“Mayo Clinic avoided $587 million in taxes in 2021 because of its nonprofit status, yet it spent $538 million less on charity care -- $49 million”

Hank Green Also you have so many sphincters. We only ever talk about one of them but the other sphincters are super important too!

Because it's so outrageous, I'm going to start at the bottom of the barrel with Tucker for this thread on Zelensky's visit to DC, the Biden admin's success and failure, and the future of American support for Ukraine and global security. 1/10

22 tweets from 2022 that might blow your mind: Let's start with what a water droplet looks like at 6,000fps. [nac Image Technology]

60+ IUS exams in while learning from the best Sheba Medical Center. Grateful to the incredible faculty at Sheba (Dan Carter Ahmad Albshesh Shomron Ben-Horin) and at UCSF (Uma Mahadevan) as well as the wonderful patients for this opportunity. Excited to see how IUS transforms IBD care UCSFIBD

WSJ covered resident unions today. Article dropped 3h ago; 400+ comments already. My fave is “There was no issue with work-life balance until women became MDs!” But don’t worry, Stockholm syndrome, the bootstraps brigade, and socialized medicine fearmongering are there, too.

Want to improve physician wellness? 1. eliminate non-compete clauses 2. 12 weeks paid new parent leave 3. get rid of shifts longer than 16 hours for housestaff 4. Long term: train and hire more physicians so that 1 FTE= 1 FTE What am I missing?

This is next level.Nikita: built an app called tbh where teens could compliment each other, anonymously. Facebook bought the app and shut it down. Nikita vested out, then built an app called Gas where teens could compliment each other, anonymously. Discord bought the app and…

It wasn't until I was an intern that I truly understood the pointlessness and cruelty of Step 3. Making interns, who already work the longest hours in the hospital, use precious free time to study for a THIRD board exam does nothing but burn out residents and enrich the NBME.

We recently told you about Chris McNaughton, the college student who had to sue UnitedHealthcare to get his ulcerative colitis treatment covered. Now hear Chris’ story in his own words 🧵👇

Ever wondered why some colonoscopies are technically challenging or impossible? Observe the 3-D reconstructions of CT- colonography in our recently published study: doi:10.1177/17562848231160625

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I have posted this before but .. 26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.

Today I got two rejections for ESD procedures by UnitedHealthcare labeling it "experimental". Guidelines for ESD exist for years. @uhc are denying patients organ preserving yet curative procedures for precancerous polyps. This is unacceptable and as a medical community we need to stand up!

United Health Group owned company is responsible for cyber attack Medical practice goes bankrupt due to cyber attack UHG tells regulators that failure to approve sale of bankrupt practice to UHG will force practice to close. (Insert hot dog suit meme) prospect.org/health/2024-03…

Wow thank you for these generous short term loans that do not cover expenses and will have to be paid back. UnitedHealth Group made 5 billion profit last quarter.

And FYI- half of the patients supplements came from protocols touted by Mark Hyman (Cleveland Clinic) David Sinclair (Harvard University) & Andrew Huberman (Stanford Medicine). So no, academia is not the pillar of evidence based medicine, patients are sadly left to sort out fact vs fiction.

Physicians want to open hospitals where other entities have failed. The Affordable Care Act prevents these physicians from building hospitals in the communities of need. Instead they can only build clinics. It’s time to repeal Section 6001 of the Act. This is in the community

.@BonIver, you made my kid Hope’s day. (Which means you made mine too.)