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daniel pham
@danielpham.bsky.social
combined internal medicine and psychiatry resident physician | oklahoma ➡️ wisconsin
My commentary on skincare (neurocosmetics) and mental health is out! Thanks to @gfriedman.bsky.social for helping out in the process.
"The relationship between the mind and body has long intrigued physicians."

Read the #OpEd from combined internal medicine and psychiatry resident physician Daniel X. Pham, MD, on the link between skin health and mental health:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118697?trw=no
Opinion | What a Doctor Can See Is Only Part of the Story
Examining the skin-mind connection
www.medpagetoday.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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"The relationship between the mind and body has long intrigued physicians."

Read the #OpEd from combined internal medicine and psychiatry resident physician Daniel X. Pham, MD, on the link between skin health and mental health:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118697?trw=no
Opinion | What a Doctor Can See Is Only Part of the Story
Examining the skin-mind connection
www.medpagetoday.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I am currently out of the philosophy department on parental leave. if this inquiry is about classes for next semester, please email the chair of the department. if your inquiry is about the nature or existence of the external world, please consult René Descartes' work
Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic:

"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Most viewed this week from JAMA: In critically ill patients, neither dexmedetomidine nor clonidine was superior to propofol in reducing time to successful extubation.

https://ja.ma/4kcppU6
May 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Since 2010, the incidence of cardiac arrest during marathons and half-marathons has stayed relatively stable, but the risk of dying from these events has decreased by about 50% compared to 2000-2009. https://ja.ma/4mskeki
May 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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In a new #OpEd, Daniel Pham, MD, discusses the debate surrounding Casey Means’ nomination for U.S. Surgeon General, weighing concerns about her medical background against the broader responsibilities of the role in public health leadership.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Does It Matter if the U.S. Surgeon General Never Practiced Medicine?
Their leadership must be grounded in sound public health priorities
www.medpagetoday.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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What do you think: Does It Matter if the U.S. Surgeon General Never Practiced Medicine?

@danielpham.bsky.social shared his thoughts with @medpagetoday.bsky.social. Let us know what you think by commenting below.

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... #medsky #surgeongeneral #caseymeans
Opinion | Does It Matter if the U.S. Surgeon General Never Practiced Medicine?
Their leadership must be grounded in sound public health priorities
www.medpagetoday.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Viewpoint: Expanding the pipeline of social sciences and humanities physician-scientists is both feasible and critical to tackling medicine’s evolving demands. https://ja.ma/4ks4VXQ
March 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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“Although the risk of severe neutropenia with clozapine still exists, FDA has determined that the REMS program for clozapine is no longer necessary to ensure the benefits of the medicine outweigh that risk.” ow.ly/kFZw50V6xsP
February 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity.

ja.ma/4b5LsIt
February 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🧵 From 2017 to 2022, California emergency clinicians increasingly adopted buprenorphine prescribing for opioid use disorder.

ja.ma/4b8CXfN

#MedSky
February 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My opinion piece in @statnews.com.

I often encounter people with serious mental illness on complex psychotropic regimen simply because they or their prescriber experience regulatory barriers to considering a trial of clozapine. www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/c...

#FDA #MentalHealth
The FDA must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia
If the FDA follows an advisory committee’s vote, it can potentially be a transformative step in the delivery of mental health care in this country.
www.statnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The FDA must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/c... via @statnews.com
The FDA must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia
If the FDA follows an advisory committee’s vote, it can potentially be a transformative step in the delivery of mental health care in this country.
www.statnews.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The @fda.gov must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/c... via @statnews.com @danielpham.bsky.social
The FDA must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia
If the FDA follows an advisory committee’s vote, it can potentially be a transformative step in the delivery of mental health care in this country.
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by daniel pham
From JAMA Psychiatry:

Low-dose semaglutide reduced alcohol craving and consumption in adults with alcohol use disorder.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
February 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The Missing Post Office, on the remote Japanese island of Awashima, is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address. Lost friends and pets; past and future selves; and, most frequently, the dead.

Gift link to our story:
wapo.st/4gtdy1n
The sorrow, hope and longing of Japan’s ‘Missing Post Office’
An old post office in southern Japan has become a destination, both tourist and postal, for people who are not yet ready to let go of their loved ones.
wapo.st
February 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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National Institutes of Health slashes overhead costs to match percentage paid by private foundations, but the two don't account for expenses in the same way.
What are indirect research costs? A quick explainer in light of NIH’s sweeping policy change
National Institutes of Health slashed overhead costs allowed under its grants to match private foundations, but the two don't account for expenses in the same way.
buff.ly
February 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I'm on service in the MICU this week, a place that is defined by a huge outlay of resources for what is often a small chance of saving one life. Just thinking about what's happened to USAID – arguably one of the best ROI you could ever hope to achieve in human health and flourishing? – is very hard.
February 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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To Test Or Not To Test: Medical Work-Up of Psychosis

Current approaches relying on clinical suspicion leave many patients without correct diagnosis

awaisaftab.substack.com/p/to-test-or...
To Test Or Not To Test: Medical Work-Up of Psychosis
Current approaches relying on clinical suspicion leave many patients without correct diagnosis
awaisaftab.substack.com
November 4, 2023 at 2:51 PM
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biggest change so far since I became soilpilled: now I look at fall completely differently. just piles and piles of biomass out there for free, dropping everywhere. look at God.
October 27, 2023 at 7:08 PM
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Belatedly read this today. While many no longer need convincing that the US prison system is evil, this is among the more damning accounts. As prison populations age we are increasingly looking the other way as folks who don’t even remember their crimes are punished.
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/o...
Opinion | I’ve Reported on Dementia for Years, and One Image of a Prisoner Keeps Haunting Me
America’s prisons are filling up with people who are so old, they don’t remember their crimes.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2023 at 2:21 PM