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To the physician that tried to check a pulse in Minneapolis today

Thank you for being human in an inhumane situation. I am so sorry you were forced to stand there and do nothing. What happened to...

You're not sick enough...yet.

I practice in an area and with a population that has a lot of pediatric obesity. I've started to use GLP-1s on these adolescents....

Is anybody else watching Keaton Herzer (@keatonherzer on IG) document his navigation of health insurance claims for a liver transplant right now

For context; he has been denied claims on a liver transplant procedure via his employee healthcare and has been cataloguing his dealing with customer service....

Yesterday HHS suddenly terminated ~2000 nationwide public health grants for health services in mental health and substance abuse to non-profits, estimated possibly up to $2 billion USD.

TLDR: There was no warning sent for the service grant termiations. U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) didn't respond to ...