Sharma Joseph, MD MPH

Anesthesiolgist | Critical Care Doc | Health Equity Advocate | Coalition Builder 🇨🇦🇩🇲. Shaping a future of justice & opportunity for all. Views are my own.

[Sharma Joseph, MD MPH @SharmaJ_MD]

Check this out! @Coverage_BCBSMA and @philoasantemd have a conversation about the obstacles and disparities members of minority communities face when interacting with the healthcare system, especially during COVID-19.

[Coverage @Coverage_BCBSMA]

We are proud to partner w @divadocsbos to amplify voices of #BlackWomenInMedicine, incl
Dermatology https://t.co/n3uYzfl06K
OB/GYN https://t.co/kWT39IcLUx
Psychiatry https://t.co/dvPcqMSfoc
Today, anesthesiologist @SharmaJ_MD on race, disparities and COVID https://t.co/xT1zvBIQ1b

[Sharma Joseph, MD MPH @SharmaJ_MD]

#AffirmativeAction

[Sharma Joseph, MD MPH @SharmaJ_MD]

In eliminating race as a factor in college admissions, the Supreme Court has immediately and damagingly reinforced the idea that minority students have occupied seats in institutions of higher education for which they are unqualified.

[Sharma Joseph, MD MPH @SharmaJ_MD]

But I remain hopeful that Black and other minority students will continue to find ways to triumph for themselves and their communities.

[Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks @CornellWBrooks]

The George Floyd generation reads a Supreme Court opinion where older White men
race-plain America as “color-blind.” Youth see the difference between colorblind & turning a blind eye to racism’s history. The opinion is legally and generationally illegitimate. #affirmativeaction

[Claudia Sotillo @ClaudSotilloMD]

To all the residents, fellows, attendings, and students who will soon join us:: 🎉 HAPPY PHYSICIAN ANESTHESIOLOGISTS WEEK!!! 🎉😁🙌🏼🩺🧠🫀🫁👩🏻‍🔬🥼🧑🏽‍⚕️🎉
#PhysAnesWk23 #AnesthesiaTwitter #MedTwitter @ASALifeline

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

“My vision is to bring my viewers deep into what I am seeing through my eye and out through my lens,” Tyre Nichols wrote on his photography website. “People have a story to tell, why not capture it.” https://t.co/8vJgHcVqbw

[Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH @AmakaEMD]

**New Kidney Transplant Policy Alert** As of January 5, 2023 all US kidney transplant centers are REQUIRED to review which Black patients have had a race-based #eGFR equation used for #kidney waitlisting. If used, their waitlist times will be modified. https://t.co/x1CBoETvLz

[Sharma Joseph, MD MPH @SharmaJ_MD]

As an ICU doc, in shock that @NFL has still not made the call to cancel this game. A player @BuffaloBills was administered CPR, had his heart defibrillated, and left the field intubated.

Can we allow the players and public to pray for this young man.

End this game.

[Milad Sharifpour, MD @MSharifpourMD]

I encourage everyone who provides ECMO care to think deeply about this slide. Unfortunately, I do not know the person who created it to give them credit.

[NPR Health News @NPRHealth]

How a team of Black paramedics set the gold standard for emergency medical response https://t.co/e8HFV7xlx2

[Maura Healey @maura_healey]

Abortion is legal in Massachusetts. And I will do everything in my power to keep it that way.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.

[Sharma Joseph, MD MPH @SharmaJ_MD]

This is #America.
A landscape of wealth = access to healthcare has just been further defined.

#Black pregnant women are dying at rates more than 2x that of white women but no longer have autonomy over their body and #uterus.

As a Black woman, my ♥️ is heavy.
#RoeVWade

[JustLeadershipUSA @JustLeadersUSA]

The end of Roe means more targeting and criminalization of marginalized communities and will have disastrous consequences for people in prisons and jails. Racial and economic justice means abortion access for all. https://t.co/7XiRUx7KRu

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Abortion care IS health care. It was so before this. And it will remain so after this.

We don’t care what a far-right extremist Supreme Court that is in a crisis of legitimacy says. Your racist, sexist, classist ruling won’t stop us from accessing the care we need.