R to @anish_koka: 2/ Bennie was born in the early 1960s with biliary atresia — a condition where bile has nowhere to go. It backs up, destroys the liver, and kills children. Slowly. Horribly. The only treatment towards the end was socks on their hands — the itching was so intense children would scratch their skin off.
Shout out to @Med_City_Health. My patient’s wife told me yesterday this is the only hospital in Texas that would perform her kidney transplant without requiring a Covid shot. None of the hospitals in Houston would do it. She is doing great!
Indian H1B Scammers Found Guilty In Multi-Million Dollar Fraud In Pennsylvania https://www.zerohedge.com/political/indian-h1b-scammers-found-guilty-multi-million-dollar-fraud-pennsylvania
REALLY important conversation w @kevinnbass
"Nobody would tell me what I had done wrong " -@kevinnbass on @drsloungepod https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1wxWjaBEevnJQ
Kevin details how they kicked him out of medical school for having the wrong opinion after his Newsweek COVID piece and appearance on @TuckerCarlson on Fox News.
How @kevinbass went from believing the establishment line on COVID to apologizing for those beliefs https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DxLdvYaBQmxm
Pinned: Live with @kevinnbass on @DRsLoungePod
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DxLdvYaBQmxm
Live with @kevinnbass on @DRsLoungePod
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMaNjbyxb
Jim Carrey joins Roxbury Guys in their most iconic sketch for Season 21 of SNL (1996)
Very nice job by @Bryce_Nickels on editing.
Visually steps through the timeline of Prasad’s time at the FDA
What you see here is called "lying"
It's what happens when someone's anti-competitive protections are under attack
CON laws are insane. Basically:
If you want to open a new medical practice somewhere, you have to get your potential competitors to sign off, saying you're needed
In my latest @SciFrTheFringe podcast, I spoke with @anish_koka about Vinay Prasad's tenure at the FDA and why I am thinking about starting a Vinay Prasad fan club.
(PS - though it would be great if @AndrewNixonHHS let Vinay out of the White Oak basement to do a podcast with me before he departs, I must admit it's probably strategically unwise for him to do so.)
This day in 1993, 12 bombs supplied by Dawood Ibrahim exploded in Mumbai killing 257 and injuring 1408. Dawood escaped but his accomplice Yakub Memon was caught and sentenced to death for aiding & abetting the terror attack.
These were the scenes from his funeral held in Mumbai.
Absolutely unreal moment. Colin Dorgan of Blackstone Valley, whose family members were killed in shooting at Lynch Arena, is OT hero
Suspect Ron Johnson doesn’t really know what he’s talking about on this topic. . .
Oregon: “A state with a total Medicaid enrollment of just over 700,000 children prescribed psychiatric drugs to 37.7% of them. More than one in three children on Oregon Medicaid received a psychiatric drug in a single year. “
This should be the biggest scandal in decades. Foreigners running fake businesses that bill the US government have stolen hundreds of billions of dollars and shipped it abroad.
It’s become obvious, fund the patients not the programs so people who need assistance actually receive it
You can dump as much money as you want in to a fraud riddled program like Medicaid, and you'll just get more Learing Centers.
We spend about $10k a year on non-disabled adults in Medicaid. The problem isn't a lack of funding. It's that the money doesn't reach the patients.
The Marxist marches in a free society to turn it into this 👇🏽
A 69 year old woman hurt herself playing pickle ball. When she sought physical therapy, Medicare denied her coverage saying she was already in hospice care dying.
It was fraud. She didn’t get the health care she needed, the money was stolen instead, and taxpayers like her are on the hook.
It’s insane and outrageous. But California’s only solution is to raise taxes, so there is more money continuing to leak out to fraud.
When I say most journalism would probably be improved if AI did it instead I’m being totally serious.
Incredible investigation today from @CBSNews. Our reporters visited "ground zero" for hospice fraud: Los Angeles, California. One building had 89 registered hospices . . .
