More than half (2000+) of incarcerated ppl at San Quentin are now infected with Covid. The sickest are in our ICUs and the COs (guards) keep testing positive for Covid, exposing HCWs and other patients. 3 COs per ventilated pt! Bay Area -- we need your help and advocacy!!
On Nov. 12, UC is taking its fight to protect #DACA to #SCOTUS and I’ve pledged to stand with them. Add your name here → https://t.co/bMPVa4dWsB #UCDACA#HomeIsHere
The middle-class model of health care in the U.S. assumes patients speak English, can read, have a home and a steady supply of food. In my #TEDMED talk, I discuss how we must be committed to patient-centered care for those living in poverty.
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Great episode: Reframe AMA discharges as “opportunities to understand patients’ competing priorities.” By exploring these priorities, we destigmatize, build trust, and align around care plans. Demonstrated to me time & again by @azarimugs https://t.co/fkweUNqNFZ
A reminder that health care systems can be complicit in inhumane treatment of people experiencing homelessness and that doctors have an obligation to agitate for more housing and safe discharges. Courtesy @activist_doc https://t.co/sTXpPoRlJH
Colleagues: for conceptual clarity.
1) We have a gun violence public health problem. The # of gun suicides alone shows that. Some mass shootings also do.
2) El Paso was a white supremacist targeting Latinx. A terrorism problem. Diff. Dx; diff Rx. #GunControlNow#StopRacism
Low-tech ways to prevent 85% of the infections I have seen this year:
- Affordable housing
- Affordable dental care
- Foot care & access to diabetes meds
- Safer injection facilities and MAT
What else?
The unfathomable cruelty of our animal agriculture system, and the degree to which it is hidden from consumers, changed how I live. People like @BruceGFriedrich and @rachelbarge give me hope. https://t.co/PJVDdxpIIx
This week, don’t get swept up in feel-good stories about volunteers at soup kitchens and homeless shelters. People with mental illness who experience homelessness need policy change, not turkey, to access health care and housing and improve their lives. https://t.co/hOHlY4zKP3
My take on the class politics of the midterms: stopping reaction is good, but the Democrats’ growing dependence on the rich suburbs is bad
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