Informative article in the @EconomicTimes (ETC) on the topic "Pass the Sugar," by @LijeePhilipET. The article explores the science behind sugar, natural sweeteners, and sugar substitutes while addressing common myths and misconceptions. My key message is that the real challenge isn't simply replacing sugar with another sweetener, it's reducing our dependence on sweetness and adopting healthier eating habits. Thank you, Lijee Philip and The Economic Times for including my views in this important discussion on nutrition and metabolic health.

An American goes to the ER for high blood pressure, stays under 24 hours, no surgery, no CT, no MRI, and gets a $41,000 bill. Lovely. Now here’s the part people miss when this gets discussed economically: that $41,000 fully counts toward U.S. GDP. Not because it’s useful, but because GDP counts priced transactions, not value or outcomes. And it doesn’t stop there. The system creates additional GDP layers around the same visit. Hospital administrative labor, insurance claim processing, billing departments, compliance and coding, insurer overhead and profit, financial services handling payments and debt, interest if the patient can’t pay immediately. So one short ER visit inflates healthcare GDP, inflates services GDP, inflates finance GDP, inflates measured economic activity. Even though nothing extra was medically produced. This is why US GDP looks larger than countries with regulated or single payer healthcare. In Europe, the same visit might cost a few hundred euros, involve minimal billing, and generate far less economic activity on paper. Same patient. Same outcome. Wildly different GDP contribution.

RT @MCoylewright: For interventionalists, we become fans when we can witness someone's skills in a live case. @OPCILive 2025 in NYC, record…

#Dual organ Txp. And here starts the new era and adventure for KU TXp program. Successful first combined heart-liver transplant. Appreciate partnership with Liver TXp team. Lots of planning and effort went into this @hirakshahmd @Dr. Danter @tylerzorn @mammen @zubairshah

Yesterday, we performed our 1500th Watchman implant @KUHospital, one of the few sites in the country, to reach this milestone. We were able to achieve this with excellent outcomes. I am really proud of the team for its commitment to patient care and quality. @prasadchan @AmitNoheria @rheapimentel3 @KUCVM

Physician conversion factors: 2000: $36.6173 2003: $36.7856 2006: $37.8975 2009: $36.0666 2012: $34.0376 2015: $35.7547 2018: $35.9996 2021: $34.8931 2024: $32.7442 UHC stock up 8,556% Insurance premiums up 342% Inflation up 86% Physician pay down 10% We should keep cutting physician pay so families have more money in their pockets through reduced costs and reduced premiums based on the last 25 years of experience.

This is a beautiful composition

Congratulations to the organizing committee of the 4th Annual CV Updates Symposium for a successful conference. Fantastic agenda with great case discussions. Honored to present on CV disease in pregnancy. @prasadchan @ReddyEPS @KUCVM @AmitNoheria @DaliaTarun @rheapimentel3

Breaking News: FTC bans ALL non competes! This includes physicians ! ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…

IVL 🎈⚡️under US Seen on LinkedIn by Dr Christian Reinhold

Very grateful for this #USCardiology Editorial Board, working together to #DemocratizeCVPublishing. Stay tuned for: ❤️‍🔥New article formats ❤️‍🔥New sections ❤️‍🔥New collaborations & collections

no ifs or buts this is the best evidence we have to make everyday decisions re Transfusions in MI pts: restrictive has a risk of substantial harm and no evidence of heterogeneity across subgroups until new evidence accrues,i will use a liberal transfusion strategy in these pts

Referral for “stent-ectomy”:: gooseneck snare 🎣 removal of prior stent, calcium 🪨 modification with IVL⚡️, re-stent with IVUS 👁️ guidance 👍…

Do you share @ABIMFoundation president @RichardBaron17 ‘s perspective that physicians should not take up interests like photography because this may cause them to no longer be competent in medicine ? His suggestion that physicians should not pursue outside interests is the tone deaf bookend to the tweet suggesting we do #MOC while on vacation. Interests outside of medicine are critical to a physician’s well being; these interest compliment medical practice rather than compete with them as Dr. Barron would lead you to believe. The @ABIMFoundation narrative just keeps going from bad (do MOC on vacation) to worse (do not pursue outside interests).

While on vacation ABIM wants you to take a break from vacation to do their useless questions. Where is the RCT data that it does anything to patient care? Countless anecdotes that docs are burnig out doing this garbage, if we are relying on anecdote of Dr Goelz.

About time!

The NY state bill to ban non compete clauses including in physician contracts has passed the senate! @NYSCACC supported this with a strong letter from our advocacy committee @APKithcartMDPhD @himavidula Let’s keep going & make it Law! Link: nysenate.gov/legislation/bil… Justification:

How much should a cardiologist (who has debt, expenses, & doesn’t start until ~ age 34) make for placing a stent & stopping a heart attack (2 am/pm doesn’t matter)? $674 Not asking for more. But people should know we only get 2% of that bill you get. We’re not the enemy.

Our 7th annual #CurrentCardiologyConcepts conference was today with anatomy workshop/heart dissection, interactive simulations and great lectures by @rheapimentel3 @SethHSheldon @prasadchan and Dr. Jessica Kline! Thx to @MDT_Cardiac for sponsoring. @MidAmericaHeart @KUMedCenter

Red kingdom!!!!