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Víctor M Montori MD
@vmontori.bsky.social

Mayo Clinic diabetes doc + researcher + care activist working for careful + kind care for all. Wrote Why We Revolt 🇵🇪 (posts reflect my views, not employer’s)

Victor M. Montori is a Peruvian-Spanish-American physician. An endocrinologist, health services researcher, and care activist, Montori is the Robert H. and Susan B. Rewoldt Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is a professor of medicine, and the founder and lead investigator of the Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) Unit. .. more

Public Health 39%
Medicine 22%

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@bmj.com Christmas edition has wonderful stuff this year, including this
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
from @vmontori.bsky.social [and other Montoris] on the dangers of big data companies in health 'care'
Reclaiming human care from surveillance capitalism
We must end the commodification of health data by big tech companies, centre healthcare on care, and put people back in control, argue Victor, J P, and Victor M Montori Big tech companies are drivin...
www.bmj.com

Fascinating way of disseminating our otherwise very serious piece about surveillance capitalism in healthcare.
Comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social responds to the feature "Reclaiming human care from surveillance capitalism" from our #BMJChristmas Issue.

Read the feature by @vmontori.bsky.social here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social responds to the feature "Reclaiming human care from surveillance capitalism" from our #BMJChristmas Issue.

Read the feature by @vmontori.bsky.social here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Based on our report for the Human Rights and Tech fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School @patientrevolution.org
"As we invent the future of healthcare, we must assert that patients are not data clouds, care is not computation, and that to care is human."

A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 20d
"As we invent the future of healthcare, we must assert that patients are not data clouds, care is not computation, and that to care is human."

A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Read it here: www.bmj.com/content/391/... We hope you will share it broadly and if you find our points compelling enough that you will engage with it and discuss. @patientrevolution.org
Reclaiming human care from surveillance capitalism
We must end the commodification of health data by big tech companies, centre healthcare on care, and put people back in control, argue Victor, J P, and Victor M Montori Big tech companies are drivin...
www.bmj.com

Reposted by Melissa Sweet

Our article argues that this trend risks undermining care by prioritizing profit and data mining over meaningful clinical relationships. It is a call to resist and dismantle surveillance capitalism.

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We must end the commodification of health data by big tech companies, center healthcare on care, and put people back in control of their health information.

Excited to share a new article by Juan Montori, Victor Montori, and I published in @bmj.com about the encroachment of Big Tech in healthcare.

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!!

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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...
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...
ebm.bmj.com

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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 shall ready the town!!

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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.

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)

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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)