Scribbled reminder seen on nurses' break room wall: Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

RT @borowitzreport: Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care were as easy to get as, say, a gun.

The most common modes of expression on the internet are anger, irony, and curiosity. It pisses me off, which is interesting.

He's signed health reform, stopped a depression, and killed bin Laden. I'm not sure Obama is a man of ideas, but he IS a man of solutions.

In 1 wk, surgeons fix spina bifida, dictators resign before nonviolent protest, & india+pakistan start peace talks. World is pretty good.

The more I travel, the more I observe that Americans are becoming foreigners to each other. - @anandwrites http://t.co/uvAxSHiV

The Designer. MT @ezraklein: This is the best thing I've read on Jobs - actually gets at how he thought. http://t.co/GSXbyfd5 #SteveJobsRIP

Had dinner with live people last night. Disorienting and confusing. The sentences were long. Now back on twitter. Feeling better.

Must read. Invaluably clear, concise, at times surprising chart on the status of health reform rollout: http://nyti.ms/hnuUrD

RT @bengoldacre: in case you missed today's wtf: Arizona senate votes to let anti-abortion docs lie to pregnant women http://t.co/R4rZDuTu

New research seems to confirm that obesity/appetite is a social contagion. @jonahlehrer reports: http://bit.ly/fnodgn

Don't sit. James Levine's cool inactivity research: http://j.mp/i347qE. And the study of daily TV time's deadliness: http://j.mp/eo8yPY

This is huge, stunning, world changing. @nytimes: For First Time, Baby Is Cured of H.I.V., Doctors Say  http://nyti.ms/ZerbF8 

Ok, I'm listening now. RT @thinkprogress: A personal plea from Gary of the National Weather Service pic.twitter.com/r0jcL16p

This is indeed cool. RT @ahier: WOW! The future of hospital apps http://rww.to/nknZkl Check out this post by @ricmacnz on @rww

Ryan's outright, unflinching dishonesty on Medicare, GM, Simpson-Bowles, among others is revelatory -- a total discarding of pretense.

Why Boston's Hospitals Were Ready. My piece on the response to the Boston Marathon bombings for @newyorker:  http://nyr.kr/YUVJj5 

Smart piece asking the right questions. RT @ahier: Can #Pharma learn from IBM's lessons? http://t.co/2n6aKap9 via @chasedave

RT @ahier: Hospital Rankings Get Serious http://t.co/ZjrJcjCs Outstanding post on new "An Ounce of Evidence" blog by @ashishkjha

My new @newyorker piece, "Personal Best," is out. It's on coaching vs teaching. "Wha?" you say. But bear w me on this...http://t.co/YXVfI8oN