Kyle Edmonds, MD
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Academic Palliative MD
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Academic Palliative MD
Follow me at https://rounds-and-rants.ghost.io/
Frequently purges my posts & activity
"Our healthcare system is already consumed by efficiency. [...] Yet patients need something fundamentally inefficient from healthcare providers: time, attentiveness, emotional honesty, & the willingness to remain present even when no solution exists."
Perfectly said, Daliya Rizvi. #HAPC #Palliative
Perfectly said, Daliya Rizvi. #HAPC #Palliative
Artificial Empathy: What AI Is Teaching Future Physicians About Caring : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
I worry that future healthcare professionals are increasingly being socialized into forms of communication that privilege emotional performance over genuine human presence.
www.thehastingscenter.org
September 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"Our healthcare system is already consumed by efficiency. [...] Yet patients need something fundamentally inefficient from healthcare providers: time, attentiveness, emotional honesty, & the willingness to remain present even when no solution exists."
Perfectly said, Daliya Rizvi. #HAPC #Palliative
Perfectly said, Daliya Rizvi. #HAPC #Palliative
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
MedPAC has consistently reported overpayments in Medicare Advantage. Health insurance companies want to kneecap how MedPAC reports these overpayments. Now, insurers have allies in Congress: Republicans, John Wilkerson reports. www.statnews.com/2026/09/16/m...
GOP aims to change Medicare adviser’s math so it's more favorable to health insurers
The GOP bill directs MedPAC to study the topic of overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans in a manner that’s more favorable to insurers.
www.statnews.com
September 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
MedPAC has consistently reported overpayments in Medicare Advantage. Health insurance companies want to kneecap how MedPAC reports these overpayments. Now, insurers have allies in Congress: Republicans, John Wilkerson reports. www.statnews.com/2026/09/16/m...
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Our predecessors entered the house with lancets, basins, and calomel. Families let them in anyway. Why? Because medicine offered more than treatment: interpretation, prognosis, presence, and someone answerable for the recommendation. #PalliativeCare
Our predecessors entered the house with lancets, basins, and calomel. Families let them in anyway. Why? Because medicine offered more than treatment: interpretation, prognosis, presence, and someone answerable for the recommendation. #PalliativeCare
September 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Our predecessors entered the house with lancets, basins, and calomel. Families let them in anyway. Why? Because medicine offered more than treatment: interpretation, prognosis, presence, and someone answerable for the recommendation. #PalliativeCare
Our predecessors entered the house with lancets, basins, and calomel. Families let them in anyway. Why? Because medicine offered more than treatment: interpretation, prognosis, presence, and someone answerable for the recommendation. #PalliativeCare
🧵 Some of the best days in Palliative Care are evidence that the hospital is failing.
We catch the broken discharge, reconcile conflicting plans, and repair the family’s trust.
The patient benefits. We drive home satisfied. The institution learns nothing.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
We catch the broken discharge, reconcile conflicting plans, and repair the family’s trust.
The patient benefits. We drive home satisfied. The institution learns nothing.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
September 8, 2026 at 9:17 PM
🧵 Some of the best days in Palliative Care are evidence that the hospital is failing.
We catch the broken discharge, reconcile conflicting plans, and repair the family’s trust.
The patient benefits. We drive home satisfied. The institution learns nothing.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
We catch the broken discharge, reconcile conflicting plans, and repair the family’s trust.
The patient benefits. We drive home satisfied. The institution learns nothing.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH.
Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
September 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH.
Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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“You’re so good with families.”
That compliment captures the only part of Palliative Care the system can see. The meeting lasts 40 minutes. The work that made it possible took 4 days.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
“You’re so good with families.”
That compliment captures the only part of Palliative Care the system can see. The meeting lasts 40 minutes. The work that made it possible took 4 days.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
September 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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“You’re so good with families.”
That compliment captures the only part of Palliative Care the system can see. The meeting lasts 40 minutes. The work that made it possible took 4 days.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
“You’re so good with families.”
That compliment captures the only part of Palliative Care the system can see. The meeting lasts 40 minutes. The work that made it possible took 4 days.
#PalliativeCare #HPM #MedSky
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those
September 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
Farewell to the great Wendell Berry.
Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
September 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Farewell to the great Wendell Berry.
Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
“We have reached the apotheosis of the colonial age, a time when extractive institutions and administrative reach have been so perfected that they now span the globe.”
- @henrywismayer.bsky.social
- @henrywismayer.bsky.social
“History has been shaped by pathological figures, dominance-seekers predisposed to aggression. Reinforced by exceptionalist & paranoid ideologies, these strongmen have used violence & patronage to secure their dominion.”
— @henrywismayer.bsky.social
www.noemamag.com/humanitys-en...
— @henrywismayer.bsky.social
www.noemamag.com/humanitys-en...
Humanity’s Endgame | NOEMA
A new history of societal collapse by an expert in existential risk argues that our globalized society is edging toward the precipice.
www.noemamag.com
August 30, 2026 at 9:25 PM
“We have reached the apotheosis of the colonial age, a time when extractive institutions and administrative reach have been so perfected that they now span the globe.”
