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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A remarkable story. Told with such honesty and pain. One of the many reasons the US health system is in crisis. Many capable people who don't have the author's persistence don't become physicians. www.annfammed.org/content/24/5... @aafp.bsky.social
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What It Cost and What It Gave to Become an Undocumented Family Physician
Growing up as an undocumented immigrant in North Carolina shaped not only the author’s path to medicine, but also how they understand patients, systems, and belonging. In this reflective essay, they d...
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 22/09/2026
A positive association between receiving high continuity of care and lower health system costs was found in this 3-year observational study of ~70,000 patients with chronic disease doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #BJGP #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice
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Cost savings from primary care clinic continuity among patients with chronic disease in Alberta, Canada: a retrospective population-level cross-sectional study | British Journal of General Practice
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Group visits enhance social capital in participants as well as improve outcomes. Particularly difficult group with excellent outcomes. www.annfammed.org/content/24/5... @aafp.bsky.social @familymedicinefam.bsky.social
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Social Support in Group Medical Visits for Chronic Pain in Primary Care
PURPOSE Social support is associated with improved outcomes for people with chronic pain and is an important but understudied component of biopsychosocial pain care. We sought to explore how group med...
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Those of us with high %ages of Neanderthal genes are not overweight, just hunky. Neanderthal growth gene turns modern humans into muscle heads | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Neanderthal growth gene turns modern humans into muscle heads
People with DNA variant from our evolutionary cousins tend to have more lean muscle mass
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 30/07/2026
BJGPLife: What we count, and what we miss: a case for measuring GP workload differently bjgplife.com/what-we... #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
except advanced scheduling with lower income families who lack transportation, family support and consistent lives doesn't tend to work unless one sees them when they can come, not when it is convenient for docs. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24136694/
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A multi-method intervention to reduce no-shows in an urban residency clinic - PubMed
Indentifying a large at-risk population for no-shows and using a multi-method approach to addressing the issue can show persistent improvement and could be used in other residency training and communi...
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
GP's everywhere are in the same boat as Wales - hard work getting harder with no more help. Investment saves money, under-investment costs money. @aafp.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Unbelievable screwup in Trumpland - hiring incompetent people gets incompetent results. State Department Map Mislabels African Countries at AIDS Conference www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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U.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS Conference
Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Small independent practices do just fine, "health systems" not so much......
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Gastroenterologist can consult with a GP practice about management guidelines and have availability for questions - don't need to "manage" patients but help generalists do that. @aafp.bsky.social @annfammed.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
GP's everywhere - especially US - have to work to retain adolescent patients and follow them through life cycle. Makes practice more interesting. @aafp.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Every patient should be asked about their work setting an pattern - and social status: living alone or with people. Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @aafp.bsky.social @stfm-fm.bsky.social
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Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
How does remote work affect isolation and mental health? We drew on five nationally representative surveys of American workers (N = 588,322) conducted from 2011 to 2024, omitting the peak pandemic yea...
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
requires balancing what we already know about the patient with a non-judgmental attitude and listening with an open mind. Hard to juggle.
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It is not just the public that worries: AI executives join call for stricter regulation of synthetic biology | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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AI executives join call for stricter regulation of synthetic biology
Letter urges Congress to require DNA firms to screen orders to prevent AI-aided bioweapons
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
www.annfammed.org/content/24/3... Having a name in Japanese, Rousui, to replace the Western notion of "dying of old age" is a positive step for families, doctors and patients. . Home visits to assess would be essential. @aafp.bsky.social @annfammed.bsky.social
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Heather Shearer @heather-sea55.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🧪 we are on the way to eliminate cervical cancer too insightplus.mja.com.au/2026/19/trac...
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Trachoma successfully eliminated in Australia through Indigenous-led…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated that Australia is the 30th nation to eliminate Trachoma, a preventable infectious eye disease, which…
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Why Did Some Whales Survive Industrial Whaling Better Than Others? open.substack.com/pub/climatea...
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Why Did Some Whales Survive Industrial Whaling Better Than Others?
