Robert S Miller MD
Oncologist/informaticist, former Chief Medical Science Officer @ CancerLinQ. Now living my best retired life. Husband, dad, classical/choral music lover🎶 Twitter survivor. Come for the oncology content, stay for the daily music posts. He/him
- Reposted by Robert S Miller MDPhysicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices. Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G
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- Reposted by Robert S Miller MDWe congratulate 2018-19 ASCO President Dr. Monica Bertagnolli on her election as President of the @nam.edu.
- A very beautiful insight, written by an ophthalmology resident—>Quiet Work of Clarity | Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....
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- ASCO has published a new Living Guideline on the management of multiple myeloma ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/.... Read the highlights here dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/evolving-...
- “Heartbeats” from British pianist, composer, and arranger Alexis Ffrench, from his 2020 album Dreamland. With the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQhQ...
- DOJ Sent Letters to Medical Journals. Then What Happened? www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
- The ABIM is among the first to welcome me to 2026 #moc
- The amazing Jon Batiste, with Stay Human, perform “Auld Lang Syne” in 2018 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiB...
- 2026 here I come
- Happy New Year Bluesky fam! I celebrated with a spicy margarita at dinner tonight
- A lovely version of Peter Mayer’s “Sing Joy” by the in-house worship band of our online parish, Church of the Nativity in Timonium, MD from Christmas Eve Mass at the Maryland State Fairgrounds 12/24/25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_D...
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- This year on Bluesky I wrote 416 posts and 9 replies. I received 477 likes, whereas 37 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "performed" and 🟩! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
- For the Christmas season, Paul Smith’s “Nunc Dimittis” w/ text from the Canticle of Simeon, originally from the Gospel of Luke and Book of Common Prayer (1662). Performed by VOCES8 youtu.be/qInyQUKMhdA?...
- I've been enjoying the holiday w/ family so I haven't made very many Christmas music posts, but here's one. The familiar Harold Darke setting of the traditional 1872 Christina Rossetti poem “In The Bleak Midwinter,” sung by the King’s College Cambridge Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmg...
- For Christmas Eve, Tolü Makay sings “Don Oiche Úd i mBeithil” youtube.com/watch?v=f-EL... a popular Irish language Christmas carol dating back to 7th c. AD
- American choral composer Morten Lauridsen’s classic “O Magnum Mysterium” sung by WDR Radio Choir (conductor Simon Halsey). Performed live in 2021 in Cologne www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-x...
- A great jazzy rendition of “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” played by Joey Alexander (piano transcription by Cornelius Tsen) www.youtube.com/watch?v=36V9...
- Polish vocal ensemble Vocore perform Sir John Rutter’s arrangement of the familiar “I Wonder As I Wander” in 2017 www.youtube.com/watch?v=whER...
- The lovely 15th c. French carol “Noël Nouvelet” is sung by women’s voices from the Irish choir ANÚNA, arrangement by Michael McGlynn www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6fb...
- "If Ye Love Me" by Thomas Tallis (1565), performed by Tenebrae www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI5Y...
- Jacob Koller is a very talented jazz pianist and teacher who lives in Japan, with lots of performances of his own arrangements on his YouTube channel. Here's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIu6...
- Big news in breast cancer: Based on the DESTINY-Breast09 trial, FDA approves combo of trastuzumab deruxtecan+pertuzumab in 1st line for patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2+ disease. PFS was 40.7 mos for the combo vs. 26.9 mos for THP (OS data not mature) www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-a...
- An interesting medley of "The Rose" and "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," arranged by Conspirare's Craig Hella Johnson, performed by the University of Utah Singers in concert in 2009 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy53...
- For Advent, VOCES8, Apollo5, and The VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra perform Taylor Scott Davis's gorgeous arrangement of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” (cond. by Barnaby Smith) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDod...
- One of the greatest living jazz bassists, Christian McBride, performs with Sting "Consider Me Gone" www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSvu...
- Designing for Techquity: Ensuring Open Notes Serve All Patients ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....
- The Indigo Girls and the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra perform “Galileo” live in 2018 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmX...
- Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays “Rondo for Cello & Orchestra in G Minor,” Op. 94, by Antonín Dvořák, at the BBC Proms in 2017 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dep1...
