More than anything I've reported last decade, this @undark.org feature on #PANDAS showed me how profit-driven healthcare keeps US specialists siloed & unable to coordinate care. Many thanks @asjahq.bsky.social for supporting our work! Links to award-winning stories: www.asja.org/announcing-t...

Health journalism+jazz drumming in 1 post w/ shared theme: improv!

First, "thought aloud on mic" w/ @mcgowankat.bsky.social @alokpatelmd.bsky.social @ 1/13 JPM healthcare writers reception (📸 Kathleen Sheffer Photography)

Then took drumsticks 🥁 across town & sat in for a tune @SFJAZZ jam session

Thrilled that my Undark features on PANDAS/PANS, direct-to-consumer allergy SLIT drops & OTC hearing aids won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists NorCal chapter!

Thanks @brookeborel.bsky.social @saratalpos.bsky.social for edits & encouragement!

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With so many hedge terms and caveats (not to mention that both studies are unpublished), one wonders whether this is worth reporting at all ...or when/how to do it responsibly and fairly to provide useful insight without raising alarm 🤔

Curious what others think!

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/h...