Daniel Sunderland, DO
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Husband, dad, nerd, and #FirstGenerationToCollege #osteopathic #FamilyMedicine physician providing evidence-based #PrimaryCare to adults and children! Posts≠medical advice/care. Call your family doctor! Pronouns he/him/his📍West Hartford, CT #nutmegsky
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So pleased to have attended the #TrinityHealthofNewEngland #MakingMiracles gala tonight with my wonderful wife. Proceeds benefited THoNE's maternal and infant services.
November 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
So pleased to have attended the #TrinityHealthofNewEngland #MakingMiracles gala tonight with my wonderful wife. Proceeds benefited THoNE's maternal and infant services.
People who get their #HealthInsurance through the state marketplaces and live in #red states:
Please let your federal representatives know exactly how much your premiums are going up due to the expiring subsidies.
You could post a before & after screenshot. Please help defend your care access.
Please let your federal representatives know exactly how much your premiums are going up due to the expiring subsidies.
You could post a before & after screenshot. Please help defend your care access.
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
People who get their #HealthInsurance through the state marketplaces and live in #red states:
Please let your federal representatives know exactly how much your premiums are going up due to the expiring subsidies.
You could post a before & after screenshot. Please help defend your care access.
Please let your federal representatives know exactly how much your premiums are going up due to the expiring subsidies.
You could post a before & after screenshot. Please help defend your care access.
Reposted by Daniel Sunderland, DO
As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential lapse in states across the country.
SNAP runs out of money Nov. 1. Here's what that means in your state
As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential lapse in states across the country.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential lapse in states across the country.
The literal and figurative fallout from testing all those decades ago is still being felt in the health challenges of communities across the US.
Among people directly exposed *and* their descendants.
Do we want to do this to at least 2 more generations?
#medsky #fmsky #nuclear #cancer
Among people directly exposed *and* their descendants.
Do we want to do this to at least 2 more generations?
#medsky #fmsky #nuclear #cancer
The U.S. has not conducted a nuclear test in over 30 years. Experts say doing one now could make America less safe.
Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here's what that would mean
The U.S. has not conducted a nuclear test in over 30 years. Experts say doing one now could make America less safe.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Excited to be learning at the #Connecticut @aafp.org chapter scientific symposium today and tomorrow!
Please stop by my table during the networking lunch to learn more about jobs at Collins Medical Associates, a physician-owned physician-forward group in #Hartford County
#fmsky #medsky #nutmegsky
Please stop by my table during the networking lunch to learn more about jobs at Collins Medical Associates, a physician-owned physician-forward group in #Hartford County
#fmsky #medsky #nutmegsky
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Excited to be learning at the #Connecticut @aafp.org chapter scientific symposium today and tomorrow!
Please stop by my table during the networking lunch to learn more about jobs at Collins Medical Associates, a physician-owned physician-forward group in #Hartford County
#fmsky #medsky #nutmegsky
Please stop by my table during the networking lunch to learn more about jobs at Collins Medical Associates, a physician-owned physician-forward group in #Hartford County
#fmsky #medsky #nutmegsky
Young teens who use cannabis are more likely to be frequent users than people who start later, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. They are also more likely to seek care for health problems. n.pr/4qwUIfZ
Teens who use weed before age 15 have more trouble later, a study finds
Young teens who use cannabis are more likely to be frequent users than people who start later, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. They are also more likely to seek care for health problems.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Shaming is common in medical school and unfortunately, sometimes in the doctor's office. Some doctors are trying to teach medical students awareness of the problem so they don't perpetuate the cycle.
These doctors want to break the cycle of shame and blame in medicine
Shaming is common in medical school and unfortunately, sometimes in the doctor's office. Some doctors are trying to teach medical students awareness of the problem so they don't perpetuate the cycle.
n.pr
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Daniel Sunderland, DO
With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.
In the rural South where Medicaid has been a lifeline, residents brace for cuts
With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.
n.pr
October 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.
