“.. 15 percent of individuals said they had borrowed money in the last year to pay for medical expenses, while another 11 percent said they had skipped a meal.”
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The AHRQ just cancelled all of its grant mechanisms. This is the agency that funds a lot of research on healthcare quality. Congress appropriated them $200+M for this fiscal year. MAHA does NOT care about health. Only healthism. It’s Margaret Thatcher’s fever dream. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...
One of those things you learned about in medical school but didn't think you'd ever hear about again after the Step exams
My latest in @journalgim.bsky.social: Medicaid Coverage Restrictions & On-Label Buprenorphine Rx’ing for Chronic Pain. Current restrictive policies are associated with lower historical uptake of buprenorphine products that are FDA-approved for chronic pain, a safer alternative to traditional opioids
Do I know anyone planning a long-ish stay in Paris? Like 2 weeks or more
Landing in Vegas tonight for the pregnancy meeting™️ . Pumped to see my MFM friends & mentors. #SMFM26
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If there’s no society, there’s no obligation to regulate pollution, guarantee food security or access to healthcare. There are only individuals tasked w/ optimizing themselves. Read why I think #MAHA isn’t about health. It’s healthism. My latest in Adverse Reaction. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...
I'll never figure out why a carefully selected population of students who were generally in the top of their classes everywhere they came from (excluding maybe donor and celeb admits) is nonetheless supposed to fall into a normal curve grading distribution. It's not a random population.