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Eric Widera, MD

@EWidera

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Professor of Med @UCSF. Focused on Geriatrics, Hospice, Palliative care, and medical education. Podcasts at https://t.co/U5ErQk8xvf Also at https://t.co/Fntns2exXN

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Joined July 2009
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Eric Widera, MD
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@MaximizeQOL @ChadDKollas We’ve built it before with old Twitter. We can build it again on BlueSky
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Eric Widera, MD
11 days
Every tweet you write gives Elon more power, even if it is anti-Elon tweet. Use them wisely only to get people off this platform. #geriatrics #HAPC #HAPC25 #palliativecare #medtwitter
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Eric Widera, MD
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RT @EWidera: Every tweet you write gives Elon more power, even if it is anti-Elon tweet. Use them wisely only to get people off this platfo…
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Eric Widera, MD
10 days
@MaximizeQOL @ChadDKollas We are at a fork in the road. Every tweet (like this one) gives Twitter more content and Elon more power.
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Eric Widera, MD
11 days
Every tweet you write gives Elon more power, even if it is anti-Elon tweet. Use them wisely only to get people off this platform. #geriatrics #HAPC #HAPC25 #palliativecare #medtwitter
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Eric Widera, MD
12 days
RT @EWidera: @ChadDKollas My feed yesterday was Elon, Elon, and then Alex Jones. I think I’m just gonna burn my twitter account to the gro…
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Eric Widera, MD
12 days
@ChadDKollas My feed yesterday was Elon, Elon, and then Alex Jones. I think I’m just gonna burn my twitter account to the ground by tweeting crap about Elon and promoting Bluesky
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Eric Widera, MD
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RT @EWidera: Every day this week I’m a lot less Twitter and a little more Bluesky (. Any reason to stay as I feel…
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Eric Widera, MD
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RT @BernieSanders: We are living in a dangerous and unprecedented moment in American history. I’m getting a lot of calls from people who…
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Eric Widera, MD
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RT @RepGwenMoore: Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues to expand his power grab, and this time he wants Americans’ most sensitive info…
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Eric Widera, MD
13 days
What they are really saying is that they want to drive care away from government programs to private companies like UnitedHealth, where "productivity" is encouraged through upcoding and profit is maximized for shareholders and CEO salaries. 3/3🧵
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Eric Widera, MD
2 months
Up-coding diagnoses in MA plans “Insurer-driven diagnoses by UnitedHealth for diseases that no doctor treated generated $8.7 billion in 2021 payments to the company, the Journal’s analysis showed. UnitedHealth’s net income that year was about $17 billion.”
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Eric Widera, MD
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RT @GeriPalBlog: We talk with Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, & @DrVickiJackson about their recent JAMA article on #Telehealth vs In-Person #…
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Eric Widera, MD
14 days
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
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Eric Widera, MD
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@javid_lab Right? How the heck is this even a question.
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