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Christopher M. Worsham, MD, MPH is a pulmonary & critical care physician, faculty researcher at Harvard, co-author RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE https://www.chrisworsham.com https://www.randomactsofmedicine.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisworsham
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Congress must decide if it will extend Medicare telehealth coverage beyond March 2025. Our new JAMA IM study shows how this may benefit Medicare patients + taxpayers. TLDR: Telemedicine ⬇️ some low-value test use + spending (eg,onsite EKGs,blood tests) + ⬇️ total visit spending. shorturl.at/w6l5l

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Physicians & most health care occupations carry lower mortality rates than the general population. Yet our analysis out today (led by Vishal Patel, link 👇), taking advantage of new data linking jobs to death records, revealed some surprising patterns among our ranks jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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🚨New paper🚨The emergency department (ED) is like a box of chocolates; you never know which doc you're gonna get. What happens when you get a doc that admits patients more often? Are you less likely to die? @stephencoussens and I explore this question in @JAMAInternalMed.🧵1/

submitted 70 days ago • 7 comments

Check out our new piece (with video!) in @time-magazine.bsky.social, about how science is often used to justify someone’s values, rather than inform tradeoffs based on those values, in debate on health issues (More to come with @time-magazine.bsky.social Ideas, too!) time.com/7198764/scie...

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I never would have thought that my love for both pulmonology and Christmas Vacation could overlap, but thanks to the Osterland family of Wadsworth, Ohio, they do! A tribute to the classic movie that supports cystic fibrosis research www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/u...

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Check out this great writeup in @planetmoney.bsky.social by @elliswonk.bsky.social about our working paper and the types of cognitive biases that might be affecting medical care surrounding various holidays--or really any day www.npr.org/sections/pla...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Beep beep! Which occupations are associated with the lowest risk of death from Alzheimer's disease? Check out our analysis in @bmj.com Christmas Issue with some interactive graphics to explore links between Alzheimer's and navigational jobs 🚕🚑✈️🚢🚌 www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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Our working paper out in @nberpubs.bsky.social: can we take advantage of Halloween to study the role of diagnostic subjectivity at the pediatrician?

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Oh my

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Online dissemination of scientific research (at least how @altmetric.com defines it) changed dramatically over just one month. Eyeballing this plot, it looks like there was both a shift from Twitter/X to @bsky.app and an addition/awakening of sharing here that was not happening previously. #medsky

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

This is awesome! Can’t think of a better way to test this out than by sharing our Barbie movie study, where we found that Google searches about gynecologists spiked following the film’s release, with its closing joke about Barbie’s health care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Hello, Bluesky! We've finally started building out our starter pack for our ATS member community. If you're a current or former member, let us know and we will add you. go.bsky.app/GLzJtqT #medsky #lungsky #pedsky

submitted 90 days ago • 22 comments

A nice read to brighten your day: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/m...

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You should read these. Also you should buy them. @drjessigold.bsky.social @ranaawdish.bsky.social @therealdoctort.bsky.social @weselymd.bsky.social @chrisworsham.com

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

Our book, "RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape our Health," is now available in every format: paperback, hardback, ebook, and audiobook (narrated by us)! Check it out here, along with our newsletter!👇 #MedSky open.substack.com/pub/randomac...

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