Digital Health Equity Innovator | Harnessing Patient Power | Co-Founder @SaludConTech | @JoinLHIA | Those closest to the problem hold the key to the solution.
Since 1968 more have died in the US from gun violence than all the wars in US history, the majority being suicides. More children die from gunfire than from cancer. Honored to join @CAGovernor@AGBecerra@RobynGLC@DrBurkeHarris@kdeleon in protecting our patients & communities.
🚨🇲🇽 Memo Ochoa will play his 6th World Cup representing Mexico as the legendary goalkeeper will make the squad.
Ochoa will then retire from professional football right after, leaving club and national team. 👋🏼
Culture is medicine. Community is the clinic.
Bad Bunny prescribed the antidote to 128 million people.
The assessment continues tomorrow.
Seguimos aqui.
#HealthEquity#BadBunny
The Bad Bunny Halftime Show was not entertainment. It was a population-based digital health intervention. A thread from a physician who trained in Humacao, Puerto Rico. The home of La Casita.
Here is why we needed it.
52% of Latinos worry about deportation.
Clinic no-shows tripled.
84% of healthcare workers report patients have disappeared from care.
The people who need medicine most are too afraid to walk through the door.
"Ira" has worked for the last 50 years CAs fields. "I'm proud of the work I do cultivating the land. My hard work brings produce like these heads of fresh lettuce to people's tables. Without farm workers, consumers won't have fresh vegetables." #WeFeedYou
Today is Larry Itliong Day in CA, honoring the Filipino American labor leader whose union members began the Delano Grape Strike on 9/8/65. They asked Cesar Chavez’s National Farm Workers Association to join their picket lines. The rest is history.
More: https://t.co/NIA8O7YBRH
Enjoying a green salad? Our favorite lunch comes to us due to the hard-working Farm workers who are laboring in Lamont, CA, harvesting the fresh lettuce we enjoy. #WeFeedYou
We’re at #HLTHUSA! Our CEO @KyuRheeMD is live from the Health for All Gallery, a digital art showcase spotlighting stories from Community Health Centers nationwide. We’re here to elevate CHC voices & ensure they shape the future of care & health innovation. #ValueCHCs
Farm workers are hard at work setting up irrigation pipes for the carrot harvest in Kern County CA. This is difficult skilled work as too much or too little water means we won't end up with carrots on our tables. #WeFeedYou
I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
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They are not diversity statistics. They are life-saving interventions.
The torch isn't being passed to them. They ARE the torch.
Tag a future physician who needs to see this.
@LMSA_National @dr_dealba@dr_shaps#LMSA#SiSePuede#MedEd
I came to the LMSA conference in Chicago to speak, but I left having listened.
The energy was the fierce, focused urgency of visionaries who are no longer asking for permission to lead. The future of medicine isn't just coming; ya estan aqui.
#LMSA#LMSANC2025#healthequity
This isn't just a feeling; it's evidence-based medicine. The data shows that when a patient sees a doctor who shares their background, medication adherence improves by 40% and ER visits drop by 15%.
These students aren't filling quotas. They are filling a clinical void.