What nineteenth-century whaling records reveal about resilience, geography, and ocean conservation
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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David Loxterkamp | The Good Doctor Portraits - Medics Voices
The cover from LIFE in 1998, together with David’s reflection in 2026 David Loxterkamp’s…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2026
from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 28/03/2026
Solving Canada's doctor deficit www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/03/27… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
Dashboard on health system capacity and resources, 2023, from Health at a Glance 2025 report. | Alexandra Keeler
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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I hope that Ms. Streisand knows! @barbrastreisand.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
summarizes the state of financing primary care in a fee-for-service world. Impossible.
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Run On Climate @runonclimate.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Wisconsin’s electric bus test shows EV transit can survive real winter conditions 🚌🔋❄️ This matters for riders and planners across the Midwest designing clean, resilient transit systems #SustainableTransportation #CleanEnergy
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Electric buses are passing a brutal cold-weather test in Wisconsin
Madison is proving electric buses can run through cold winters, providing a blueprint for zero-emissions transit in other frigid locales.
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The downward drift of US MD and DO students in light of increasing need for family doctors (and emergency med is NOT primary care except by default) the US system is in crisis. Long pipeline and not national workforce plan is huge problem. @aafp.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Excellent overview of loneliness screening and followup in practice summarizes need for practical screening and team approaches. www.annfammed.org/content/24/2... @aafp.bsky.social @stfm-fm.bsky.social
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Loneliness in Primary Care Patients—From Understanding the Risk to Actionable Clinical Priority
An estimated 37% of Americans experience moderate to severe loneliness in any given year.[1][1] Loneliness is not a unitary construct, but a multidimensional, subjective experience encompassing distre...
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
terrific data - but having a source is different from being able to get an appointment to see that source. Mine is 6 months because she works in a corporatized medical school practice.
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 15/03/2026
BJGPLife: Good enough should be good enough bjgplife.com/good-en... #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Paul Krugman just referred to Orwell's "In Front of Your Nose" essay - it is timeless. www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...
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In Front of Your Nose | The Orwell Foundation
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
We in the US, which has an expensive, broken ineffective health system would like to help a country with universal health care free and comprehensive care. Denmark can become bankrupt just like us. Denmark Rejects Trump’s Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...
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Denmark Rejects Trump’s Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Join the National Museum of Natural History’s Human Origins Program for a discussion on how the program developed from the Smithsonian's cutting-edge research, a permanent exhibition, and public engagement efforts in human evolution.🏺🧪
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Daniel Sunderland, DO @thebandageman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"Joining a #health system takes away the autonomy #doctors need to make the best clinical decisions for their patients, Carlan said. It also siphons off income into the larger #hospital system..." 🧵 #medsky #fmsky #imsky #PrimaryCare
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I you think it is cold in Chicago now, imagine what it would be on Jupiter or Saturn?!! Polar vortex dynamics on gas giants: Insights from 2D energy cascades | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Pharm D training in US is increasing and they are working with GP clinics around many prescribing functions and uses. Invaluable, decrease interactions, and save lives. @aafp.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
All countries with access problems should understand why Denmark and Netherlands have a better system. There have to be controls on specialty training and rewards for becoming a GP. @aafp.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The graph of the growth of health care as a fraction of the US economy - almost all new hirings in US labor market are in health care. Trump is cutting Medicaid and the ACA. Put those together and the Health Care bubble will be bursting. @aafp.bsky.social #familymedicine
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Jack Medalie MD described the negative and positive effects of loving relationships on CHD in 1972!! Time to discover it - again. @aafp.bsky.social @annfammed.bsky.social \https://onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-282X%2825%2901166-3/fulltext
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What About Love? A Review of Interventions for Patients With Heart Disease and Their Intimate Partners: Recommendations for Cardiac Rehabilitation
Social relationships, particularly the quality of intimate partnerships, play a significant role in cardiovascular outcomes and recovery. While most cardiac care focuses on individual patients, couple...
