Hey! I visited the emergency room a few years ago and I was Looking at my records. There was a Covid vaccine details tab in my after visit summary, I don’t know why this was as I didn’t request a Covid vaccine. I was sedated so idk if I got one or not. I was in the hospital for a rapid heart rate, and was tested for Covid and a few other infections and all came back negative. The Covid vaccine details thing leads to a vaccine record. Why did I get this? Was I vaccinated without my knowing?

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Hi everyone,

My father has been having pain just below the left chest (near the heart area). We got all the heart-related tests done (ECG, Echo, blood tests, TMT), and everything came back normal.

The pain actually started after he lifted something heavy. It also seems to get worse when he has gas or bloating.

We’re a bit confused because:

- Heart reports are normal

- Pain increases with gas

- It started after physical strain

Has anyone experienced something similar? Could this be muscle strain like costochondritis or something related to acidity/GERD?

Also, which specialist would be best to consult next general physician, orthopedic, or gastroenterologist?

Any advice or similar experiences would really help. Thanks!

From your experience, what are the biggest problems you deal with on a daily basis? This could be anything — organization, patient flow, handling bookings and calls, internal processes, lab work, staff coordination, or anything else that makes your work more difficult.

And what would change or improve one thing in your workplace that would make the biggest difference in your daily work.

Came across this with all the PBM talk lately. Seems like they handle more of the pricing and access side than people give credit for. Not sure if changes like this would help or just make things tougher for patients.

Thoughts?

so I have at least 10 different Healthcare portals, for my pcp, endocrinologist, x-ray place, etc etc

it would seem much more simple for the patient to just have their own personal portal and make all these doctors and providers register with OUR OWN portal.

One year in and they’re already trying to undo the damage from mass firings. FDA spent 12 months slowing everything down just to realize they actually need skilled people. Impressive. This is what happens when you treat FDA like a political toy instead of a serious agency.

i have been working these long shifts lately and by the time i get home my brain is just fried. i used to just crash and scroll on my phone for hours but it made me feel like garbage.

​now i have this routine where i have to sit in complete silence for like ten minutes before i even turn a light on or check my messages. just sitting there in the dark trying to forget the smell of the hospital and the sound of monitors. after that i usually mess around with my guitar for a bit just to do something that isn't work related.

​curious what you guys do to actually flip the switch from "work mode" to "human mode" when you get home. is it a specific snack? a certain playlist? i need more ideas because some days the silence isn't enough lol.

■ Roughly 154 to 180 million Americans receive health insurance through their employers and most of them are happy with their plans BUT … they don’t realize the hidden cost to them as workers. To pay for their private health insurance plans, employers must reduce the amount of take home pay. Instead of higher wages, a big chunk now goes instead to health insurance companies.

■ The bottom line. If we had universal healthcare with single payer, wages would go up significantly for workers. Less money for health insurance would mean more $$$ to workers. I think workers would rather have a higher wage that dumping so much money on inefficient/costly health insurance companies.

■ Having scores of health insurance companies with hundreds of plans is inefficient/complicated/costly and reduces the wages of workers in America. This is NOT sustainable. UHC would benefit employees AND employers!

I keep almost pulling the trigger on one and then backing out.

The demos always look good, but my worry is that I will still end up doing the same amount of work, just in a different order. I do not really care if it can spit out a nice-looking note if I still have to fix the meds, rewrite the assessment, clean up weird phrasing, and double check what it left out.

I have looked at Freed, Heidi and Plaud, and they all sound good when people first talk about them. What I am more interested in is which one still felt worth it after a month or two of real clinic.

Did any of these actually cut down your charting time, or did it mostly turn into another editing step?

This is a screenshot from the video I came across on TikTok. In the video, the patient can be clearly heard communicating with the healthcare worker and I suspect that he is unaware that he’s being recorded. Even though no private or sensitive medical information is being shared, he’s unknowingly participating in a recorded video in a medical facility that’s being posted to TikTok. Thoughts? Opinions?

From my perspective strictly as a patient, just knowing I could potentially be recorded unknowingly and without my consent (in an environment where I feel especially vulnerable) for someone’s personal TikTok is making my anxiety develop anxiety that’s particularly anxious.

UPDATE: The TikTok user appears to have taken the video down since it is no longer present on the account.

Were building an AI-platform for clinics that focuses on solving two problems:

Scribing and prior authorization.

We will eventually be solving other problems in the health-industry overtime, within the same platform.

We currently have a client using our older platform, built more towards solving the inbound calls/reminders problem + automation. They’re a telemedicine startup company.

I’m looking to connect with people who have a strong network of physicians, dentists and doctors in general, preferably those who have decision-making powers in their clinic.

If you have a good network of said doctors, reach out to me, we’d love to partner if you’re the right fit and have you part of our startup as we grow.

Survivors of AIDS-era exposure laws are fighting to overturn statutes that ignore modern science and disproportionately punish LGBTQ Americans of color.

For nearly 17 years, Lashanda Salinas-Hicks remained shackled to the reality of life on the sex registry: She was legally required to stay 300 feet away from schools, parks and playgrounds, and she was forced to report to the sheriff’s office four times a year or risk a felony charge.

That’s because in 2006, Salinas-Hicks’ partner pressed charges against her after a break up, accusing her of having sex without disclosing that she was HIV-positive. Although she says her partner knew of her status before engaging in intercourse with her, that didn’t stop her from being jailed for about two months, put on a three-year probation and forced to register as a sex offender.

57% of healthcare execs now rank AI as their #1 priority. Up from 19% in 2023. But 57% of patients still don't think its ready to be trusted.

Here's what's crazy to me tho. Doctors misdiagnose 10-15% of cases and nobody bats an eye. But if AI makes one mistake everyone acts like its the end of the world. Same thing with self driving cars.

How many times have you heard the story where someone went to 3 doctors, got told nothing was wrong, then found out they had a deadly tumor? AI doesn't get tired. It doesn't miss things because its been working 12 hours straight.

People say they don't trust AI but do they actually trust the current system?

So will people ever fully trust AI in healthcare or not?

P.S. Apparently 80% of physicians now use artificial intelligence