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Kyle Edmonds, MD

@kpedmonds.com
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Partner to @LaseAjayi.com Academic Palliative MD Follow me at rounds-and-rants.ghost.io Frequently purges my posts & activity

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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 17/09/2026
"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
thehastingscenter.org
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.
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Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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...
statnews.com
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.
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 15/09/2026
🧵 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
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 08/09/2026
🧵 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
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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 🧵
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 01/09/2026
🧵 “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
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026
It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Farewell to the great Wendell Berry. Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
DO NOT BE ASHAMED
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before.
It will be clear to you suddenly that you were about to escape, and that you are guilty: you misread the complex instructions, you are not a member, you lost your card or never had one. And you will know that they have been there all along, their eyes on your letters and books, their hands in your pockets, their ears wired to your bed.
Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them.
And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you.
They will no longer need to pursue you.
You will pursue them, begging forgiveness, and they will not forgive you.
There is no power against them.
It is only candor that is aloof from them, only an inward clarity, unashamed, that they cannot reach. Be ready.
When their light has picked you out and their questions are asked, say to them:
"I am not ashamed." A sure horizon will come around you. The heron will rise in his evening flight from the hilltop.
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 30/08/2026
“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
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 29/08/2026
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.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
nytimes.com
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.
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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 25/08/2026
Join me in giving: imaginationlibrary.com
imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 25/08/2026
I'm going to tell you a secret... 🧵
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 19/08/2026
🧵Somewhere in your health system this week, a person's understanding of their own life is going to stop working. #HAPC #Palliative #PalliativeCare #HealthPolicy
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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.
data4democracy.substack.com
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.
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 11/08/2026
🧵 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.”
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 09/08/2026
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
timesofsandiego.com
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.
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 08/08/2026
Palliative doc says: yup, that's pretty much it.
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 07/08/2026
These stories continue to give me hope for us all. That we can do difficult, near impossible, things together.
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 04/08/2026
🧵 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
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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
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Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · 28/07/2026
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. 🧵 #PalliativeCare #HAPC #SeriousIllnessCare
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