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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Three days. Expert faculty. Practical solutions. Valuable CME & CEU. Join me September 24–26 at the 2026 CALTCM Summit for Excellence for the latest in clinical care, AI, leadership, and regulatory updates for PALTC professionals. Learn more at: www.caltcm.org/annual-meeting

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Improve your patient care in older adults by learning with @acpimphysicians.bsky.social full-day #Geriatrics and #Palliative Medicine course intensive on Wednesday, April 15 in San Francisco! Learn more here - annualmeeting.acponline.org/educational-...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The vibe at european soccer games always impresses me (took this pic in Stockholm at the Svenska Cupen)

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Dying people often experience a burst of lucidity. How do we best care for these patients & families? Full episode here - geripal.org/lucid-episod... #hospice #palliativecare #medsky

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

How I felt after a long week of consults

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Top 10 Tips #Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Supporting Coping in Serious Illness. # 6 is key - patient’s coping is not “good” or “bad”; instead, ask how it serves or hinders a patient in a given time and situation. #medsky #palliativecare www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I’ll never understand how a study like this gets through peer review. While GLP-1RA & SGLT2i meds are pretty amazing, they can’t decrease risk for dementia the moment you get a prescription. That’s a clear signal that the groups are different at baseline. #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I got into Annals of Internal Medicine today. Literally

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Anyone else on BlueSky at the ACP @acpimphysicians.bsky.social annual meeting in New Orleans? Getting a little pick me up for my pre-con talk at the loveliest little coffee courtyard. #medsky

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

1 in 7 Medicaid beneficiaries received care at a nursing home following a new cancer diagnosis, with more than half of these individuals using one for the first time. Lung, breast, and hematological were most prevalent. #gerisky #medsky agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The most prevalent cancer types associated with both short-and long-stay nursing home residents were similar: lung (18.0% vs. 15.5%), breast (9.9% vs. 12.9%), and hematological (9.9% vs. 9.6%) (Figure 1).

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Write a letter asking to see the Kaplan-Meier curves. I bet youll see too early separation indicating confounding. Like this study showing colon cancer miraculously decreases within 30 days of a prescription of GLP1s (again, same methods basically and same population) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What the smart money is doing with #Tesla stock: Robyn Denholm, the chair of Tesla's board of directors, sold over $100 million worth of #Tsla stocks in the last 3 months. Maybe it’s time for a new CEO or at least ask him to give 5 bullet points of what he has done for the company in the last month?

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

TSLA is officially below 300 and Elon has lost over $100 billion. Keep up the good work.

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Ageism in research is still ongoing, as seen in the MOSAIC study that excludes persons older than 65 despite "no scientific or ethical reason" to do so. Published in JAMA IM by @lingshengli.bsky.social @annachangucsf.bsky.social @kencovinsky.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #medsky

A line waiting to get into a research study, with a bouncer at the front saying "Sorry, 65 is too old. You're not on the list."

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

San Francisco Tesla dealership is busy today (at least the sidewalk is)

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Cybertruck Man www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/cybe...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Very tempting: Advance Care Planning Australia, together with the Advance Care Planning International Society, is hosting the 9th International Advance Care Planning Conference this year down under. #HAPC www.acp-i2025.org

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

So impressed by the amazing #geriatrics and #palliative care teams at the University of Arizona. Thanks for inviting me to visit!

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Moving from Celtic to Rhein Haus (across the street) at 10:15-10:30 for #HPMParty GeriPal pub crawl. #HAPC25

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thanks to everyone coming to the pharmacological considerations for challenging symptoms pre-con session at #HAPC2025. Packed house!

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Awesome menu and drink. Last weekend I made something similar to a hurricane, a Merriman's Mai Tai - light & dark rum, lime, orgeat, curaçao, and the kicker - honey-lilikoi foam (made with honey, passion fruit purée, simple syrup, and egg whites).

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’ve worked under Bush, Obama, Biden, and even first Trump. This is not a normal “transition period.” www.aafp.org/news/blogs/a...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Dont just stop using Twitter. Take a couple days before you do that to burn your Twitter account to the ground

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We have data from a 2024 systematic review that concludes most published studies show that Veterans getting care from the VA get the same or better clinical quality than Vets getting community care or the general public getting non-VA care. 2/3🧵#medsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Government employees are being encouraged to resign from "lower productivity in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector." This is a false narrative. Example: the VA healthcare system does no worse and is often better than non-VA care in most outcomes 1/3🧵 #medsky

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Does he even know what nurses and doctors do? Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year #medsky

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Imagine you open your email and find everyone in your hospital system is encouraged to retire next week and in return they get a 7 month severance period in which they no longer need to work. That’s just what happened at the VA today (and every other agency). #medsky www.opm.gov/fork

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The idea that the current administration would encourage federal employees to quit their jobs, including those providing direct patient care to veterans, is unfathomably stupid and harmful.

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We are doing a GeriPal podcast on caring for people with serious illness and substance use this Thursday with some amazing palliative care & addiction medicine providers. What burning questions do you have (some of mine are below) #medsky #palliative #hospice

Question’s on cancer pain & SUD

Is buprenorphine your go-to for pain and SUD?
What do you do about prn opioids?
Do you do pill counts and UDTs on everyone?
How many days of opioids do you give out?
When should PC refer to addiction medicine?
What does the palliative care clinic do when cancer is cured, but they still have SUD needs?

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Why are [Alzheimers] biomarkers important in diagnosing cognitive impairment? They are not. They are important to identifying etiologies possibly contributing to cognitive impairment.” Great quote from @nathanielchinmd.bsky.social at @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social Grand Rounds today. #Medsky

Slide showing “Why are biomarkers important in diagnosing cognitive impairment? They are not. They are important to identifying etiologies possibly contributing to cognitive impairment.”

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What other departments or divisions are doing faculty sessions on teaching how to get on BlueSky? @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social is! Thanks @lwaltermd.bsky.social for setting this up! #geriatrics #gerisky

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Spent the day traveling the California coast? Did I miss anything?

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The #HPMParty is returning to Denver during the 2025 AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly. We will be doing our traditional Pub Crawl, this time starting at 8 pm on Thursday, February 6th at the Celtic. Details here: geripal.org/hpmparty-is-... #hapc25 #HAPC #palliative

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I would totally watch a Netflix show that just has videos rich people complaining about congestion pricing. It’s like watching Lucille Bluth talking about the price of bananas.

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Just finished a half a month on inpatient consults over the holidays. Capping it off by making the most appropriate New Year’s Eve cocktail for the occasion - the penicillin

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I ran into an old love of mine at a coffee shop in Pescadero. She still looked great

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Agree with Bernie Sanders Make America Healthy Again with one small technical quibble: we don’t just pay the highest price in the world for life saving medications, we pay the highest price in the world for marginally effective medications. Value is never considered unlike some countries like the UK

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all those working in the hospital today and tomorrow.

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Another good BMJ Christmas conclusion: surgeons showed greater dexterity in completing the buzz wire game, but higher levels of swearing compared with other hospital staff roles. #medsky www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

BMJ Christmas edition: MOCA scores of different large language models. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

That’s dedication: When a nursing home patient is missing a diet order, @alexsmithmd.bsky.social will stop eating his ravioli and pull out his computer. #medsky

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