Sloane Wesloh
@swesloh.bsky.social
PhD student @ Pitt HPS. History and philosophy of medicine. I study the history of electronic medical record systems and like thinking about diagnosis, disease, and diabetes.
Fan of birds, bugs, and bogs.
Fan of birds, bugs, and bogs.
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Continuous glucose monitors are powerful tools but will not "rectify our Bad Energy crisis." To add, #type2diabetes is due to a combination of genetics and environment as well as lifestyle. And #type1diabetes is not preventable by lifestyle. #diabetes #science www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
She left the medical mainstream and rose to be RFK Jr.’s surgeon general pick
Casey Means, the surgeon general nominee, has criticized the medical establishment. She could be put in position to change it.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Continuous glucose monitors are powerful tools but will not "rectify our Bad Energy crisis." To add, #type2diabetes is due to a combination of genetics and environment as well as lifestyle. And #type1diabetes is not preventable by lifestyle. #diabetes #science www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
I can’t help but take it as a bad sign when the drug company feels like it’s not enough to just send you the drug, so they also start including inspirational messages (which assume that you must be sad).
October 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I can’t help but take it as a bad sign when the drug company feels like it’s not enough to just send you the drug, so they also start including inspirational messages (which assume that you must be sad).
In the fight to stay between the glucose lines, both the algorithm and I are struggling this morning. #typeonediabetes
September 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In the fight to stay between the glucose lines, both the algorithm and I are struggling this morning. #typeonediabetes
Enjoyed a wonderful couple of days at the University of Uppsala thinking about what it means to be a patient and how technologies shape the concept of patienthood!
August 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Enjoyed a wonderful couple of days at the University of Uppsala thinking about what it means to be a patient and how technologies shape the concept of patienthood!
My perspective “Into the Valley of the Sick” is out today! I’ve spent a lot of time immersed in philosophical questions about disease while I have enjoyed a reprieve from my own, but the work I do about medicine will always be shaped by my own experience with it, like I share here.
Weekend Briefing for July 26, 2025:
New Images in Clinical Medicine: Neovascularization in Retinopathy of Prematurity nej.md/44MTZOY
Two New Perspectives:
1️⃣ Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Health nej.md/412RDck
2️⃣ Into the Valley of the Sick nej.md/3GHb1Vz
#MedSky
New Images in Clinical Medicine: Neovascularization in Retinopathy of Prematurity nej.md/44MTZOY
Two New Perspectives:
1️⃣ Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Health nej.md/412RDck
2️⃣ Into the Valley of the Sick nej.md/3GHb1Vz
#MedSky
July 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My perspective “Into the Valley of the Sick” is out today! I’ve spent a lot of time immersed in philosophical questions about disease while I have enjoyed a reprieve from my own, but the work I do about medicine will always be shaped by my own experience with it, like I share here.
38 degrees F at the northwoods Minnesota cabin calls for lighting the wood-burning stove in May
May 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
38 degrees F at the northwoods Minnesota cabin calls for lighting the wood-burning stove in May
Had a lovely first time attending the AAHM conference and presenting my poster on the entangled histories of the ICD and the Electronic Medical Record! #aahm2025 @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Had a lovely first time attending the AAHM conference and presenting my poster on the entangled histories of the ICD and the Electronic Medical Record! #aahm2025 @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
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