- 235. Japanese jazz piano virtuoso Hiromi Uehera with a kinetic mashup of “Blackbird” and “Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring.” Score transcription by Cornelius Tsen (nice job) youtu.be/XGjy73DPScc?...
- Nominated for a 2022 Grammy in Best Choral Performance, the Saint Tikhon Choir performs “Holy God” from Benedict Sheehan’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Beautiful music in the Russian Orthodox tradition www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWb0...
- A must read-the NEJM perspective by Califf et al re FDA vaccine policy. The highlighted quote is striking, as is this “Demands for ideological alignment as a condition of employment are irreconcilable with an agency whose strength is the pluralism of its expert views.” www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- “When David Heard” by Welsh composer Thomas Tomkins (1622), text fromfrom 2 Samuel 19:1. Performed by The Gesualdo Six, conducted by Owain Park at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England. The acoustics - wow www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKL4...
- Cellist Gautier Capuçon performs "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" (music from Michael Nyman's score for the 1993 film “The Piano”), orchestrated by Jérôme Ducros www.youtube.com/watch?v=YegX...
- Reposted by Robert S Miller MDRICK PAZDUR is now planning to resign at the end of the year — three weeks after taking the job as FDA's top drug regulator. Big shake-up after a year of turbulence at the agency. Story w @rachelroubein.bsky.social. (And credit to Stat's @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, who beat us out the door.)
- And soon, it appears, he will be gone. What a horrible mess. I shudder to think of the chaos to come
- I was not aware that Aaron Copland did an arrangement of the familiar hymn tune “At the River.” Performed here by baritone Will Liverman and pianist Jonathan King, it was sung at the memorial concerts for Copland and for Leonard Bernstein www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKr...
- Having served my internal medicine residency at UCSF/SFGH 1985-8 at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in SF, like many peers I was drawn to this book. How absurd and insulting the US government is not commemorating World AIDS Day today
- Yikes. One in 20 in an unselected population is not a small number
- I’ve posted other versions of this wrenching Judee Sill song “The Kiss,” but this cover by Adam Brett Ward is very nice www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxYj... And if you don’t know who Judee Sill is, you can read her tragic personal story online and hear her music on YouTube. Worth checking out
- “Lux Aeterna” (from the Requiem text), written by Swiss composer Ivo Antognini and dedicated to his parents. Performed by the Salt Lake Vocal Artists (cond. Brady Allred) www.youtube.com/watch?v=scQG...
- Screenshots of the CDC website with today's edits. The 2nd pic is the footnote. I'm not going to share the link so it doesn't get amplified but you can google it. How utterly F-ing shameful is this
- A Sarah Jarosz live performance of “Blue Heron” from her 2021 album, with Jeff Picker on bass and Jefferson Hamer on guitar www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7pw...
- Aoife O'Donovan & Chris Thile (Live From Here) perform the Joni Mitchell classic "A Case of You" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ze5...
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- One of the best vocal ensembles in the world - Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short - perform Thomas Tallis’ 1572 motet “Sancte Deus” www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Kv...
- The MSU Chorale performs “The Dying Soldier” (traditional), arranged by Nigel Short & Mack Wilberg. Quite the baritone solo by that young man www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tq...
- If true, this is really good news. Not only can Dr. Pazdur be the "adult in the room" with this crowd, but he's a world class scientist, seasoned administrator, and compassionate physician of impeachable integrity. With a proven track record at the agency. Good luck Rick 🤞🏻
- "O Crux Ave" written by Latvian composer Rihards Dubra, performed by Coro da Camera del Conservatorio di Como (Como Conservatory Chamber Choir). Directed by Domenico Innominato www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2hB...
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- Chills. Laufey, dodie, and Jacob Collier perform “Wild Mountain Thyme” with NSO live at the Kennedy Center in 2024. The orchestra tutti and chord change at 8:38 is just epic www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1L...
- Precision Oncology and Modernizing Evidence Standards: A Critical Commentary on the Cochrane Review | Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....
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- John Legend sings “Ordinary People” live in 2016, with some nice vocal and piano improvisation for this familiar hit www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fWd...
- In a qualitative analysis from UAB, 21 pts w/ breast ca declining clinical trial participation cited the following reasons: fear (of the unknown; AEs; Rx effectiveness), mistrust (re experimentation; re who benefits from the trial), & various practical burdens (eg, time) ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....
