Family medicine physician-educator at @TJUHospital | Underserved care | Education enthusiast | MD, Michigan Medical School | BA, University of Michigan
Philadelphia, PA
Joined July 2017
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Got this text today from a colleague in an NP grad program (not at Jefferson):
“our ENT guest lecturer just ended his lecture with the covid vaccines were a government conspiracy and the only reason hospitals and other places mandated you get them was because they were…
Massive. These price cuts will hopefully begin to address disparities in who does and doesn’t get these critical medications @UREssien
🚨 HUGE NEWS FROM THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION:
Today, 10 of the most expensive and frequently dispensed drugs for seniors are getting a massive price cut: 9 out of 10 of these drugs are getting their price slashed in *half.*
hhs.gov/about/news/2024/08/1…
Look what you can buy at the Grab-N-Go in the airport in the Dominican Republic! – at Dominican Republic
New fave thing to teach the residents is ferritin levels and iron deficiency anemia, all thanks to @acweyand!
Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd retweeted
Very strong editorial from @TorontoStar today on the need to expand safer supply programs. Evidence in top medical journals shows these small, pilot programs have been saving the lives & improving the health of the people who’ve been able to access them thestar.com/opinion/editoria…
Super insightful conversation, useful for any academic person looking to do research in partnership with historically exploited communities.
Gaining trust, being flexible with goals, demonstrating community benefit from research were all big takeaways.
In case you missed our incredibly instructive and inspiring December #DrugResearchersRT, you can tune in and watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=wsUiqYVZ…
Studying for the addiction boards, a few striking quotes from the @ASAMorg Essentials of Addiction Medicine:
“In the United States, unhealthy substance use and addiction cause 23% of all deaths”
“It is the ethical responsibility of every physician to provide competent medical care and to incorporate current scientific knowledge into his or her practice. Yet SUDs have historically been the unattended orphan of the medical profession”
Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd retweeted
I woke up yesterday morning, looked out my window and saw the neighbors had hung this flag on their children’s playground.
Pull up a seat, and join me, friends, for The Chronicles of Being Black in a Rich, White suburb
A thread 💀
Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd retweeted
Another 🌶️new study🌶️ showing that providing MOUD in jails and prisons saves lives! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Greg Jaffe, MD MSEd retweeted
Only 1 in 4 residential treatment centers for teens offers a recommended medicine for opioid addiction, according to a study that exposes an important gap in care. apnews.com/article/opioids-a…
This is a staggering number; it’s about 55,000 MORE people than lost to overdose last year.
There’s an urgent need to rapidly expand access to evidence-based, life-saving medications like Suboxone
Biden's drug czar: 165,000 lives might be lost annually to the opioid crisis by 2025 ow.ly/XBR9104JKNL
Addiction medicine is primary care.
A 33% *mortality* reduction when PCPs prescribe suboxone and hand out harm reduction kits.
Thank you to the @PhillyInquirer for sharing this message.
inquirer.com/health/primary-…
special thanks to @aubreyjwhelan for her continued efforts on the topic of #opioids in Philadelphia.
Turns out that when #PCPs prescribe #suboxone and hand out #harmreduction kits to people who inject #opioids, it decreases mortality (that's DEATH folks, the ultimate health problem) by 33%! @PittGIM
We need more PCPs prescribing suboxone
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
