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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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Fellowship-trained, board-certified neurosurgeon. #neurosurgery #medgames #healthcarepolicy . Tweets/views=own. Believer in science. Curator of epic OR playlist.

Santa Monica, California, USA

Joined September 2011

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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Spine surgeons see problems from many different angles. That is why it’s prudent to get more than one opinion. But be wary of surgeons who use high pressure tactics to get you to sign up for surgery when no other methods have been tried. #trustyoursurgeon

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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@NPR Hi guys. Love you. Subscriber for a long time. This headline is frank gaslighting. Do better. Someone laughed at kids getting shot. Stop normalizing it.

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@tafolabi_MD Many doctors are in that same boat. Its not the income alone, its the debt to income ratio. Its the amount of debt serviced.

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This needs to be shared. #MedTwitter We need patients' just as much as they need us.

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@ChrisMurphyCT I thank you for this. But, the voting rights act and on the minimum wage vote, which, even as a business owner I SUPPORT, she failed. Roundly and flatly. Unfortunately, Senator Sinema wrote her own political failure, and chose to do a lot of ill-advised political theater. Its

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Make college and medical school affordable then get back to me. Otherwise go to sleep and delete this garbage tweet in the morning. Most of us in the healthcare profession still service a ton of loan debt. If we didn’t have it, we could buy home and qualify for mortgages, maybe

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87% of Americans don’t have student loans. Why should they be forced to foot the bill of the 13%?

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@Gerashchenko_en @elonmusk @RenataKonkoly That is my EXACT argument. You don't ask a murderer in your house to "kindly leave."

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So I hope everyone paying attention is seeing the forest. Cutting medicare reimbursements for doctors. Check. Capping nursing salaries check. Preventing insurance companies from posting BILLIONS of dollars in profit PER QUARTER. No check. What's going wrong here? @CMSGov ?

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@DrGJackBrown @Converse I will buy these and donate them. Screw it. I’ll buy ten pairs and donate then. Let’s go @Converse

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In memoriam: my young colleague #IreneSay , a petite, bookish, and hilariously funny person who I only met once but left a huge impression on me. She gave me hope for the next generation of #neurosurgery . She was young, too young, and had in incredible future ahead of her.

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When adjusted for inflation, Medicare physician payments have dropped by 22% from 2001 to 2021. So why are you cutting it more? How much money have you saved? You’re digging in the wrong place. @SecBecerra @HHSGov @CMSGov

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#MedTwitter stop calling yourselves “providers”. End of line.

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@DGlaucomflecken my british patients are an absolute hoot. One of the most underrated funny people. Caustic and hilarious.

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@DrOz @ColumbiaMed this belong to you? Up until yesterday he was one of yours . Good to know he’s still allowed to teach your Med students such sound info.

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Columbia University Quietly Changes Dr. Oz's Position Amid Senate Run

The Pennsylvania Republican candidate is now a "professor emeritus" at one of the nation's top medical schools.

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@ErrameyRamey @UncvrngTheTruth That’s why they did it. It’s desperation. And the stark contrast drawn by our current competent leader and the hot mess of TFG

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Whoops @UCSFMedicine I told you before about her. Glad Jewish lives matter to you.

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Naftali Kaminski

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To the UCSF doctor who just amplified an antisemitic blood libel under the guise of 'antiracism'. I literally cannot understand how this helps to end the killing, displacement, subjugation of Palestinians by Israel. But I know that you don't really care about that

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@DrJaimeFriedman Me, a neurosurgeon who drills into people’s heads and spines. Me also, drilling and cutting stuff in my garage My wife: careful! have you done this before?

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@NLN Can you clarify - you support LESS training rather than more because.....you want to push out less experienced and knowledgable people to take care of patients? Not clear on the stance on this.

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@RepSwalwell They missed their window to gaslight everyone so now it’s the mental illness card and threaten people who don’t agree with them. Now where have I seen this show before…..

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@DocHutch @uche_blackstock Very very important. I use that phrase too. My default setting is believe the patient. In fact that’s kinda my only setting.

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@exoticgamora @realTuckFrumper Hey @GovRonDeSantis sounds like you are winning like crazy! Oh, and just heard they are cancelling elective surgery. Looking forward to your angle on this one. Or just do the right thing. Your choice.

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When clout chasing itself jumps the shark. The time honored and very effective teaching of practical anatomy is critical 2 all Med students, Especially those interested in surgery. Diminishing also to those who donate themselves or their loved ones to medical science. No.

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We don’t talk enough about how horrifying it is that medical students spend months dissecting dead human bodies.

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@uche_blackstock Honest question: why can’t @HHSGov get tests to people at home? For real? @SecBecerra ?

