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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@preetbharara.bsky.social thanks for talking with @joycevance.bsky.social about the il/legality of the proposed federal slush fund. When will you have @brendanballou.bsky.social on to talk about his lawsuit aimed at that fund and about the Public Integrity Project?

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Sue Ann Jaffarian @sueannjaffarian.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I am always amazed by the number of readers who have no idea what authors make on their books. Most think we are raking it in. Unless you are one of the authors in the rarefied air at the top, basically you’re making hobby money. You have to love writing to stick with it. #writer #writingcommunity

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Steerforth Press @steerforthpress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Steerforth authors @wdeanmd.bsky.social of IF I BETRAY THESE WORDS and Tim Heaphy of HARBINGERS discuss what healthcare can learn from Jan 6 and Charlottesville on the 43cc podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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Harbingers: What healthcare can learn from Jan 6 and Charlottesville

Podcast Episode · 43cc · 03/13/2025 · 45m

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My mentor has called me every 3 months for the last 10y. He’s not warm and fuzzy - being an engineer and a horse person - but his unwavering vision of my potential changed how I think of myself. And his calls have occasionally made the difference between soldiering on and folding up.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Some days just be like this. Tomorrow will be its own thing.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This is what I call the best kind of week - seeing the people I love most in some of my favorite places (there may be causality there 😉).

Bald eagle on bare tree against a deep blue sky

Prairie foreground with snow capped Rocky Mountains in the distance under a clear blue sky

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#MoralInjury in hc has gotten a lot of attention since 2018, most of it focused on description and characterization. We wanted to know not what kind of organizations we already have, but what kind of organizations will minimize the risk of moral injury. Out now: journals.lww.com/joem/abstrac...

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Guidance for creating morally healthy organizations that... : Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

recruited to a three-round e-Delphi survey exploring descriptors and characteristics of non-morally injurious organisations. Results Forty-nine, forty-one and thirty-nine experts responded at each ...

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Sadly, hc doesn’t have a corner on workforce distress. Out today in the @aftunion.bsky.social #AmericanEducator winter issue: how #moralinjury in K-12 education impacts educators, students, and their families; and how organized, collective action can drive change. www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I am so grateful for this old place; For the people we gather here, in our arms or in our hearts; And for the work we all get to do - making the world healthier, more reflective & responsive, more just, and more beautiful. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is the mindfulness I choose. Partnering with a 3/4 ton prey animal really helps clear your mind. It’s a victory every time *I* choose that we’ve done enough and the ride ends on a good note. 🤣

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I know it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but get SHOPPING, y’all. Time’s short! IIBTW, in hardcover or paperback. Order at your favorite bookseller, or, for signed copies, head over to my local bookshop, where Jeff keeps those copies on hand and ships promptly. www.whistlestoppers.com/notable-new-....

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Dan Weissmann @danweissmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is a very clear summary of HR 9495, up for a vote in Congress this week. Folks are calling their U.S. reps to urge them to vote “no” — because the bill poses such clear danger to nonprofits: civil society orgs, journalism orgs, you name it.

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Dan Weissmann @danweissmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"The MitraClip story is, in many ways, a cautionary tale about the science, business, and regulation of medical devices."

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

With Medicaid facing severe threats next year, I will be periodically posting facts about the program which demonstrate the many critical roles that Medicaid plays. Medicaid covers 62% of all nursing home residents. #healthpolicy www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Now’s the time for finding the gaps - those spaces in the structure you can slip between to get leverage on opportunities or initiatives that would have stagnated in ossified bureaucracy. Take every one. Use chaos and distraction/inattention to make progress.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“Entranced by the girl with the half-smile”…and then he made her into a doll that’s forever simultaneously rescued & assaulted? Sorry, there’s nothing innocently endearing about this. It’s creepy af.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/11/2024

HHS has routinely imposed the "death penalty" on small businesses, barring them from participating in Medicare. But it has never barred a national Medicare supplier -- even when that company has repeatedly committed fraud. Some companies, it seems, are too big to ban.

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Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.

Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The fe...

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Dan Weissmann @danweissmann.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Louise Norris with an important reminder, becos this comes up ALL the time. People go in for a routine colonoscopy— which the law says must be fully covered by insurance— and end up with a big bill. That’s bulls—t. If it ever happens to you, cite this, chapter and verse, to your insurance company.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It seemed fitting this week to visit Fraunce’s Tavern, a key gathering place during the Revolutionary War, & where Gen Washington bade farewell to Continental Army officers in 1783. Then, from 1785-8, it housed the US Depts of Foreign Affairs, War, & Treasury - cementing a new nation.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A union chorus is a HARD act to follow, but they definitely got the audience primed for a talk about #moralinjury & seeing things differently. And 150 copies of IIBTW in the hands of frontline activists? 🙏 Federation of Nurses/UFT.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I think in the near future, it will be especially important to have effective science communicators. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I thought it might be useful to explain my major principles for science communication that I use in my own work 🧵:

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The best breakdowns of why healthcare “costs so freakin’ much” and lots about what we can do about it. You might even laugh, promise.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

When you ski thru trees you look for the gaps, the slivers of light between them. Because focusing on that light guides you to it. Same thing with the Guy Fawkes (11/5) fallout right now. STOP LOOKING AT THE TREE TRUNKS. Let’s find the gaps and exploit tf out of them. GO!

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Sick Times--a digital long-COVID newspaper--is 1 yr old today. I couldn't be prouder of what Betsy, Miles, and their team have accomplished. thesicktimes.org/2024/11/14/p... If you have the means, pls join me in supporting their end-of-year fundraiser. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

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Press release: The Sick Times announces one year of covering the Long COVID crisis - The Sick Times

“Our reporting on Long COVID remains as vital today as it did when we launched,” executive editor Miles W. Griffis said. “Many of our colleagues in the media continue to minimize the disease and the o...

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

@zitron.bsky.social here’s another company that lit $100 million on fire in the pursuit of “AI”

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

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Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South

The Opportunity

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Reskeet with a favorite book from your childhood.

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