Dr. Ruth Abaya, CHOP PEM attending, received the NFL's Inspire Change Changemaker Award from the Philadelphia Eagles!
Dr. Abaya was awarded for her community work with gun violence prevention and was honored at the game on Jan. 1st.
“The cost of gun violence extends so far beyond…In addition to each life lost, there are whole communities, whole families, whole neighborhoods, whole schools where people experience these lasting adverse impacts on so many measures of their well-being.” https://t.co/FDbO4zDBxI
Current NCSP Scholar @ZoeBouchelle on the devastating impact of CTC’s discontinuation on America’s poorest children. Listen to Dr. Bouchelle on the JAMA Health Forum podcast:
https://t.co/sTnTPPxBLL
Thank you to Annals of Palliative Medicine and @ScribbledCoffee for a chance to reflect on hope and its role in illness and healing. And thank you to this patient for his timeless wisdom. https://t.co/BW3wP6VTK0
Tips for meaningful access for patients w/ limited English proficiency:
✅Always call an interpreter
✅Any certified modality is better than none
✅Interpret entire conversation
✅Use plain language
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@alisakhan@acastellmd#VisualAbstract@ToledanesGian
"Health systems have a choice to make: continue with the status quo or reposition themselves as essential actors in closing the racial wealth gap." -- a key read. @GDalembert @Eugenia_South @ChildrensPhila
https://t.co/1gKK41hmSJ
Not hieroglyphs unearthed as the new patient tower is built but neuro teaching by the one and only Dr. Jimmy Huh. Come to the CHOP PCCM fellowship program and you, too, will learn to interpret this
Democratic gubernatorial candidate @HelenaBFoulkes on Thursday unveiled a plan to make Rhode Island the first state on a path to having zero out-of-pocket costs for diabetes and asthma medications.
https://t.co/BFpL3uRTyJ via @BostonGlobe
Our #PedsICU family welcomed our new fellows to Philly yesterday with a nice trip to watch the @Phillies play! Welcome to our newest class of fellows!!
Abortion is not just health care, it is a human right. Beyond infringing on bodily autonomy, there are conditions in pregnancy that result in death without safe abortion care. This is a calling for all in medicine to stand on the side of justice https://t.co/8FdGtvwI2L
"Who will hold them in kind and caring arms.
When the world is not so beautiful....I say, Let it be us. Because teachers matter." I sobbed through this whole segment as @rachelnpr and @kwamealexander read this crowdsourced poem in praise of teachers. https://t.co/RJxz5UE4B2