The ACOG Slap:
Maintaining secrecy about serious ethical violations - sexual harassment and sexual assault - is typical in academia.
My latest on @bioethics_net.
https://t.co/cQEFYf8lwN
I keep seeing ads by insurance companies saying "We will take good care of you."
No.
Doctors, nurses, and other professionals will take good care of you.
Insurance companies will take great care of their executives and stockholders.
You are an afterthought.
Glad to present GR @CedarsSinai on the work we’re doing here.
Single-use disposal supplies make up a huge portion of healthcare’s carbon footprint (more than aviation). Evidence shows they aren’t safer for pts; some studies show the facade of safety makes them worse …
Private equity: spends ~$1 trillion on #healthcare.
Healthcare: Still uses pagers 📟📟📟
Where’s the $$$ going?
Hint: it’s not to the patients or clinicians.
Middlemen, insurers, hospitals and executives…💰💰💰
A Texas judge’s ruling on mifepristone could set a dangerous precedent, opening other drugs and medications long deemed safe and effective to legal disputes. https://t.co/IthPe8VZBy
Over the next couple years, we are going to see huge healthcare deserts develop in states like Idaho where doctors simply will not go to train or practice in fear that simply doing the job of caring for their patients will put them in jail.
If your doctor or NP is managing your hormones in menopause with levels, you are getting swindled with below standard of care. If you are being given pellets, you are getting swindled with below standard of care. Both these approaches cause harm.
.@JasonCrowCO thanks for supporting @acog and women’s health issues! Please co-sponsor HR 1117 to help get pregnant persons into research studies! @ACOGAction There are 700 obgyns on the hill today as physician advocates.