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Chris Worsham

@chrisworsham

Christopher Worsham, MD MPH is a pulmonary & critical care physician @MGH_PCCM, faculty @harvardmed, co-author RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE

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Anupam Jena (@anupambjena) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very interesting study from the Michigan folks. You could have predicted it was from them based on the topic and cleverness of the finding Justin B. Dimick

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1/ In our latest in JAMA Internal Medicine, we provide the most recent and comprehensive characterization of all-cause and cause-specific mortality among physicians and other healthcare workers (HCWs) 🧑‍⚕️👨‍⚕️in the US. Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

1/ In our latest in <a href="/JAMAInternalMed/">JAMA Internal Medicine</a>, we provide the most recent and comprehensive characterization of all-cause and cause-specific mortality among physicians and other healthcare workers (HCWs) 🧑‍⚕️👨‍⚕️in the US.

Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
Chris Worsham (@chrisworsham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out our new study, led by Vishal Patel, out in JAMA Internal Medicine, that takes advantage of new data to tell us about mortality among physicians and other health care workers. Some surprising findings 👇

JAMA Internal Medicine (@jamainternalmed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While most health care workers have lower overall mortality rates than the general population, disparities in mortality based on sex, race, and ethnicity persist, particularly among physicians. ja.ma/3CXyIa9 Chris Worsham Ishani Ganguli MD, MPH

While most health care workers have lower overall mortality rates than the general population, disparities in mortality based on sex, race, and ethnicity persist, particularly among physicians. ja.ma/3CXyIa9 <a href="/ChrisWorsham/">Chris Worsham</a> <a href="/IshaniG/">Ishani Ganguli MD, MPH</a>
JAMA Internal Medicine (@jamainternalmed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Most viewed from JAMA Internal Medicine: Although physicians and most health care workers experienced lower mortality rates compared with the general population, this benefit did not fully extend to female individuals or racial and ethnic minority groups. ja.ma/3XmF5ee

Most viewed from <a href="/JAMAInternalMed/">JAMA Internal Medicine</a>:

Although physicians and most health care workers experienced lower mortality rates compared with the general population, this benefit did not fully extend to female individuals or racial and ethnic minority groups.

ja.ma/3XmF5ee
Anupam Jena (@anupambjena) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out latest episode of Thought Sparks, where Rita McGrath (Rita Gunther McGrath) & I chat about my book w/ Chris Worsham “Random Acts of Medicine”. We discuss the unexpected forces that affect our health.  Find the episode on your favorite podcast platform: linktr.ee/RitaMcGrath

David Ridley (@dave_ridley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The role of the NIH is to allocate public dollars optimally. Health economist Anupam Jena has a list of recommendations for his fellow health economist Jay Bhattacharya nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opi…

JAMA Internal Medicine (@jamainternalmed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Most viewed from JAMA Internal Medicine: Although physicians and most health care workers experienced lower mortality rates compared with the general population, this benefit did not fully extend to female individuals or racial and ethnic minority groups. ja.ma/4kmgZdd

Most viewed from <a href="/JAMAInternalMed/">JAMA Internal Medicine</a>:

Although physicians and most health care workers experienced lower mortality rates compared with the general population, this benefit did not fully extend to female individuals or racial and ethnic minority groups.

ja.ma/4kmgZdd
TIME (@time) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Women live longer than men—but not in medicine, write Dr. Christopher Worsham and Dr. Anupam Jena time.com/7261514/female…

Chris Worsham (@chrisworsham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Medicare's competitive bidding program for oxygen services brought down costs for pts with COPD, but the program is not a good fit for all oxygen needs, as I write in JAMA Internal Medicine on the SOAR Act, a bill sponsored by U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. Senator Amy Klobuchar jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Chris Worsham (@chrisworsham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If the CDC plans to dedicate resources to do a vaccine safety study, it should do so in a way that results can be trusted by mainstream scientists & skeptics alike. Anupam Jena and I write for TIME Ideas about the "adversarial collaboration" approach time.com/7272138/cdc-st…

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The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena time.com/7275048/shingl…

Pascal Geldsetzer (@pgeldsetzer1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What if we already have a vaccine for dementia? Great explainer of my group’s new Nature paper (nature.com/articles/s4158…) on shingles vax by Chris Worsham Anupam Jena: tinyurl.com/2spnvvsy and summary by Eric Topol: bit.ly/4lkCJXs. Video here: tinyurl.com/yc37nxua

The BMJ (@bmj_latest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The start of US hunting season is linked to increased firearm incidents, including violent crimes and suicide, finds this study. Efforts to promote firearm safety at start of hunting season might help curb firearm incidents, say researchers bmj.com/content/389/bm…

Chris Worsham (@chrisworsham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out our latest study in The BMJ, and accompanying pice for TIME Ideas, examining changes in firearm incidents during the beginning of deer hunting season in the U.S. (w/ Anupam Jena Charlie Bray) time.com/7277814/gun-in…

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In a new study, researchers from MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and colleagues found that hunting season led to a rise in non-hunting firearm incidents. The study was published in The BMJ. Read more: massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsr… Chris Worsham Anupam Jena

In a new study, researchers from <a href="/MGH_PCCM/">MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine</a> and colleagues found that hunting season led to a rise in non-hunting firearm incidents. The study was published in <a href="/bmj_latest/">The BMJ</a>.

Read more: massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsr… <a href="/ChrisWorsham/">Chris Worsham</a> <a href="/AnupamBJena/">Anupam Jena</a>
JAMA Internal Medicine (@jamainternalmed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While most health care workers have lower overall mortality rates than the general population, disparities in mortality based on sex, race, and ethnicity persist, particularly among physicians. ja.ma/4iIYmOI Chris Worsham Ishani Ganguli MD, MPH