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In America, Fake Patients Get the Best Care Medical schools are training students in a form of care that the system can’t—or won’t—provide.

Every few weeks, David H. Freedman puts on a hospital gown and describes a set of symptoms that he doesn’t really have. The fakery reveals what the U.S. medical system isn’t doing for its patients:

LOVE that clinical informatics is getting featured on The Pitt but the idea that an informaticist would implement loose papers adding manual check boxes to physician workflows is a misunderstanding of the field....

On ‘The Pitt,’ E.R. Doctors Try to Fix This Broken World

With “The Pitt,” Noah Wyle and his castmates turned one harrowing day at an emergency room into an unforgettable season of television. The writer Sam Anderson visited the set during the filming of the second season to see how far the team went to make the hospital drama feel so real.

FFWMTR The National Weather Service in San Francisco has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Northern San Mateo County in northern California... * Until 515 AM PST. * At 201 AM PST, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain across the warned area. Up to 0.7 inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Heavy rain producing flash flooding. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Foster City, Burlingame, San Carlos, East Palo Alto, Belmont, Millbrae, Hillsborough, Atherton, Woodside, Highlands-Baywood Park, North Fair Oaks, Stanford, Portola Valley, Emerald Lake Hills, Highlands and West Menlo Park.

🚨 Flash Flood Warning issued December 25 at 2:01AM PST until December 25 at 5:15AM PST by NWS San Francisco CA 🚨
Additional Details Here.

At 255 AM PST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line from over South San Francisco to 13 miles south of Half Moon Bay, or along a line from over South San Francisco to 16 miles southwest of Palo Alto, moving north at 40 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and small hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Foster City, Los Altos, San Carlos, East Palo Alto, Belmont, Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, Los Altos Hills, Atherton, Woodside, Stanford, North Fair Oaks, Highlands-Baywood Park, Portola Valley, West Menlo Park and Emerald Lake Hills.

🚨 Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued December 24 at 2:55AM PST until December 24 at 3:15AM PST by NWS San Francisco CA 🚨
Additional Details Here.

People are always surprised that clinical informatics is a boarded specialty, but the stakes are so high for getting technology right in healthcare settings

Claude, an American alligator with albinism, lounging on his favorite heated rock.

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

Frustrated by the Medical System, Patients Turn to A.I.

First opinions, 2nd opinions, analyzing lab tests, preparing for a clinic visit, helping to make difficult diagnoses, and more use cases. Its popularity will keep increasing despite lack of objective data for benefit or harm
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...

The Age of De-Skilling Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

"You can’t become de-skilled if you were never skilled in the first place."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's a fundamental misunderstanding to think that AI chatbots "want" to be helpful- that's how you end up with folie a ordinadeux

Instead, they "want" to be liked: they will try to tell you what you want to hear (so have fun but with a grain of salt)

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

The Trump administration is using the government shutdown to dismantle our public health infrastructure.

The people laid off from the CDC are our first line of response for disease outbreaks. This will cost lives.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

#goblue 💙💛

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

🎁 Here is a gift link for those who need one:

The peace prize for investigating a common theory that's been around for decades 👏👏👏

Millions of seniors could lose access to telehealth without deal in Congress Millions of American seniors could see major disruptions to health services amid a government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Sushi Is Bigger Than Ever in America. Here’s Why. Once considered rarefied and exotic in the United States, the Japanese favorite is now a staple in many places across the country.

The American appetite for sushi is bigger than ever.

Most of that growth is not happening in pricey omakase restaurants. It is happening in gas stations and big-box stores, bowling alleys and stadiums, U.S. Army commissaries and amusement parks.

Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights YouTube video by Kvetch Hell

The definitive adaptation of Wuthering Heights

youtu.be/BIMEPPZxzyg?...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C. Secretary Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health Agency leaders sound the alarm.

“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” write nine former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Phil and Penny Knight pledge $2 billion to OHSU for cancer research Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, plan to donate $2 billion to Oregon Health and Science University, the institution’s leaders announced Thursday.

OHSU officials say it’s one of the largest single donations given to a college in the country.

Progress Toward a Norovirus Vaccine This Medical News article discusses the latest research on vaccine candidates, including an oral pill option, for the highly contagious norovirus.

The highly contagious #norovirus stomach bug causes about 200 000 deaths annually.

Following failed vaccine efforts, a new pill showed protection potential in a phase 2 clinical trial.

#MedSky #MedicalResearch

Birthday girl 🎉

Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My latest in the New York Times. An attempt to warn the public that their health is about to get much worse.

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH BLACK HAT: Compatibility and interoperability are so important. (2) [Black hat shows diagram to two people] BLACK HAT: For example, most subway rails are 143.5cm apart. But many roller coasters use a narrower 110cm gauge. (3) BLACK HAT: For the last few years, our company has been quietly retrofitting roller coasters to use 143.5cm tracks. (4) BLACK HAT: Soon, we can begin Phase 2. PERSON 2: Maybe interoperability is actually bad. BLACK HAT: If you listen to the destination announcement while boarding, you’ll be fine.

Interoperability

xkcd.com/3105/

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.

Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten care at U.S. hospitals that depend on international medical residents.

The right way to change medical practice is through innovation, causal inference, and publication. Shortcuts will lead to harm

[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.

Mass Spec

xkcd.com/3094/

The loss data (~$10B) support and N of grants terminated is updated below, but this op-ed by @euanashley.bsky.social hits all the important points @latimes.com @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.