A theme on my podcast is stating the fear I have of what the young men growing up in hate-filled homes will become after these years of MAGA. The Colorado shooter would have been 16 when Trump was elected. He's heard 6 years of GOP endorsed hate speech. Dad's vid says it all.
Gay people aren't shooting up straight night clubs.
Black people aren't shooting up white grocery stores.
Latinos are not shooting up Walmarts.
Jewish people are not shooting up Christian churches.
The violence is coming from one demographic: Alt-right radicalized men.
When you come to the emergency department and the nurse does the first assessment of you, you go on our tracking board. I can see at a glance the reason you’re there, your vital signs, and any labs/imaging that’s been started.
If you’re waiting it’s because we have assessed…
Anyone who thinks an abortion for an 11 year old raped child is “out of convenience” has never had to help deliver a baby in this scenario and it shows.
I have, and it’s horrid.
"Anyone who thinks they can come into this state and try to force some right-wing, MAGA, war on a woman's body, you will never get an inch of Illinois," Pritzker says in his victory speech. His GOP challenger Darren Bailey hasn't conceded yet.
An important moment for a swing state like Michigan: voters have approved Proposal 3, adding the right to abortion and contraceptive use to the state constitution
If you're an adult without kids and don't think this hospital crisis affects you, think again.
In the ER, if we had to choose between an adult with a heart attack, or a 6 month old struggling to breathe for our last critical care bed, the baby will get that bed every single time
one time a patient was yelling/cursing at me and then goes, "oh sorry i thought u were the nurse, not the doctor" and then apologized again
???so it's ok to yell/curse at nurses?????
My pregnant wife and I are seriously considering getting divorced so she'll qualify for Medicaid to pay for the birth and I can afford insurance for myself. I'm not even fucking joking.
The current RSV wave is likely *not* caused by "immunity debt" from restrictions/masking in 2020. Because:
(1) places with minimal restrictions (like many red states) are also seeing it;
Just finished an overnight shift in the peds emergency department.
Whatever you are imagining when you hear the news about RSV, and increased viral illnesses, and high pediatric volumes…it’s 1000 times worse.