Ahh vacation. #Prague

Woohoo, after 3 days in Prague, 1st day I slept and woke up after 3am!

This restaurant is making me feel very special! #Prague #Sansho

#Prague Castle

Love the Strahov library. So majestic. #Prague

Got these pics from friends who are helping watch #Pepper, isn’t she the cutest?!

Fascinating study showing that doctors in Asia often let the family decide whether the patient should know prognosis. I would not do well. #EAPC2026

Posters printed and up! #EAPC2026

This is cute: “cut your own herbs”

Well this sucks. I ordered my poster to be printed in Prague and delivered to my hotel (it's to be hung at 8am tomorrow). The print shop said it was delivered. The hotel said they never got it. Ugh. First things, first: a beer.

#Prague! #EAPC2026

Had a meeting at 630am at Harbor-UCLA (1 hr away from where I live). dead tired. When i was leaving a parked car managed to back up into me! Grumpy now.

Got a note from a prior @3wishesprogram.bsky.social research assistant: "Both you & 3WP have been deeply formative, shaping the kind of physician I hope to become. As a 1st yr medstudent, I keep returning to the lessons I learned through 3WP: the importance of presence, humanity, & gratitude." 🥰🥰💕💕

A nurse at Harbor-UCLA told me how the team bought a dying patient a plush guitar so he can "play" and hum along. He was guitarist, but dying and too weak to hold & play a real guitar--his wife was so glad that the @3wishesprogram.bsky.social gave him this one in his final days, said he was so happy

Hi everyone, I'm getting on a 12 hour flight to Prague on Wednesday and need some good books to put on my Kindle. Suggestions please! Fiction only, page turners please!

Got a note from a prior @3wishesprogram.bsky.social research assistant: "Both you & 3WP have been deeply formative, shaping the kind of physician I hope to become. As a 1st yr medstudent, I keep returning to the lessons I learned through 3WP: the importance of presence, humanity, & gratitude." 🥰🥰💕💕

Don’t these bags make my sourdough bread so professional?!

My cooking for mother’s day! Crispy skin pork belly with vermicelli noodles and cold smoked salmon!

Last night, we had a bittersweet send-off party for our dear friend, @drtishawang.bsky.social. Best wishes as she leaves to become Chair of Medicine @uwmedicine.bsky.social

I made a blueberry lemon sourdough loaf for our Mother’s Day gathering this morning. One of my sisters texted that she’d bring homegrown blueberries & the other sister texted she’ll bring lemons from her tree. Thinking a different order of these events would’ve been more helpful to me….

Last night was fun. But this doesn’t look so fun.

Look at all those baby avocados on our tree!

I’m throwing a friend a dinner party and cooking up a storm today. The problem is I have so many timers going I’ve now forgotten what they’re for….

Look at my beautiful croissant sourdough loaves from this morning!

This is gross (it's a diarrhea outbreak). Cruise ships are such petri dishes. abcnews.com/Internationa...

9 minutes until Ronney hates Hassan and Hassan hates Ronney

I strongly believe there should be a word limit on emails. Who's with me?

Got an email from a nurse that made my day! He had been at LA General where we implemented the @3wishesprogram.bsky.social as part of my NIH grant. He now works at UCI & wrote, "I loved the project & the impact it had on the family of my patients; I want to get it implemented on my current unit"!

This hantavirus outbreak feels like a test of our public health system. It's rare & likely will be limited to the ship--yet the CDC is failing to join appropriate efforts to understand the virus & get people to safety. I cannot, and do not want to, imagine how we would do in another pandemic.

We just got our schedules for the next academic year and for the first time in 3 years, I won't be working in the ICU on Christmas! Woo-hoo!

#Pepper, if you don’t mind, I’d like to see what I got in the mail

Cabbage rolls stuffed with Italian sausage! So simple, but delicious! I think cabbage is a very versatile but underrated vegetable! #DoctorsWhoCook 🍽️ #goodlunch

One of our volunteer artists who created numerous fingerprint paintings for our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social left for medschool last year. She has now started a similar initiative at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine & sent me one of their 1st paintings. How cool is that?! #kindness is spreading

Consider donating to a scholarship fund in Alex Pretti’s honor

#Pepper was a lot less intrigued by her new toy than we thought she’d be!

This is so heartbreaking. I hope they get home safely and soon.

Gosh, I only heard about the hantavirus cruise ship crisis yesterday, but the first passenger died of it on April 11, 2026. Our international public health network needs to be strengthened and leaving the WHO was not the way to do it.

During the last @3wishesprogram.bsky.social donation campaign, we received several donations from my colleagues & when I thanked them, I got replies like, "3 wishes is one of the most important programs we have" & "Thank you for what you've done for my patients & their families". My heart is full.

Here's a thought: If you just came up something really witty to say that might be hurtful, just don't say it.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

TRUTH

No, I don't go to academic conferences held in states with draconian laws. Looking at you, Floriduh.

This hits hard. Not because it’s new but because it’s still true! This isn’t just sad stats.This is real life for millions of women and it deserves more than silence! It’s time we start demanding better! Equality isn’t radical ….. it’s necessary! #SheShed #Equality #Feminism #EmpowerWomen

🚨🚨 A new report from The New York Times reveals FDA officials blocked publication of taxpayer-funded studies showing COVID-19 and shingles vaccines are SAFE, with serious side effects extremely rare. Health experts are calling this an act of censorship. Calls for investigations are already growing.

This hantavirus outbreak is terrifying--hantavirus does not normally spread human-to-human. And thanks to this administration, the US is no longer a member of WHO & won't receive real time updates on outbreaks like this. The world is interconnected & choosing to stand alone will not keep us safe.

My breath always catches a bit when I hear that we did @3wishesprogram.bsky.social for a child. This was no exception. Our volunteer artist did a lovely job incorporating the child's footprint and favorite song "The wheels on the bus go round and round"

Our very own avocado has ripened! He’s perfect! I’m so happy! He’s like our first-born child…except he’s an avocado.

Today I learned that being described as “direct” is kinda of an insult. Wow, I’ve apparently been insulted a lot in my life. 😔