Eric Widera, MD

@EWidera · San Francisco · joined 23 Jul 2009

Professor of Med @UCSF. Focused on Geriatrics, Hospice, Palliative care, and medical education. Podcasts at https://t.co/U5ErQk8xvf

14 837Followers

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10 179Posts total

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Eric Widera, MD@EWidera26 Nov 2025

@EWidera Is this a protest? Do you know why? 🤔 4 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Eric Widera, MD@EWidera16 Feb 2025

San Francisco Tesla dealership is busy today (at least the sidewalk is) https://t.co/pYjEyAgqwN

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Eric Widera, MD@EWidera31 Jan 2025

What they are really saying is that they want to drive care away from government programs to private companies like UnitedHealth, where "productivity" is encouraged through upcoding and profit is maximized for shareholders and CEO salaries. 3/3🧵 https://t.co/0WYAC0RMKJ 497 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Eric Widera, MD@EWidera31 Jan 2025

Government employees are being encouraged to resign from "lower productivity in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector." This is a false narrative. Example: VA healthcare system does no worse and is often better than non-VA care in most outcomes 1/3🧵

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Eric Widera, MD@EWidera31 Jan 2025

We have data from a 2024 systematic review that concludes most published studies show that Veterans getting care from the VA get the same or better clinical quality than Vets getting community care or the general public getting non-VA care. 2/3🧵 https://t.co/vxdrz7Lmww https://t.

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Eric Widera, MD@EWidera30 Jan 2025

Does he even know what nurses and doctors do? Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year https://t.co/thTClMHARa

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Eric Widera, MD@EWidera30 Jan 2025

If someone refuses vaccines or any other tx, you build trust, listen to concerns, share your worries. Influence but not control. But to not even try? Refuse healthcare to a child for a decision that their parent is making?? That’s wrong. Opinion 1 is right https://t.co/GC3aHRFQlE 759 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Eric Widera, MD@EWidera30 Jan 2025

It takes competence to fix something or make it better. Any fool can brake it even further. RFK Jr is in the latter group. https://t.co/0gZ9pQFANi 510 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Eric Widera, MD@EWidera10 Dec 2024

Up-coding diagnoses in MA plans “Insurer-driven diagnoses by UnitedHealth for diseases that no doctor treated generated $8.7 billion in 2021 payments to the company, the Journal’s analysis showed. UnitedHealth’s net income that year was about $17 billion.” https://t.co/4hXteQt3cZ

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Reposts10.1%7 in total

Replies17.4%12 in total

Quotes2.9%2 in total

Bookmarks2.9%2 in total

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