Reposted by Daniel Sunderland, DO
CT families receiving SNAP benefits could lose nearly $200 monthly on average, a bigger hit than families would feel in any other state.
SNAP benefit cuts will hit CT harder than any other state, data says
CT families receiving SNAP benefits could lose nearly $200 monthly on average, a bigger hit than families would feel in any other state.
ctmirror.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
CT families receiving SNAP benefits could lose nearly $200 monthly on average, a bigger hit than families would feel in any other state.
Reposted by Daniel Sunderland, DO
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities. n.pr/48PNNIt
'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities. n.pr/48PNNIt
Reposted by Daniel Sunderland, DO
Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can they be kayoed?
Some viruses can play a deadly game of hide and seek
Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can they be kayoed?
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can they be kayoed?
Reposted by Daniel Sunderland, DO
To help a loved one with cancer, think about what you're good at — and what they need. Are you organized? Plan their meals. Detail-oriented? Go with them to appointments. Survivors share ideas.
Not sure how to support a friend with cancer? Survivors have advice
To help a loved one with cancer, think about what you're good at — and what they need. Are you organized? Plan their meals. Detail-oriented? Go with them to appointments. Survivors share ideas.
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
To help a loved one with cancer, think about what you're good at — and what they need. Are you organized? Plan their meals. Detail-oriented? Go with them to appointments. Survivors share ideas.
" #PrimaryCare physicians spend a median of 62 weekly hours caring for a patient panel. "
#medsky #fmsky #imsky
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
#medsky #fmsky #imsky
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Primary Care Physician Time Spent in Patient Care: An Observational Study Using Electronic Health Record Logs | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Given a marked expansion in the work of primary care in recent decades, it is critical to have an accurate understanding of the time involved in managing a primary care panel and the deter...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
" #PrimaryCare physicians spend a median of 62 weekly hours caring for a patient panel. "
#medsky #fmsky #imsky
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
#medsky #fmsky #imsky
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Reposted by Daniel Sunderland, DO
Family caregivers offer their wit, wisdom and survival tips for the hardest unpaid job in America. n.pr/4nXCFxT
A caregiver's survival guide: Advice from people who've been there
Family caregivers offer their wit, wisdom and survival tips for the hardest unpaid job in America.
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October 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Family caregivers offer their wit, wisdom and survival tips for the hardest unpaid job in America. n.pr/4nXCFxT
@hyundaiusa.com, can you give the 2026/2027 #Ioniq 6 better color choices?
"Transmission blue" blends into the middle of the black, grey, silver, and white basics. The gold is tacky, and the only real color with pizzaz is the red.
Please bring in the green, teal, or blue you have for Ioniq 5 & 9.
"Transmission blue" blends into the middle of the black, grey, silver, and white basics. The gold is tacky, and the only real color with pizzaz is the red.
Please bring in the green, teal, or blue you have for Ioniq 5 & 9.
October 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
@hyundaiusa.com, can you give the 2026/2027 #Ioniq 6 better color choices?
"Transmission blue" blends into the middle of the black, grey, silver, and white basics. The gold is tacky, and the only real color with pizzaz is the red.
Please bring in the green, teal, or blue you have for Ioniq 5 & 9.
"Transmission blue" blends into the middle of the black, grey, silver, and white basics. The gold is tacky, and the only real color with pizzaz is the red.
Please bring in the green, teal, or blue you have for Ioniq 5 & 9.
There are more sources of #health information than ever, but the public is perhaps the worst that it has ever been when it comes to sifting truth from fiction.
Especially with changes to #StudentLoans policy, home-growing rural trusted voices will get harder.
Physicians are teachers in peril.
Especially with changes to #StudentLoans policy, home-growing rural trusted voices will get harder.
Physicians are teachers in peril.
Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometimes hostile. n.pr/4nRqsdT
In rural America, scarce doctors battle misinformation as they practice medicine
Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometimes hostile.
n.pr
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
There are more sources of #health information than ever, but the public is perhaps the worst that it has ever been when it comes to sifting truth from fiction.
