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Mike Johansen

@mikejohansenmd.medsky.social

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Primary Care doc, likes research, teaches residents, #HSR, #MEPS, #FamilyMedicine

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · Nov 14

Don't be a point-estimatologist.
Don't think you will beat the algorithms.
Don't do #quantifauxication.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 13h

is that worth making a dot phrase for?

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

Any idea who gets the $$ if they are allowed to sell?

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

I have a feeling we are going to be giving a lot of mmr at 6 months.

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

Same thing is likely true of studying for tests or innumerable other activities.

Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 1d

Cool thing about her is she trains *less* than most of her peers. I talked to a former NASA scientist about why it works:
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

The Secret Behind America’s Once-in-a-Generation Weightlifter: Not Lifting Weights

Olivia Reeves ended Team USA’s 24-year gold-medal drought in weightlifting. She became a champion by training half as much as her peers.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

I think a big part of the problem is that we largely live in lands of small effect sizes. The larger effect sizes are not doing things that will clearly worsen outcomes, like pulling back on access to Medicaid.

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

HSR world is really hard. After getting out of academia, I mostly use research to avoid the land of useless interventions. Making things better is really hard, just look at all the wasted $$'s on sensible policies tested by CMMI.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

@christosargyrop.bsky.social The likelihood of the "over-diagnosers" are finding over-diagnosis borders on 1000%. Screening for cancer in 85 year-olds is dumb not b/c of "over-diagnosis", but b/c of competing risks and life expectancy.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

lol; was reading @fperrywilson.bsky.social's column. Without clicking, I said; I wonder what Gil Welch wrote this time. Hopefully, he didn't steal his ideas from a younger researcher, again.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Is the Rise in Cancer in Young People...Fake?

A study looking at the eight fastest-rising cancers in young adults concludes that the real problem is overdiagnosis. But not everyone agrees.

www.medscape.com

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

The belief that gabapentin/pregabalin are "good" pain medicine is beyond my ability to comprehend. They have isolated indications where they have some small effect on pain and people think they are some magic bean type pill?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

You have got to be joking hahaha

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget ‘deal’ with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the ‘deal’ he wants?”

@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 3d

memorization + understanding =

a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt .

ALT: a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt .

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 3d

Academic ENT is highly specialized with distinct personalities. Too bad they couldn't find any head and neck surgeons.

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 3d

Doesn't look like world war Z?

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 3d

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 3d

Should've used this photo

Guy in a frog costume facing ICE/police in Portland with the caption "analysis: what is the insurrection act"

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 3d

**The famous saying should really be "one retirement at a time".

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 3d

Wonder why science progresses one funeral at a time?

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Librarian Capital @librariancapital.bsky.social · 3d

There was no "$10 billion investment" in Intel $INTC

Trump and Lutnick forced Intel to sign over a 10% stake by withholding grants that Congress gave Intel in a bipartisan law under President Biden

Trump: "The US paid nothing for these Shares"

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 4d

someone needs a bowtie.