.social on a graphic op-ed out now @usatoday.com on how #PriorAuth can leave some patients literally dying in pain.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
After Burnout: Reigniting the Flame
Burnout/ˈbərnˌaʊt/noun. Exhaustion of physical or emotional strength or motivation
usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustrationverb. To cause to fail, wear
out, or become exhausted, especial...
www.redjournal.org
Talking about #burnout helps create culture change that leads to a better environment for all. Grateful to Dr Dan Golden for sharing & @ijrobp.bsky.social @astro-org.bsky.social for publishing
"practicing common humanity through public disclosure seems more important than career advancement"
"practicing common humanity through public disclosure seems more important than career advancement"
What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance
The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.
www.nbcnews.com
Favorite #BenitoBowl Monday story is the photos then videos then news stories about bushes.
[also I am so glad this wasn't AI.]
[also I am so glad this wasn't AI.]
Disney World with Neil (he's never been!!) 🥰❤️💥 🏰
🖤 so sorry for your loss. Simba was surely a champion.
Dr Onyinye Balogun at #ACRO2026 on best practices in #gyncsm #brachytherapy
including proper pain management during and after procedures. "we don't want our field trending on Tik tok for the wrong reason"
including proper pain management during and after procedures. "we don't want our field trending on Tik tok for the wrong reason"
Sun is shining for #ACRO2026 at the Disney Dolphin resort, exciting for Friday programming including poster walks, gold medal keynote, gyn, and our patient experience session. ☀️✅☢️❤️
☀️I made it to beautiful Florida for #ACRO2026. Excited to talk on an incredible panel tomorrow afternoon about why the patient experience matters... and how we can work to improve it. Thank you ACRO for the invitation to speak. ☢️
homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .
ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .
media.tenor.com
Sometimes you are just trying to move a calendar invite from your personal to your work 📆, but you end up creating a competing event
...and send out to everyone
...and people start RSVPing
...and then you have to "cancel" it
Dear ASTRO AM #radonc planning team, sorry. 🫠
...and send out to everyone
...and people start RSVPing
...and then you have to "cancel" it
Dear ASTRO AM #radonc planning team, sorry. 🫠
Growing old with you is all I ever wanted.
Every now and again I catch up with xkcd and... well... I didn't expect to be crying in my office this morning.
Two years
Seven years
Ten years
Fifteen years
This is what we dream about when we talk of #survivorship #survonc 🖤
Two years
Seven years
Ten years
Fifteen years
This is what we dream about when we talk of #survivorship #survonc 🖤
Pokémon card show @posthtx ... our first time in this rad redo of the old Houston post office with a rooftop garden. #WeekendsINHouston
Btw... everyone thinks they look the same until they ACTUALLY see a photo of themselves from 2016. 😅
I was excited to vote today in the runoff election for US Representative #TX18. We have been unrepresented for almost a year here in Houston. 🗳️✅