Treating hepatitis C during a hospitalization can help reach patients who otherwise might not receive treatment, but insurance issues + challenges coordinating follow-up are barriers to this approach.
https://bit.ly/4oXvSne
#VisualAbstract by Jen Li
Feeling salty🧂? You may respond to diuresis more effectively!
Sixteen studies found that intravenous hypertonic saline with furosemide improved kidney function measures compared with diuretics alone.
🔗: doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70091
🖼️: #VisualAbstract by Shaheen Fatima
🎧 #504: Adult Eating Disorders in the GLP-1 Era thecurbsiders.com
GLP-1 meds are transforming weight management—but what happens when they intersect with eating disorders?
Join Dr. Laura Bridge as we explore the risks, red flags, and more!
We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
Digital scholarship = real scholarship.
Podcasts, blogs, videos deserve recognition in promotion decisions.
It's time for academic medicine to catch up!
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70027
🖼️ Visual Abstract by Sophie Sun
NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals.
Behavioral escalation is rising in hospitals—putting staff & patients at risk.
New JHM study reveals gaps in training, team response, & EHR alerts, and calls for proactive, bias-aware solutions.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70121
Write more, worry less. 📝
New guidance from our Editor-in-Chief on building sustainable academic writing habits & overcoming perfectionism.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13502
🖼️ Visual Abstract by Sophie Sun
#MedTwitter #AcademicMedicine #WritingTips
#Vaccine-preventable diseases some of us previously only read about are being seen in hospitals more frequently. Time for a refresher?
Check out our Living Special Issue! #Measles #Pertussis #Polio
📝https://bit.ly/3ZtxmMi
Issue Collated by @SamirShahmd.bsky.social
🎥: @docwithbowtie.bsky.social
It’s still early but the #RSV hospitalizations are staying flat!
Dozens of leaders in medicine, criminal justice and more issued an urgent call for collective action to tackle the gun violence crisis in the U.S.
🚨New Study Added🚨
A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics of 432 #trans adolescents and young adults receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy found statistically significant reductions in suicidality following treatment.
open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
Sorry to hear you’re going through it. Glad you’re finding some joy. Take care and thank you for being you!
Literally every #hospital in the country works with undocumented #immigrants and #transgender people. So basically no #healthcare worker will get #PSLF ever again.
Election Day tomorrow in many places! Don’t forget to raise tour voice!
Donated and logged! Let’s go team #IMGenerous! #HCWvsHunger
I donated to Foodlink foodlinkny.org
Me in a bright green shirt with white stripes on the sleeves and the red HCWvsHunger apple with cross in the middle logo.
The HCWvsHunger leaderboard.
Internal medicine folks! We need to step up our game this year! Find a food bank or anti-hunger organization of your choice (I love @careorg.bsky.social and local chapters of @feedingamerica.org) and donate and log it with #IMGenerous on #HCWvsHunger!
A reminder to all those who want to be up to date on
#vaccines: the pneumococcal vaccine is now recommended for folks age 50 and older (it used to be 65). #medsky
Really scary. Attacking the childhood vaccine schedule directly could have decades-long effects on public health. Vaccines are one of the great public health achievements of human history. They have saved literally millions of lives. And yet here we are.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/h...
Today was one of those no good, horrible, very bad days.
But then, one of my patients with severe dementia slow-danced with his wife and I cried tears of joy.
This job is so hard and so beautiful at the same time.
#HowWeHospitalist
getting mine replaced this week! periods are back and painful so they said i could switch early!
Absurd (but believable) findings in this paper from Charles Jiang & team at UTSW: >70% of Medicare Advantage & independent part D plans require prior auths for... zofran. And costs for it on those those plans are 4x more than if patients paid cash.
#oncology #medsky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Learning how to create a starter pack for Hospital Medicine & HM adjacent folks. Please LMK who to add #HMSky
go.bsky.app/T4mMCNx
We found that almost 40%(!!) of females between 12 and 21 years of age are iron deficient!
And yet there’s no recommended universal screening.
Wonder how different things would be if it predominantly affected males?!
tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
My amazing research team looked at the biased behaviors of LLMs against members of the LGBTQ+ community when it comes to healthcare questions. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🖌️ Introducing "On Healing & Humanity," a new column in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Submit personal vignettes, original poems, & essays that explore the patient-clinician relationship, medical decision-making, & the emotional realities of providing & receiving care.
▶️ bit.ly/3Co6cOk
