Alexandra Hernandez

General Surgery Resident @UWSurgery. @ohsusom. I thrive at the intersection of social justice and surgery. she/her. Tweets are my own.

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@AmBdSurg @kBraselDazzle Congratulations!!

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

Never unsee this photo, world. Never forget that in the moment when Israel was slaughtering 136 children a day in Gaza,
not
one
single
white
U.S.
Congressperson
not
ONE
could bring themselves to call for a ceasefire.

[Mollie Marr, MD, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @MollieMarr]

Excited and honored to share this essay with the world.
Thank you @JAMA_current for the opportunity to share my story and the incredible editorial support.

https://t.co/pW8Wn3ETu5

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

We should hear from Senators Murkowski, Collins, and Manchin if they believe there should be any consequences at all for misleading members of the US Senate in order to secure a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.

Otherwise Roe’s undoing is their legacy too.

[Mollie Marr, MD, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @MollieMarr]

🆕Paper: We describe the implementation of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) training for surgical residents using an interdisciplinary peer-to-peer model

https://t.co/qF49ct5BQm

[I E McElroy MD, MPH: @iemcelroymd.bsky.social @IEMcElroy]

I am mentally ill and yet I have never had the desire to target an entire group of people and massacre them.

Racism is not a mental illness. It is a choice of hatred and violence.

Do not further demonize and stigmatize mental health in order to avoid the dealing with racists.

[Mazyar Shadman, MD MPH @mshadman]

Updated results of our CD20 CART study with longer f/u. Also including pts with prior CD19 CART. Excited about the results in #WM pts as well.
#Tandem22 @fredhutch @uwmnewsroom

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@KBrookeGolisch @uarizona Also, pay it forward to those following behind you.

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@KBrookeGolisch @uarizona -Discover your passion in healthcare and use that as a guide, try to be mission-based instead of checking boxes
-Make connections wherever you can, ask for new opportunities, the worst someone can say is no (and most of us will say yes)

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@MackenzieCookMD @rbarbosa91 Congratulations!

[L.A. Public Library @LAPublicLibrary]

As an update, books are still working.

https://t.co/IwJyCZfUKx

[NPR @NPR]

A Texas OB-GYN recently had to tell a woman that her fetus had anencephaly — a condition where the baby doesn't have a brain. It's always fatal, and patients are typically given the option to terminate.

Except now the state's law prohibits it.
https://t.co/EO1BDroJvm

[Howard Liu, MD MBA @DrHowardLiu]

“I didn’t aspire to be a CEO.

I aspired to be a high school biology teacher. I worked as a waitress.

But I met a woman histologist who interviewed me for med school who believed in me.

We need to sponsor more underrepresented women in medicine.”

- Dr. Julie Frieschlag #BE21

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

About how it's weaponized to "keep people in their place."

About how professionalism wielded incorrectly damages people fundamentally, and especially minoritized people and women.

About how being a medical "professional" means being yourself and unlearning previous shit.

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@tarhealer @DrCasteelEM You touch on something interesting here. Women shouldn’t have to be “nice” to be respected. Its important to always be respectful, but I shouldn’t have to bake, for example, to have a positive working relationship with my coworkers.

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@KelseyCarmanMD

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@EGMcCarthyMD @patel_doctor I have heard this one as well. “I would have gone to medical school, but I want to have a family, want to be present for my partner etc.” And chose something else. I don’t know that they understand how it comes off. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Alexandra Hernandez @ahhernandezMD]

@ade_lala Oh I would never dream of it :) just embarrassed for my kin haha