David Sterken

Hospitalist at The University of Wisconsin.
Views are my own.

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The petition provides its own justification, but you can also read this accompanying paper in the Lancet https://t.co/QUil1AbQGC and its extensive citations of supporting evidence https://t.co/7JDNE2m41A

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I encourage you to sign this petition urging professional and academic associations to publicly recognize the genocide in Gaza.

For “researchers, academics, and professionals” sign here: https://t.co/JbCseM6sUr

For "the general public" sign here: https://t.co/14nK3DdhmR

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The target audience for the petition is organizations like the American Medical Association, which has made statements about Ukraine but not Gaza.

@AmerMedicalAssn

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It will always be hilarious to me that
@RFKJr_Official chose MAHA as the acronym for his "movement." Maybe if he had any medical training at all, he'd realize that was already the acronym for a type of disease, so probably not the best name for a health movement. #MAHA #RFKJr

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https://t.co/nMA7X6SIKY

#MedTwitter #HospitalMedicine
@SocietyHospMed @HOMERuN_Network

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Fellow US healthcare workers, if your institution has staff use an official form when a patient discharges from the hospital “against medical advice,” please consider anonymously uploading a blank copy of that form to our research study here: https://t.co/tVMOe1BqTQ

#MedTwitter #HospitalMedicine

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@LimbaughLegacy @acnewsitics Uh, "transplants were happening long before this so-called vaccine came along" because COVID didn't exist until 2019... Then COVID did exist and killed a lot of immunosuppressed transplant recipients. Then the vaccine came along, and fewer transplant recipients died from COVID.

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@thevisiondoct0r @BrentAWilliams2 Literally every single time I discharge someone. Takes two seconds of my time, and then I save even more of my time by not whining about it.

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PEPFAR is arguably the best thing the US does for the world. If it makes you feel better to pretend the Gulf of Mexico is called the "Gulf of America" then go ahead and do performative nonsense like that, but don't end PEPFAR because that will kill people.
https://t.co/GijrnmC6U7

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@BrentAWilliams2 Oh, and that's not what regulatory capture means https://t.co/oMYJkPPnK4

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@BrentAWilliams2 What an incredibly minor imposition to go ballistic about. Maybe if Fresenius, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, would spend two seconds screening for transportation needs, I wouldn't be constantly admitting their patients to the hospital because they can't get to dialysis.

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Of course, it'd be a lot funnier if it weren't so incredibly cruel and harmful.

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The funniest thing about this executive order defining everyone as female is that Trump's team tried so hard to find something that universally distinguishes male from female, but in failing to do so, they basically proved that sex isn't strictly binary. https://t.co/3AaW7FC1Ve

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There are 'clear signs' of ethnic cleansing by Israel in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders says https://t.co/UhflxHady7 via @nbcnews

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(and please excuse my blue check; I only got it for this tweet so that I could exceed the character limit and possibly get some algorithmic prioritization)

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Fellow US healthcare workers, if your institution has staff use an official form when a patient discharges from the hospital “against medical advice,” please consider anonymously uploading a blank copy of that form to our research study here: https://t.co/tVMOe1BqTQ

#MedTwitter #HospitalMedicine

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Please also consider retweeting this post so that we can crowdsource even more widely!

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Every American should read this letter, written and signed by the majority of American medical workers who volunteered in Gaza this year. Please read it and then decide what you want to say about it to our elected representatives in the White House: https://t.co/Lzhef2S1Qs. #Gaza

[Feroze Sidhwa @FerozeSidhwa]

This is an open letter to @POTUS and @VP signed by 99 American healthcare workers who have volunteered in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The letter addresses what we saw, and how American policy in #Gaza should change. Please see https://t.co/FWqRI1Nix2 to read the letter.

On the website you can email the White House and ask that President Biden and VP Harris meet with us to discuss what we saw and why American policy towards Gaza must change immediately.

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@SocietyGIM @hkato01 Thank you very much! It was an honor to have the opportunity to present at SGIM.