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@drquinngyn Dunning-Kruger has entered chat

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@traumagasdoc @GavinPrestonMD I have five Shoa survivors in my practice. They are dwindling needless to say. Their souls to me seem burnished so brightly by enduring that pain and loss. I hold each and every one dear. They are singular people to be both admired and heeded.

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If a patient falls, & you can see their cranial plate & their shunt tubing - washing it out at the bedside, stitching it up, & sending them on their merry ain’t a good idea. PLEASE call your friendly neighborhood neurosurgeon. And if they think that’s ok, please ask again.

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@tjmule @CarlosdelRio7 Translation: they lied.

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The same people who won’t pay your medical bills just potentially violated HIPAA for over 100 million patients, all because they didn’t enable two factor authentication. Something all of your doctors do when they prescribe you things like medicines. Hold them accountable.

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In case you are curious what single payer shutdown could look like, we are seeing it right now #MedTwitter In case you are wondering WHO administers Medicare, there are 5 jurisdictions, run by INSURANCE COMPANIES, not HHS. These companies are left to their own devices pretty

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From our friends across the pond with a single payer system. The lab experiment is already being done. Patients are the guinea pigs.

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BBC News (UK)

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Non-surgeon removed gall bladders at hospital

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@EM_RESUS Any combination of: christofascism, minority rule, congressional inaction, gun fetishism.

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From the country that brought you the Magna Carta. I give you “doctors aren’t allowed to quit anymore. Instead of fixing our system, we will continue the torture until morale improves.”

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Nigel Farage MP

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More than 15,000 NHS doctors left Britain last year. It can cost up to £400,000 to train them. It’s only fair on the taxpayer that new doctors and nurses should stay here for a given period of time.

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@TPP_MD good on you. People don't realize how we as physicians compartmentalize, sometimes good - and sometimes it is erosive. Blown pupils is obv a bad omen, but you did your best to get the patient taken care of.

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@OccupyDemocrats at this point, they are all supposedly adults, so let them adult. Alabama has to make up its mind.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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@olsonplanner Tyler we have a fixed set of charges called a charge master. We bill the insurance and they give themselves a discount or don’t pay altogether. Then they bill the patient for their own care that the patient paid the insurance company to pay for. That is how a medical bill is born

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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@NixJoanna @TimOBrien @TheRickWilson Uh yep. I choose my patients safety. Even if it’s a 10 hour surgery. We wear the damn things.

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@olsonplanner Or my favorite is when they called an emergency spine surgery to save a woman’s ability to walk a “cosmetic procedure” and denied the claim, even though all the notes said she had become paralyzed from a tumor pressing on the spinal cord and all the mris said the same thing

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@laayyyysss There is a whole lotta somethin going on here. Hoooo man.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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This is not difficult. Talk to your Congress person. Tweet @SecBecerra Tweet @HHSGov Ask why the people caring for patients in A WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC are getting the shaft and every move from the NSA to capping nurse salaries is benefiting tbe insurers.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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Dear @Aetna . Patient developed new deficit over weekend. Needed emergency surgery today. Not good to play Russian roulette with people’s lives. Stay tuned, I am sure you will be hearing from some people. TTFN. Oh and your reviewing physician? Not a good look. Talk soon.

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2day's WTAF moment #MedTwitter . 20s healthy pat., big herniated disc, on Norco 7.5 can't sleep/work - insurance: "he has 2 have 6-8 weeks of therapy." CAN'T DO THERAPY. "Well, therapist needs to determine that." Thanks 4 practicing medicine +adding to the opioid crisis @Aetna

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@AndreaR9Md I’ve done both. And I say this is our lane (once, again, +forever). I watched a kid bleed out of a gsw that nicked his LAD, and numerous people who committed or tried suicide by shooting themselves in the head with a firearm. Things maybe people should actually see 2 understand.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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@SarahDarerLitt @JoeOfTheNorth After the laughter we are not sure what happens. But It won’t be tears. Not this time. #NeverAgain

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@GallaherCaren @MDinWaiting @z_mac YES except the mentality of residency is more like "Lord of the Flies" than "Good Will Hunting."

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@Tabathamarshal It’s 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.

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@DGlaucomflecken I did it last week bud. Tell them what you know. And if they can’t listen then they are probably beyond reach. I feel like fear is and has been the main emotion causing people to hesitate. Reassurance can work but some are beyond saving.

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Why pick a #privatepractice doctor? You like people answering the phones instead of phone trees. You enjoy seeing a physician and not someone else. You like your questions answered by a person and not a chatbot. #spinesurgery #neurosurgery

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To be clear. This is not partisan. It has NEVER BEEN partisan. We keep losing because we make it partisan. Hold all of them accountable and voice your concern.

