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Tara Lagu

@taralagumd.bsky.social
36 followers 37 following 6 posts

Physician-Executive, researcher, hospitalist, passionate about health equity, quality, and value. Loving mom of 7 year old who returns mixed reviews. "OK, I did forget your water bottle, but lunch is there." Apologetically 5-6 minutes late for kid pick up.

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Tara Lagu @taralagumd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Health care basics: people wish to be free from diseases that are preventable; want ongoing scientific progress for conditions that are not; and want access to care even if they happen to be poor, sick, disabled, or aged. We can argue about the how, but the tenets themselves are not negotiable.
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Tara Lagu @taralagumd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thank you, @liebschutz.bsky.social for speaking out about this. This is devastating news for our community of scientists and clinicians and worse news for our patients. contact your congressional representatives! www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Tara Lagu @taralagumd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Paper on the (lack) of disability education in us medical school is out in @journalgim.bsky.social !
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Tara Lagu @taralagumd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Going to try to be "severed" on social media, with a few exceptions: -LinkedIn for my work risk-based contracts, ACOs, and MA -Bluesky for work on health equity (esp disablity!) imp sci (esp cardiac rehabilitation!), and "fun" Yes, my eyes flutter as I enter #severance mode on bluesky. Jealous?
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Tara Lagu @taralagumd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Excited about media coverage for our new paper on how we fail to teach future physicians about disability: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025... www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/a... #DisabilityInclusion #MedEd #HealthEquity #DisabilityCurriculum @docswithdisability.bsky.social
news.northwestern.edu
Disability is often neglected in medical school curricula, new study finds
“Doctors do not know how to care for people with disabilities because they never learned”
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Tara Lagu @taralagumd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Our paper on disability in med ed is in JGIM! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Medical school and residency has failed to prepare students to care for people with disabilities-with dire consequences. #DisabilityInclusion #MedEd #HealthEquity #DisabilityCurriculum @docswithdisability.bsky.social
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