Imagine waking up every Monday to learn that 4 more people from your community - your neighborhood, your school district, your company - have died unnecessarily. People experiencing homelessness are living with constant grief and trauma.
Yes! As someone without a financial safety net this absolutely resonates. I only moved an hour away from my med school and it still burns 💸. My @ynab budget is hard to look at these days 😵 @FirstGenMD
Nobody wants to say this, so I will.
The length of time between the last financial aid disbursement of medical school and the first residency paycheck is *far* too long.
Over and over, the process of entering the medical profession punishes those without a financial safety net.
@mghmedres and my co-interns already making my dreams come true - look closely, I'm not in the front row for the first time in my life! Feeling pretty confident that this is the first of many dreams that will come true as a resident here 🤩
Logistical #TipsForNewDocs: when applying for your NPI online (after you create your account), the Provider Profile section will ask for your phone number and address. DO NOT put your personal info in that section; this info is publicly posted! Put your hospital/clinic's info.
For being in a grocery store, in school, in a movie theater, in a spa. For being in her own bed. For being Black, Asian, Latinx, an immigrant, for being literally anything other than a straight cis white man.
Riley June Williams is accused of stealing Pelosi's laptop in the US Capitol attack to sell to Russia and was released from custody.
As a public defender, I represented a man held in on bail for stealing cough syrup and toothpaste from Duane Reade.
Two. Systems. Of. Justice.
I feel so grateful and privileged to be in the first wave of COVID-19 vaccine distribution
I feel so hopeful for 2021 to be a year that we are able to again enjoy and celebrate with friends and family
...so I made infographics about vaccines created to end this deadly pandemic
Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation would not compromise the birth certificate’s public health function but could avoid harm.
@madamperezident @InternalMed_Res@BrownMedicine said “January 2021 as part of the established healthcare worker prioritization, beginning with third- and fourth-year medical students.”
This is a dope thread on white supremacist spatial practices. Also—of you are studying planning, sociology public policy, history and/or Geography—demand Courses (plural) on this and demand permanent (not lecturers) folks who are equipped to teach on this. #whiteunseen
Who should I be following on Twitter to keep this narrative at front of mind and to stay up on new opportunities to support #BlackGirlsClimb and related initiatives? Looks like much organizing is happening on instagram
1/ Spending this gloomy Saturday afternoon diving into some much overdue reading on racism in #rockclimbing, my favorite way to decompress after clinic/studying/interviews🧗♀️ I'm including a few thought provoking reads/watches via #BrownGirlsClimb
“I think there’s an unwillingness to acknowledge that racism exists in the climbing community. The people that experience it haven’t had the opportunity, the platform, to make their opinions known.” - Noelia Aponte-Silva https://t.co/GxwM7wE9DW