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A recommendation for letting physicians from other disciplines retrain for primary care without a 3 yr. residency. That was the case for the first decade of FM. @aafp.bsky.social Fix the Primary Care Doctor Shortage by Allowing Doctors to Practice Primary Care open.substack.com/pub/sensible...
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Fix the Primary Care Doctor Shortage by Allowing Doctors to Practice Primary Care
Maybe there is an easy solution to the shortage of PCPs
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Social isolation and access to cognitive disorder-related prespecialist care among older people: a 10-year nationwide cross-sectional study from the French National Alzheimer Database - The Lancet Primary Care www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Social isolation and access to cognitive disorder-related prespecialist care among older people: a 10-year nationwide cross-sectional study from the French National Alzheimer Database
Better coordination of health and social services is needed to address barriers faced by isolated older adults with cognitive disorders.
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Social isolation impedes access and care: Social isolation and access to cognitive disorder-related prespecialist care among older people: a 10-year nationwide cross-sectional study from the French National Alzheimer Database - The Lancet Primary Care www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Social isolation and access to cognitive disorder-related prespecialist care among older people: a 10-year nationwide cross-sectional study from the French National Alzheimer Database
Better coordination of health and social services is needed to address barriers faced by isolated older adults with cognitive disorders.
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A beautiful essay about how small things over a long time create marvels - essential to understanding the value of continuity @aafp.bsky.social #familymedicine Making Mosaics bjgplife.com/making-mosai...
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Making Mosaics – BJGP Life
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Daniel Sunderland, DO @thebandageman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I'm practicing in suburban #Connecticut. The #healthcare provider density in my area is pretty high. Even so, there are those of us still practicing this style of friendly neighborhood family medicine. Our competitors are the big-system PCPs. @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Doctor with a Capital D | NEJM
NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests lay bare the joys and rewards of full-spectrum primary care practice and consider ways of stoking students’ passion, and strengthening their ability, to pursu...
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
All FQHC's should move to full capitation ASAP. Better quality, dependable funding, higher clinician satisfaction. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.... @aafp.bsky.social @annfammed.bsky.social @stfm-fm.bsky.social
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The Intellectual Basis of Family Practice has been reissued after being out of print for over forty years. A seminal book for generalists everywhere. It is what we have in common. @aafp.bsky.social url:https://journals.stfm.org/familymedicine/2025/november-december/br-chen-0366/
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Gilchrist and Schrager engage in a fine essay about the increasing professional loneliness of medicine. It underlies much of the dissatisfaction with medicine. Taking time to talk is essential. url:https://journals.stfm.org/familymedicine/2025/november-december/editorial-nov25/
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Practicing what we preach....
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Using publicly available data to identify low resource neighborhoods for both pharmacy and food access helps focus services and planning for teaching clinics. A GIS approach to addressing one element of the Inverse Care Law. url:https://journals.stfm.org/primer/2025/adepoju-2025-0068/
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The Physician–Podcaster–Patient Triangle "Patients do not need another dashboard; they need a compass that guides them toward meaning, resilience, and trust, rather than metrics, perfection, and transaction" url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The Physician–Podcaster–Patient Triangle
This essay discusses physician-podcasters and how their messages can affect the physician-patient relationship.
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"Civilization" has increased cancer risks - stress, conflict and chaos: Coevolution of cooperative lifestyles and reduced cancer prevalence in mammals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Coevolution of cooperative lifestyles and reduced cancer prevalence in mammals
While cooperative mammals evolve reducing cancer prevalence, oncogenes can be maintained by selection in competitive species.
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jjfrey3md.bsky.social @jjfrey3md.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The corporatization of health care has put shareholder and profit over patient care and community. The Antitrust Antidote to Hospital and Nursing Home Corporatization — Promises and Pitfalls | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The Antitrust Antidote to Hospital and Nursing Home Corporatization — Promises and Pitfalls | NEJM
The U.S. antitrust paradigm can’t fully counteract the risks posed by health care corporatization. Regulators need robust procompetitive strategies to recenter patients and health as measures of ...
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 22/10/2025
The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/health-… 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
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