Christian Holt

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medical student | paramedic | accidental lawyer | EM/EMS research + policy + regulation | he/him | #EMBound USIMG 2027 🚑🏂🏳️‍🌈 occasional reply guy

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Block quote from linked PBS story: Kennedy said “autism destroys families” and is an “individual tragedy as well.” [WATCH: What research reveals about the rise in autism diagnoses and why vaccines aren’t the cause] Kennedy said many autistic children were “fully functional” and “regressed … into autism when they were 2 years old. And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”
Page 6 of the USMLE 2025 Bulletin, which reads in part: Impact of Change to Accreditation Body for Medical Schools in Canada Effective in July 2025 Currently, medical education programs in Canada leading to the MD degree are accredited by both the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS). Effective July 1, 2025, CACMS will become the sole accrediting body for medical education programs in Canada. Accreditation by LCME establishes eligibility to take the USMLE and to enter U.S. residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). In the absence of LCME accreditation for Canadian medical education programs, Canadian medical school graduates will establish their eligibility for USMLE and ACGME-accredited residency programs through ECFMG Certification. This means that individuals who graduate from Canadian medical schools on or after July 1, 2025 will be considered international medical graduates (IMGs) for the purpose of entry into graduate medical education (GME) programs in the United States, and, in order for these graduates to enter ACGME-accredited residency programs, the ACGME will require that they either obtain ECFMG Certification or hold a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine in the U.S. licensing jurisdiction in which the ACGME-accredited program is located. ECFMG Certification is the standard for evaluating the qualifications of IMGs entering the U.S. health care system and includes requirements for medical schools, examination requirements (which include USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK among other requirements), and verification of medical education credentials directly with the issuing institution. For more detailed information, please visit the ECFMG website. Individuals who will graduate from Canadian medical schools on or after July 1, 2025, will be able to apply for ECFMG Certification beginning in late spring 2025, prior …
Linked article blockquote text: That is how you end up with misguided outrage over Anthem’s anesthesia policy. The doctors paint it as insurers cracking down on patients, when it is actually the plan trying to lower its overall costs and thereby save patients money. It becomes hard to do anything to reduce costs, leaving the frustrations with the system to metastasize until we see what we saw after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Excerpt screenshot from linked article: “An MGB spokesperson said in a statement that the health system recognizes that primary care physicians face "unprecedented volume and stress." But the best way to address the challenges is "by working together in direct partnership" rather than by forming a union, which "can lead to conflict and potentially risk the continuity of patient care," said the spokesperson.”
NYT Article quote: However, the number of illnesses are small. Although about an estimated 11 million people in the United States consume raw milk, it causes an average of only 760 illnesses per year, according to a 2017 estimate. In 2023 and early 2024, there was a salmonella outbreak linked to raw milk from one farm, though it resulted in fewer infections than a similar outbreak involving cantaloupe around the same time.
Washington Post screenshot of opinion pieces by Jennifer Rubin and Leana S. Wen that looks like something out of The Onion.
Peer-reviewed article screenshot where the first line of the first paragraph is obviously generated by an algorithm but made it through peer review to publication.
Blockquote from Washington Post article: “State lawmakers gained autonomy over how to spend federal safety net dollars following Republican President Ronald Reagan’s push to empower the states in the 1980s. Those investments began to diverge sharply along red and blue lines, with conservative lawmakers often balking at public health initiatives they said cost too much or overstepped. Today, people in the South and Midwest, regions largely controlled by Republican state legislators, have increasingly higher chances of dying prematurely compared with those in the more Democratic Northeast and West, according to The Post’s analysis of death rates.”