Maria Maldonado, MD

Academic Hospitalist at Baylor College of Medicine | Former Resident @uchicagomed | #WIM | Texan

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@HowellJollyBody @ASH_hematology Looking great my friend!

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

I wish high school education included more topics such as redlining to help everyone understand the historical and present systematic inequality in the US. We should have more empathy for our nation’s most disenfranchised and help restructure our cities and social programs

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

Not surprising but great visual representation of how unjust policies such as redlining can affect health of a population even 20 years later

[NPR @NPR]

Researchers have found that people who live in U.S. neighborhoods once subjected to redlining are more likely to experience shorter life spans today — sometimes as much as 20 or 30 years shorter than other places in the same city.
https://t.co/sOXTNKgeGJ

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

It's been a long, hard year full of sacrifice but we must continue to wear masks and socially distance as much as we can, even with families during holiday season. #covidvaccine soon please

[Vox @voxdotcom]

As of November 8, the seven-day average of daily new #coronavirus cases was more than 111,000 — a record high.

America’s third #Covid19 surge, explained: https://t.co/B0u9hvgXje

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

but honestly let residents and @SteveKornacki sleep, hopefully soon 🤞🤞

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

U.S. impressed news commentators like #TrackingKornacki can still do electoral college math after staying awake 30 hours, they should have seen resident me solving acid base equations on MICU rounds after 30 hour call day. And they only do q2year call??

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@AndraMF 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

Being a healthcare worker is emotionally exhausting yet we pretend to be constantly tough. It’s so important build safe spaces for reflection, especially related with patient deaths and poor outcomes. Check out this great (and very timely with COVID) work!

[Jon Lim, MD 🏳️‍🌈 @JonLimMD]

Just wanted to share a humble, little article, but really it represents a story that started intern year on a project that some friends and I all cared deeply about.

A thread 🧵

Shoutout to Nikki Oakman, Christine Bui, and our mentor @StephVSherman

https://t.co/icmW8TFbAn

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@hashimzMD Hashim stop you don’t know what you are saying, tomatillos are so good

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@hashimzMD winston looks so mean here, why would you post this

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@DrPhilipVerhoef love that!

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

When JAMA tags the wrong Maria Maldonado but it overlaps your areas of interest so you are like maybe that was me? but no I would definitely remember writing this lovely piece of work! Congrats to the other Maria Maldonado MD, youre making me look less accomplished by comparison

[JAMA Network Open @JAMANetworkOpen]

Survey finds that despite accreditation requirements that internal medicine residents train in health disparities, few programs have curricula; presence of curricula is not associated with residents’ perception of their training. @MaldoRia @LisaWillett13 https://t.co/n8L6aGnpgb

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@JAMANetworkOpen @LisaWillett13 This is great work but I feel obligated to inform y'all that you guys have tagged the wrong Maria Maldonado - I did not author this paper. But please feel free to tag me in future pieces on med-ed and health disparities, they are def interests of mine :)

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@RebecaOrtizMD1 Congrats friend!!

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

@JOylerMD @UChicagoMed @MedChiefs @RebecaOrtizMD1 I���m excited! We appreciate your creativity @JOylerMD

[Shirlene Obuobi MD @shirleneobuobi]

I drew a comic abt a traumatic experience in my childhood and being black in America. Not necessarily medical. Still cathartic. Back to standard programming after this. #blm #BlackLivesMatter #comic #graphicmedicine #drawingwhileblack

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

And if that means a few days of inconvenience and feeling less safe for the rest of us, it is a small sacrifice compared to a lifetime of inequality and fear Black individuals are forced to endure.

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

Living in south Chicago among so many Black individuals has been such a privilege, but exhausting to see the downstream effects of racist systems. If I'm tired after only 3 years of witnessing, I can only imagine the frustration of living as a Black person. Protesting makes sense

[Maria Maldonado, MD @MaldoRia]

I will continue to serve humbly to my friends, colleagues, and patients who are Black, who have so many to be angry about and so few options for true change. Black people deserve better. They deserve a world where they feel safe.