Max Jordan Nguemeni

For my @jama.com debut, @jsross119.bsky.social & I wrote a note contextualizing two new studies on opioid dispensing, naloxone use & overdoses. The lesson isn’t that one silver bullet succeeded but that effective OD prevention efforts must adapt to a dynamic epidemic. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I'll never figure out why a carefully selected population of students who were generally in the top of their classes everywhere they came from (excluding maybe donor and celeb admits) is nonetheless supposed to fall into a normal curve grading distribution. It's not a random population.

The AHRQ just cancelled all of its grant mechanisms. This is the agency that funds a lot of research on healthcare quality. Congress appropriated them $200+M for this fiscal year. MAHA does NOT care about health. Only healthism. It’s Margaret Thatcher’s fever dream. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...

“.. 15 percent of individuals said they had borrowed money in the last year to pay for medical expenses, while another 11 percent said they had skipped a meal.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/h...

One of those things you learned about in medical school but didn't think you'd ever hear about again after the Step exams

If there’s no society, there’s no obligation to regulate pollution, guarantee food security or access to healthcare. There are only individuals tasked w/ optimizing themselves. Read why I think #MAHA isn’t about health. It’s healthism. My latest in Adverse Reaction. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...

Landing in Vegas tonight for the pregnancy meeting™️ . Pumped to see my MFM friends & mentors. #SMFM26

Do I know anyone planning a long-ish stay in Paris? Like 2 weeks or more

Can immigration law people weigh in on whether the suspension of immigration visas from poor countries/non-western|NATO countries applies to citizenship petitions for current permanent residents?

Requiring reviewers to log into some portal to review the manuscript as opposed to providing you with a direct link to the review form can legit add a week to two weeks to my review time I’m so sorry.

I understand that short form videos are what “works” in our new attention economy… how well do mid-length explanatory/criticism videos perform on youtube? I just don’t love the amount of nuance lost in 1-3 min reels/tik tok videos.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

KFF’s Medicaid work requirements tracker compiles national and state enrollment and renewal outcomes data, related policies, implementation questions, 1115 waivers and more. We’ll continue adding information as federal guidance and state decisions take shape: https://on.kff.org/4ozQHFm

Have you ever had someone you love dearly die from the very failures you spend your waking hours trying to address in our healthcare system?

Marjorie Taylor Greene might be yalls next president bruh

The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Trump is so simple. He likes Zohran because he’s good looking and charismatic. Lolol

New from me: Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI. Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Finally in print - The 1st publication in the New England Journal of Medicine describing the devastation of healthcare infrastructure & horrors in Gaza, calling on US Medicine to break silence. And yes it’s still relevant after the ceasefire #SilenceIsComplicity www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.

Buprenorphine is safer than most if not any opioid we prescribe but people still act like dosing it is some esoteric practice. There’s no shortage of resources we can use to figure how to dose a medication for the first time. We should use them when prescribing a new medication.

Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.

Van Jones Isaiah 48:22!

Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.

Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

How can i rationalize bed rotting as a good thing lol

He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently. But also such a smarmy so and so.

An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.

They didn’t infiltrate. They were invited in by the Admin. And the mainstream WH press corps didn’t stand up for their own (Yamiche Alcindor, AP).

Most Americans, including most Republicans and MAGA supporters, say they want Congress to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that help make Marketplace coverage more affordable. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

A baby has died of whooping cough in Mississippi amidst their worst pertussis outbreak in more than a decade. If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

It's unclear what the exact effect of a national Medicaid work requirement will be, but Aparni Soni et al. offer an important glimpse at who is doing community engagement to the required degree to sustain Medicaid coverage under these terms, & equity implications read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

“I can see you clearly vividly emblazoned in my mind” is such a bar. Mariah Carey’s pen is really unmatched.

Mind you perp walks are unconstitutional

Thank god for family members with rare/unusual first names. Can’t be using max or jordan in any kind of password lol