PCCM, Hospitalist, Wife,Mother, Nana, ❤️dog, #MedTwitter#BLM#Resister ‘Awake’ for Viet Nam, then life intervened. Now fighting for the future of my grandsons.
Don’t know who needs to hear this but too many patients and not enough medical staff = higher death rates for every disease/accident. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Do it for your community and your country.
New Orleans' Mardi Gras parade was cancelled due to COVID-19 so people have been transforming homes into #YardiGras house floats. This brings me joy so I want to share it with y'all. Please chime in if you recognize artists or houses so credit can be given where it's due!
Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre.
53 years later, we are still witnessing assaults by police and the National Guard on peaceful Black protestors.
If we cannot learn from the lessons of the past, we will be doomed to repeat them.
How did it take me this long to find the perfect analogy to explain the need for anticoagulation in Afib to my fellow Southerners?!
Me: “Blood is the consistency of gravy. If you stop stirring your roux evenly—“
Pt: “It clumps!”
Me: “Here’s your gravy thinner.”
@kmzoetewey@londyloo We are taught to look for what is wrong instead of what is right to see diseases. It transfers to how we respond to others. It can change. I learned and others have too. Best wishes to your daughter!
Before we salute Hank Aaron, Remember:
Last month, @MLB finally added Negro League records to its official stats, meaning Aaron hit 760 home runs, more RBIs, total bases, & All-Star games than anyone who ever played baseball.
Also, Babe Ruth didn't play against Black players.
@medicalaxioms@thehouseofpod Defining “laws of land” broadly. They brought us redlining, voter suppression, starvation, lack of safe environments and so much more.