Dr. Amy

PGY0 | Chicana | Librarian | Incoming resident in #Peds #Psych #TripleBoard | #HealthPolicy #HealthJustice #HousingIsHealthcare | Opinions mine alone. 📚🩺

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

I hate hate hate moving! I want someone to come magic this stuff to my new digs.

[KFF @KFF]

Medicare premiums and other out-of-pocket costs consumed 36% of Medicare beneficiaries’ Social Security income per person in 2023.

Nearly a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries who received Social Security relied on it for 90%+ of their per capita income: https://t.co/vHbgnqVnqL

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

1 week left in my home state of over 30 years. It all feels so bittersweet. I’m excited for this next phase of training and to be the triple board certified physician I dreamt of being. But it’s also leaving behind a support system, the known, and the comfort of home. #Residency

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Democrats introduce bill banning private equity from acquiring hospitals and nursing homes.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Zohran Mamdini is consistently proving that if your politician wanted to help you, they absolutely fucking could unlike Trump

[Healthcare Triage @HCTriage]

Wait, did you think waiting weeks for a medical appointment was only a Canadian problem?!

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

@NegroLibre1 I've never seen anyone take issue with calling a PhD doctor, it is more about using it in the clinical space where due to colloquial use it gets confused as synonymous with physician. (And also problematic when it gets used online to imply a scope of expertise one does not have).

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

I am officially Dr. Amy! MD acquired!

Next stop - moving halfway across the country

If you would like to help support me, help with the costs of moving (Thanks, Trump, for the gas prices) and help warm my new home, I have a registry: https://t.co/TQaFK7fj6r

#medgradwishlist

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

@lesliedouglasx @big_nemo_ @KirkegaardEmil High test scores does not mean "smarter" by any actual measure of intelligence. (And even those are problematic, as we should all be well aware).

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

Graduation is one week! 😱

Even though I have completed all my requirements, passed all my exams, passed Step 1 & 2, got good grades, matched, it still feel ridiculous that I am about to be a whole doctor.

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

@forrestbohler @compactmag @matthewschmitz I worry for your patients

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

I did not want to ask people to shop at stores they don't have near them, or where they prefer not to shop, so here is a list. Where possible I have included links of exemplar products, but please don't feel you need to buy from the linked store. Please DM for address.

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

Graduation is less than a month away! As a woman from a lowSES and URM background, I would covet your support as I make this big transition.

https://t.co/TQaFK7fj6r

#MedGradWishlist #MedTwitter

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American medical student just did “horrifying math” on her student loans

- Her amount due is $396,945.67
- Annual interest rate: 5.875%
- Monthly interest accrual: $1,943.38

Her monthly resident paycheck is $4,054.98

HALF her income goes to just interest…

She says if she pays nothing toward interest, the loan would grow to roughly $600,000 by the time she finishes residency

Interest rates on student loans are predatory and should be illegal. This is usury

[Josh McGough, MD @joshmcgoo]

I’m the Director of the EM Sub-I at Hackensack in NJ. Could you help me out by sharing this post and telling your rising M4’s? We offer incredible diversity and acuity as one of the top 10 busiest ED’s in the country!

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

@javadisvalor @moaningroaner There’s a difference between not having a contract renewed and getting fired

[Dr. Amy @wellreadmd]

@javadisvalor @annat_9 She didn’t study medicine. She was never in med school. She was a premed, which is laudable but is not at all the same as studying medicine. (I for one actually hope she considers going back to apply for med school like she was about to before getting cast on The Pitt)

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Trump's 2027 budget proposes cuts of:

🔻 $5.8 billion to NIH

🔻 $5.6 billion to NASA

🔻 $4.8 billion to NSF

🔻 $4.6 billion to EPA

🔻 $2.9 billion to CDC

🔻 $1.6 billion to NOAA

If these science cuts pass they will make the US a less healthy and less safe place to live.

[Lemon Sturgis @LemonSturgis]

Trump's NIH has gutted research into the diseases most likely to kill you or someone you love. Here's the damage👇

• 116 cancer research grants terminated or frozen, worth $273 million

• 255 fewer new cancer grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 12% decline

• Duke lost nearly $20 million for brain cancer treatment research. Brain cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in children under 15.

• Duke lost a separate $20.8 million grant for next-generation cancer treatments, including tumor vaccines. Terminated.

• MD Anderson lost $9 million in ovarian cancer research. Ovarian cancer kills 13,000 American women per year.

• The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, 26 years of clinical trials for children with brain tumors, was defunded. Enrollment in ongoing trials has been paused.

• A UCLA scientist had his T-cell cancer immunotherapy research suspended. Even after reinstatement, the uncertainty forced him to scale back and prepare to end his work.

• 65 Alzheimer's research grants terminated or frozen, worth $94 million

• 357 fewer new Alzheimer's grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 33% decline, the steepest of any disease area

• 14 of 35 NIH-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers saw approximately $65 million in funding halted

• Approximately 1,000 grants worth an estimated $600 million were delayed after the cancellation of National Advisory Council on Aging meetings

• A 35-year Johns Hopkins study tracking individuals from childhood to midlife to identify Alzheimer's risk factors was terminated. A generation of irreplaceable data, destroyed.

• A Midwestern physician-scientist with 13 years as a principal investigator and over 100 publications saw two major NIH grants end. In their words: "I am very concerned that I will not be able to continue in this line of work."

• 72 diabetes research grants terminated or frozen, worth $99 million

• 168 fewer new diabetes grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 16% decline

• Stanford lost a $2.7 million grant testing whether home food deliveries improved outcomes for diabetes patients. Terminated.

• 67 heart disease research grants terminated or frozen, worth $95 million

• 183 fewer new heart disease grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 13% decline

• Johns Hopkins lost an $18.9 million grant funding strategies to reduce heart health disparities. Terminated.

[Doc Brower @doc_brower]

Excellent response from AAMC rejecting premise that medical schools’ rigor is under threat from DEI. In fact student’s graduation rates and performance on certification exams has never been at current high levels. https://t.co/ovz0BqYBCe