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One Father's Day, when I was 9, my Dad asked me to hop in the car. We drove to an elementary school. It was Sunday at 11 am. Inside the gym, cigarette smoke filled the air as three dozen adults milled about. Confused, he told me to sit.

Congrats to Jeff Jopling (Jeff Jopling) who won the Hopkins Surgery Kieth Lillemoe faculty teaching award selected by the junior Halsted #surgery residents. Glad to see my first-year #Trauma #AcuteCareSurgery partner getting the credit he deserves. #SurgMentoring

Congrats to reillyp on winning the Department of Surgery’s Surgical Mentorship Award.

New CBO report: The poorest *half* of America -- ~150 million people -- hold only *2 percent* of the country's total wealth Wealth of top 10 percent has grown markedly since 1989 That tiny little line at the bottom of this chart is half the country

Tragic npr.org/sections/healt…

Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care | Health Care Economics, Insurance, Payment | JAMA | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opi…

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files. “We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & The Capitol Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” The inside story 🧵

Her son's burn injury led to an ER billing debacle and a fight with collections : Shots - Health News : NPR npr.org/sections/healt…

Exchange between Jon Stewart and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on the defense budget: "I can't figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that's fucking corruption."

Resilience — The Last Thing We Need | NEJM. Free full text. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

More hospitals create police forces, as critics warn of pitfalls : Shots - Health News : NPR npr.org/sections/healt…

I’m excited to share that I am running for Congress in Texas’ 32nd District, here in the heart of Dallas where I live with my family. I’m an Air Force veteran, a trauma surgeon, & a gun safety advocate. Join our team today: drbrianwilliamsforcongress.com #DrBrianWilliamsforCongress 1/6

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed police body cam footage from nearly 600 car stops involving Black drivers. It found that the first 45 words an officer says to the driver portends how the stop will go. npr.org/2023/05/29/117…

Hunters wear orange to protect themselves. Today we wear orange for gun violence prevention. I am a trauma surgeon, family survivor of gun violence, & gun safety advocate. I’m running for Congress because we deserve a government that protects us. #EndGunViolence ThisIsOurLane

This is it! The last week of fundraising before we report our first end of quarter results to the FEC. Take 30 seconds now to hear what I have to say 👇🏾 #DrBrianWilliamsForCongress #TX32 #Veteran #MedTwitter

Post-doc research fellow Niloufar Shababi presenting her poster at #AAST2023 w/ #SurgMentoring by Madhu Subramanian, MD.

So I look over and notice the person next to me on the plane is studying neuro-anatomy flash cards. I have to ask. I got to meet a Johns Hopkins Medicine medical student (Ashley) who knows my colleague Madhu Subramanian, MD. #SmallWorld

EVERY doctor should read this article about the mental health challenges for physicians. Our work is demanding. We have all lost friends/colleagues to #Suicide. We need to be more open about the topic. @lubitz_carrie The Guardian Assoc4AcademicSurgery theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s…