Jeffrey B. Benyacar
Health policy thinker | Healthcare economics & innovation nerd | Public policy wonk | Biostats appreciator | Mets & Jets fan| sic labitur ætas
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." Paul Farmer
- Birthday 🎂 but rent 🏋️still due!
- (Piece published by a French friend on narrative medicine) 💯 Un texte profond et nécessaire d’un ami sur la médecine narrative. Il rappelle que raconter et écouter ne sont pas des ornements du soin, mais ce qui lui donne sens, dignité et portée éthique dans une médecine de plus en plus pressée.🛟
- 🎁 This piece lands on a core problem with consumer facing medical AI. The failure is not that the model is imperfect but it expresses uncertainty as confidence. No diagnosis was requested. No treatment advice was sought. Just interpretation. The only right answer is "I don't know". #medsky #idsky
- 🎁 Power and money don't just corrupt but reveal.
- "Because if you claim to oppose antisemitism, but fail to recognize that so much of it is now carried out under the guise of anti-Israel activism, then you are not protecting Jews and fighting bigotry. You’re endangering Jews and protecting bigots." @yonifreedhoff.com
- Paul Gagnon's piece from 1988 hits hard and more relevant today: "history is meant to teach judgment,not comfort." "It takes a bone-deep understanding of how hard it is to preserve civilization or to better human life, and of how these have nonetheless been done repeatedly in the past." #historysky
- Hope this is phony, but it underscores one reason we encourage kids to hate math from a young age. The wording is polysemic and 75 is indeed a "reasonable" answer. #mathsky
- I observed folks on Facebook fretting over this question. This is a classic aggregation problem; think Simpson's paradox. 🤔 #mathsky #statssky
