Fellow @PCCMpittsburgh via @uwpedsres @pennmedicine &learned a whole lot @yv_memorial. think about kids in hospitals big and small. lots of opinions//all mine
And already the ramifications of this for parents and babies are not good. Families here are incredibly resilient, but their stories of the ways this closure has had an impact — and the choices they’ve had to make— have been heartbreaking
This hospital closure is indeed the canary in the coal mine for all medical care, not just OB. The full ramifications of this will take years to see, but it won’t be good. @pasantemd @WCAAP https://t.co/JxAbDeNpEM
Watching this and thinking about my work in Yakima, which, like many places in the PNW, is >70 miles in all directions from another hospital that cares for kids and > 100 miles from a PICU. (cc: @pasantemd@KieranKathleen @WCAAP)
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Come learn about our critical role as pediatricians to prevent youth from becoming involved with the justice system and support those who are. Hosted by the intimidible @pasantemd and @KieranKathleen
This.
Brilliant, heartbreaking, and true.
Grateful to @gradydoctor for this powerful illustration of the inexorable links between health and systemic inequities — whether you want to name them or not — and the care we should be providing to our patients
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There are things that happened that led to things that happened that led to things that are happening. If you don't want to call it by a name, just describe it.
And instead of it feeling like some pressured mandate, look at it the way we look at all things.
As history.
Read this. #Dontlookaway Pediatricians (and so many others) work hard every day to keep children safe. We do our jobs. Beyond time for politicians to do theirs.
Racism continues to be perpetuated in medicine through our clinical practice guidelines. Let’s interrogate systemic racism and barriers to differences in outcomes…it’s racism, not race. https://t.co/GgtNDtL5BL @JAMAPediatrics@EdwinLindo @CalltheCNM @JoelTieder
This graph just remakes this point: A remarkable increase in deaths from firearms and a simultaneous decrease in deaths from MVCs over the last decades. Neither by chance but due to decisions to make cars and roads safer for our kids and make it easier to kill people with guns
Thinking again about this statement tonight and how it’s only gotten easier to obtain guns and kill people over the past 7 years: https://t.co/F2i3UtIQOW
I've worked on gun violence for over a decade now. And after every tragedy, our reaction is to express rage at America's unwillingness to act. But there are people acting every day. Yes, hold Republicans accountable for this bloodshed. But also support those trying to stop it. 🧵
So, tonight, as those of us who are lucky enough to hug our kids a little closer are thinking about the families who aren't so fortunate, I’d ask [us] to think about how they can get our government to change these laws, and to save lives, and to let young people grow up.
Thinking again about this statement tonight and how it’s only gotten easier to obtain guns and kill people over the past 7 years: https://t.co/F2i3UtIQOW
So the notion that gun violence is somehow different, that our freedom and our Constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon… doesn’t make sense