Heard in the Blogosphere
Mark Lewis, MD
John Sherbeck, MD
@marklewismd
@TeamCaptainJohn
I’m an oncologist having surgery to remove pancreatic
cancer. No one is immune from disease; bad luck should
bankrupt no one. #skinnyrepeal
Mark Reid, MD
@medicalaxioms
If you don’t intend to look at the result, don’t order the test.
As your #bloodbank fellow, hope
every1 at @umichmedicine joins
me at the @RedCrossBloodDT
drive today! #blooducation
Colleen Plein, MD
@DrPleinENT
Healthcare system in a nutshell: got email from admin
today re fighting burnout. Their solution? Take an online
training module.
Neha Bhatnagar, MD
@nbhatnagar_md
Lesson for budding docs: “Spend 3 more minutes in the
room, ask 2 more questions, and do 1 less test.” Dr. Zane at
@DenverEMed
Frank Ingram, MD
@Chucktowndoc
There’s gonna be at least 1 great case
in there! (What I say so I don’t cry when
the afternoon stack arrives.) #Pathology
#optimism #BigStack
Robert Paul Musgrave, PhD
@profmusgrave
Write your abstracts like they’re the only paragraph anyone will
read. Also: your abstract is the only paragraph anyone will read.
Gavin Preston, MD
@GavinPrestonMD
I see more and more urgent care centers. It is the opposite
of the long-lasting, stable doctor-patient relationship where
trust grows. #meded
David Tom Cooke, MD
@DavidCookeMD
Best “negative” eval I received: “He has too high expectations
of the residents.” Just the same expectations my faculty had
of me! #meded
Christine Garcia, MPH, MD
@christinemphmd
My dog seems to be interested in
learning some #HemePath! #Pathology
The Upside of Bad Genes
“The promise of [CRISPR/Cas9] is that it will transform medicine by
vanquishing previously incurable diseases, [but] scientists really don’t
understand enough about the upside of genes we consider ‘bad’ to begin
editing them willy-nilly. … New pathogens for which we don’t have cures
continue to emerge, [and] those ‘bad’ gene variants might still come in
handy. More broadly, genetically diverse populations tend to be more
resilient, precisely because they have more genetic resources to draw on
when unforeseen challenges arise. … Certainly, some genes will turn out
to be only detrimental and provide no advantage. But there are bound to
be other cases … in which genes deemed harmful can aid survival or at
least cause less damage in other surroundings. … Given how much the
world has changed in just the past 150 years, and how much it’s likely to
change again in the next 150, the question is, ‘What environment will we
optimize our genes for?’”
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, on the downsides of potentially over-correcting the human genome,
in The New York Times
What’s Missing From the Health-Care
Debate? Patients’ Voices
“Sadly, the most important voices – those of patients, the people
most directly affected by any new law – have been largely unheard [in
the health-care debate]. Patients have the most extensive experience
in dealing directly with our complicated health-care system and also
understand the stark reality of what it means to lose affordable access
to health care. … Without elevating the voice of patients and taking
their thoughts to heart in forming this law, the country st