Monday is a great day to make a donation to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank (or any organization you like!) and then log that donation for #HCWvsHunger team #YouPickTwo. Links below!

I just found out there is a BEAUTIFUL senior cat named MRS. DOUBTFIRE up for adoption in Centre County, Pennsylvania! So, of course, I had to spread the word. If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home! centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt

If anyone in or around Northeast Ohio (he’s currently near Akron) would be interested in helping this sweet pup out let me know!

The inaugural year of #HCWvsHunger was won by #BladesNBougies, a collaboration of anesthesiologists & surgeons in the name of feeding people. Where are my surgeons & anesthesiologists this year?! @msharifpourmd.bsky.social @chadybontv.bsky.social @glaucomflecken.bsky.social @datadrivenmd.social

Looking to make your #HCWvsHunger dollars go further?! @feedthechildrenorg.bsky.social has 8x matching Don’t forget to log under your favorite team at HCWvsHunger.org

Hey Med-Peds folks! It’s #HCWvsHunger time! Consider a donation to your local food insecurity organization and log for team #YouPickTwo (Med-Peds and other combined specialties). It’s a friendly competition but we all win! hcwvshunger.org

Before you sit down for turkey, register your team name at HCWvsHunger.org & rally your troops because #HCWvsHunger 2025 starts tonight! Currently missing #BladesNBougies, #ComfortFood, #UrineItToWinIt, #EatOurWords, #KetaMeals, #DocsOfAllTrades #RxHunger, #CureRNHunger #NourishtoFlourish & more!

One of my favorite November events! Come join Med-Peds’ Team #YouPickTwo and all the specialties for a friendly competition. I know we are two times the specialties and three times the donations…check out #KidVengers #ImGenerous as well

Get ready! This makes the dark November days so much brighter!!! We are small but team #YouPickTwo (Med-Peds and any combined specialties) loves to participate!

It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth

So hey. I'm reading through some of the public comments, and there aren't that many, tbh.. And some of them are in *support* of repealing regulations/making everyone choke on their big-truck air. Your voice *definitely* matters here.

mentorpl.org/biggerthanth... The Ohio Senate has cut library funding by 25 million. In addition, similar to Florida, they are seeking to restrict any books that express gender identity expression. Governor Dewine has until tomorrow (June 30th) to veto the bill. Below is a link to Govern Dewine.

Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..." www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

I had lunch at 10am today. My body is apparently needing to fuel probably the 314 mychart messages I responded to over the course of the past few weeks.

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

How did the UPMC #MedPeds Residency use experiences, attributes, & metric domains to develop & implement rubrics to aid in a holistic review of applicants? @aem204.bsky.social, Allie Dakroub, John Szymusiak, & Alda Maria Gonzaga share the details: journals.lww.com/academicmedi...

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Making tortellini like you make pot stickers 🤌

We hope yinz like this. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/ten...

When the MOCA Peds question doesn’t even follow the guideline it references ☹️

Not sure how to spend your last evening at #SGIM25? We got you. Join Pitt faculty Drew Klein and #PittACESfellowship alumni Allie Dakroub and Eduardo Mulanovich tonight at Trivia Night! They always make sure everyone has a fun time 😎

Oh hey we know that Med-Peds doc (and Addiction Medicine Specialist)!

Home gardening timeline cleanse

Medical tech hasn’t solved that I have to write a letter to fax to a pharmacy to discontinue a patient’s medication instead of being able to send an electronic discontinue order. So maybe we could work on stuff like that before deciding that AI is the next big thing in medicine.

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

Ok Pittsburgh, is it North Side or The North Side?

When the AI generated visit note is so bad you have to type the damn thing over again. Which is honestly like most visits

Tired of this respiratory season. Home with a sick child again only to go in this afternoon to see patients to accrue more work I won’t have the time to chart on or have time to follow up labs on. And also covering a colleague’s inbox. And on call. 🫠

They made Quebec support the idea of Canada u guys fucked up so bad

I don’t think I’ve paid for a bank account in my entire life, even when I was living paycheck to paycheck. Or loan payment to loan payment as the case may be.

Happy Match Day! Annual reminder that mixed emotions are okay. If you matched your first choice great! If you didn’t, it will be okay and you get what you need out of your training (and you CAN change directions later if you want). If you didn’t match, it’s not the end of your road.

When you can’t convince daycare that you are a pediatrician and your kid just has adenovirus and not bacterial conjunctivitis 😑

In case you are my age and you need a laugh today

Happy Friday! I called Senator Fetterman’s Pittsburgh office this morning. Who is on your list to call?

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

1.5 is refusing all spoons except the half teaspoon measuring spoon. I can’t say this is the most efficient way to eat cereal

because people asked for it, we have a 12-hour track of nothing but the sound of clean water flowing from our treatment plant back to the environment. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...

Another friendly PSA that your child’s pediatrician will be so happy to vaccinate your unvaccinated child. They will answer your questions. They will not make you feel bad for waiting. We all want your family to be healthy and safe. We are on the same team. They’ll hold your hand if that will help.

Because we all need a talk about failure and people and purpose right now, I’m porting over an old story thread from Twitter: the time my advisor told me if I didn’t get a C and destroy my perfect transcript, it would RUIN my life, and the time she was not actually wrong about it

🐟 Pittsburgh, we need your vote! Fish fry season is upon us and we picked 16 of the top local fish fries. We need your votes to crown a champion. It's March Madness so this will run in four rounds daily starting today. Winner will be announced Friday www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

3: “Sour cream is delicious.” At least something is going well with raising these kids

ICYMI: new MMWR has been published, showing that this year’s flu vaccine is decent at keeping people from needing to see the doctor… and pretty darn good at preventing kids’ (& to a lesser extent, adults’) flu hospitalization Also: it’s safe. And it’s not too late to get it.

Imagine if the committee still met and shared their updated flu vax recommendations with us, the people, to spread the word and push for what’s needed. By canceling these meetings, they’re intentionally keeping crucial science from us, science that could help prevent illness and death.

Happening today!!! Spread the word.

Med-Peds is wondering where most of the USPSTF website info went

This one goes out to all the people in health care doing the real work Holding up the sky In the thick of it, seeing patients in overfilled clinics, staffing the hospitals, taking call, staying up all night, battling insurance I see you

Something we all should remember, as we talk about worst case scenarios and ways to plan for and survive them: It's very much worth remembering that we collectively can and will survive them. And, we will build something beautiful on the ashes of their corrupt and childish violence.

new memo out today from leading law professors. upshot: DEI remains lawful & universities should protect their DEI policies, knowing law & moral principle is on their side. LINK: app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...