Especially with changes to #StudentLoans policy, home-growing rural trusted voices will get harder.
Physicians are teachers in peril.
Especially with changes to #StudentLoans policy, home-growing rural trusted voices will get harder.
Physicians are teachers in peril.
Thank you for not engaging in the wall of poor accountability being put between the American people and the current administration.
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
n.pr
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Thank you for not engaging in the wall of poor accountability being put between the American people and the current administration.
#AI, EVs, heat pumps, AC, and so many other devices surround us.
Now is not the time to pull funding/subsidies from cheapest-to-start, easiest-to-maintain #greenenergy projects.
#Coal / #oil country needs to be at the forefront of this conversion of jobs, not obstructing economically sound policy.
Now is not the time to pull funding/subsidies from cheapest-to-start, easiest-to-maintain #greenenergy projects.
#Coal / #oil country needs to be at the forefront of this conversion of jobs, not obstructing economically sound policy.
For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr
Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says
For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.
n.pr
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#AI, EVs, heat pumps, AC, and so many other devices surround us.
Now is not the time to pull funding/subsidies from cheapest-to-start, easiest-to-maintain #greenenergy projects.
#Coal / #oil country needs to be at the forefront of this conversion of jobs, not obstructing economically sound policy.
Now is not the time to pull funding/subsidies from cheapest-to-start, easiest-to-maintain #greenenergy projects.
#Coal / #oil country needs to be at the forefront of this conversion of jobs, not obstructing economically sound policy.
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A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
n.pr
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
Nobody wants to pay for #healthcare. The #shutdown fight really centers around:
Should individuals pay much higher premiums when #OpenEnrollment starts next month? (and if they can't, go without insurance or downgrade plans)
or
Should our collective taxes help more broadly to keep people insured?
Should individuals pay much higher premiums when #OpenEnrollment starts next month? (and if they can't, go without insurance or downgrade plans)
or
Should our collective taxes help more broadly to keep people insured?
October 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Nobody wants to pay for #healthcare. The #shutdown fight really centers around:
Should individuals pay much higher premiums when #OpenEnrollment starts next month? (and if they can't, go without insurance or downgrade plans)
or
Should our collective taxes help more broadly to keep people insured?
Should individuals pay much higher premiums when #OpenEnrollment starts next month? (and if they can't, go without insurance or downgrade plans)
or
Should our collective taxes help more broadly to keep people insured?
For further perspective, even before this cut,
for every $100 paid by private insurers:
#Medicare pays $70
#Medicaid pays $42-$49
and they're dropping it lower. You can imagine the math each medical office does to determine how many Medicaid patients they can afford.
www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...
for every $100 paid by private insurers:
#Medicare pays $70
#Medicaid pays $42-$49
and they're dropping it lower. You can imagine the math each medical office does to determine how many Medicaid patients they can afford.
www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...
States are cutting Medicaid provider payments long before Trump cuts hit
North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new fed...
www.npr.org
October 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
For further perspective, even before this cut,
for every $100 paid by private insurers:
#Medicare pays $70
#Medicaid pays $42-$49
and they're dropping it lower. You can imagine the math each medical office does to determine how many Medicaid patients they can afford.
www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...
for every $100 paid by private insurers:
#Medicare pays $70
#Medicaid pays $42-$49
and they're dropping it lower. You can imagine the math each medical office does to determine how many Medicaid patients they can afford.
www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...
There is so much parental demand for this vaccine in my office. We check the VFC ordering site every day and... nothing.
Neither RFK Jr. nor his deputy — who is also acting CDC director — have signed off yet on ACIP recommendations, leaving states unable to order updated Covid shots for the Vaccines for Children program, which serves low-income families.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c...
Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay
Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
There is so much parental demand for this vaccine in my office. We check the VFC ordering site every day and... nothing.