Alex Jordan
@alexjordanmd.bsky.social
Geriatrician and palliative medicine physician at NYP/Weill Cornell; interested in the intersections of aging, serious illness, addiction medicine and the humanities
"As physicians, we remain steadfast in a belief that everyone should be afforded the opportunity to die with dignity and recognize any death in prison as a policy failure. We can, and must, imagine a more just future for all patients."
Compassionate Release Reform
This Viewpoint proposes reform of the medical parole system, suggesting compassionate release applications of terminally ill incarcerated individuals be reviewed by an external medical board.
jamanetwork.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"As physicians, we remain steadfast in a belief that everyone should be afforded the opportunity to die with dignity and recognize any death in prison as a policy failure. We can, and must, imagine a more just future for all patients."
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New GERI Brain Health video is out! Dr. @annachodos.bsky.social shares practical ways to acknowledge, support & partner with caregivers—essential allies in dementia care. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxX...
GERI Videos: How to Acknowledge and Work with Caregivers
Caregivers are essential partners in dementia care. This video highlights ways to recognize their role, support their well-being, and work together effectively.
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New GERI Brain Health video is out! Dr. @annachodos.bsky.social shares practical ways to acknowledge, support & partner with caregivers—essential allies in dementia care. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxX...
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Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.
Fantastic read— harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Tune of Things, by Christian Wiman
Is consciousness God?
harpers.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Fantastic read— harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Neurodivergence and disability politics are, at their best, demands for structural transformation, not simply particularist accommodation. Liberal individualists and reactionaries alike love to—in response—focus on the latter to deflect attention from the former.
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Neurodivergence and disability politics are, at their best, demands for structural transformation, not simply particularist accommodation. Liberal individualists and reactionaries alike love to—in response—focus on the latter to deflect attention from the former.
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Meaning, Medications, and Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Discussion with David Mintz
Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/meaning-me...
Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/meaning-me...
Meaning, Medications, and Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Discussion with David Mintz
Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically
www.psychiatrymargins.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Meaning, Medications, and Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Discussion with David Mintz
Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/meaning-me...
Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/meaning-me...
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“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
On repeat this month—
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On repeat this month—
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To explain the remarkable persistence of American health capitalism despite the obvious and enormous harm it causes requires a key concept: ideology. drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
To explain the remarkable persistence of American health capitalism despite the obvious and enormous harm it causes requires a key concept: ideology. drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
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Bedside clinical skills have been diminished by an overreliance on technology. A new Review Article presents educational strategies for reinvigorating the bedside encounter and shows how much can be learned from it. Learn more: nej.md/4nUirnP
#MedSky #MedEd
#MedSky #MedEd
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Bedside clinical skills have been diminished by an overreliance on technology. A new Review Article presents educational strategies for reinvigorating the bedside encounter and shows how much can be learned from it. Learn more: nej.md/4nUirnP
#MedSky #MedEd
#MedSky #MedEd
Ongoing reading (and it’s excellent, because Larissa MacFarquhar always is)
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Ongoing reading (and it’s excellent, because Larissa MacFarquhar always is)
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We must normalize carrying naloxone, make sure it’s available everywhere and at all times—and federally fund it as a public-health essential. https://ow.ly/CBOt50Xl7bk
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We must normalize carrying naloxone, make sure it’s available everywhere and at all times—and federally fund it as a public-health essential. https://ow.ly/CBOt50Xl7bk
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Protesters gathered on Saturday to rally against President Trump’s actions that they see as authoritarian. nyti.ms/3WcPHva
October 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Protesters gathered on Saturday to rally against President Trump’s actions that they see as authoritarian. nyti.ms/3WcPHva
Beyond thrilled for my friend Alex’s film In Transit premiering at NewFest 2025! Couldn’t be prouder; see you there! newfest.org/events/intra...
IN TRANSIT - NewFest
newfest.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Beyond thrilled for my friend Alex’s film In Transit premiering at NewFest 2025! Couldn’t be prouder; see you there! newfest.org/events/intra...
