Jack Iwashyna

My daughter just texted me about my new (and 1st) @nejm.org #Voices column: ‘From my pre med friend: “it’s things like that, that make me rly excited to go into this profession”’ And I am going to be smiling all day I would love your thoughts voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“Cooking dinner?” ~ Roxanne Coss in Bel Canto (This book is a delight)

Often because of the efforts to move everything from corporate responsibility to "do it yourself" freedom -- by shifting all the costs onto us

i know it's the age of immediacy and frictionless and what-have-you but *everything* takes longer to complete now than it did even two or three years ago. it's stunning.

Federal funding for science ensures that scientific agendas respond to the wants and needs of scientists and the public. We do not want to live in a society where the scientific agenda is set by a handful of billionaires.

And the final week of our Countdown to Halloween!!!! Some radical history (plus cool Victorian residential arch.) for inspiration and enjoyment. Join us on the ~Radical Spirits in Reservoir Hill~ walking tour on Weds Oct 28 or Fri Oct 30. More info and tix @ fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#r...

“ Faced with an unexpected crisis, people tend to reach for what they know “ ~ @edwardfishman.bsky.social

@tvalley.bsky.social, @chadhoc.bsky.social and I were just teaching about this in anticipation of upcoming ATS abstract deadlines

Fascinating thread

On the same day, huge crowds are welcoming Machado back to Venezuela. Her return was blocked for months by the US-backed regime. Pressure from below finally made it impossible for Trump and Rodriguez to keep her out

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Forgot about these guys!! 🥹

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

Great Baltimore Lantern Parade, 2026 🎃✨

Kinda love the wall of green outside Vent Coffee in #Baltimore

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly: my body: i’m so tired me: girl i know my body: need more sleep me: i will go to bed on time! my body: i win! me: can we please actually sleep tho my body: Nah this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

One of the big findings in my research is that people invested in disbelieving victims are not swayed by evidence. Just like other issues of misinformation, they cherry pick irrelevant details to allow them to continue to believe whatever they want.

Wife has new foster kittens

I started listening to @greatdismal.bsky.social ’s Neuromancer. I had always imagined the protagonist Case as a burnt out middle aged man, much older than me whenever I read it TIL Case is 24

I ran into my boss's boss, Prof Nadia Hansel @hopkinspccm.bsky.social @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social getting her flu shot this morning

Got my flu shot!

“we might sum Orwell up by saying he wanted the truth, but if that meant being on the side of right over wrong, it also meant being on the side of being human over being right” ~ Robert Colls in his new brief, punchy biography and appreciation

A true Baltimore treasure is taking the spotlight! Our iconic George Peabody Library is featured in @pbs.org's American Stories: A Reading Road Trip! Take a virtual journey through history and see why the George Peabody Library is a destination worth visiting and celebrating! bit.ly/4k3d9YM

In Venezuela last September, I found people hoping for change, but shocked and surprised by US policy, especially opaque oil deals with former regime cronies. The system looks, one economist told me, like “a coalition of two kleptocracies" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Reminded yet again today of how damn lucky i am to be married to my wife

“many doctors and psychotherapist have to face: how far should one help a patient to accept conditions which are at least as unjust and wrong as the patient is sick?”  ~ John Berger

“We imagine [our doctor] as an honorary member of the family” ~ John Berger This may be the most succinct statement of what it is like to be a doctor with a patient and their loved ones in a moment of crisis

Reading a 1967 book that mentions, almost in passing, that treating a trans woman with dignity as she lived in the countryside was of course what a decent English doctor would do — which is of course true

“I have been asked, many times, to say the things to a patient that will make them understand they cannot drink anymore. I have told those families quite honestly that I wished I knew those words.” Friday’s @nejm.org Voices voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Dear Autocorrect: I mean "pressor" not "presser" jack

"I don’t see what’s wrong with asking the followers of Islam to denounce the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s important for the public to know where non-Christians stand on every organization that has ever existed in a Muslim-majority country and every person with the name 'Mohammed.'" buff.ly/oFYteni

Anyone have a good introduction to the concept of "affordances" in terms of things that various habit, cultures, routines, and technologies make easier or harder for clinicians?

Chai lattes are clearly under priced for their labor costs and therefore negative externalities on us espresso drinkers