once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean.

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As someone who has cared for children with cancer in their last days, surrounded by those they love, relishing final moments together, I cannot even put into words the terribleness that those responsible for this deserve.

Not me spending half my clinic visits trying to reassure my patients that just because they’re insured by the death panel @bcbsmichigan.bsky.social that hopefully doesn’t mean that they’ll be deserted and have to find new care homes for their complex conditions.

It’s giving “only people with chronic conditions died of COVID” and who cares about those people

Ok but actually this is so true that I think from now on I’m going to call insurance companies death panels

In today’s edition of insurance companies are EVIL @bcbsmichigan.bsky.social denied a kidney transplant until @detroitfreepress.bsky.social published about it. They’re in ongoing negotiations w/ Michigan medicine but say that the focus shouldn’t be on these “individual high acuity cases” 1/

Happy Friday Eve Eve.

In honor of mental health awareness month I’d like to remind you that iron is a REQUIRED cofactor to make serotonin and dopamine. And most pregnant women are deficient tinyurl.com/Ironpreg As well as a huge number of people who menstruate. Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

Who wouldn’t want to do this?!

What did you accomplish today?

Zoom meetings all day.

And specifically ask for your *ferritin* to be checked. This is not part of standard labs, and you can be iron deficient with debilitating symptoms *long* before it causes the standard labs to show anemia. And while you're at it, read up on the latest research on what qualifies as iron deficiency.

Me doing my taxes

Me every time I see my paycheck

11 got labs done yesterday. Beyond terrified of needles but did great. Immediately after (through tears) asked the phlebotomist to make sure and clean the butterfly tubing because she didn’t want anyone else to get what she’s got 🥹 (which it turns out is nothing but empathy)

I do not want to be on guard when I read manuscripts. I do not want to be on guard when I read slush. I do not want to be on guard when I listen to music, when I look at visual art, when I WATCH A FUCKING COMMERCIAL. I hate Altman so much I burn with it. He and his kind have stolen the WONDER.

If you were adopting this ball of fluff who also has one blue eye and one brown eye, what would you name him?

Confused by the 🚩on your patients CBC? A (pediatric) hematology primer -Thrombocytosis (high platelets) is reactive 99.9999% of the time. Think iron deficiency, infections. Hematologists rarely get excited until it’s multiple millions. 1/

I find anti vax people fascinating. As a physician who has seen the most horrific things I’m literally rolling up to CVS like what else do you have that you can jab into my forearm? If I leave with less than two I’ve failed myself and my community. GIVE ME ALL OF THEM PLUS A BOOSTER.

Some universal truths from your friendly neighborhood hematologist -every baby should get vitamin K -no baby needs a chiropractor -all menstruating and pregnant people should be screened for iron deficiency -vaccines save lives, prevent cancer, and are a fucking MIRACLE

From now on, at the beginning of any “peer to peer” reviews I’m going to give my “peer” a little quiz. Don’t know what Vitamin K epoxide reductase does? I get it. Coagulation is hard. But you’re clearly not my peer. And you don’t get to pick my patients anticoagulant.

Really glad I trained for over a decade, author international guidelines, conduct research and stay up to date all so that a paper pusher can tell me how to treat diseases they don’t know even the first thing about.

Nothing like dragging your feet doing your taxes because you don’t want to contribute any more money to any of (waves hands in the air) only to find out you’re actually getting a refund.

Pro tip: If you get all the old clothes you want to donate and put them in your trunk but never take them in, a decade later when you’re getting rid of said car, you’ll have a bunch of new to you clothes that now you want to keep.

Michigan did warm-ups to Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield all tournament and turns out that was the secret weapon in the end www.instagram.com/reels/DWH9Gw...

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

Spring break return flight was cancelled so I live in Europe now.

America in 2026.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

9 is running for president in a mock 4th grade election and the largest plank of her platform is softer thicker toilet paper in the school bathrooms so she will obviously be winning in a landslide.

Love is keeping your children safe from vaccine preventable diseases.

Text between me and my almost 12 year old who absolutely hates needles.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

MAJOR BREAKING: Epstein survivors just announced they will release their own list of names. rumble.com/v76wk0y-majo...

Heads up Ypsilanti & rest of Washtenaw/Western Wayne counties in Michigan: we now have a fourth suspected case of measles, and new locations where members of public were exposed, including Washtenaw Community College. Get the latest #publichealth update at www.washtenaw.org/1963/Health-...

Poland is planning to jail all the elites in Epstein files. They have started a task force to analyse the Epstein files as they don't trust the way the Americans have handled them.

I like Bernie Saunders idea of reading the Epstein files for the filibuster against the SAVE act.

Reposting with the direct link for folks using screen readers. The trial is for people experiencing heavy menstrual bleeding. Clicking the the link below goes into more detail regarding eligibility and incentives (free menstrual products and up to $400) www.lindushealth.com/study-landin...

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

Fuck @bcbsmichigan.bsky.social.. Yet another example of their bullshit for you, @shematologist.medsky.social

YES! Pediatricians, public health professionals, & parents >antivax propaganda #VaccinesCauseAdults #ProtectKids @drannieandrews.com @shematologist.medsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social @philipverhoef.bsky.social @mauikidsdr.bsky.social @shreya-pedsid.bsky.social

I still haven’t forgot about their intentional delay & deny tactics from 2.5 years ago, when they fought against covering a diagnostic cardiac catheterization for me. They put my life on the line for 2 months in order to attempt to save money. They do not care if people live or die. It’s all $$