JUST IN: UnitedHealth Group’s 2021 earnings report is the biggest in health insurance history with $24 Billion in profits.
This was announced just days after the Commonwealth Fund's report that showed deductibles are skyrocketing for Americans.
Check your assumptions at the door.
Just because I walk into trauma morning report with a dozen
@dunkindonuts
donuts on a Sunday morning, doesn’t automatically mean I’m going to share. 😉
Controversial editorial-
“Lockdown protesters have a moral duty to forgo medical care in favor of those who followed the rules” from bioethicists at
@Penn
@nyuniversity
@nyulangone
#COVID19
Please remember all the healthcare professionals who are working today and tomorrow to take care of loved ones
Happy holidays to all of you and thank you for your tireless dedication 🙏
(We are waiting for you and can’t wait for you to come home 🤗)
As a
#trauma
surgeon, I have personally witnessed thousands of lives lost to gun violence. So few people see it and feel it directly. How do we get the rest of the world to understand?
#EndGunViolence
#ThisIsOurLane
If you are a surgery program director and have an open spot for the
#SOAP21
#SOAP2021
(prelim or categorical) I have a great applicant for you. DM me.
#SurgMentoring
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
@guardian
@AcademicSurgery
I asked an internationally known, famous colleague to co-author an invited commentary w/ me. The person replied w/ the name of a junior faculty member building her career and suggested her instead. That’s
#Sponsorship
and
#SurgMentoring
.
#WalkTheWalk
My son and I went for a bike ride today. At the bottom of a hill, I asked why I got there first, even though I was coasting. I planned a nice science lesson about mass, gravity, physics, etc. Turns out he already knows.
He brilliantly said, “Because you are faster, Fat Sir.”
When you get to the grocery store and realize the only mask you have in your car is your hospital supplied
#PPE
you get some funny looks. Not my usual
#WearAMask
#COVID19
How is it that such smart people- full professors, funded researchers, skilled clinicians- can’t figure out how to share their PowerPoint slides on the zoom screen?
Dear New
#surgery
Attending
Every new surgeon will have some of their worst complications in 1st year of independent practice, & at least 1-2 in 1st month
Only way to not have complications is to not operate, however can make it better for you & your pts w a few steps🧵:
Measure twice; cut once. I should have taken my own advice while doing home
#COVID
haircut with adjustable clipper in the dark, on the deck, w/o mirror. Didn’t quite feel right.
Only option to fix was super short.
If I remember correctly, the saying is “time heals all haircuts”
Some days I am embarrassed to be white. Today is one of those day. Please don’t ever put me in the same category as
@realDonaldTrump
or the “protesters”
@JBMatthews
I matched low on my list. Best thing that ever could have happened. I ended up at a great community general surgery program where I focused on clinical surgery and learning to take care of patients. The research and academics all came later.
#WorkedForMe
#MatchDay2019
#Match
Can’t really call it “celebrating”
#MemorialDay
as I think about my mentor, colleague, and friend.
@PennTrauma
Trauma Surgeon Maj. John J. Pryor. Killed in action
#KIA
Christmas Day 2008. We will never forget.
#MemorialDay2019
🇺🇸
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
@HopkinsMedicine
medical student (Ashley) who knows my colleague
@madwho12
.
#SmallWorld
Ran into my old friend Mehran Habibi at
@HopkinsBayview
today.
He told me the good news.
Please help congratulate him on his promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery at
@HopkinsMedicine