- @henrywismayer.bsky.social
- @henrywismayer.bsky.social
Contribution to the discourse: while all hospice is palliative care, palliative care is much more than hospice. Its specialist, team-based care focused on quality of life and wellbeing for patients at any stage of illness and any age and their families.
August 29, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Contribution to the discourse: while all hospice is palliative care, palliative care is much more than hospice. Its specialist, team-based care focused on quality of life and wellbeing for patients at any stage of illness and any age and their families.
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column.
Thank you.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
Thank you.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2026 at 11:20 AM
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column.
Thank you.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
Thank you.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
August 25, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
I'm going to tell you a secret...
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August 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I'm going to tell you a secret...
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🧵Somewhere in your health system this week, a person's understanding of their own life is going to stop working.
#HAPC #Palliative #PalliativeCare #HealthPolicy
#HAPC #Palliative #PalliativeCare #HealthPolicy
August 19, 2026 at 1:38 AM
🧵Somewhere in your health system this week, a person's understanding of their own life is going to stop working.
#HAPC #Palliative #PalliativeCare #HealthPolicy
#HAPC #Palliative #PalliativeCare #HealthPolicy
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking.
An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times.
The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times.
The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
data4democracy.substack.com
August 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking.
An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times.
The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times.
The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
🧵 We teach clinicians to ask beautiful questions. We don’t teach them when to stop asking.
Then we hand a sleepless surrogate a CPR decision they may get wrong 1 time in 3 and call the transfer of burden “autonomy.”
Then we hand a sleepless surrogate a CPR decision they may get wrong 1 time in 3 and call the transfer of burden “autonomy.”
August 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
🧵 We teach clinicians to ask beautiful questions. We don’t teach them when to stop asking.
Then we hand a sleepless surrogate a CPR decision they may get wrong 1 time in 3 and call the transfer of burden “autonomy.”
Then we hand a sleepless surrogate a CPR decision they may get wrong 1 time in 3 and call the transfer of burden “autonomy.”
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
August 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
It has been wonderful to not have to worry about insurance coverage for my patients in my post-training career. I cannot adequately express how much more difficult dealing with serious illness becomes for people when they’re also being dragged down by financial toxicity.
#HAPC #OBBBA #Palliative
#HAPC #OBBBA #Palliative
California nearly achieved universal healthcare. Now, millions are losing coverage
Facing budget shortfalls and new federal restrictions, state leaders have begun rolling back the coverage system they built.
timesofsandiego.com
August 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
It has been wonderful to not have to worry about insurance coverage for my patients in my post-training career. I cannot adequately express how much more difficult dealing with serious illness becomes for people when they’re also being dragged down by financial toxicity.
#HAPC #OBBBA #Palliative
#HAPC #OBBBA #Palliative
Palliative doc says: yup, that's pretty much it.
August 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Palliative doc says: yup, that's pretty much it.
These stories continue to give me hope for us all. That we can do difficult, near impossible, things together.
An ambitious effort to boost an aging probe on its journey through the uncharted territory of interstellar space seems to have found success. https://cnn.it/4w80k1H
August 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
These stories continue to give me hope for us all. That we can do difficult, near impossible, things together.
🧵 A patient can lose the PCA and feel they’re losing the only proof anyone believes their pain. Then we arrive with a question: “What would you like to do?” Except we’ve already decided. That question mark can lie. 1/3 #PalliativeCare #HPM
August 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM
🧵 A patient can lose the PCA and feel they’re losing the only proof anyone believes their pain. Then we arrive with a question: “What would you like to do?” Except we’ve already decided. That question mark can lie. 1/3 #PalliativeCare #HPM
Reposted by Kyle Edmonds, MD
A'Lelia Bundles is an award-winning journalist, Emmy-winning producer, and author of acclaimed biographies telling the stories of the civic-minded business women in her family, including her great-great-grandmother Madam C. J. Walker. #WeAreAmerica250 @aleliabundles.bsky.social
June 29, 2026 at 8:07 PM
A'Lelia Bundles is an award-winning journalist, Emmy-winning producer, and author of acclaimed biographies telling the stories of the civic-minded business women in her family, including her great-great-grandmother Madam C. J. Walker. #WeAreAmerica250 @aleliabundles.bsky.social
The generalist-specialist framework got Palliative Care through the 2010s.
I don't think it can get us through the 2020s.
Our trials have moved on. Our taxonomy hasn't.
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#PalliativeCare #HAPC #SeriousIllnessCare
I don't think it can get us through the 2020s.
Our trials have moved on. Our taxonomy hasn't.
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#PalliativeCare #HAPC #SeriousIllnessCare
July 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The generalist-specialist framework got Palliative Care through the 2010s.
I don't think it can get us through the 2020s.
Our trials have moved on. Our taxonomy hasn't.
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#PalliativeCare #HAPC #SeriousIllnessCare
I don't think it can get us through the 2020s.
Our trials have moved on. Our taxonomy hasn't.
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#PalliativeCare #HAPC #SeriousIllnessCare