Jerome Adams was President Trump's Surgeon General. He is calling out the current administration for its dehumanizing language and tying it to the shootings at CDC last week. This isn't a partisan issue. Violence against public health workers is wrong full-stop. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...

Not OK.

I know well what it means for 1 patient to lose #insurance -sometimes it’s the difference between life or death, or between being at home or stuck in the hospital. I’ve had my own periods of being #uninsured. What I can’t imagine is that devaststing process repeating itself 16M times. #voteno #HR1

Mt. #Ranier / #Tahoma, framed in the banking wing of an airplane.

A warm but beautiful day at the #US #Capitol. ☀️

I’m horrified by the shootings targeting Minnesota lawmakers, including Senator John Hoffman and State Rep. Melissa Hortman. Violence is never the answer. Never. I'm holding everyone affected by this attack in my heart.

Today’s #derm #cme: lepidopterism, the skin reaction caused by contact with the venomous hairs of certain caterpillars! 🐛 This 3 year old apparently really loves caterpillars and plays with with every day, but the new variety she tangled with wasn’t so friendly.

The Twin Sisters (and a shy upper left corner appearance by Komo Kulshan), #Whatcom County, #WA

A six year old patient I’ve been working with for years on #obesity and healthy #food choices brought me some radishes she grew today! 😁. Apparently something I said over the last few years has gotten through ❤️ #fmstrong #primarycare

I’m no expert on #barns, but this one is pretty good looking, especially with the #silo and puffy white clouds. #asseenwhilebikeriding

This is amazing & brings tears to my eyes. It’s not something we could have imagined even a decade ago. Hats off to the dedicated, brave & collaborative researchers and physicians who made history, and to our predecessors for supporting this science 🧬 . www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

This is pretty amazing news, but we still need to sustain the changes that made this possible or else we’ll see the trend reverse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/h...

To those who don’t believe in #stigma around #substanceuse and #addiction, I would kindly ask you to explain this recent news item…

This article captures our current national challenges with #stimulant use well. However, it fails to mention that we do have an effective treatment - #contingencymanagement - and we should be figuring out now to implement it even if it’s not a pill, patch or shot. 💊 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...

This is what I have to say about today’s developments.

Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.

Bellingham, WA

Bridging the Gap: AHRQ’s Role in Rural Health Care Access Amid Hospital Closures academyhealth.org/blog/2025-04... via @academyhealth.bsky.social

Surveyed 1 month after inauguration, frontline US primary care clinicians sending early warning signal of harmful impact of Trump-Musk policies on health care workers, patients, communities. Brief led by @rebeccaetz.bsky.social published today @milbankfund.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2udmc7ds #FMSky

The Senate Finance Committee voted to advance the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead CMS. In this special bonus episode of “What the Health?,” KFF Health News’ Rachana Pradhan and Stephanie Armour join host @julierovner.bsky.social to recap his hearing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx0...

THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...

Please listen to this. It is devastating and important. #foreignaffairs #publichealth #internationaldevelopment #consequences www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

This little blue #penguin looked me in the eye over the weekend and told me to focus on the long game.

I’m not sure why, but I figure it can’t hurt the world to see this work by Amanda Newell right now; it seems to capture some of the uncertainty and sadness of the pandemic that feels resurgent at the moment, as well as a very comforting human response to it. #blueteddybear #christchurchartgallery

This really tickled me. Cheeky kea! (And yes, I know this is a few years old 🤪) youtu.be/WvHZy9i9LMA

I keep hearing people trying to blame harm reduction for "enabling addiction". Harm reduction doesn't enable addiction, unaddressed trauma, poverty, and homelessness does. #harmreductionworks

I am so distraught by this choice our current government has made, and grateful to its former leader for putting the reasons for this distress into words.

#Chronicpain has been a focus of my practice for the last 10y and I would recommend this article both for physicians and pts who want to understand it better, including new #therapies on the horizon. It’s a solid explanation of why #pain is #complex and #multifactorial and there’s no panacea.

A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax that drives up prices on everyday goods. They disproportionately hurt the working class and poor who bear the brunt of higher costs while wealthier consumers feel significantly less impact.

The former director of the CDC is not making this up.

There’ve been days this week I’ve been tempted by this approach to what’s going on in our country. Then I turn and look at my children, my family and my community and know it’s 💯 not an option. Thanks to all the folks out there leading by example on this front. #longgame

Well, never noticed this sign until today. The irony is somewhat amusing. #bluesky

This is my #hometown scenario. Only there the nearest pharmacy is 60 miles away. 😭 #pharmacydesert #healthaccess #ruralhealth #pharmacyclosures

While I understand the importance of slowing down, being with family and friends, appreciating a precious commodity (☀️) and accepting the cycles of nature, I’m very glad our annual plunge into darkness is officially over and the tides are slowly turning. #wintersolstice #lettherebemoright

So grateful to hear this and amazed it was accomplished. My beekeeping patient is undoubtedly relieved.

Went for a run in gale force winds wearing reindeer antlers somewhat against my better judgement and was happy to learn that it actually was for a good cause 😁 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18971245/

A month ago, #pertussis / #whoopingcough was all over the news in #WA, but the stories died out pretty quickly. This week I was asked in a meeting if we needed to keep testing people. Turns out the answer is yes, yes we do. 😱. #epidemic #coughcough #anounceofpreventionisworthapoundofcure

When you’ve been working for too long and everyone else besides you is aware…#lapdog #momitstimetogooutsidenow

Can you get a contact high from being near someone who has consumed far too much sugar? Asking for my a friend 😆 #holidaybaking #thoumustsample #somanycarbs

Wow, my parents received an evacuation notice because a fire in the canyon above their house blew up overnight, while one of the clinics I used to work at in #SantaRosa flooded after they got 10 inches of rain in less than 2 days. Dizzying. 📷 @pressdemocrat and Michael Prather.

Came here to say that I’ve been missing the space to engage on things that matter, and this book on generic drug manufacturing has been blowing my mind! I can’t stop reading it. @katherineeban.bsky.social I’m impressed with the quality, depth and style of the writing here- thank you!