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Who should control a medical practice: physicians or corporations? A new federal bill picks a side. Here's what's in it: tinyurl.com/ywe4z39r #HealthPolicy #MedTwitter #PrivateEquity
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Charting: 3 hours. Lunch: 4 minutes. Today's Medical Matchup: the best 2 minutes of your shift. New puzzle daily, now easier to read and more fun to play. tinyurl.com/3br7e3u5 #MedicalMatchup #PhysicianWellness #HCP #MDLinx #MedX
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Inside the $17M malpractice suit and the lesson for every post-op shock workup: tinyurl.com/3etxphtz #malpractice #CTSurgery #CardioTwitter #ECMO #MedX
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Pre-op SGLT2i before HeartMate 3 LVAD, #HFSA2026 (n=440, single center): In-hospital RHF HR 2.21 No HTN: HR 4.23 HTN: HR 0.75 Authors suggest earlier withholding. #LVAD #HeartFailure
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77% of doctors got this wrong last week. 💡This week's quiz: tinyurl.com/2yjw5y43 #smartestdoc #trivia
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A new gel from UB is runny going into the knee, then firms up and slowly releases the drug for weeks. That could mean fewer OA injections. It hasn't been tried in people yet. How many shots a year do your OA patients get? tinyurl.com/4rxzuzhf #Osteoarthritis #Rheumatology
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Radiation oncology clinicians are fine with AI helping, not running alone: 94% are okay with basic support, 12% with full autonomy. 65% said the treating doctor still owns a bad outcome. What would earn full autonomy? tinyurl.com/3uersja6 #ASTRO26
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Opportunistic salpingectomy adds 6 minutes to a C-section, with no added complications across 320,000+ patients. Bilateral completion fails in 1 in 5 because of adhesions, worse after 3+ priors. At how many priors do you stop trying? tinyurl.com/3n5vdu3d #ObGyn #OvarianCancerPrevention #Salpingectomy
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External recruitment keeps failing rural sites. This didn't. A Scribe-to-Provider pipeline hit more than 98% matriculation into medical, PA, nursing, or public health programs over 5 years, with shorter vacancies and better clinic flow. Filled roles mean continuity of care. ACU 2026's case for grow-your-own: 🔗tinyurl.com/bden562h #ACU2026 #WorkforceDevelopment
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82% of primary care visits with a documented cognitive concern (n=35,649) close without an MCI/AD diagnosis. The detection tools exist — p-tau217, EHR models, smartphone composites. Staging hasn't caught up. AAIC 2026 synthesis: tinyurl.com/392bzhac #AAIC2026 #Neurology
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