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@Dr_RShatsky Rebecca, thank your father for me for his service. I am also a neurosurgeon, but not a veteran. His story is important - and his unique perspective should be heeded. As a fellow Jew, it also really concerns me what I am seeing. Be well.

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@MeidasTouch this really was choice

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@jbarro Josh you missed the point. The healthcare system is not infinite. Folks are choosing a more dangerous path and, like everything people made, there are limits. They are being tested. Rationing (which I fear) does not mean we don’t want people to have cvg. We want people to live

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@marklewismd So Mark you are seeing first-hand the failure of the American Education system. All of this. Where we are right now is a direct corollary of the unseriousness with which we educate(d) our youth.

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@RosenthalHealth Hi. You do understand the difference between billed charges and actual payment right? Because from your statement it sounds like you don’t. Doctors get usually 10-25% of invoiced charges.

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@thanh_neville @davidhogg111 I am a neurosurgeon and have seen what guns do to the human body. I have seen unsurvivable brain injuries, people left blind, killed by post traumatic aneurysms and paraplegia. I have watched a young man bleed out of his open chest from a gsw to his heart. #DoctorsForGunSafety

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@uche_blackstock @nkagetsu @WSJ @AAMCtoday The great standby insult for the terrified right wing minority is “woke.” It’s use as a derogatory imo is laughable. Obv the way things have been done the last 90+ or so yrs ain’t making things better for those in need. If trying to impr access and make it better then woke it is

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@AgnesSolberg UHC - 15 billion dollars in revenue per quarter. And Congress says we are the problem. We just have to keep repeating until people hear us and then they start getting on their member of Congress’ case. but 🤷‍♂️

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@thatgirl409 Might be a reason to tell the patient to seek another practice/or person to take care of her.

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@ShantiAkers @DGlaucomflecken Designing a light bulb and lighting farts on fire. Stunning.

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@ProjectLincoln @GregAbbott_TX Means you are doing something right.

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@TripleThreat_MD My God.

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"Just because you're complicated doesn't mean you're crazy" - me, to one of my nicest, most complex patients - who doesn't need an operation, just someone to listen to her.

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@MadisonRCook I’m glad he did it and it shows how we must all look out for each other, especially in a circumstance like this. Always always always.

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#HappyDoctorsDay though it’s been appropriated. To my buds on #medtwitter don’t give up without a fight. Ain’t nobody gonna do it but us. Fight for your patients and for ethical physician led medicine. Fight for access for our patients and for accountability from those in power

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@MBurt34 that feeling you get when you cover 3 semesters' worth of college organic chemistry in 2 weeks

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@adorkydancer @TheBlondeRN Thank you. This is insane. And shows “they” are coming for all healthcare workers. Got your lobbying shoes on - all of you. Doctors nurses lab techs. EVERY. ONE.

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That feeling when your patient's killing it after surgery you did and the #insurancecartel tells him the surgery was not medically necessary. And he works for a huge company and the insurer calls trying to blame you, the surgeon for doing a good job. #fixpriorauth #MedTwitter

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@jzaraterod The other thing is to create guidelines for peer reviewing physicians

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@RepsForBiden Double double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble! By the pricking of my thumbs; something wicked this way comes!

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@revlupneb @blaireerskine @The_Real_Sparkk God yes. I actually thought he was the guy fit a min then realized he would have been fired like instantly but this is pure gold.

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@Dr_RShatsky @AnthemBCBS @FDAOncology Sounds like they are practicing medicine. @AnthemBCBS ? Does your pharmacist have an MD or DO after their name?

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@dremilyportermd @DrGJackBrown @Converse @Everytown @MomsDemand Any time a patient wants to buy me a thank you gift, my staff know to tell them to donate to @MomsDemand The last thing I need is another bottle of scotch. Sorry @marklewismd .

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@DrDavidBumpass Thank you for pointing this out. Unfortunately the spin doctors have already laid the ground for more nonsense and despoiling the surgeons good name and reputation. Thank you for pushing back. We all appreciate it as well.

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@brianmarkdane @UCSFMedicine @DrRupaMarya You are entitled to your opinion. We agree to disagree.

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So met Will @DGlaucomflecken today. I made it weird. But he was a good sport. Thanks for being out there and fighting the good fight in your way. Hopefully breakfast was good. ✌️ #aans2023

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2day's WTAF moment #MedTwitter . 20s healthy pat., big herniated disc, on Norco 7.5 can't sleep/work - insurance: "he has 2 have 6-8 weeks of therapy." CAN'T DO THERAPY. "Well, therapist needs to determine that." Thanks 4 practicing medicine +adding to the opioid crisis @Aetna

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Understand that "Medicare for All" means THESE guys will be in charge of it. Instead, use existing laws and regs and ENFORCE them to bring the #insurancecartel to heel. Tell @SecBecerra to do his job instead of shill for @UHC .

