Internal/ Integrative Medicine Physician. Writer. Social advocate. Welcome!!! Breathe in...Breathe out...
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Welcome to the United States- where 3 Million Boppy pillows are recalled because of 8️⃣ children deaths, but we fight about kids wearing masks after 5️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Covid pediatric deaths because Covid "doesn't harm kids".
Make it make sense.
-a Physician
#covid#science#MedTwitter
Oh hell—@CDCgov is at it again, avoiding that almost-blacklisted word “mask”… ➡️PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL BEDS & ICUs are full across US & Canada—yet,
“Sneezing into your shirt” makes recommendation list but not #WearAMask???? C’mon @CDCDirector—what hellscape is this? #BringBackMasks
It's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay!
As a suicidologist and someone who has experienced chronic suicidality since age 9, I want to offer some insights that mainstream prevention orgs don't often share. 🧵
Maternal morbidity and fetal outcomes among pregnant women at 22 weeks’ gestation or less with complications in two Texas hospitals after legislation on abortion https://t.co/i99QV1Zz9Y @acog@MySMFM @ObGynAdvance
“Today we saw a patient in Dayton who has cancer. Her doctors told her she would have to terminate before she received chemotherapy treatment. She will have to travel to Indiana." https://t.co/hxKKOQfiA1
Twitter, please help. My patient is a little boy whose life’s dream is to play the new #Pokemon#ScarletViolet game. He has incurable cancer and likely won’t live to see the game released in November. Does anyone have connections with @Nintendo@Pokemon@thevowel? 1/
Pharmacist also told me to have to doc call, and when they did, did not pick up the phone. When the doc called me, and we attempted to have him confirm via speaker, pharmacist refused to speak to "covid". Valid CVS rx, emergent post op need. Rx withheld @cvs let's discuss.
As a Black woman, I am very hesitant to join women’s movements or initiatives. In honor of #InternationalWomensDay2022 and #WomensHistoryMonth, I’ll tell you why. Let me tell you a story…(1/?)
Opinion: A boy’s heart — or anyone's body part, for that matter — generally functions the same no matter what state the person lives in. So why shouldn't a doctor licensed in one state be able to treat patients living in other states? https://t.co/HkhJmresqe
Until you have inserted a laparoscope into a dying patient’s abdomen full of blood you do not get to even breathe the inconceivable, femicidal falsehood that an ectopic pregnancy is a person.
My pièce de résistance on Rogan. I've made sense of his senselessness. After 50+ hours of research and facepalms, I can finally explain the adolescent contradiction that is Roganism to anyone that wants to hear it.
As always, video clips and transcript screenshots will follow.
Wow
One year after infection, over 25% of people had lung diffusion issues.
This is serious and means there is a gas exchange problem https://t.co/BHKLaRV8ha
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And we’re now postponing all non-urgent surgeries until mid-February and at risk of canceling already scheduled procedures. I don’t know what’s more stressful: being a cancer surgeon during a pandemic or being a parent during a pandemic.