My patient recently lost his Medicaid insurance and couldn’t afford his meds. Just calculated the cost of his 13 💊 which would be $2300/month. That’s around $27,500/year. The FPL for a family of 4 is ~$32,000. This is not sustainable for the health and lives of our patients! #Pharmacoequity

Just now…

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

This past week, one of our senior archdeacons who is originally from Uganda urged our clergy to pray for peace, “I’ve lived through six wars,” he said, “war always hurts regular people the most.”

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Well done, Miss Feldman.

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

Way to show up #RochMN - this is what democracy looks like! 💪🏻 #HandsOff

🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Okay, so I got to do something really cool with my MUCH cooler mentors @susannewarnermd.bsky.social @drcnclarke.bsky.social! Check out our @socsurgonc.bsky.social podcast on ensuring a diverse workforce in surgical oncology, feat Drs. Clarke, Stewart IV, & Shubeck. Moderators: Dr. Warner & myself.

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

Stoked that my first @bsky.app post is about landing at Duke for general surgery residency. Would not have been possible without the support of @susannewarnermd.bsky.social!! #Match2025

What an honor to speak at @socsurgonc.bsky.social bedside luminaries in the field! Together, we are pushing limits of #CRLM resectability #MayoHPB #HPBheroines

We are underway in Tampa with a welcome from Dr. DeMatteo! Keep up with the meeting using the #SSO2025 tag! @socsurgonc.bsky.social @annsurgoncology.bsky.social @syedaahmad5.bsky.social

In hard times, people don't want to be told to look on the bright side. They want to know you're on their side. Even if you can't help them feel better, you can always help them feel seen. The best way to support others is not to cheer them up. It's to show up.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

#AHPBA2025 is a meeting of liver & pancreas surgeons. 16 years ago when I first came to this meeting, out of the hundreds of attendees, you could count the female attending surgeons on two hands. Now, we are legion! #HPBHeroines #HPBFamily @eahpba.bsky.social @ihpba.bsky.social

Ok! #AHPBA2025 has begun! Great to reconnect with our #HPBFamily and celebrate #HPBHeroines Excited for a great 2025 program and honored to be planning #AHPBA2026 #Liver&PancreasSurg #ILookLikeASurgeon @eahpba.bsky.social @ihpba.bsky.social

Weird - it’s almost as if for-profit health”care” is a bad idea and mental health facilities are not designed to actually help people. Tragedies like this unfold every day because we are failing each other while checking boxes and fleecing rich pockets. apple.news/ABpegQV1tTOm...

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

'Differences by physician gender exist in patients’ online reviews, vary by practicing specialty, and disproportionately penalize female physicians in star ratings.' The lived experience of many women colleagues. #MedSky #SurgSky @womensurgeons.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Honored to represent #UCDavis Conprehensive #Cancer Center at the MakatiMed Cancer Center/UC Davis Health 3rd Postgraduate Course in Manila. Grateful to our hosts Drs. Javier & Balidiva, and UCDCCC Director Primo Lara. Exciting discussions on precision health & #lungcancer care! #LCSM #OncSky