Thanks for the opportunity Heart_BMJ James Rudd! yonatan buber

Love me a good loss leader. That’s why I’m always buying Costco hotdogs and fidelity FZROX. #alwaysbebuying

How many of you fluid restrict heart failure patients to 1.5L? Me too! But the evidence would suggest this has no benefit on decongestion and just makes patients more thirsty.

Thanks Joe Cuthbert for linking this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23689381/

New Yeezy album reveals some new health issues including Alzheimer’s and gout.

They don’t like it when we say patients are “non-compliant”, but if we don’t do our “learning” modules, the hospitals say we are out of compliance.

Ok who is telling my 95YO newly diagnosed hfref patient to stop eating salt? Just give the man his fried chicken and an extra tab of lasix.

The VA does free portraits for employees and I am now inspired to run for public office.

I think I have more success getting patients to get past the pre-contemplative phase of smoking when I break down the financial impact of smoking in front of them. Not sure if that equates to successfully quitting though.

$8 x 30 = $240/month = $2.9K/year

Net worth surveys of physicians in their 60s, generally at the end of a 30+ year career, show that one-quarter of them have a net worth of less than $1 Million, and 12% have a net worth of less than $500,000!

This just in, 1/3 academic physicians sign with hospitals owned by private equity to have higher rates of complications.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Time to get your house in order for 2024. IRS limits next year.

401k/403b/457 limits - 23K
IRA - 7K
HSA - 4.15K (individual)/8.3K (family)

Get that bread. 🥖

Now that my son has entered the toddler age and started listening to music, I’ve decided the best Cocomelon song is “I am the music man”. Fight me over it.

All I want for Christmas is more FZROX.

I also looked at the last cardiologists’ note.

“Dear Dr. Chung…”

I was Dr. Chung in this scenario.

Paying to park in the facility where you get your healthcare is such a scam.

Check out our paper that correlated peak VO2 by CPET vs smartwatch in patients with complex congenital heart disease. yonatan buber Jill M. Steiner MD Apara Venkat

heart.bmj.com/content/early/…

What should you call that elevated troponin?

This is NOT taught well and impacts more than you think.

Understand it in 2 minutes:

This is the only thing I’ve ever agreed with.

My colleagues definitely didn’t do their TMS harassment refresher training.