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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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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

How will proposed caps on government loans and cuts to PSLF impact indigent defense?

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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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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It was such an amazing conversation with @allisonpugh.bsky.social & def gave “feeling seen”. We could’ve talked for hours. Thanks for sharing.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Well deserved recognition for @inquirer.com and for you, personally, @willbunch.bsky.social Congratulations!

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

So grateful for a publisher willing to take all sorts of risks to give bold, complex ideas the space and the audience they need.

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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

Tonight I’m grateful to the universe for one who lifts me up, selflessly, and I’m reminded to keep paying it forward - & calling the people I love. Who (outside your family) do you care about? Give them a call, please. Just because.

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

Last weekend we just talked about people making ridiculous decisions and laughed and lamented and poked a bit of fun (no, this is not political. The decisions are far from seats of political power but, boy, they’re 🧐)

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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 · 02/01/2025

Uff. Sorry you’re in this position (as are so many others).

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Then maybe consider not using your insurance at the independent pharmacy? Bc cvs/aetna are unlikely to be sympathetic to your preference for not using the business model they designed to do exactly this - constrain your choices exclusively for their benefit.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Your employer chose this option. Ask HR & the CFO to choose differently when this contract is up. Since CVS owns Aetna, I don’t hold much hope for an appeal to them. prospect.org/economy/aetn...

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Why the Aetna and CVS Merger Is So Dangerous

Aetna and CVS have more incentive than ever to use their market power to crush competition, and the Justice Department just gave them the opportunity.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Totally understand. Not arguing your points. And yet I’ll bet good money this is where it would end up bc of moneyed interests and the path of least resistance.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’m not being literal about MA - well aware of its disadvantages - but suggesting it would be the model, bc it’s in place and pretty easy to understand (as someone’s said, hc is complicated and how many legislators will take any time at all to understand it?).

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Medicare Advantage is the current hybrid. It would be the “logical” transition to MFA. Does anyone want that except the insurance industry?

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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 · 01/12/2024

I’d want to know more about what they mean by “polarizing”…

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thank you. 🙏 I wish fewer HCWs needed this language.

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

😂 just making sure it has that “lived in“ look.

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

🙏 - same to you & yours!

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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 · 27/11/2024

I mean, it’s Jane Rosenberg. Of course it brilliantly captured the moment!

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

Whenever in the last decade the UK got into coffee, they did not do it by halves, and I’m here (there?) for it.

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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

After rowing crew for a year, I spent a few days with my parents at our lake camp. My mother was HORRIFIED by my shoulders, traps and back muscles (& little subq fat). How would I wear a sundress with those arms??!😂🤷🏻‍♀️

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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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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is not a new crowd for them.

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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 · 19/11/2024

H5N1...😥 What are the chances the incoming administration learned anything useful from how poorly they handled the last pandemic? (literally throwing out the Crimson Contagion pandemic playbook.) Our health workers & systems are still recovering.

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

Am I the only one thinking this is creepy af? “Entranced by the girl with the half-smile”…and then made her into a doll that’s forever simultaneously rescued & assaulted? Sorry, there’s nothing winsome about this. It’s seriously twisted.

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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 · 18/11/2024

South central. Love the history, our neighbors, and the land we’re currently caretaking (225 years of “caretakers”/owners; we’re the current ones)

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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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