A nice review from Ashley Capoot of ongoing struggles ('a mess') for medical practices months after Change Healthcare hack. For example, clearinghouse issues, where insurances have paid but the EOBs do not migrate into the EMR for proper accounting. Also, difficulty with…

Also monthly, large boxes of advertisement masked as 'Patient Education Materials'. Very difficult to cancel.

As covid erupts again this winter, let's remember this study by Benjamin D. Singer et al:

Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many COVID-19 Deaths news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2023/05/05/sec…

happy days are here again, thanks Walgreens for bringing mag citrate back! #GIXmas

MRE in 12 minutes, 5 sequences, no gadolinium?
Sounds like a winner #IBD

Colorectal screening rates by state, @beckersHR continues to come up with fascinating stats.

California at 52% only?

beckersasc.com/gastroenterolo…

We will soon all be living in a Mayo Clinic world, and healthcare will indeed be better. Excited to see what COO Maneesh Goyal and CEO John Halamka, M.D., M.S. achieve next. Thanks Mayo Clinic Platform

'We want to embed Mayo Clinic in greater than 50% of global healthcare providers. So it's a…

'Just Ice Tea'

The European Union outlawed in 2008 the use of brominated vegetable oil in its sodas.

US FDA considering BVO ban 15 years later.

We're awash in pre biotic sodas, charged lemonades, kombuchas (some owned by Coca-Cola), coconut water, alkaline water, micro plastic containing…

Adding to the genre of grain propaganda. Millet dosas are indeed incredibly delicious!

Abundance in Millets [Official Music Video] youtu.be/dRk_6efY-q4?si…

Vibrio cases on the East coast:
cnn.com/2023/09/01/hea…

A man in Colombia presented with a 3-week history of abdominal pain, fever, and pale stools. He had tenderness in the right upper quadrant and jaundice. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was performed. Read the full case: nej.md/44xtOrV

Eliminating the 3 ancient scourges of TB, polio, malaria, a great essay on what's possible by Richard Conniff

(In which it is also learned that George Orwell died of TB in his forties.) nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opi…

MASLD formerly known as MAFLD, formerly known as NAFLD formerly known as NASH still known as fatty liver.

All good, since MASLD is indeed more precise. #MASLD_is_more_precise

Liver disease gets new name and diagnostic criteria mdedge.com/internalmedici…

“That’s how we retain stuff. Part of learning is the struggle. If you outsource learning to GPT, that struggle is gone.”

Gina Kolata story of training at Beth Israel succinctly reveals the promise of chatGPT, and some of its pitfalls in diagnosis.

1) Physicians need to retain…