Eric Widera, MD
@EWidera
Professor of Med @UCSF. Focused on Geriatrics, Hospice, Palliative care, and medical education. Podcasts at geripal.org
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Government employees are being encouraged to resign from "lower productivity in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector." This is a false narrative. Example: VA healthcare system does no worse and is often better than non-VA care in most outcomes
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Does he even know what nurses and doctors do?
Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year
Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year
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If someone refuses vaccines or any other tx, you build trust, listen to concerns, share your worries. Influence but not control. But to not even try? Refuse healthcare to a child for a decision that their parent is making?? That’s wrong. Opinion 1 is right
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
www.nejm.org Deciding Whether to Accept an Unvaccinated Child into a Pediatric Practice | NEJM This feature about a child unvaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting accepting the child as a patient without mandating the M... It takes competence to fix something or make it better. Any fool can brake it even further. RFK Jr is in the latter group.
nytimes.com/2025/01/29/hea…
nytimes.com/2025/01/29/hea…
www.nytimes.com R.F.K. Jr. Appears Unfamiliar With Key Elements of Medicare and Medicaid (Published 2025) In testimony to the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Kennedy seemed to confuse the two government programs that cover more than 150 million Americans.