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UnitedHealth pressured employees to cut off payments for seriously ill patients in lockstep with a computer algorithm’s calculations, denying rehab care for older and disabled Americans as profits soared. Read:

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@Chicago_History That COULD be what was left on the bottom after I ate Brown's chicken. Which I don't eat anymore because I want to live to see 50.

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So despite cutting supposedly “the driver” of cost in healthcare (physician reimb) in double digits, ya didn’t save any $ @CMSGov Maybe it’s because u keep pouring $$ into insurance subsidies?? You know, the guys making BILLIONS as ppl lose access? Lobbyists win, patients lose

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CBO estimates that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI’s) activities increased federal spending between 2011 and 2020 and will also increase it, by $1.3 billion, from 2021 to 2030. In 2010, CBO projected that CMMI would produce savings.

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@ErrameyRamey @UncvrngTheTruth You’ll notice the closer we get to know those responsible for 1/6 and the different responses to similar threats the more muckraking will occur. From the rote panic from people seeing through the charade and the house of cards imploding. Cue hunters laptop or caravans up next…

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

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#Passover2024 homemade cashew butter, matzah, and overnight oats (may not >technically< be ok but thats the way it is) A Ziesen Pesach to all who celebrate!

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

1 year

@AjKavanaugh We spoke a lot about UHC and their ultimate goal of owning all of healthcare in America and becoming too big to fail.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

1 year

@fuzzymittens @united Nope. They owe you money and a hotel stay. Read the fine print on your pass. New laws were passed covering this exact scenario.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

1 year

@chipkahn @FAHhospitals @ahahospitals I see a lot of our problems in you my friend. Checked your CV. Funny how things have just gotten worse and worse (and worse yet) with you and your ilk in charge. Sad but not surprising.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 months

You and your patients should not sign up for #MedicareAdvantage . If you can, please KEEP your existing MC plan and get a secondary. Not everyone can, but if you can, please keep straight Medicare.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 years

@RepsForBiden Hi! We are your new executive branch! How can we help you?

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

1 year

#MedTwitter reclaiming your agency is calling someone out when you as an MD or DO as "provider." If you are not comfortable with that term, let them know. Did it today on Zoom with a telehealth company and it felt good.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 months

@CognettiMD @AAOS1 @AAHKS @otatrauma @MilOrtho This will do the exact OPPOSITE. hey @GovNedLamont if you want to increase the length of time patient in the OR and increase the amount of times, they have to be taken back for issues with their hardware, or even increase the distraction of the surgeon, while searching for

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

2 years

@OligoclonalBand @Aetna hey @SecBecerra you are welcome, at any point in your tenure, to fight for patients rather than the insurance companies.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

3 years

@thehill @thehill why do you give oxygen to patent lies? WE ALL EFFING WATCHED IT

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 years

@MarkHertling @TheRickWilson We appreciate the love, General. Thank you for your service and your love of this country - not to mention your unwavering willingness to call BS.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 months

In case you are wondering why healthcare costs so much still, this is why

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More Perfect Union

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The Justice Department has launched an antitrust case against UnitedHealth, owner of the biggest health insurer in the U.S. and Optum health-services. UnitedHealth had $372 billion in revenue last year. Its insurance arm covers 53 million people, and Optum has 90,000 doctors.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

2 years

@DrJaimeFriedman Wel thankfully we have smart people like you @DocEMurray and @DrCJohns get interviewed should really be the ones in prime time who are truly qualified. Telling us being cautious is not being scared and clarifying the data and not minimizing nor maximizing questions

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

3 years

@JeffreyKrasner Question: will ranchers blame the people taking an unproven drug (remember hydroxycholoroquine) or the companies for "not making enough to go around"?

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 months

@PamKeithFL Wow. Mask off, right? "believe people when they tell you who they are"

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 years

@Acyn @gtconway3d He is speaking of the MMSE. This is a test doctors use to see if someone is cognitively impaired. It should be concerning beyond belief that he thought it was difficult.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

3 years

@RpsAgainstTrump I am not getting one and I am happy for it - and I am glad its finally coming for others.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

3 months

@Cary_Elwes @RealRobinWright As you wish @RealRobinWright

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

3 years

@palmd While.....supplies.....last......

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

4 years

@MichaelSteele @ProjectLincoln @JoeBiden @realDonaldTrump @politico Hate to say it- but the GOP got played. Like a fiddle.

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Brian Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS 🟧🇮🇱

2 years

@CatDocMD I just say what I am. If they are uncomfortable, Adios. As a proud Jew, I am happy to say I take care of all faiths.

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