For comments on ethics of health care and public health, c’mon over and follow me at Threads or BlueSky, where I’m “@MattWynia”

@Laurie_Garrett @Twitter Fwiw - I’m refocusing efforts towards LinkedIn for now. I’m not a fan of other platforms, including LinkedIn TBH, but this place has gotten so damn weird.

"Even as evidence grows that mandates work, the political reality is that they will be strongly contested. The question for policymakers, therefore, is when they are worth defending."

"...physicians should continue to act with their patients’ best interests in mind, but ... providing good clinical care is in direct conflict with the overzealous new interpretation of decades-old licensure rules."

"Does requiring a patient to drive to the physician’s state of licensure for a phone call constitute better care?" Rhetorical questions for $200, Alex.

“Private equity ownership generally means higher costs for patients, insurance companies, and government programs,” Shocked…shocked.

“…in Florida, unlike the nation as a whole — and states like New York and California that Mr. DeSantis likes to single out — most people who died from Covid died after vaccines became available to all adults, not before.”

“She was the top-paid Medicare provider of the procedure in the United States… [yet] she purchased just 36 single-use dilation tools needed to perform such surgeries, despite billing Medicare for hundreds of balloon sinuplasty services.”

@RepKenBuck @tedlieu Thank you for proposing a bipartisan bill on ethics in AI. For those interested, come join the Aspen Ethical Leadership Program this year, as we work through ethical challenges AI poses in health care...

"...until artificial intelligence can develop a gut feeling, honed by working with thousands of patients, a few near-misses, and some humbling cases that stick with you, we’ll need the healing hands of real providers." via @statnews

"Physical activity concentrated within 1 to 2 days was associated with similarly lower risk of cardiovascular outcomes to more evenly distributed activity."

“Floridians died at a higher rate, adjusted for age, than residents of almost any other state during the Delta wave…Florida accounted for 14 percent of [all US COVID] deaths between the start of July and the end of October.”

The lesson from #Brexit is an old one: “Right-wing nationalist projects begin with loud, flamboyant swagger. They tend to end unspeakably.”

"The draft rule rebuffs the legislature by essentially saying that none of this is how the disciplinary process works." via @coloradosun

“...the board will investigate all complaints related to medication abortion reversal in the same manner that it investigates other alleged deviations from generally accepted standards of medical practice.” Good idea.

Just found the great piece on this topic by @sallymahmoudMD in @statnews from earlier this year: Read it, then apply to join us at the Aspen Ethical Leadership Program to help develop guidance on this tough set of issues!

Participants in the #AELP23 will work through the toughest ethics cases facing health care leaders today, as submitted and selected by other leaders. Apply now to attend! More info at:

Evidence review of interventions to improve happiness: I'm surprised only one has solid evidence: "There is solid evidence that talking to strangers boosts mood..." Personally, I'm also still going to keep hiking and skiing, despite the poor evidence base.

Holy sh*t. First, note to self: read the fine print. Second: there really oughta be a law. This scammer is a sociopathic menace and should be in jail.

“This isn’t normal health care,” she said. “We don’t want to have to do this.”