Internal Medicine Physician / Healthcare Systems Design / Electronic Health Records / Weight / Lipids
Ottawa, Canada
Joined May 2012
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Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Unpopular opinion: the hardest part of cancer isn't the cancer. It's the unpaid admin job the healthcare system hands you.
Here's all the shit I did across 27 months so far:
64 "please fill out your history" questionnaires
80 calls just to get pills delivered
150+ appointments and calls
79 days in a waiting room
23 CT, MRI and PET scans
209 scheduling messages
5 radiation treatments
34 full blood panels
5,500+ cancer pills
1,360 lab results
1 thoracentesis
2 biopsies
The phone trees, the endless redundant forms, the reschedules and the "we never received that order" are what grind you down.
And I'm someone who's good at this stuff. Imagine doing it sick, alone, or without the time.
If someone you love is in treatment, "let me know if you need anything" is nice. "I'll make the pharmacy call this week" is better.
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
I teach this in the first lecture of my Cell Biology and General Physiology course @USCDornsife.
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Medicine #FooledbyRandomness DuJour:
The heuristic 220 minus age for max heart rate is UNUSABLE. One of those stochastic measures deemed deterministic. It explains <20% of the variations!
See my video on misusing the law of large numbers going from the general to the particular.
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Dr Ashish Krishna has published an article in a CDC journal that shows Simple.org saves nurses ~24 minutes each day, compared to hospitals that use paper records. That's HUGE for overworked nurses who can focus more on patient care. ⏲️👏cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2023/22_0…
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
‘Why FND is not Feigning or Malingering’ - our new @NatRevNeurol review and synthesis - with @M_Yogarajah and Mark Edwards nature.com/articles/s41582-0…. a thread… 1/
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Jet injectors were used for mass vaccination, and as an alternative to needle syringes. The devices used compressed air to deliver vaccines, forcing the liquid through the skin without a needle; the jet injector was widely hailed as "the peace gun."
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
I had #OpenAI's ChatGPT take a USMLE 119 question exam. It scored 70%
I removed questions that depend on an image. Questions have 4-6 choices.
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Canadian doctors are being professionally advised to falsify the cause of all euthanasia deaths. When the Nazis falsified their death register, a prisoner secretly put a dot next to the birthplace for each one who was killed by lethal injection. lawliberty.org/canadas-orwel… #cdnpoli
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Serum albumin is considered by many to be a surrogate for an individual’s nutrition status. As shown in an SR (Am J Med. 2015;128:1023), serum albumin levels are "USELESS AS MARKERS OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS"
Low albumin = inflammation, liver disease or protein losing 'opathies'
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
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When you test for iron markers, do you order a fasting blood sample?
I don't, but I admit I sometimes question myself.
1. Serum iron and therefore TSAT (=Fe/TIBC) show diurnal variation and their levels increase after a meal.
2. These changes are small (<10-20%).
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Wow, our work on Simple was just featured at Nature.com, in a great article about the India Hypertension Control Initiative. Incredible work from @kprabhdeep @drganeshkumarp @who and a host of other hard working epidemiologists. nature.com/articles/s41371-0…
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Want to learn about designing simple tools in healthcare? @mahima_chandak and did a 20 min talk at the Figma Config conference that's now available for free. @figma
#Config2022 youtube.com/watch?v=08MWiaAM…
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
A former nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital showed columnist @Davidlaz screenshots of the facility’s electronic health record system.
The screenshots show price hikes ranging from 575% to 675% being automatically generated by the hospital’s software. latimes.com/business/story/2…
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Whether primary care likes it or realizes it, this is the reality we are now in. Buckle up and build a better front door and distribution channel. Be proactive on service availability issues that are revealed as much as exacerbated by things like this. Reject complacency.
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Steam-gauge airspeed indicators in old airplanes are a truly fantastic user interface designs.
Not only they indicate safe (green) and danger (yellow & red) zones, they also tell 1) speeds when flaps must be used (white arc) and 2) airspeed vs. actual ground speed (bottom arc).
Gregory Schmidt retweeted
The more you pay attention to the types of digital health services being created, the more you can see it’s a VC -subsidized race to the bottom gig economy on the backs of medical professionals. Who’s leading the resistance or, at minimum, co-creation? So far, nobody.
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Gregory Schmidt retweeted
Hello Safari developers at Apple. In the grid view of frequently visited sites, favicons are so much easier to scan and read than page thumbnails. Many of my page thumbnails are blank and many others are login forms.
