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Dereck Paul, MD

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Dereck Paul, MD

@dereckwpaul

Co-Founder & CEO @GlassHealthHQ | @BrighamWomens @HarvardMed via @UCSFMedicine | solar punk ☀️🌱🧬🦾

San Francisco, CA

Joined January 2018

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Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Jul 8
Everyone needs a personal AI agent that is completely dedicated to optimizing their health. @GlassHealthHQ, we are beyond excited to introduce Glass for Patients.
Glass Health
@GlassHealthHQ
Jul 8
Today we're launching Glass for Patients, the personal AI agent for your health. Glass reviews all of your healthcare data and analyzes it alongside the world's medical knowledge to help you continually understand and optimize your health. Get started at glass.health/for-patients
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Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Apr 25, 2020
I swear, I started medical school wanting to discover cures and advance new technologies. Now, near the end, I just want everybody to have basic healthcare.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
May 23, 2022
If you make a medical student feel bad for not knowing something on rounds, they’re not wrong, you are. They've been doing this for weeks, you've been doing this for years to decades. And if they knew everything you know, you wouldn't need to be there. #MedTwitter
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Dec 15, 2020
Communication is the most underrated skill in medicine.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
May 24, 2022
Medical training should do no harm to the trainee.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Jan 23, 2022
I fear that wellness in American medicine is a myth. In regards to residency, I am sure it is. Science tells us over and over that lack of sleep, disrupted circadian rhythms, excessive stress, 6 day work weeks, 12+ hour workdays, are unhealthy for the body and mind. 🧵
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Mar 15, 2021
“When you get these jobs that you've been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you're free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” - Toni Morrison #Match2021 #MatchDay2021 #MatchWeek
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Oct 29, 2021
My little cousin in his Halloween costume this morning. Had to shoot him back a photo to let him know we’re matching.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Jun 25, 2020
Dear academia, just so you know - on issues of equity, this generation of underrepresented students and trainees did not come to play games.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Jan 25, 2022
Discharge is one of our most important and most dangerous procedures. (as one wise @BrighamMedRes resident told me) On a busy day, it takes tremendous extra energy to distill a hospital course and think through next steps for our patients. Here's my motivation to dig deep:
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Dec 18, 2020
Primary care is an insanely difficult discipline.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Feb 13, 2021
Academic medicine, how are we going to achieve health equity for our patients when we can't achieve equity for our trainees and faculty? We have to get our own house in order.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Aug 23, 2020
I've had mentors who tried to make me them. Now, I have mentors who try to make me, me. The difference is night and day.
Dereck Paul, MD
@dereckwpaul
Oct 30, 2021
My Dad is the toughest and hardest working person I've ever met. He's also not the kind to say "I'm proud of you" aloud often. But he did hang this off the porch the last time I visited home. Let's not get started on where he got this sign...