Newsflash! A surprising principle in being a person and being a doctor overlaps: don’t be a jerk. It’s so simple! Try it! 🤣 Blaming others (patients, staff, anyone but ourselves) has become a norm. Join me to reject it together (by subscribing 😅)! open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...

THIS is how I feel about medical insurance’s cost-cutting strategies and their dictation of patient outcomes: they put profit margins above people, costing what truly matters—dignity and lives. For anyone who’s seen the consequences, it’s impossible to forget. open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...

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Not to brag but I had a 100-year-old great-great-grandmother in my clinic who taught me some killer Salsa moves. It was basically like being blessed by the Pop himself. 💃✨

“I must sound so ungrateful,” a father said. Where patients usually say “thank you," he said: help me understand why no one listens to us? The “ungrateful” patient taught me: Patients don’t owe us gratitude. We owe them the truth. And the willingness to listen. drzedzha.substack.com/p/the-ungrat...

People: “What do you ladies think?” Us ladies:

Throwing it out there- if any psychiatric NP in Rochester NY area has 3600 hours and is looking for a job feel free to contact me. #medsky #psychsky #jobs

My mom told me to put my books down and get out more, so I backpacked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and stayed outside for four days… to read in peace. She’s right! Fresh air really enhances the plot twists—highly recommend getting out and reading! 🤣

To make a teenage patient less nervous during a biopsy I sang APT.. She giggled the whole time and then said: “Your singing hurt more than the needle.” My patients are savages and I love them. 🤣🤣

My place and my person. 🤣🤣

I, for one, am tired of the news headlines that boil down to “He denies raping a woman.” 😴 Wake me up when there is a story where he: Admits his fault, Apologizes for his behavior, Accepts accountability, and Amends his wrong by becoming the biggest feminist. Until then, spare me. Thank you.

Got a new sticker and wonder where I should put it during salary negotiations. Maybe my forehead? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Eczema is preventing my baby from…being a baby!” A mother said. It’s true! If a kid can’t sleep/eat/laugh because they scratch all day, they aren’t free to just be a kid! I’m gonna write letters to insurance companies that read: how about you approve the meds so our children can just be children?!😡

I trekked 45 miles over 2600 ft, climbed ladders on cliffs, crossed waters: all for the stunning waterfalls in the Grand Canyon. The people of Havasupai, thank you for letting me to your home. Your land is a masterpiece of nature. I’m humbled to have walked its trails and stood in awe of its beauty.

“I don’t feel qualified to tell people to ‘manage your stress,’” I said in my lecture. “Adulting is hard. And I’m not an expert on adulting.”🤣 While people laughed, I hope the point is clear: it’s not helpful to tell patients to be “less stressed.” It is helpful, however, to treat their diseases.

7 years ago, I sat in the auditorium as a resident, learning Dermoscopy for the first time in the AAFP skin course. In the past few days, I joined my mentors as a faculty/speaker for the same course. I’m full of gratitude. I know I’ve got a long way to go. But I will also take the small wins. 🥹🩵

I’m a feminist patient advocate. Why? A cardiologist (a man) refused to clear my patient for hysterectomy, because, I quote: “Half the world have uteruses. Get used to it.” Until this stops, I will remain a feminist patient advocate. And you WILL hear from me. open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...

Have you ever fought so hard for a patient to get the treatment they needed and they finally GET BETTER and you just literally can’t help yourself but celebrate and hug and cry and then hug again? Yeah. That happened to me. Excuse me when I go cry some more. 😭🥹🩵😭😭

January 6 was a hard day to get out of bed for. Then I remembered I’m a proud immigrant serving immigrant communities! I need my patients to know that no matter who threatens to rip away their rights, I have their back. In my line of work, there are no show downs, only showing up. 🩵

Dear medical insurance companies: don’t mess with my patients! Because their doctor can FIGHT. 😡😡🥹🥹 open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...

My name is Zed. I am a proud immigrant serving an immigrant community. I am a feminist patient advocate. I am a woman. I am an ally. And I am a physician. Even when the world turns upside down, there must be 50 Ways I've Got You. 50 Ways I've Got You. open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...

Fall in (love with) New England.

A lobstah walks into a ramen bah…aaand becomes my din din. 🥶😍

Attended the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative lecture by Loretta Lynch, the 1st Black woman to serve as US Attorney General, introduced by Pro. Claudine Gay, the 1st Black president of Harvard University. The message was clear: Never Lose Infinite Hope. INFINITE HOPE. ❤️

My brain eats two of these boxes for food each day. Please clap.

Here is a Moshi Moshi photo you didn’t know you needed. Good night!

In a research fellowship for my book on medical rape culture. The Harvard Countway library archivists took out the Dickinson-Belskie vulva models for me to examine the white male authorship in the history of medical education. Let’s just say I’m in…clitoral heaven. 😅👀

Handmade uni cream udon? Yes, please! 🤩🤩🤩

Note: "The patient is noncompliant with insulin." Reality: The patient is staying at a shelter. She has no control over her food. Insurance won't pay for more insulin for it's too soon for a refill. Her current insulin supply is at her abuser's, from where she just escaped. Stop labeling patients.

Hello from Moshi Moshi and I. 🫶 (My first post here. I’m weirdly nervous lol.)