Took an intro wheel pottery class this past month with @granaghan.bsky.social - so very cool. Pup is curious whether they’re for her. Imperfect but beautiful, proud of how these turned out! Creative outlets 😍 #medhum #hapc #bordercollie #dogsofbluesky 🐾🪴

This year we combined the GeriPal Fall fellowship and alumni picnic with palliative care kids camp and we had a blast! Here’s to a beautiful day, community, and joy. #hapc #medsky @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

I first wrote this as a series of voice notes in between home hospice visits during my HPM fellowship last year. I didn’t expect these visits to impact me quite the way they did. @jpsmjournal.bsky.social #MedEd #HPM #hapc

In the latest CHEST Exhalations article, "Permission to Cry," Shireen N. Heidari, MD (@shireenheidari.bsky.social ), reflects on the perceptions of physicians expressing emotions. Read the full article in the September issue: www.doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... #JournalCHEST #CHESTHumanities

My essay on crying in @accpchest.bsky.social today! #medsky #meded #hapc "But the lesson didn’t have to be that tears were a source of shame. Our humanity was part of what drew us to train to be healers in the first place" ❤️‍🩹 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

Back on my writing kick - reflecting on the difficult decision to leave emergency medicine. #MedEd #hapc www.doximity.com/articles/cfc...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Weekends are for naps apparently. This little pup turned three this week 😍🐾 #dogsofbluesky #weekend

Hey #palliative, looking good! #hapc

Latest decompression - paint by numbers kits. Much more relaxing than I thought it would be and helpful given the state of well, everything happening in our country right now. #Saturday #hapc

In agitated delirium refractory to haloperidol , increased dose haloperidol was no better than placebo. Lorazepam, alone or with haloperidol, significantly reduced agitation, lowered rescue med use, and showed no survival or adverse event differences. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40742738/

The happiest of pups #dogsofbluesky #Friday 🐾❤️

Sunset fire hair refresh 🌅🔥😍

Celebrating another year of hospice and palliative care fellows graduating 🥳😭😍 very proud of this amazing cohort and can’t wait to see what comes next! #hapc @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

*new interns, residents, and fellows start on July 1 *~11,000 house staff in US hospitals are on J-1 visas *these doctors are the backbone of rural & urban safety-net hospitals *most of these doctors go into primary care after training, often in the same community www.intealth.org/pdfs/J-1_US_...

Gave in and replaced the well loved and often patched narwhal with a new one today. They wasted no time getting to joyfully tugging it about. #dogsofbluesky #bordercollie #hapc 🐳🐾❤️

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

Breaking: Harvard's response to the government's threat of withholding research grants to exert control over universities 👇 Research grants are not political weapons. The stakes are not abstract: Every $ withheld is a delayed cure, a patient or family left behind. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

Here is the situation if I’m understanding it correctly: 1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas 2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals 3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way

A colleague, a surgeon at a VA, was informed their job will now be in a contract role rather than as an employee with benefits. Veterans will suffer from these changes in the name of “efficiency”

I noticed some shrinkflation at the grocery today. Then @shireenheidari.bsky.social suggested I check the old box. Dishwasher pods are up 25%. 📉

My uncle, who invests, says don’t worry the markets will recover, he says we should all learn from the pandemic: the markets suffered but the markets recovered, and I suppose he is right, but what I learned from this pandemic is that the markets recover but many people never do.

So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak. Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.

There is so much chaos and joy with these two goofballs. Soaking up the last few moments of the weekend. #dogsofbluesky #hapc 🐾🥰

I have been told so many times, "Doctors shouldn't be political" Respectfully: NO "Politics" is rooted in the Greek word "Polis" meaning "City" - the same as "Policy" Everything we do in a society is "Political" Silence isn't neutrality: it is endorsement of the powerful

Making medical decisions for someone you love in crisis moments is rough, whether it's a human or a dog. Grateful to @jpsmjournal.bsky.social for a space to share Dani's story www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social #dogsofbluesky #hapc #medsky #meded

CDC was gutted today, entire departments wiped out, including much of the global HIV program. Career scientists and doctors lost their jobs overnight. This isn't just bureaucracy; people will die from preventable diseases, and public health will suffer for years. A massive step back for science.

Senator Booker broke Senator Thurmond’s record for the longest speech on the Senate floor. Thurmond used his time to stand in the way of progress. Booker is using his to stand for it. This is powerful. This is the America we’re fighting for. This is our moral moment & we must all answer the call.

An inspiring podcast episode with amazing leaders and pal care docs, Drs. @stephharmanmd.bsky.social @shireenheidari.bsky.social! #Hapc #MedSky

From launching a palliative care program to leading mentorship initiatives, #StanDOM's @stephharmanmd.bsky.social is shaping medicine's future. Hear her insights on Palliatively Speaking! 🎙https://apple.co/43OshRz

UCLA!! 💙💛 let’s go.

Every left-leaning woman in your life is getting heavy into arts and crafts right now because they don’t know what else to do with their rage

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Finally got a chance to listen to this, and it was so good! @stephharmanmd.bsky.social and @shireenheidari.bsky.social are both such talented, wonderful people, and hearing about Dr. Harman’s leadership and Dr. Heidari’s writing is food for the soul. @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social pls share!

This was Dani, beloved pup. We lost her in 2019. But we got a few weeks of temporary steroid magic after a scary ER visit and CPR conversations. This is her story 🐾❤️ and ours www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088... #dogsofbluesky #hapc #medsky #meded @jpsmjournal.bsky.social @granaghan.bsky.social

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

So... if fentanyl gets declared a weapon of mass destruction, what does this mean for people with cancer related pain? ICU procedures? oncologists? palliative care? hospice? These are the questions my husband @granaghan.bsky.social asks me. And I have no answers. #hapc #pallonc #medsky #meded 😳

Beautiful and 😭 “Yes, the patient was a beloved dog, and not a human. And yet... is it so different when suddenly a person we love has a sudden change in their health, and we are faced with making split second decisions about whether to pursue every possible treatment?”

This was Dani, beloved pup. We lost her in 2019. But we got a few weeks of temporary steroid magic after a scary ER visit and CPR conversations. This is her story 🐾❤️ and ours www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088... #dogsofbluesky #hapc #medsky #meded @jpsmjournal.bsky.social @granaghan.bsky.social

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Y'all - please listen to this podcast with my mentor & friend Dr. Stephanie Harman @stephharmanmd.bsky.social about leadership, advocacy, helping people's voices be heard. Wouldn't be where I am without her ❤️ what a joy to join her for this podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... #hapc #medsky #meded

It’s that time of year where despite the chaos of the world people start setting out their new year table or Haftseen (the 7 letter S) - each item symbolizes a wish or hope for the year ahead. Here are the beginnings of my #Nowruz #Norouz (no = new, rouz = day) table 🪻🌷🌼🌱❤️🌻🪴

Buliles never expect their targets to fight back. Keep fighting back.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

I want everyone to just take FIVE MINUTES, and take a look at this extremely well put together project 2025 tracker. www.project2025.observer We're less than a month in.

We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.