How it started/how itβs going (Oceanside, CA)
@rsm2800
Oncologist/informaticist, former Chief Medical Science Officer @ CancerLinQ. Now living my best retired life. Husband, dad, classical/choral music loverπΆ Twitter survivor. Come for the oncology content, stay for the daily music posts. He/him
How it started/how itβs going (Oceanside, CA)
Another insightful essay by the always-thought provoking Dr V β‘οΈ What a Scribe Taught Me About the Future EHR
open.substack.com/pub/liminalm...
Keith Jarrett plays the tender ballad βThen Iβll Be Tired Of Youβ youtu.be/PrdtGgiLgig?... His ability to alternately improvise melody, harmony, and rhythm is just incredible
This is really quite fascinating and I was largely unaware of some of these data re the impact of commonly used concomitant meds on checkpoint blockade efficacy. Seems like a great opportunity to use RWD to look for more signals like this ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....
What an amazing cover of Both Sides Now by Laufey. Love the ostinato that starts in the strings youtu.be/6yWMrNJ8DjY?...
La Jolla afternoon vibes
Good Oncologist: Doctoring Lessons From the Art of Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.... <βquite a taxonomy! Well-said
The public health of spite. A great piece by @dwallacewells.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
Correspondence βWhen our patients go without medical care, the harm is not theoretical. It is measurable. Fear doesnβt just keep people away from clinics and EDs, it pushes patients into crisis.β βWe Do Careβ by Bernard E. Trappey, M.D., for Minnesota Physician Voices
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
Read βWe Do Careβ by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G
@bobwachter.bsky.social's NTY opinion piece outlines how medical AI is transforming the "curbside consult" into digital queries.
While imperfect, demanding perfection halts progress in a strained system. To be valuable, these tools need only outperform the status quo.
#MedSky #MedAI
We congratulate 2018-19 ASCO President Dr. Monica Bertagnolli on her election as President of the @nam.edu.
A very beautiful insight, written by an ophthalmology residentβ>Quiet Work of Clarity | Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....
AI is not a silver bullet. While patient-facing models struggle with hallucinations, the true utility lies in backend automation. Reducing administrative overhead offers a pragmatic path to successful deployment.
#MedSky
ASCO has published a new Living Guideline on the management of multiple myeloma ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/.... Read the highlights here dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/evolving-...
βHeartbeatsβ from British pianist, composer, and arranger Alexis Ffrench, from his 2020 album Dreamland. With the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQhQ...
DOJ Sent Letters to Medical Journals. Then What Happened? www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
The ABIM is among the first to welcome me to 2026 #moc
The amazing Jon Batiste, with Stay Human, perform βAuld Lang Syneβ in 2018 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiB...
2026 here I come
Happy New Year Bluesky fam! I celebrated with a spicy margarita at dinner tonight
A lovely version of Peter Mayerβs βSing Joyβ by the in-house worship band of our online parish, Church of the Nativity in Timonium, MD from Christmas Eve Mass at the Maryland State Fairgrounds 12/24/25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_D...
So @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social is on the @nytimes.com editorial board. She has been a voice of reason for many years at the paper (as have many of their health/science reporters) on infectious diseases. This is a great piece from her to close out 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
Thanks for sharing this thingie. And thanks for great posts all year long
This year on Bluesky I wrote 416 posts and 9 replies. I received 477 likes, whereas 37 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "performed" and π©!
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For the Christmas season, Paul Smithβs βNunc Dimittisβ w/ text from the Canticle of Simeon, originally from the Gospel of Luke and Book of Common Prayer (1662). Performed by VOCES8 youtu.be/qInyQUKMhdA?...
I've been enjoying the holiday w/ family so I haven't made very many Christmas music posts, but here's one. The familiar Harold Darke setting of the traditional 1872 Christina Rossetti poem βIn The Bleak Midwinter,β sung by the Kingβs College Cambridge Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmg...
For Christmas Eve, TolΓΌ Makay sings βDon Oiche Γd i mBeithilβ youtube.com/watch?v=f-EL... a popular Irish language Christmas carol dating back to 7th c. AD
American choral composer Morten Lauridsenβs classic βO Magnum Mysteriumβ sung by WDR Radio Choir (conductor Simon Halsey). Performed live in 2021 in Cologne www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-x...
A great jazzy rendition of βIt's the Most Wonderful Time of the Yearβ played by Joey Alexander (piano transcription by Cornelius Tsen) www.youtube.com/watch?v=36V9...