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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 ...

HCMC and other hospitals in Twin Cities can't remove unlawful ICE agents

from local independent news sources https://sahanjournal.com/health/ice-agents-hospitals-hennepin-county-medical-center/ https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/14/ice-agents-at-twin-cities-hospitals-alarm-medical-staff Also to note, this hospital (I am former employee) is accustomed to having patients under custody and their is mutual trust...