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26 Mar 2024
These medical students have been doing the work of MDs with decades of war operating experience. It is shameful they are likely being tortured right now when they should be praised and celebrated for stepping up, unpaid, and doing life-saving work for half a year.
26 Mar 2024
🚨The Israeli army kidnaps final-year medical students: Khaleel Skaik and Abdelrheem Selmya from Shifa hospital in #Gaza.
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Alex retweeted
17 Feb 2024
Step 3 is $925.
Uworld Step 3 Q bank: $575.
This is outrageous.
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Alex retweeted
16 Feb 2024
One thing I’ve realized during residency training is that there seems to be essentially zero correlation to the “tier” of medical school somebody went to and their medical knowledge or quality of doctor they end up becoming.
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Alex retweeted
27 Dec 2023
Hospitals owned by private equity firms riskier for patients, study says kktv.com/2023/12/27/hospital…
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Alex retweeted
26 Dec 2023
The magnitude of agony in this sentence should stop the world.
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Alex retweeted
17 Dec 2023
Resident starting pay should be $100k/year
9 Nov 2023
🙋♂️ What’s your unpopular opinion in medicine that will get you in this position?
#MedTwitter
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Alex retweeted
10 Dec 2023
Anyone ? Any Doctors organisations? Anybody at all? Is this, like, normal now? #Gaza
9 Dec 2023
Dr. Ashraf Abu Mahadi (Director-General of Pharmacy ) was sniped in the head and killed by an Israeli army sniper while he was at work in hospital - #Gaza.
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Alex retweeted
23 Nov 2023
Remember your ABCs
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Cyberbullying (insurance companies)
23 Nov 2023
UPDATE: After an enormous outcry, Cigna has reversed their unconscionable last-minute denial and will be covering Carole's transplant (!!).
Carole is extremely relieved, and she's grateful to the many, many people who emailed Cigna over the past 24 hours.
Having said that...
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Alex retweeted
8 Nov 2023
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8 Nov 2023
Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4 million loss; CFO quits
lasvegassun.com/news/2023/no…
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Alex retweeted
3 Nov 2023
🚨PRIOR AUTHORIZATION REFORM🚨
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Alex retweeted
31 Jul 2023
Earlier this month an Illinois physician learned her ER as getting a new boss. He called himself "Doctor George." And he was *deeply* unhappy with her failure to do Medicare fraud.
A thread on the chaotic collapse of a(nother) private equity ER operator prospect.org/health/2023-07-…
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Alex retweeted
29 Jul 2023
When I make videos about the US healthcare system, I try to do it in a way that is accessible to everybody. If you do advocacy work, please feel free to use these videos in presentations or send them to your Congress person. Keep advocating. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Alex retweeted
28 Jun 2023
How much do hospitals receive from the government to train residents?
It depends. There are multiple funding streams and the formulae are complicated.
But here, a consulting firm did the math...
…and estimated that, in 2019, the average Medicare subsidy was $145,435/resident.
ALT Graphic demonstrating calculating the average DGME and IME payment per resident by federal fiscal year, which rose from $110,681 in 2008 to $145,435 in 2019.
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Alex retweeted
16 Jun 2023
Emergency medicine consults
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Alex retweeted
22 May 2023
BREAKING: Physicians in New York City are on strike for the first time in 33 years.
150 trainee doctors walked out on strike today at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
They're pushing back against the low pay residents get for extremely long hours and grueling work.
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