Kitara🌺

🇹🇹 🇻🇪 MS2 @GUMedicine @EmoryAlumni

[Dr Ju @juliaisobela]

Good news for all the healthcare girlies who like a cute nail art vibe 💅

@@@ infection control

https://t.co/bAjXWs9moe 😊

[layla, lmsw @itslaylas]

Depo Povera was denied FDA approval bc animal studies showed elevated risks of breast cancer & birth defects. Despite this, Depo Povera was tested in humans, mainly low income Black women, w/out their consent. After this, Pfizer heavily marketed the shot in low income areas.

[Calia Schexnayder, MD, MS @CaliaSchex]

I JUST GRADUATED MEDICAL SCHOOL AND BECAME THE FIRST DOCTOR IN MY FAMILY 🥹

[Darth Dog Mom 🖤 BuccaNole 🏈 @DarthandDogs]

Remember the episode in the Handmaid's Tale, where a brain dead, black handmaid is kept on life support long enough to give birth?

This is happening in Atlanta, GA right now. Her name is Adriana Smith. She was only 9wks when the state kidnapped her body from her family.

[Nicole Utah, MD @NicoleUtah1]

I matched at the University of Pennsylvania!!

Less than 6% of anesthesiologists in the US are Black. Honored, proud, and ready to help change that statistic!! 💕

#Match2025 #anesthesiology @SNMA

[I & II Himothy @KIjemere]

When I say God is good... On March 21st I found out my beautiful queen and I matched at UT Houston!!! Thank you to all my friends and loved ones who've provided support on this journey 🙏🏾#Match2025

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.

You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!

Happy 72nd Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!

[Wilton Fidelis @WiltonFidelis]

Thrilled to begin training @JohnsHopkinsIR next fall. First stop @ColumbiaSurgery intern year
Especially thankful for my many mentors @Georgetown_IR for making it possible

[The American Society of Black Neurosurgeons, Inc. @amsobns]

Dr. Nancy Abu-Bonsrah made history as the first Black woman neurosurgeon trained at Johns Hopkins. With Black women making up just 0.6% of neurosurgeons, her journey is nothing short of groundbreaking. 🚀

📍 Neurosurgeon, @UPMC Williamsport
🏆 Trailblazer in neurosurgery & community advocate
💡 Committed to patient care, outreach & education

📢 Celebrate Black women in medicine!

💙 Drop a 💙 if you support representation.
🔁 Retweet to amplify her impact.
📢 Tag a future Black doctor to inspire them!
🗣️ Use #OverlyQualified to share why representation matters.

We’re not just qualified—we’re #OverlyQualified.

#WomensHistoryMonth #Neurosurgery #BreakingBarriers #ASBNorg #BlackExcellence #OverlyQualified #WHM

[Megan Sharpe @The_Sharpe_Med]

POV, you matched at your dream neurosurgery program!

So so grateful for all my mentors, friends, and family. Can’t wait to see what the next seven years bring!
#MatchDay2025 #cwrumatchday2025

[Helena Baffoe-Bonnie @HelenaBaffoeB]

Overflowing with gratitude—thrilled to be heading to Johns Hopkins @OslerResidency for Internal Medicine! Deepest thanks to my incredible support system and mentors. All glory to God… I’M COMING HOME! 💙 #Match2025 #CCLCMMATCH #CWRUMatchDay2025 #MedTwitter

[CaribbeanNewsNetwork @caribbeannewsuk]

#IRELAND: #Trinidadian doctor, Panduranga Dattatreya Seetahal-Maraj, 37, MBBS MRCS, FRCS Neurosurgery, has received the prestigious Norman Dott Medal for outstanding performance in the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) Neurosurgery examinations.

[Antoinette J. Charles, MD MPH @simplyant_]

I matched into Orthopaedic Surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. Grateful for the unwavering support from family and friends, and for the mentorship that helped make this possible. God is so faithful! 🇭🇹#Match2025 #OrthoTwitter @harvardortho

[salaryDr @SalaryDr]

Hospital admin will be making $1 million a year, pushing back compensation on primary care physicians working 50 hours a week, making $220,000/year.

[FutureAnesRes @FutureAnesRes]

🚨🚨Rising M4s, this one is for you! 🚨🚨

Join our panel of current M4s to learn more about the process of applying to aways and doing well on them! Looking forward to seeing you all there 🌟 #FutureAnesRes

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

RIP ❤️ Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be a blessing.

[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

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American Doctor filmed this video to show the American People what’s it’s like trying to get insurance to approve procedures

“Nine minutes on hold and still no answers—UnitedHealthcare, are you serious? — As a doctor, it’s almost impossible to get through to someone at an insurance company”

This phone call proves these calls are a runarounds TO NOWHERE, they are clearly setup to make you just give up and not even bother. THIS IS SICK

The doctor posted this video and said “I recently shared a video explaining how, during a DIEP surgery, I had to scrub out mid-procedure to address a call from UnitedHealthcare demanding justification for my patient’s diagnosis and inpatient stay—despite the surgery being pre-approved. To make matters worse, the representative lacked access to the patient’s full medical information, causing unnecessary disruption.

After posting the video, UnitedHealthcare actually left a message at my office with a callback number. As a doctor, it’s almost impossible to get through to someone at an insurance company, but I gave it a shot. I waited on hold for nearly 10 minutes but was ultimately unable to reach the right person (not surprising). I still don’t know what they wanted to discuss, leaving me with even more questions. Most importantly, this raises a bigger issue: What can we do to create change?”