Professor of Med @UCSF. Focused on Geriatrics, Hospice, Palliative care, and medical education. Podcasts at geripal.org/
Joined July 2009
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16 Feb 2025
San Francisco Tesla dealership is busy today (at least the sidewalk is)
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13 Feb 2025
Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend #teslatakeover
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4 Feb 2025
Dismantling institutions & eroding people's trust in them is meant to create a cynical void where powerful people create their own version of reality & avoid being accountable to any rule or standard. I agree with @EWidera, we should move this discussion to Bluesky. 2/2
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1 Feb 2025
My feed yesterday was Elon, Elon, and then Alex Jones. I think I’m just gonna burn my twitter account to the ground by tweeting crap about Elon and promoting Bluesky
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Eric Widera, MD retweeted
31 Jan 2025
We are living in a dangerous and unprecedented moment in American history.
I’m getting a lot of calls from people who are not only upset about what’s happening, but are wondering how we best go forward.
Here are my thoughts:
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31 Jan 2025
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues to expand his power grab, and this time he wants Americans’ most sensitive information, including their Social Security numbers and banking information.
We should all be asking why he wants it. rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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31 Jan 2025
Government employees are being encouraged to resign from "lower productivity in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector." This is a false narrative. Example: VA healthcare system does no worse and is often better than non-VA care in most outcomes
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31 Jan 2025
We have data from a 2024 systematic review that concludes most published studies show that Veterans getting care from the VA get the same or better clinical quality than Vets getting community care or the general public getting non-VA care.
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31 Jan 2025
What they are really saying is that they want to drive care away from government programs to private companies like UnitedHealth, where "productivity" is encouraged through upcoding and profit is maximized for shareholders and CEO salaries.
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10 Dec 2024
Up-coding diagnoses in MA plans “Insurer-driven diagnoses by UnitedHealth for diseases that no doctor treated generated $8.7 billion in 2021 payments to the company, the Journal’s analysis showed. UnitedHealth’s net income that year was about $17 billion.” wsj.com/health/healthcare/me…
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We talk with Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, & @DrVickiJackson about their recent JAMA article on #Telehealth vs In-Person #PalliativeCare. Which option gives the best quality of life to the patient? Guest host Lynn Flint.
bit.ly/GeriPalEp341 - hosts @AlexSmithMD | @EWidera
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30 Jan 2025
Does he even know what nurses and doctors do?
Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year
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30 Jan 2025
If someone refuses vaccines or any other tx, you build trust, listen to concerns, share your worries. Influence but not control. But to not even try? Refuse healthcare to a child for a decision that their parent is making?? That’s wrong. Opinion 1 is right
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30 Jan 2025
It takes competence to fix something or make it better. Any fool can brake it even further. RFK Jr is in the latter group.
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29 Jan 2025
Imagine you open your email and find everyone in your hospital system is encouraged to retire next week and in return they get a 7 month severance period in which they no longer are expected to work (at all). That’s just what happened at the VA today.
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Bluesky is fast approaching both 30M users and 1B posts!
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29 Jan 2025
If there is any doubt who is running the Trump show, it’s Elon. The subject line “fork in the road” that all government employees got to is the same that he used on Twitter.
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29 Jan 2025
In case there was any doubt about Elon Musk’s influence over the fed worker buyouts, the subject line a “Fork in the Road” is the same as the one Musk used in his “extremely hardcore” ultimatum to Twitter staff that led to hundreds of resignations in 2022
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29 Jan 2025
The idea that the current administration would encourage federal employees to quit their jobs, including those providing direct patient care to veterans, is unfathomably stupid and harmful.
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Eric Widera, MD retweeted
28 Jan 2025
(recording podcast tomorrow Wednesday, reply to Eric's post soon!) #hapc
28 Jan 2025
We are doing a GeriPal podcast on caring for people with serious illness and substance use this Thursday with some amazing palliative care & addiction medicine providers. What burning questions do you have (some of mine are below)
#medsky #palliative #hospice #HAPC
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28 Jan 2025
We are doing a GeriPal podcast on caring for people with serious illness and substance use this Thursday with some amazing palliative care & addiction medicine providers. What burning questions do you have (some of mine are below)
#medsky #palliative #hospice #HAPC
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