Perspectives Editor at MedPage Today. Have a unique perspective to share with doctors, nurses, health admins, and other health professionals? Send it my way: perspectives@medpagetoday.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3m4b5kmxfys2f"When the call came to stop, it didn't feel like closure. It felt like losing a patient I'd spent a lifetime caring for." A CDC doctor writes in @medpagetoday.com about what it was like to be RIF'd. Read on: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118170?trw=no @medpagetoday.com @firedbutfighting.bsky.social28 Oct 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4b5kmxfys2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3m4b5ejgs3k2f"Here's what concerns me most: the absurdity of the notion that an artificially generated, non-sentient avatar could be a reasonable companion for a child. It goes against everything we know about developmental theory." -- Jon Slater, MD https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118130?trw=no @medpagetoday.com28 Oct 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4b5ejgs3k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3lz2qxelv3s2b"Open minds, combined with expert input, are crucial for developing effective and beneficial policies. Please stop the war on expertise and give briefings a chance, Secretary Kennedy. And please listen." -- Steven Grossman, JD https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117511?trw=no @medpagetoday.com17 Sep 2025 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2qxelv3s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3lxcvzvtxps26"We dropped to the ground and scrambled to the opposite side of the building. Then we heard noises in the stairwell. We told everyone: 'Get into offices. Lock the doors.'" A CDC employee shared what it was like inside CDC during the shooting: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117158?trw=no @medpagetoday.com26 Aug 2025 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcvzvtxps26https://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3lxaszdox5k2r"Based on data and past experience, we can expect the labeling changes to have little to no effect on meaningfully reducing overdose rates. The administration would be wise to concentrate its efforts elsewhere." -- @ryanmarino.bsky.social https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/toxicology-report/117145?trw=no @medpagetoday.com25 Aug 2025 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxaszdox5k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3ltpdikrw4s2t"Understanding what went well and what didn't can lead to lives saved the next time. Because if there's one thing that we're learning, it's that there will be a next time." -- Mary Meyer, MD, MPH https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/calamities/116467?trw=no @medpagetoday.bsky.social #texasflood #disastermedicine11 Jul 2025 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltpdikrw4s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3lrireixzvk2n"In an administration that maintains that government should be run like a business, it is odd that someone who misrepresented his intentions as blatantly as Kennedy did is still in his position." -- Robert Schooley, MD, in @medpagetoday.bsky.social https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/116059?trw=no #medsky13 Jun 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrireixzvk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfriedman.bsky.social/post/3lpmq45aioc2qFormer President Biden's cancer diagnosis comes at a troubling moment for research funding. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/apatientsjourney/115676?trw=no @medpagetoday.bsky.social #oncology #medsky20 May 2025 18:35 +0000at://did:plc:ky7daom3d2bvqmcbrmj7mgwi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpmq45aioc2q