DJ Smithers
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DJ Smithers
@djsmithers.bsky.social
Medicine resident and incoming research fellow in health policy at Harvard/Brigham & Women’s. Probably out running.
Thanks Shreya! All facilitated by my wonderful BI mentors! ☺️
February 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Cosplaying as a quiet mind by moving all tabs to the Reading List
February 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Had this exact disagreement with an attending the other day!

There should be a Things We Do For No Reason article on entirely avoiding (and counseling patients to entirely avoid) acetaminophen in cirrhosis…
February 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by DJ Smithers
Medicaid "work requirements" do not work. They are a form of administrative burden that reduces Medicaid's effectiveness at increasing the insured rate while increasing churn, which the knock-on effects of delayed and forgone care & medical debt www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32897...
Medicaid Work Requirements In Arkansas: Two-Year Impacts On Coverage, Employment, And Affordability Of Care - PubMed
In June 2018 Arkansas became the first US state to implement work requirements in Medicaid, requiring adults ages 30-49 to work twenty hours a week, participate in "community engagement" activities, o...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So cool! Really excited to watch this.
January 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM