Alli Schuessler

pediatrician. knitter. pro-science. she/hers.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

Hey @AmericanAir your customer service sucks. We get returned to our departure city for mechanical failures, and we've received exactly one update, which was to tell us to move gates. Then radio silence for the better part of 1.5 hours.

[Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd]

A quick economics lesson:
If funding for Medicaid is frozen or cut,
Children's hospitals will close.
Pediatricians will shut their doors.
Then it doesn't matter how rich or poor you are.
There will be no children's hospitals and no pediatricians.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[Sandeep Palakodeti, MD MPH @DrDeepMD]

Most students used to think they wanted to be “real” doctors

But by the time third year rolls around and they start witnessing how much their attendings hate their lives, things change

They see how overworked and underappreciated they are. They see stupid ass administrators who have absolutely no business in healthcare acting like they are the white knights “you just do the medicine, I’ll run the business”

They see how RVUs and FFS medicine force doctors to grind volume instead of compassionately care for their fellow human beings

They see professional societies and major institutions impose draconian and non-evidence based policies across the board, and how those who dare speak out and think for themselves are immediately ostracized

They see tech bros and bro bros thinking they’re going to come in and revolutionize an industry with zero knowledge of how it actually works

They see marriages failed, children’s basketball games missed, other dreams put on pause indefinitely, all while going into half a million $ of debt

They see society shit on doctors for being lemmings and accused of putting profits over patients

And they think… fuckkkk that

Now the cool thing is to get the MD and then *act* like a doctor so they can go be part of a startup or work for McKinsey

And it’s hard to blame them.

It’s not about indexing on the right people to start. By and large, medical school attracts deeply passionate and intelligent people who care about humanity.

It’s about fixing the absolute shit show of a system that we are then subject to for the next 40 years of a career. We need to fix THAT, and then, the good ones will stay, and commit to patient care for the rest of their lives.

@RobertKennedyJr @MartyMakary @DrJBhattacharya @DrOz

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

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[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@DocDifferently Did I share the story about the call coverage a local practice was offering? $100/24hrs of call coverage. (Not 100/hr, 100/24 hrs) It was weird, they didn't get any takers 🤣

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@ahm_therebel @dieworkwear And calculate a living hourly wage plus the cost of yarn, and it will be vastly more than $500.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@Fibby1123 @EliMcCann Amen.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@FeralHeather Fuck that. Do what you need to do.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@MaddieMierMD Gift certificates for meal delivery and/or housekeeping!

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

I cannot put my grief into words. But… #Pediatrics does not back down. We will continue to work days and nights and holidays and weekends to do the right thing for children and families. We won’t be silenced. We won’t be bullied.

We are children’s health experts and our life’s work is protecting our most vulnerable.

Game on.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@FpotusTruth Following!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

When you bitches are paying $18 for eggs and being paid pennies working in the fields because there’s no one else to do it, and your kids work factory jobs because there is no school to attend and shit like leprosy comes back, I hope you’ll remember how hard you owned the Libs.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@ScholerinED I will also die on this hill. I don festive earrings, but that's as far as it goes.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@levarburton Captain Picard would be proud!

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@AmyGDalaMD I still say that if I had known child life was a job I would have done that instead.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@RN_Atheist I hate to break it to you but they might be a wizard. Looks fab!

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@fcknsyd Methamphetamine is Ritalin.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@heymrsbond I'm married to a conservative (from the before times, but....), and his head explodes every time I'm like, why does it matter? You want to live here? Go ahead! And I don't think we police borders. It's like we invented a problem that didn't have to exist.

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@RN_Atheist If they make you happy, any time. If you're me, after Halloween as it is still Hocus Pocus season in my house!

[Alli Schuessler @allischuess]

@AnthonyLaFauci ........are you saying that's not what happened??