Lisa Farkouh, MD

🇸🇾Syrian-American🇺🇸| Girl mom ⚽️ | Maternal-Fetal Medicine (High-Risk OB) doc | Native New Yorker in the Pacific Northwest

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The ability to stay calm, polite, and honest, even when people upset you, is a superpower.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

We’ll never forget the lives we lost on September 11, 2001. Let’s continue to honor their memories, and the courage of our first responders who put themselves in harm’s way.

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@NSanctification @EM_RESUS Yes, they are.

[Paul Bieniasz @PaulBieniasz]

New Lab photo

[The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef]

Statistics on the victims of attacks by the Syrian regime, Russia, and their allies in northwestern #Syria from the start of the escalation on November 27 through Sunday, December 1.
#WhiteHelmets

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several.

This is what it looks like:
A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body.

A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure.

If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions.

But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury.

They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again.

There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby.

Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless.

Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

President Biden should resign as an act of protest tomorrow so Kamala Harris could be sworn in as the first female president until January.

That would make Trump 48 and ruin that stupid hat of his.

Can we get this trending.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Every woman should fear this!

[Derek Jeter @derekjeter]

We’re back

[Roxana Daneshjou MD/PhD @RoxanaDaneshjou]

I hate having to share this, but I know I’m not alone. I had a miscarriage post-Roe while visiting family in Texas in 2022. I almost died — after 7-8 hours of begging, I got an emergency D&C and transfusion. They don’t mind letting women die. https://t.co/2LzCD12XNC

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@united My 90 year old dad is stranded at EWR after flight to PDX cancelled after multiple delays. Been on hold with customer service to revolve for an hour. He does not have a cell phone. Please help.

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@BaharehAjami So proud of your personal and professional accomplishments. Love you and your family ❤️💪🏼

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

AC < 10%. MFMs: if you know, you know @MySMFM

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@OHSUSOM @BaharehAjami Amazing work, my friend! Congratulations and keep changing the world 🌎

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@portlandgeneral We see a crew on the scene 🙏🏼

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@portlandgeneral We see most of Douglas Cir has just been been restored. There are still many homes on Douglas Cir that have been without power for 3 days, including some elderly folks. There is a wire hanging in front of 3123 Douglas Cir. Please don’t forget us. We are cold 🥶

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@BaharehAjami Incredible work. Congrats!

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

Now this is funny.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Oh this is good….

“I know I shouldn’t have done this, but I am 83 years old and I was in the McDonald’s drive-through this morning and the young lady behind me leaned on her horn and started mouthing something because I was taking too long to place my order. So when I got to the first window

I paid for her order along with my own. The cashier must have told her what I'd done because as we moved up she leaned out her window and waved to me and mouthed "Thank you.", obviously embarrassed that I had repaid her rudeness with kindness.

When I got to the second window I showed them both receipts and took her food too. Now she has to go back to the end of the line and start all over again.

Don't blow your horn at old people, they have been around a long time.”

😂🍔🍟☕️

Credit: Unnamed.

[Lisa Farkouh, MD @LisaFarkouh]

@bone00afide @meganranney I mask on planes 1) not to get sick, 2) not to get others sick - especially those whose immune systems can’t fend for themselves, like my brother with MS. Seems pretty straightforward to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[TIME @TIME]

Watch: “They are wounded but unbowed, unbreakable.”

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) dedicated her toast to the women of Iran at the TIME Women of the Year Gala https://t.co/m5BxmbpMnw