retired UCSF patient navigator 20 years NED & counting feminist AF #medicine #patientadvocacy #healthpolicy #cancer #womenshealth + random lib stuff
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Tech glitch with the pre-recorded hologram
Oops, ummm NO, that is the opposite of what we will need to rebuild a functioning democratic nation and civil society!
Would expanding FOBT help? #ayacsm #oncosky
Attention animators: I would like to see a Melania temper-tantrum leading to this defenestration! Please include lots of cursing in her native language! I realize she does not live at the White House, hence, fantasy 🦄🧌👹
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
Agree white supremacy & institutionalized racism are *ours* to fix. Do you understand that 2/3 of Latino population & about half of Asian are native born? You’re reaching for simple solution & sounding a bit patronizing here.
Hope the new 📚 year is off to a good start. tbh I feel ghettoed; want to hang with some younger people, too! (Before 9 pm, that is 😆)
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Yes, Black women have every reason to be furious. However the theme of “white people did this” isn’t helpful. 46% of Latino votes went to TFG and 40% of the Asian American vote. We have big problems; racism & sexism among them! How might we form powerful coalitions for democracy & justice?
What I think of when we talk about #Katrina — Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina #Medsky
Sounds like a you problem
“…we're not going to be able to trust the (CDC) recommendations…” Sigh. I’ve already begun to look toward European sources. #patientadvocate #medsky
#CDC was alerted to 3 more #flu deaths in kids, bringing the total for the 2024-25 season (so far) to 278 — only 10 fewer than during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. About 90% of those kids weren't vaccinated against flu. So tragic. Kids should be vaccinated against flu. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
“…never did I imagine myself sitting there in a wedding banquet hall…with…rabbis from all the yeshivas in Brooklyn, talking about vaccines.” #medsky #VaccinesSaveLives
…not that it could be made available here in US, of course. 😡 It would surely threaten 🐛-brain’s delulu worldview
This timeline sucks.
on RFKjr’s antiscience dismantling of the CDC with @drdemetre.bsky.social @annezinkmd.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
P.E.I. is beautiful 🌊🦞
Agree
RFK Jr. has appointed Jim O’Neill, a man who's not a scientist, as acting director of the CDC. And to make matters worse, O' Neill also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement.
Miller be huffin’
Isn’t that “family jewels?” 🤷🏻♀️
“Exposure to extreme heat, especially over long periods of time, strains organs and can be lethal…we are all vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change on our health.” Blessed is @karlthefog.bsky.social
Thank you! Now following. Signed, human-whose-loved-one-will-undergo-bone-marrow-transplant-next-week 🥺
Evil
lol Treatment delays will indeed be devastating. I won’t be surprised if some of us weigh the alternatives and choose to wrest one last shred of control over our lives.
Senior Suicides
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2 of my providers in as many days have announced their upcoming maternity leaves. How it would feel to be launching a new life into this meshuginna world? Some days I take comfort in knowing that more of my life is behind me – that I lived in America’s good old days – than is ahead of me.
Trying to keep my sense of humor here… #MAHAsux
More than Jeffries?
And me! And my friends! - said a gray haired skeeter #Medicare
{Sad nod of agreement} Also: I will say it again: you’ll get my antidepressants when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Ooph! Thanks for the addtl info
No, Jenn, tho he may hold white supremacist beliefs. But “Mitochondrial damage” is a New Age gobbledygook theory promoted by Zach Bush, MD, founder of ION* Intelligence of Nature. I’m not going to link to his cray
Californian here. Not happy.
from the biggest public health association “RFK Jr. must be removed from his position.”
Don’t forget about the systemic subjugation of women
I’m especially good at spotting fetal alcohol syndrome and bad wigs
It just absolutely blows that RFK Jr. looked at this and said, no that’s not bad enough, we can do worse
YES, *should* be a crime. Alas… 🐛 had the mic 🙄
Not completely accurate, per her attorneys. Keep reading.
Repeat after me: “I want to reduce the likelihood that I would be a disease vector for the more vulnerable people in my family and community.” 😇
Who Cares if You’re Healthy, as Long as You Look Good? “If you strip away his famous surname and maybe look past his advanced age, Kennedy is indistinguishable from a beauty influencer.” 😜👍🏼
Put a tariff on lip fillers!!
Ummm…is his liver OK? 👱♂️
Compost
The fundamental question of these, my “golden” years. 🥺⁉️🤔
Glad you tolerated your 5-year dose!
Really? Such a crowded field already! And I like him in the Senate!
It made me delulu. Did not tolerate.
