Rising goat right here MedChiefs

Insane.

this is so well written

Our curious MedChiefs residents came to me, unsolicited, with some thoughts on ENACT-HF that they put into a Letter-to-the-Editor Circ: Heart Failure Led to a great HF Journal Club on this trial and use of urine-Na. Great work Arman Shahriar, MD & Tess Allan! ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

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Amen

PBMs say they don't set drug prices, but their own data disagrees. For example, Medicare data for CVS Health plans show them setting 597 different prices for imatinib that are as low as $2,658 and as high as $8,199. Mark Cuban sells the same drug for $40. 46brooklyn.com/research/07222…

I have had at least 5 patients (in residency) who are otherwise either (a) fine or (b) have bigger problems, come to clinic saying they have PAD because apparently managed Medicare knows more about screening than we do

Dear enemies,The Black Swan is now the most influential (that is, discussed/mentioned) 21st C book. While almost all books have a half-life between 2 and 6 months, it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy [Same with other 4 books in the Incerto. Graph is US only]

I think the field of medicine might improve if we 100% stopped considering research when selecting candidates for med school and residency. Those who love research would keep doing it (good). Those who don't love it would stop doing junk research (also good). Research might go

"It is critical to collect detailed social demographic data to identify inequities without otherizing patients into stereotypical aggregate wholes that do not make sense for heterogeneous populations" Well done.

Another great Study of the Week by John Mandrola, MD. If you're not reading these, you're doing something terribly wrong.🙂 The EARLY TAVR Trial Exposes the Main Tension in Medical Science open.substack.com/pub/sensibleme…

Congratulations to MedChiefs resident Dr. Ryan Sachar, and Kevin Y. Chang, MD, on their presentation at #AHA24! Patients screening positive for HFpEF with Ultromics AI algorithm had higher PA pressures, c/w more advanced disease

🔥 incoming - proud of this guy!!!

This was fun. Residency has been such a blur.

Arman Shahriar, MD European Society of Cardiology Journals Adam Cifu A pleasure to work with you on this Arman Shahriar, MD and Adam Cifu, and thanks to European Society of Cardiology Journals for publishing!

Very proud of this paper. Kudos to Arman Shahriar, MD for doing ALL the heavy lifting. Jonathan Paul Endovascular management of intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism: evidence, outstanding questions, drivers of utilization, and the horizon academic.oup.com/ehjopen/articl…

She is the very best. Congrats Newsh!!! MedChiefs