#MedicalInsurance #Medicare #MedicarePlus

Just received noticed from #BlueShield that #UCSF, my medical provider for the last 15 years, is leaving the #BlueShieldOfCA #PPO medical network as of 7/10/2025. ☹️

Just started doing some research on which groups are available where I can find a new PCP & all of the "reviews" for all of the medical groups in my area & beyond are dismal. 🤦‍♂️

That said, I've found that as long as I get a PCP that I get along with & who is responsive to my needs/requests, I'm happy even if the reviews for the group are poor.

So, I may need to try a couple in various groups before I find the PCP that I like.

As the member of a PPO, I don't have to worry all about getting referrals for specialized care but the day-to-day medical care -- labs & prescriptions -- is all I generally need & I just need to find another PCP who is on the same page with me for those things.

Wish me luck! 😉

The “evidence-based” messaging of this bus-shelter ad in #ColeValley #SanFrancisco near #UCSF, one of the U.S.’s premier medical research institutions, shows how other countries are eager to scoop up students and researchers dispirited by the Trump administration’s #MAHA snake oil and its dismantling and corruption of public science.

Dr. Rupa Marya, Doctor and Professor at UCSF, San Francisco is suing for discrimination after her university fired her for speaking out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/05/gaza-israel-san-francisco-ucsf-doctor-professor/

#palestine #freepalestine #genocide #censorship #UCSF #freespeech #gaza #publichealth

The Doctor's Bookshelf (a blog of books every doctor should read, courtesy of Dr. Ibrahim Imam) lists Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and The Brain, written by me and #UCSF #Neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, as one of the Ten Incredibly Moving Patient #Memoirs about the Brain.

https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/2023/02/11/the-most-incredibly-moving-patient-memoirs-about-the-brain/

#Neurology
#Caregiving
#EndAlz

Great journalism article published this week with @theexamination.org about international tobacco control negotiations. It is a very interesting story, and note several industry documents from the IDL #UCSF are cited! #tobaccocontrol

https://www.theexamination.org/articles/how-industry-capture-of-filipino-officials-helped-deadlock-global-tobacco-control-negotiations

Erin Allday: reakthrough multiple sclerosis therapy by #UCSF doctor transforms treatment for millions

"'When biomedical research is perceived to be threatened, great young people can conclude that this just isn’t a secure career,' Hauser said. 'And yet we are entering a new era where these brain diseases are understandable, treatable and down the road even preventable.'"

#gift #multiplesclerosis #health #healthcare
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/ms-multiple-sclerosis-drug-20277815.php?utm_content=img&sid=57f2d62b1acbcdb5538b4a4e&ss=A&st_rid=98ebc417-046c-4639-bbc2-4643319705bc&utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_term=headlines&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2hlYWx0aC9hcnRpY2xlL21zLW11bHRpcGxlLXNjbGVyb3Npcy1kcnVnLTIwMjc3ODE1LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTc0NTY5MjM3MTE1OA%3D%3D&rid=OThlYmM0MTctMDQ2Yy00NjM5LWJiYzItNDY0MzMxOTcwNWJj&sharecount=OA%3D%3D

The memoir I wrote with #UCSF #neurologist, Dr. Bruce Miller, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain is now available through the HFC website. Please check out the bookshop and see the other books on #caregiving and #brain health. Thank you to #LaurenMillerRogen and #SethRogen for your advocacy and profound generosity.

https://bookshop.org/shop/WeAreHFC

#EndAlz

To be clear for history, the faculty of the University of California have spoken. The question now is, will the leadership of the #UC system choose to be a #harvard or a #columbia ?

#UCBerkeley #UCI #UCSD #UCDavis #UCLA #UCSB #UCSC #UCMerced #UCSF #UCR #UCOP

https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/academic-council-statement-defense-of-university-april-2025.pdf

It was an honor to be a panelist on #Dementia Stories for Impact: Dementia Life Course and Storytelling, sponsored by the #AlzheimersAssociation and #UCSF. My fellow authors and colleagues talked about the importance of #narrative, #empathy, #brain health, and Dr. Bruce Miller and I talked about our work together on my #memoir, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain. I hope you find this discussion helpful.

https://lnkd.in/g-mgqkkN

#EndAlz
#Caregiving

It was an honor to be a panelist on #Dementia Stories for Impact: Dementia Life Course and Storytelling, sponsored by the #AlzheimersAssociation and #UCSF. My fellow authors and colleagues talked about the importance of #narrative, #empathy, #brain health, and Dr. Bruce Miller and I talked about our work together on my #memoir, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain. I hope you find this discussion helpful.

https://lnkd.in/g-mgqkkN

#EndAlz
#Caregiving

Now on the blog: how we expanded UCSF’s Health Atlas from California (which we first collaborated on in 2019) to the entire US in 2024, including data and design updates across the entire tool.

Read now at https://stamen.com/taking-ucsfs-health-atlas-national/

#maps #basemaps #design #cartography #ucsf #health #choropleth

Announcing an upcoming panel on probably the most active controversy in #bioethics that people outside medicine (and many within) haven't heard of, #ta-NRP for #organdonation. (We're facing decisions about this at #UCSF and many other hospitals are also considering their policies.) This is a method for increasing the quantity and quality of organs available for transplantation, but which many critics believe violates the dead donor rule. In ta-NRP circulatory death of the donor is declared, after which perfusion is restored to thoracic and abdominal organs while brain perfusion is (we think) surgically prevented. Ta-NRP is performed in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and in some centers in the US; is contrary to guidelines in Canada, Australia, and NZ; and has been paused in Belgium and the UK pending further study.

At #Neuroethics2025 in Munich next month we'll host a panel, International Controversies over ta-NRP for Organ Procurement: Brain Perfusion and the Dead Donor Rule, including panelists to share key perspectives from three countries where ta-NRP has been performed, critiquing different conceptions of the role of the brain in circulatory death and how national professional and public norms affect views of this procedure:

• Karola Kreitmair (Univ. of Wisconsin, US) is a philosopher whose work addresses philosophical arguments regarding ta-NRP and the dead donor rule.
• Amelia Hessheimer (Hosp. Univ. La Paz, Spain) is a transplant surgeon and co-author of the European Society for Organ Transplantation's consensus statement on NRP.
• Alex Manara (N. Bristol NHS Trust, UK) is an intensivist and author of an influential early analysis on ta-NRP and the dead donor rule.

https://neuroethicssociety.org/posts/international-controversies-over-ta-nrp-for-organ-procurement-brain-perfusion-and-the-dead-donor-rule/ #neuroethics