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Nalbuphine is the Diet Coke of opioids: fresh blog
🥤 Multimodal mechanism of action: partial mu-opioid agonist (like buprenorphine) & kappa-opioid agonist
🥤 Reduced incidence of mu-opioid agonist side-effects (respiratory suppression, emesis, abuse potential)
emcrit.org/pulmcrit/nal... #EMIMCC
🥤 Multimodal mechanism of action: partial mu-opioid agonist (like buprenorphine) & kappa-opioid agonist
🥤 Reduced incidence of mu-opioid agonist side-effects (respiratory suppression, emesis, abuse potential)
emcrit.org/pulmcrit/nal... #EMIMCC
September 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Nalbuphine is the Diet Coke of opioids: fresh blog
🥤 Multimodal mechanism of action: partial mu-opioid agonist (like buprenorphine) & kappa-opioid agonist
🥤 Reduced incidence of mu-opioid agonist side-effects (respiratory suppression, emesis, abuse potential)
emcrit.org/pulmcrit/nal... #EMIMCC
🥤 Multimodal mechanism of action: partial mu-opioid agonist (like buprenorphine) & kappa-opioid agonist
🥤 Reduced incidence of mu-opioid agonist side-effects (respiratory suppression, emesis, abuse potential)
emcrit.org/pulmcrit/nal... #EMIMCC
Tickets secured for October's New Yorker Festival! 🫡
September 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Tickets secured for October's New Yorker Festival! 🫡
“When a person recovers from an illness, it is usually seen as the end of the story. But becoming sane also causes a kind of narrative collapse, a confrontation with a personal history that is no longer recognizable."
A woman with a 20-year psychiatric history began taking an immunosuppressant. Suddenly, her seeming schizophrenia vanished.
Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t
Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?
www.newyorker.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“When a person recovers from an illness, it is usually seen as the end of the story. But becoming sane also causes a kind of narrative collapse, a confrontation with a personal history that is no longer recognizable."
Registered; so looking forward to this, organized by @parapraxismag.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Registered; so looking forward to this, organized by @parapraxismag.bsky.social
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Morgan Lieberman's "Hidden Once, Hidden Twice" is a documentary photo and film project bringing visibility to the lives of senior lesbian couples across the U.S.
Photos: Decades in, these women's love was 'Hidden Once, Hidden Twice'
Morgan Lieberman's "Hidden Once, Hidden Twice" is a documentary photo and film project bringing visibility to the lives of senior lesbian couples across the U.S.
n.pr
June 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Morgan Lieberman's "Hidden Once, Hidden Twice" is a documentary photo and film project bringing visibility to the lives of senior lesbian couples across the U.S.
"The urgent questions before us have much more to do with building the political conditions under which a healthcare revolution is possible than with once again demonstrating truths that have already been so well-established." proteanmag.com/2025/04/15/c...
Carceral Health and Obscured Cruelty • Protean Magazine
Physician Jake Sonnenberg reviews All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders, which collects writings that cast light on the flagrant injustices of for-profit he...
proteanmag.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"The urgent questions before us have much more to do with building the political conditions under which a healthcare revolution is possible than with once again demonstrating truths that have already been so well-established." proteanmag.com/2025/04/15/c...
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“Homelessness is the product of collaboration between the state and real estate” — @city.bsky.social
In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social speak with Brian Goldstone about how we systematically, and intentionally, undercount the homeless, and Brian’s new book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
www.patreon.com/posts/129388...
www.patreon.com/posts/129388...
There Is No Place For Us w/ Brian Goldstone (05/19/25) | The Death Panel
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May 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“Homelessness is the product of collaboration between the state and real estate” — @city.bsky.social
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Dr. @alexjordanmd.bsky.social presents “Opioid Prescribing and Risk in Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Nationwide Clinician Survey” #AGS25
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Dr. @alexjordanmd.bsky.social presents “Opioid Prescribing and Risk in Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Nationwide Clinician Survey” #AGS25
"I see an artist doing what artists do: opening the wound, peering into it, and extracting what she can." www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...
These images, that light. In Hollywood with Paz de la Huerta
Through fashion, hair and makeup, De la Huerta directs herself into three viable paths her life could’ve taken, including the ghost of Marilyn Monroe.
www.latimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
"I see an artist doing what artists do: opening the wound, peering into it, and extracting what she can." www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...
"Criminal justice scholars say that when scores based on immutable facts are weighted so heavily in parole decisions, prisoners from impoverished, racially segregated communities are more likely to be hurt."
Under Gov. Landry’s tough-on-crime agenda, Louisiana has eliminated parole for nearly everyone imprisoned for crimes committed after Aug. 1.
For most prisoners already behind bars, an algorithm is now deciding if they have a shot at early release.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social w/ @veritenews.org
For most prisoners already behind bars, an algorithm is now deciding if they have a shot at early release.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social w/ @veritenews.org
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm…
www.propublica.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"Criminal justice scholars say that when scores based on immutable facts are weighted so heavily in parole decisions, prisoners from impoverished, racially segregated communities are more likely to be hurt."