Assault with a deli weapon 💀
About 20% of all TFG ‘24 voters were non-white, according to the AP. The margin of victory was <2%. 🤷🏻♀️ Obvi, 80% of his cultists are white, but it’s a surprise that 46% of Latino votes went to TFG and 40% of the Asian American vote. We need to do much better .
Me, too. Sigh…
Agreed. Don Jr ‘28? Vance/Ivanka? I really think the old 🤡’s ticker is failing. At least, I hope so.
Gawd, yes. Lost in the firehose. RIP ❤️
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Ooo, lucky you guys!
Question is, where we gonna run to?
Condolences to her family! May her memory be a blessing. As for the rest of us…it’s another 21st C day, another festering existential wound. Coping with grief & moral injury consumes me at times like this. So bfn — no more news today 🥺
BAITING THE PRESS DONALD'S SCHTICK HE'S NO 'TATOR JUST A DIC ~ BURMA-GRAM
… just me over here, with lung disease, trying to live my best life… 🤦🏻♀️ #asthma #COVID 💉
I am so lucky to be a Californian
The U.S. District Court of MD granted a preliminary injunction, blocking implementation of the Trump administration’s dangerous new rule projected to strip health coverage from over 2 million people, raise costs for working families, and undermine the ACA's core protections.
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Yeah it’s sad but as presented this appears to be correlative AND it’s not like MAGA cares about data, anyway 🤷🏻♀️
Proud to announce that we’ve been nominated for six Online Journalism Awards, including General Excellence in Journalism! Here's a thread of some of our amazing stories that've been recognized this year. 🧵
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Yeah, yeah...I was freaking out in 2018 and learned that *nobody cares* emoluments, shemoluments 😡 THEY STOLE FROM A PEDIATRIC CANCER CHARITY Sadly, it appears that many believe thievery *is* the American way...or, more generously, that we are succumbing to the firehose of 💩
It’s spelled b-r-i-b-e
A+ response: “Ol Slappy” 💀 I rarely listen to these clips, but when I do, I pretend I’m a world leader. Less embarrassment; more 🤦🏻♀️
BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🍤☢️ 🍤☢️ 🍤☢️ Well ya don’t see this every day
are you saying what I think you're saying...?🤔
Sigh… #publichealth
So Clippy’s cousins are doctors?
First-ever at-home flu vaccine No needles. No waiting rooms. Just a quick nasal spray. FDA has approved FluMist Home—the only self-administered flu vaccine, now deliverable to your door in 34 states. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky #EMSky #PedsSky #ObSky #NeuroSky
It’s giving swamp gas 💨
lol I was supporting a patient during a long, detailed consenting recently. Doc kept saying certain side effects could present as “troubling” or not. I was confused, so I asked: “do you mean like clinical and sub clinical?“
Ug 🥺 concerning for the health & safety of young people in red states, and for the precedent it sets #publichealth
Bibi outdid himself with this cynical, disingenuous and inaccurate conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Support for a Palestinian state is not now and never has been antisemitic.
Delulu
Exit Through the Gift Shop
DOJ missed the deadline already, will take a long time to hand over the materials, will redact 99% of it, and won't hand over everything they have Plus: “The committee will also consult the DOJ to ensure any documents released do not negatively impact ongoing criminal cases and investigations.”
📢 #patientadvocacy
Try #medsky But Hashtags don’t seem to be used as much over here 🤷🏻♀️
MAGA/MAHA froze billions of $ of research funding to universities, cut $2.3 billion in new grants from the NIH by May, ended publicly funded mRNA vaccine R&D, fired ACIP & installed a group of anti-vaxxers/vaxx skeptics, made huge staff cuts at CDC/FDA/NIH But Bhattacharya says WE are the problem🤨
Some GOOD news! “OTC oral contraceptive pills are reaching both the groups at high risk for unwanted pregnancy and those with barriers to accessing contraception.” #womenshealth #medsky
“There are nearly 40 chapters in The War on Science, all pockmarked by omissions, misrepresentations, and, sometimes, obvious lies.” God (irony intended) help us. #MAHA is BS
"Newsom’s threat to retaliate in kind is not a divisive attack on good governance. It is, instead, the only hope for democracy. Bipartisanship right now is appeasement. Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic."
My new district will likely replace a red congressional rep with a blue one. Machiavellian or not, I’m in 🫡
Appointment TV? That’s cute
Ear worm! But I don’t actually know the lyrics… “He came from somewhere something something something…”
WHY IS HE SUCH A WEINER?!?
