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Michael L. Barnett
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health policy researcher, primary care physician, dad

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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · Sep 8
New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com!

Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??

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Question Has hospital length of stay increased more for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries than for traditional Medicare beneficiaries since the COVID-19 pandemic?Findings In this cohort study involving more than 89 million hospitalizations from 2017 to the third quarter of 2023, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries experienced disproportionately greater increases in extended hospital stays, especially among those discharged to skilled nursing facilities.Meaning These findings suggest that the Medicare Advantage plan design and practices may contribute to hospital discharge delays, with implications for patient outcomes and hospital capacity as enrollment continues to rise.

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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 14h
or that time we landed a probe on a f***ing comet and got pictures back!!!
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d
When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

Reposted by Michael Barnett

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14h
Exclusive: The National Institutes of Health is preparing to launch a clinical research program to study people who believe they were harmed by vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines. https://scim.ag/4xQW4W0
Exclusive: New NIH research center on vaccine harms takes shape
Clinical researchers will probe complications that can arise after immunization, but some worry about political influence
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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 15h
soooo many medical "facts" come from the pet theory of some random doc

diverticulitis and nuts
vitamin D everything
the MSG fiasco
MMR and autism
almost anything around treating the common cold

and now we can add fish oil!

Reposted by Michael Barnett

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 16h
I'm currently looking into the literature on fish oil and heart disease. Apparently this whole thing started because two Danish investigators heard that there were barely any heart diseases among Greenland Inuit, so they went there and looked at plasma lipids.>
"Fishing" for the origins of the "Eskimos and heart disease" story: facts or wishful thinking? - PubMed
During the 1970s, 2 Danish investigators, Bang and Dyerberg, on being informed that the Greenland Eskimos had a low prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) set out to study the diet of this population. Bang and Dyerberg described the "Eskimo diet" as consisting of large amounts of seal and whale …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 17h
yikes

"More than two months after WISeR’s launch, a Medicare administration contractor, Noridian, realized that one of the vendors did not know the difference between Medicare Part A and Part B."

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Medicare's AI prior authorization pilot was rushed and full of problems, new documents reveal
The rushed launch of a Medicare pilot to use AI for prior authorization led to delayed care in some instances, new documents reveal.
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Reposted by Michael Barnett, Simon J. Greenhill, Jacob Montgomery , and 2 more

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d
When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 2d
I had to cut this meme from my lecture slides so I'm sad but I will share it with you all because I was very proud of myself for making it

Reposted by Michael Barnett, Daniel S. Goldberg

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 2d
I’M AT THE URGENT CARE
I’M AT THE TACO BELL
I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL