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Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I am delighted that @PayorDieFilm will make its worldwide premiere @sxsw Film Festival! March 11.

This powerful documentary highlights the plight of Americans with diabetes dealing with the high cost of insulin. #Insulin4All @NSmithholt12 @SarahKSilverman
#PayorDie #SXSW2023
Insulin cost in America shines a light on how broken our healthcare and prescription drug pricing is.

If insulin can be priced high, then anything in healthcare can be priced high. Fixing this needs a lot more than band aids.
Take 5 minutes to read this article I wrote for @MayoProceedings

#MedTwitter mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-…
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Jan 31
Tomorrow we honor and recognize @MorieGertz @MayoClinic with the Robert A. Kyle Lifetime Achievement Award in hematology and oncology.

mayoclinic.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/mor…
The Award has been given since 2010 at the Mayo Clinic.

Prior winners:
Incidentally Dr. Kyle is probably the only one who has 3 lifetime achievement awards named after a him! One by @IMFmyeloma , one by @WMIWMF and one at Mayo Clinic.

Ayalew Tefferi deserves the credit for instituting the Mayo award.
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Jan 29
Now that Twitter shows us the number of “views” for each tweet it’s interesting that:

1) For every 1000 followers you are lucky if your tweet is viewed by 10-100 people.
2) For corporate /organizational accounts views relative to follower count seems quite low.

A million followers doesn’t mean million people see the tweet. Far from it! More like a few thousand views on average.
3) Individual accounts seem do better but still lower than what the follower count would suggest.
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Jan 20
On delivering the best medical care. The basics remain the same.

1/ Listen to your patient: All the technology in the world cannot substitute for a good history. Take time. Fully understand the problem. #MedTwitter
2/Good clinical acumen and expertise: There are no short cuts. It’s hard work. It takes time to acquire acumen and expertise. Consult and learn from more experienced colleagues.
3/ Empathy. Being a good doctor is more than being very knowledgeable or being a great researcher.
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Jan 15
I had an unforgettable time discussing music with @lydian_official and his family.

Believe it or not: Winning @CBS World’s Best at age 13 displayed just a small fraction of Lydian’s mind boggling musical genius. @varshanmd
Just check out Chromatic Grammatic — his debut jazz album, or any number of incredible videos of him performing on YouTube.

Composer. Concert level performer on over 20 instruments. And more.
The sky is the limit for Lydian.
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Jan 10
What COVID does when it finally meets an immunologically naive population. 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
China kept COVID out for 3 years with border control and strict preventive measures. Once they relaxed the measures, COVID encountered a huge population who had limited immunity since they had no prior covid infection and due to lesser efficacy of the vaccines had been given. 2/
And in the 3 years the virus itself has mutated to become far more transmissible than the original strain. Tough situation.

3/
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Jan 2
My picks for the Top 10 paradigm changing advances in cancer treatment in the last 100 years.

Chronological order.

1/ Methotrexate to cure Choriocarcinoma. 1953. Roy Hertz & Min Chiu Li. First cure of solid tumors with chemo. cancer.gov/research/progr…
2/ Cure of Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with chemotherapy. 1958 Emil Frei, Emil Freireich, James Holland. @theNCI

The dawn of curative combination chemotherapy for cancer. @ASCO connection.asco.org/magazine/featu…
3/ Cure of Hodgkin’s lymphoma with combination chemotherapy by @DeVitaDoctor and colleagues. @theNCI

A landmark event. A magnificent story. If you want to know more, get this book.
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