Read it here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/hospice-fraud/
And this is just such a stupid line of attack anyway.
Do coders care what portion of code was AI generated?
If you watch a move where either some of the script or the video is AI generated ?
Respond to the substance that’s produced. Spending time trying to sort out if it’s AI created is not a very smart rebuttal.
Well its not.
And I cut and pasted the same text into another AI detector --> 0%. None of this crap is validated well. Which is why I wrote 4k words on why AI coronary plaque validation, and AI CT FFR is probably gibberish as well.
Peter has a reputation as a very smart, deep guy, and I have repeatedly attempted to engage with him on substance. He chooses not to. Sad.
I will say that after following the FDA journalist coverage closely over the last few months, I know quite a few reporters that would have the quality of their writing vastly improved if they replaced what they wrote with "AI slop".
Indeed. Holden Thorp’s compensation approaches seven figures, and he is not even the highest-paid employee at AAAS. Much of the organization’s eight-figure revenue ultimately comes from taxpayer-funded subscriptions funneled through universities.
Yet this non-profit regularly participates in political narratives and attack pieces targeting scientists who challenge prevailing views.
I actually think @ashishkjha did excellent work in this series identifying how policy choices created the consolidation and pricing power we see in healthcare today.
But the conclusion is strange.
He correctly identifies that regulation distorted markets and eliminated price signals.
Then proposes… more price fixing.
Medicare prices are not some objective benchmark grounded in economic reality. They are administratively set prices created through a political process.
Using one price fixing system to fix the distortions caused by another is how you get deeper distortions.
The real solution is restoring price signals where markets can function, combined with a generous safety net for those who cannot participate in them.
More administrative pricing will simply produce more lobbying, more consolidation, and more crony capitalism.
Ethan Agarwal is a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur and Democratic primary candidate for California’s 17th Congressional District. The District is currently represented by a high-profile incumbent, Ro Khanna.
I spoke with @ethanagarwal on his foray into electoral politics.
@IndiaAbroad_
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First step for Yale healthcare affordability lab is to give back the $250 million Yale got from CMS for making quality metrics.
And then to kill the quality metric program it’s been pushing that drives up the cost of care for everyone.
The average hospital has 7 FTE devoted just to quality metrics and the average independent clinic has 1/2FTE per doctor.
That’s all to meet your arbitrary metrics. Eliminate it all.
To twits like this person, stability means the FDA gives the pharma bros whatever they want. . .
🧵 that’s a deeper dive Into the substance of Cardiologist Dr. Wang’s paper on affirmative action published in 2019 that lead to him being sanctioned and demoted.
The colleague who publicly accused him of racism has since been given a prominent role in the American College of Cardiology.
SCOTUS agreed with Dr. Wang, and ruled affirmative action as practiced by universities to be illegal.
The meticulously prepared paper with oodles of citations was retracted in ~2 days with no process for the author to respond on the basis of quotes that didn’t have a following sentence. Outright fraudulent made up papers take months to investigate and retract.
2 days to retract.
I’ve attached the link to the retraction notice at the end of the thread for those who read papers to see how completely absurd the rationale given was.
Emilia didn’t read the Substack that’s linked that describes the flimsy context for retraction, and the embarrassingly bad rebuttal.
And of course it needed to be retracted.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”
Next up instead of addressing any substantive issues, someone will start counting em Dashes. Do I have that right?
https://x.com/anish_koka/status/2030851670062637330?s=46
I don’t know why every doctor doesn’t listen to this podcast, it covers all sorts of topics from healthcare economics to actual medicine, practice issues, viral tweets; easy enough to just add to your podcast list
Cool, cool. Nail bombs being tossed in Carl Schultz Park where my wife and I take our kids all the time to play. I’m a decent person so of course I won’t let this affect my good beliefs. Where can I go to vote for more of this?
Great non technical essay on the roots of Vinay’s exit : patients with terrible diseases desperate for hope.
Even better : Maps a way forward from this debacle that doesn’t involve burning everything down.