General internist @DenverHealthMed | @qualityscholar/@UCSF, @PittGIM alum | All about equitable #telemedicine & #digitalhealth that make clinical sense
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Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
Ok hear me out.
Yes, things are dire right now. I agree.
Even still…
I truly believe that with this ruling—and so many other disturbing, dystopian sociopolitical moments in recent years—we are witnessing the last dying gasp of the white supremacist cis-heteropatriarchal regime in real time.
This is their last hurrah.
The world is different now, and they can’t contain positive change.
Our progress is inevitable.
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
As I wrap up my 5th year of #primarycare practice, I can't help but reflect on the TEN "sparks" trainees may miss out on during residency that make this work so rewarding.
A 🧵of #gratitude...
@CLOSLER @primarycarechat @indupartha @adamcifu @gabrieldane @GIMaPreceptor
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Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
As we learn more and more about how financial forces & profit motives drive our hospitals, exploit workers, and harm patients, @sanjaykishore31 and I often wondered: who is actually in charge of our health systems?
To shed light, we looked at the boards of top US hospitals.
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Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
4.8 billion in profit in Q4 2022 and @UHC cannot fucking wait to stop covering expensive medications that keep you alive.
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
Thank you for just saying it like it is.
“The cycle is vicious: unchecked greed concentrates wealth, wealth concentrates political power, and political power blocks constraints on greed.”
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Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
• United Health will PROFIT about $22.3 billion this year.
• 50% of hospitals will lose money this year.
• 47% of US healthcare workers plan to leave within the next 3 years.
That is the current state of US healthcare, and it should terrify everyone.
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
Spotify wrapped is cool and all but what I really want is an EPIC wrapped.
“You spent 7823 minutes writing discharge summaries.”
“Your most prescribed medication was zosyn.”
“You ordered 237 unnecessary chest radiographs.”
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
“We are finding that #physicians are often doing uncompensated work. People are trying to do what matters, but if what matters isn’t being valued by the payment system, that causes moral distress. I hope future models of payment key in on this.”- @FutureDocs @Health_Affairs
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
In Japan, little visitors to a nursing home are making a big difference.
"Baby workers," as they are called, spend time with older residents and enliven their days. "They are just so cute, and they make the whole place brighter," one woman said. nyti.ms/3R4Qxpn
ALT A little girl looks up and smiles at an older woman at the Ichoan Nursing Home in Kitakyushu, Japan. In the background, another older woman looks at the scene and smiles.
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
Be alert for teleHealth fraud. Many fringe docs selling snake oil COVID cures are using telehealth to do it.
Red flags include:
💵 cash only (no insurance)
💊 providing only 1 service (eg IVM rx)
👋 no followup
Report telehealth scams at TIPS.HHS.GOV
New HHS-OIG Special Fraud Alert video provides information to help health care practitioners identify potential suspect arrangements with #telemedicine companies. Learn how to spot and report potential fraud: go.usa.gov/xSK96.
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
REGISTER NOW—58th Annual Estes Park Internal Medicine Conference, Monday, July 18–Friday, July 22 | See program details/register/reserve lodging: bit.ly/IMconf2022
⛰️ 8 sessions | 5 days | 24.25 AMA PRA Category 1 credits!
@CUInternalMed @ADLdoc #MedEd #CUMedEd #IMConf2022
ALT 58th Annual Internal Medicine Program—July 18–22, YMCA of the Rockies | University of Colorado School of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
"We estimated that a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a Medicare for All system."
@Alison_Galvani
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
American exceptionalism
The United States comprises 4% of the world's population
✓ 16% of the world's Covid confirmed deaths
✓ 40% of world's guns
✓ Only industrialized nation in the world with states making abortion illegal
Amy D. Lu, MD, MAS retweeted
Governor Abbott, if you have any decency, you will immediately withdraw from this weekend’s NRA convention and urge them to hold it anywhere but Texas.
