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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 25

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs

The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

www.wsj.com

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Jul 13

Sometimes I think surgery is able to reduce incarcerated hernias or paraphimoses because they just push harder

Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Jul 9

He left it to me as one of his final wishes. Meant a lot to me to mean a lot to Brian to be entrusted with the site. He even joked that it should hopefully be easier than taking care of his actual children.

He asked me to hold onto it and hopefully find its rightful heir who wants to keep it going.

Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Jul 2

I mean does it matter if the nursing home closes due to Medicaid funding

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · May 22

Am also actual “mid” as the kids say too

The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · May 22

Had a terrific conversation with @drgrahamwalker.com on his show about being incredibly mid.

Career that is.

Honestly a great listen for anyone who’s been working in medicine for a bit.

Confessions from a Mid-Career Physician: Why It’s Okay to Want More Than Medicine

A candid conversation with Dr. Kaveh Hoda about the emotional crossroads of mid-career medicine, exploring burnout, identity, and why it’s okay for doctors to want more than just clinical work.

www.offcall.com

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · May 20

I’m thinking physicians could still prescribe this off label, right? But obviously just sows more vaccine doubt.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 20

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 20

BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · May 14

When I play roulette I don’t bet on Red or Black. My chips always go right to Seth

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · May 4

i read it every day!

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Apr 4

www.medicaleconomics.com/view/mark-cu... Thank you again @mcuban.bsky.social !

Mark Cuban: Health care is a battle of good against bad, and doctors are the good guys

In a recent podcast appearance, the billionaire former member of “Shark Tank” ripped into insurance companies and defended physicians.

www.medicaleconomics.com

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Apr 3

Most people tune out when doctors rage about prior auth, opaque pricing, or middlemen sucking value out of the system. Except @mcuban.bsky.social.

Where we all see complexity, he sees opportunity. And he trusts doctors. Full episode:

www.offcall.com/learn/podcas...

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 27

"The relationship between doctors and insurance companies has become an abusive one." — Dr. Elisabeth Potter who went viral after posting about United Healthcare's prior auth practices online

Our full conversation here: www.offcall.com/learn/podcas...

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 20

This feels like a Parkland shooting moment. If Americans don't care about dead kids we aren't gonna get gun control.

If they don't care about their OWN DEAD KIDS then I'm not sure how you fight back against that

Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · Mar 20

How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?

From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:

“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…

Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · Mar 20

How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 20

Amazing! Congrats Quinn! That's not an easy feat to accomplish!

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 14

We've massively lost the ability to perform critical thinking
We've massively lost the ability to spot incorrect and misinformation
And we have so much information at our fingertips yet lack the ability to know if said information actually answers the question we have

Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · Mar 14

We still aren’t taking the effect of phones and social media seriously.

We should be focusing on it the way we focused on cigarettes in the 80s or lead in gasoline before that.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Mar 14

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s

What should we make of this?

www.ft.com/content/a801...

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 10

Agree Saikat. We desperately need change, but right now it’s change in the wrong direction. Dems should run on fixing healthcare. It’s 20% of the economy and everyone agrees it’s broken, except for payers

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 9

this is insane

Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 7

"Correlation now equals causation"

Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 7

At this point it's no longer a Center for Disease Control

Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 5

Other countries socialize their medical problems. America medicalizes its social problems.

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 2

But but but vitamin A, Ryan

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Mar 1

MAHA

Measles
Anti-vax
Hypocrisy
Afterthought

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Feb 28

The pro-death party

Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Feb 27

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · Feb 28

I love it when @joho.bsky.social calls out @ucsfhealth.bsky.social docs lamenting Trump's attacks on NIH and CDC, like @anilmakam.bsky.social , @ewidera.bsky.social, and Monica Gandhi, after having amplified the misinformation that got us here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/ucsfapathy/

Welcome to the Resistance UCSF Doctors

The many doctors who are just now realizing that misinformation wasn't "COVID hysteria nonsense" have a lot of catching up to do to understand how the forces they've legitimized the led to this moment

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Feb 28

This is another great resource! www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

In the first episode of the television show The Resident, a nurse tells the young protagonist that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States after cancer and heart disease...

www.mcgill.ca

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · Feb 28

Great article!