My reply to the board members of @FishersIN and @NoblesvilleIN seeking to remove my books (and over a hundred others) from the young adult literature shelves in their libraries. Heartbreaking for this to happen in Central Indiana, where I live and strive to support.
Oh you’re going to a teaching hospital in July? Well get ready…
for the most compassionate care from extremely empathetic interns along with their vigilant supervising attendings. Hope you like open ended questions and doctors listening to you bc you’re gonna drown in it.
Medicine residents dont be afraid of chemotherapy. 🫣
Will teach you some basics so that you can handle it with confidence 😎 meanwhile you reach a heme/oncologist.
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Banning access to healthcare means people will find less-safe or complexly unsafe alternatives.
It does NOT mean people will simply decide they don’t need that care.
Great work by @IUMedPeds@katiek_md (and my continuity clinic resident!) as well as @MPAcadHosp
et al. We get to keep Dr. Krause for a few more months but @MCWPHM is getting a star in July #MP4L
Benefits of the medicine–pediatrics trained hospitalist https://t.co/U0WCQyfBXh
Today’s @IUMedPeds noon conference features Dr. Francesca Duncan @ForeverFancy17 talking about “Health Care Disparities across the Lung Cancer Continuum”. Kids exposed to second hand smoke in the home have a 20% increased risk of developing lung CA later in life.
This just in: Congress has EXPANDED residency slots for only the second time in 25 years.
Congress has approved 200 additional residency slots for 2023. This is progress, but we still need a lot more. It’s projected we’ll be short 124,000 physicians by 2034.
Data: @AAMCtoday
Our Chief Fellow for the academic year 2023-2024 has been selected! Congrats to @FeenaliePatel as she has accepted this position. 🌟 Feenalie will bring tremendous energy, excitement, knowledge, innovation and dedication in her leadership role.☺️🥳 #GITwitter
ICU stories (a boring one…): If you work in a general ICU of a community hospital in United States, one of the common admissions you will get is the unfortunate resident of a nursing home or rehabilitation center that lives there for several decades & at some point becomes