Alex Jordan
Geriatrician and palliative medicine physician at NYP/Weill Cornell; interested in the intersections of aging, serious illness, addiction medicine and the humanities
- Grateful to share my first piece published in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, (@synapsisjournal.bsky.social) "From Interval to Image: Carson, Mann, and the Art of Clinical Reasoning" medicalhealthhumanities.com/2026/01/20/f...
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- "As physicians, we remain steadfast in a belief that everyone should be afforded the opportunity to die with dignity and recognize any death in prison as a policy failure. We can, and must, imagine a more just future for all patients."
- Reposted by Alex JordanNew GERI Brain Health video is out! Dr. @annachodos.bsky.social shares practical ways to acknowledge, support & partner with caregivers—essential allies in dementia care. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxX...
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- Fantastic read— harpers.org/archive/2025...
- Reposted by Alex JordanMeaning, Medications, and Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Discussion with David Mintz Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/meaning-me...
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- On repeat this month—
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- Ongoing reading (and it’s excellent, because Larissa MacFarquhar always is)
- Reposted by Alex JordanWe must normalize carrying naloxone, make sure it’s available everywhere and at all times—and federally fund it as a public-health essential. ow.ly/CBOt50Xl7bk
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- Beyond thrilled for my friend Alex’s film In Transit premiering at NewFest 2025! Couldn’t be prouder; see you there! newfest.org/events/intra...
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- Tickets secured for October's New Yorker Festival! 🫡
- “When a person recovers from an illness, it is usually seen as the end of the story. But becoming sane also causes a kind of narrative collapse, a confrontation with a personal history that is no longer recognizable."
- Registered; so looking forward to this, organized by @parapraxismag.bsky.social
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- "The urgent questions before us have much more to do with building the political conditions under which a healthcare revolution is possible than with once again demonstrating truths that have already been so well-established." proteanmag.com/2025/04/15/c...
- Go Rams! 🐏! @fordham.edu!
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- "I see an artist doing what artists do: opening the wound, peering into it, and extracting what she can." www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...
- "Criminal justice scholars say that when scores based on immutable facts are weighted so heavily in parole decisions, prisoners from impoverished, racially segregated communities are more likely to be hurt."
- Grateful for the opportunity to be able to present this work @wcmgeripal.bsky.social!
- Honored to have played a role in securing compassionate release for this patient last year through the incredible work of Medical Justice Alliance! For more information on how to get involved: medicaljusticealliance.org
- Honored to have played a role in securing compassionate release for this patient last year through the incredible work of Medical Justice Alliance! For more information on how to get involved: medicaljusticealliance.org
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- Already purchased tickets!
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- "The truth is, nursing homes can meet these standards. The for-profit nursing home industry diverts hundreds of millions in profits to executives and shareholders — money that could be redirected toward hiring more nurses." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
- Reposted by Alex JordanNow the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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- www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/o... I've wanted to be a geriatrician and palliative care physician since my medical school days, and it's still the best decision I've made.
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- "Resigned to the Big Tech companies recording our every move, we’ve invited friends, family, and partners to join them in watching us. We’ve begun to celebrate surveillance as a form of intimacy." www.thedriftmag.com/on-the-grid/
- “Maybe everyone knows this, anyway, and structural violence—another term for it is “social injustice”—is simply, at this point, the structure of American life, and it is treated as normal, whether we attach that particular name to it or not.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
- “Squatting, waiting, the primitivism comes over me with the rain. I’m saturated by the absurdity of this twenty-first-century moment.” www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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