Integrative Patient Advocate. Palliative Care Activist. Passionate Community Organizer. Ardent Optimizer: Quality of Life. Program Director, Educator, Chaplain
Joined January 2017
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Cigna uses an automated system that allows “medical directors” (doctors employed by @Cigna) to deny a claim in 1.2 seconds without opening the patient’s file.
Please read this, share it, and help us (metaphorically) burn these companies to the ground.
Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.
“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”
The inside story 🧵
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If you work in medicine and read any thread today, this should be it.
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The good people at @propublica are putting together a project about health insurance denials. They are collecting stories. They came to the right corner of twitter for stories. You can tell yours at the link below. propublica.org/getinvolved/i…
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Sure, we could;
1.Train more #Palliativecare doctors
2. Figure out how to get more referrals
3. See #Patients earlier in their illness
We will NEVER make a dent until every graduating healthcare provider has the basic skills to provide a palliative approach.
#Medtwitter
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Palliative care is 👏an👏option👏. After a severe medical event, it’s crucial for patients to know all of their options *and* for clinicians to discuss palliative care and if it’s right for their patient.
bit.ly/3jAo4c9
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"I can guarantee that if you see my palliative care colleague your symptoms are going to be better managed, your family is going to be cared for better, and your survival is going to be prolonged. It just needs to be part of routine medical care …"
- Dr. R. Sean Morrison
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Democrat @JonesForAR is running against Sarah Huckabee Sanders. His ad is worth a watch and he’s worth a follow.
People living with Parkinson’s need continued telehealth access to be a permanent option for doctor visits. Please co-sponsor H.R. 2903. #Act4PD
@SenJeffMerkley @RonWyden @CliffBentz
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It's over the landscape of the human condition of dependency, vulnerability, and mortality that we walk together. I love this job. #hapc #hpm #MedTwitter
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Covid-19 could set back gender equality 25 years! On #IWD2021, let’s demand world leaders invest in women + girls. Share now and make our call go viral! 💪💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼💪🏿 #EqualRecovery #GenerationEquality
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Patient-centered care begins with the hearing from patients themselves. That’s why CCCC created our Palliative Care Ambassador project. Read more in our latest blog post: bit.ly/35c94KO Thank you!: @GraceCordovano @HAISurvivor @srhall419 @SeleneSeltzer @Reinhart_shelly
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The absence of pain is not only an absence of a negative feeling—it is the presence of relief. When we suffer, we seek the presence of comfort, the presence of solace, the presence of those willing to sit with us in our suffering ja.ma/3lAKAAh @ramyasampath0 #medhum
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Ashish is one of our best; a mentor and a leader for many of today’s best and emerging voices and experts.
For him to be attacked simply for standing up for the facts and the data is appalling.
America should be better than that.
Today was a very, very odd day
I testified before @senatehomeland
They held a hearing on hydroxychloroquine.
Yup, HCQ
In the middle of the worst surge of pandemic
HCQ
It was clear how our information architecture shapes questions of science and medicine of COVID
A thread
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NEW VIDEO: #AmericaNeedsGeorgia TURN VOLUME UP!!
With @Jeff_Daniels and the amazing @THORNETTAD
REAL CHANGE begins with @ossoff & @ReverendWarnock.
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Whew, the roller coaster of emotions with this one! Bravo, @ProjectLincoln. #VoteForHer xitter.cf/ProjectLincoln/status/…
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The second wave of #COVID19 has started. We know what happened the first time in #LTC facilities.
When will our government act?
#onpoli
@fordnation
@DrFullertonMPP
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Welcome, August! And, welcome to Smith Center's Spiritual Companion, Carole O'Toole
For more information, visit ow.ly/tlkn50AMLne
To schedule an appt with Carole, please email carla@smithcenter.org
#transformcancer #healing #spirituality
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Great video: @Craig_A_Spencer is an American hero ... and a friend.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things. That's the story of America — and it's being written every day by folks like Dr. @Craig_A_Spencer, who fought the Ebola outbreak and now COVID-19. @BarackObama and I called to thank him for his service and discuss the moment we're in.