Akshay Patel 😷✊🏾💉

Pun master. Could use more samosa in my life.

Healthcare is a human right |
PGY2 Family Medicine Resident

[Akshay Patel 😷✊🏾💉 @AKABrownMagic]

Friendly reminder:

It takes intentional consciousness to eliminate unconscious biases.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Can we please let physicians own hospitals again? We know outcomes are better. I mean it cannot be any worse than *gestures broadly* THIS…

[Rekha Tenjarla @rekhatenjarla]

this is the most disturbing piece I have ever worked on and also the most important. content warning, there are depictions of children's bodies who have been killed in mass shootings. this is our uniquely American nightmare.

[Akshay Patel 😷✊🏾💉 @AKABrownMagic]

@hankgreen Did you know that everyone is born with 4 kidneys?

Two of them usually become adult knees. 🦵🦵

[Shady Beauty, MD @ShadyBeautyMD29]

For those who matched & will match, in about a week you'll start to get info about on-boarding. Part of that will be registering for your NPI number. Do NOT use your personal address or phone number.
#matchday2023 1/3

[Akshay Patel 😷✊🏾💉 @AKABrownMagic]

@j_thePA These prices are getting out of control @Owalalife 👀

[Akshay Patel 😷✊🏾💉 @AKABrownMagic]

Mandatory AMA modules for Residents:
It's giving ✨irony✨

[Abraham Gutman @abgutman]

Reporting on suicide reminders:
- People die by suicide, not commit
- People survive suicide attempts, not fail them
- We don't share note contents
- We don't describe method
- Resources and warning on top, more resources on bottom of the story
- Frame through hope

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

Researchers just found that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases.

Recently I read dozens of studies about gas stoves and indoor air quality.

I also installed monitors in our home and ran my own tests.

Here's what I learned.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Insulin should be free.

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

I hate how society is willing to try anything and everything under the sun to address homelessness, except providing homes for the unhoused.

[Naina 🦴 @narniarawr]

Stop making fun of older kids who still believe in Santa Claus. There are grown clinicans who still believe in race adjusted eGFR

[Akshay Patel 😷✊🏾💉 @AKABrownMagic]

@MajedAbbas24 The more you read the worse it gets

[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

With RSV season now formally upon us, let’s learn a little bit about the virus! Here are 10 facts you may not know about RSV…

#PedsTwitter #MedTwitter

[DUA LIPA @DUALIPA]

Sarina Esmailzadeh, 16, beaten to death by Iranian security forces for protesting for women’s rights in Iran. Nika Shakarami, 16, killed after burning her headscarf in protest. Hadis Najafi, 23, shot multiple times during demonstrations sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, 22,

[Akshay Patel 😷✊🏾💉 @AKABrownMagic]

@shashanknpatil You were a pro on your OB/GYN rotation with us at Loyola! You'll be such an asset to whatever program is lucky enough to have you!

[Jessi Gold MD MS @drjessigold]

@PhatTanNguyenMD I hope you and your friends get some time to be together and know grief is not linear. You’re allowed to feel. Know that there r resources, too, if you need them.

[Dr David Robert Grimes @drg1985]

In less than 24 hours, a thread offering tips to avoid / fight cancer 'naturally' (mainly through diet⛳️) has gotten over 100k likes.

Sadly, the advice given is both wrong and dangerous, and *very* likely to cause harm.

A quick thread on why this is so misguided... 🧵

[Majed Abbas, MD @MajedAbbas24]

Astonishing. Only word that can do justice to what we’re seeing.

[Yasmin Rafiei @YasminRafiei]

Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in @NewYorker https://t.co/cQzbWggk46

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

if you have a problem with the student loan cancellation because you already paid off your loans, just pretend its a tax cut for the rich that you also never got but mysteriously didn't complain about.