Jennifer Hamilton, MD PhD

Why am I hearing about this from The Guardian rather than USian media?

Feb 18 high winds blew a baby stroller into Lake Michigan-- with baby in it! Man jumps into frigid lake, treads water holding stroller and tot until rescued. Baby doing well, but man needed to be hospitalized for several days.

In true USA fashion, there's a GoFundMe for his hospital fees and lost wages.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lio-recover-after-heroic-rescue

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/chicago-baby-saved-lake

Could the rescue be getting little attention bc rescuer is trans?

Dr Glaucomflecken AND Senator Elizabeth Warren team up!

What happens when one company owns the medical office, the insurance company, the pharmacy, and the pharmacy benefit manager? This might be a "choose your own adventure" -- we can write the next chapter!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C3iitzCI3RA

Dr Glaucomflecken has the goods on a hospital in Oregon that fired all of its ER docs. Said they were too slow, and pt dissatisfaction was too high. Why were the ER wait times getting higher? It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the hospital owners had already closed another nearby ED, could it?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tcHwqb8yEGY

The good news: Polio has gotten rare enough in the US, thanks to vaccines, that there are very few doctors with experience in caring for its long-term complications.

The bad news: who is going to be able to take care of the people who feel its effects when the vaccination rates drop?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/23/polio-vaccines-us

@AnnieBuddy@mstdn.ca I see your .ca server address, and I'm reminded of a joke about the TV/streaming show Breaking Bad. It was the sort of series that would only come from the US. Anywhere else, when Walter got diagnosed with lung cancer, he'd know that the cost of his treatment would be taken care of by nat'l health insurance. No financial problems, very different drama.

#USPol
#trans

Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) published a document outlining how in intends to care for trans inmates. Recall that there's already an executive order keeping the Bureau of Prisons (BoP) from spending money on maintaining hormone treatment for trans inmates. The next step is to eval folks for gender dysphoria and "treating" for that -- aka conversion therapy.

DoJ document at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27307934-bop-526001-management-of-inmates-with-gender-dysphoria/

More info at https://transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-is-testing

#ACIP meeting slated for March 18 & 19 -- and they're going to be taking about covid vaccine injury.

If you were giving of getting a covid vaccine booster this spring -- maybe you get the vaccine twice a year because of health risks -- you might want to get it before the meeting.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jrs-cdc-panel-discuss-covid-vaccine-injuries-upcoming-meeting-rcna260694

@peachfront@toot.community On the CDC website, I did find the recommendation for those 65 and older to get 2 doses annually. However, but that everything there also says "shared clinical decision-making", you may want to check with the folks you'd be thing to fit the vaccine ( Clinic? Pharmacy? ) to see how they handle it before you drive to get it.

@rvaughnmd@med-mastodon.com I have several patients who got GLP1 meds through websites or specialty clinics who lost weight, stopped the meds, and had the weight come back -- and now complain that the meds didn't work.

"They're not like antibiotics. They don't cure a problem. They're like blood pressure meds. As soon as you stop them, the numbers go back up." I say as empatheticly as I can.