Whether a seasoned healthcare professional or a trainee, reflecting on your medical journey fosters humility, resilience, and a deeper connection to your work. @drkopacz.bsky.social @meggerber.medsky.social #MedSky @rschaefmd.bsky.social closler.org/creative-art...

This is hideous

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f... If sunlight is the best disinfectant, let’s hope that it also melts inhumane ICE policy and action.

Read this, share this with everyone you know, and you can also sign this petition. 🧪 🩺 www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4... Hey #healthcare #primarycare employed physicians This episode 👇👇 Honoring physicians who still hold onto the indivisible fact that caring for the patient is the APEX of it all Every healthcare committee member on The Hill needs to listen

I’ve enjoyed being part of Narrative Mindworks - The World’s Leading International Narrative Practices Association; consider joining the global community advancing the art and practice of narrative in healthcare, education & communication. #healthhumanities #medicalhumanities narrativemindworks.org

Just signed 🤞😣 #scienceisreal #publichealth @gimapreceptor.bsky.social @dhpomerantz.bsky.social @elasticdo.bsky.social @gabrieldane.me @colleenchristmas.bsky.social @indupartha.bsky.social

Hey #healthcare #medsky I think so much has to be done in our financialized spaces to hold onto our oath and patient relationships in the exam room … I don’t like how the word HERO has been used, eg w the pandemic Reeve’s second definition makes much more sense Be the ordinary person 👇

When caring for pts who are unhoused, addressing food & housing insecurity is just as important as providing med treatment. Build trust & ensure psychological safety through trauma-informed interactions and a nonjudgmental approach. @meggerber.medsky.social tinyurl.com/pwt4498u

As the US nears its highest number of measles cases in >30 years, I wrote in @statnews.com about what is at stake: A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u... #PedsID #IDsky #MedSky #PedSky

Prioritize talking with patients about how vaccines not only prevent infection but support cognitive health. This is one way that patients can take steps to preserve brain function. @drlizgeriatrics.bsky.social @agsjournal.bsky.social @blackingeron.bsky.social #MedSky tinyurl.com/hp7f9yjs

Great work!

Agree important essay, 🙏🙏 Another way of phrasing this: “understanding those who have *used* violence” - terms like “perpetrator” & “victim” come from criminal justice system not always recovery-oriented #traumainformed @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social @martinajelley.bsky.social @tihcer.bsky.social

100% this - “what matters to you” instead of “what’s the matter with you?” #traumainformed #healingcentered care thank you for the tag 🙏❤️ @closler.bsky.social

TY @jama.com for sharing our JAMA insights on #trauma-informed care - we hope this inspires #healingcentered #healthcare as well as a continued expansion of the evidence base around #traumainformed interventions #impsci #aces #PACEs #grateful to many colleagues #TIHCER who have informed this work 🙏

Thank you - I am so thrilled & honored to have the opportunity to be a fellow in this amazing program! #womeninmedicine

This #WorldFamilyDoctorDay, we will be highlighting some recent publications across the Lancet group that reflect on broad role of family doctors in #primarycare #WFDD2025 #primaryhealthcare #familymedicine #internalmedicine

I had this op-ed published in @thehill.com this week arguing for: 1. Healthy lifestyles, especially exercise 2. Primary care 3. #AHRQ and research funding @societygim.bsky.social #SGIM25 @nuintmed.bsky.social @ipham.bsky.social @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social Please share! thehill.com/opinion/heal...

Honored to be on this team @gumedcenter.bsky.social & humbled that Medical Teacher deemed it worthy of a BEME Guide: Specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment: What is known and how can we intervene? A scoping review: BEME review no. 93 #MedEd pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40380975/

Thank you - I am so thrilled & honored to have the opportunity to be a fellow in this amazing program! #womeninmedicine

Inspiring vision of a way forward #medsky #publichealth #sisepuede obstacles include “our profit-driven health care system but also by an American political tradition of criminalizing poverty, homelessness, and disability as a substitute for investing in supportive social care”

Specialty disrespect is a #microaggression & form of #hiddencurriculum - all to often I 👂#medicalstudents & #residents being told “you’re to smart for x,y” hospitalist colleague shared that surgical specialty would not do procedure until she called in specialist 🙄 #IMproud

Hey #mededsky #medsky #primarycaresky Some impending retirement reflecting .. Don’t be overly taken w the provider (🙄) or panel metric Fulfillment doesn’t live there Preserve your being taken by the human messy measureless space between the vulnerably ill &the compassionate talent u bring

2/ @susanhingle.bsky.social @darilynmoyer.bsky.social @dhpomerantz.bsky.social @meggerber.medsky.social @elasticdo.bsky.social @drmommy.bsky.social @gabrieldane.me @annalsofim.bsky.social @doctorscouncilseiu.bsky.social @societygim.bsky.social @mparshleymd.bsky.social @sericksonacp.bsky.social

Hey #primarycaresky #internalmedicinesky #IMsky #medsky Couldn’t be #IMProud -er of our @acpimphysicians.bsky.social . Really happy/hopeful w this policy stance re options for IM physician organization in interest of patient access/care/our #wellness !! www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

1/ Welcome to Edition 248 of West’s #WellBeingWednesday! Today I’ll link to a conversation I had recently with Dr. Bradley Block on his podcast @physiciansguide.bsky.social #wellbeing #burnout #medtwitter #meded #medsky www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com/podcast/epis...

Daily clinical interactions, marked by honest communication and empathy, hold unique power for healing and justice. @meggerber.medsky.social #MedSky closler.org/passion-in-t...

Hey #medsky #primarycaresky AMCs It’s amazing what unkindness in #healthcare is dealt in the name of commodification corporatization consolidation .. oh, &in the name of a budgetary crisis too Kiss Chief Finance Officers goodbye or kiss primary care goodbye Chief Kindness Officers please

Lord help us #obgyns #obskyn #obgynsky #idsky @acog-org.bsky.social @acogaction.bsky.social

Sampling #handsoff2025 #NOLA several of us went during #IM2025 @acpimphysicians.bsky.social incredible representation from all sectors of society young & old (many adorned walkers & rollators) young children, the time to speak up is now! I will be out again on 4/19

#grateful @acpimphysicians.bsky.social @acpny.bsky.social for this honor distinguished contributions for behavioral medicine #traumainformed care shoutout to my @tihcer.bsky.social colleagues #IMproud of the work we have done together

⚜️🥰💜🫶🏾Such a highlight of #IM2025 …time with @meggerber.medsky.social @acpimphysicians.bsky.social @acpny.bsky.social

Such a joy to see you #IRL @drmamakai.bsky.social #IM2025

Agree! Our practice has a referral list which we constantly update. Unfortunately, part of the reason we have this is that we don’t have full-time behavioral health on site hopefully someday we will. But yes #mentalhealth is essential.

By proactively discussing mental health, using non-stigmatizing language, & having a list of resources on hand, healthcare professionals can help pts get the support they need. @scottvernaglia.bsky.social @meggerber.medsky.social #MedSky closler.org/lifelong-lea...

I hereby rescind every slightly mean sarcastic #ortho #orthobro joke I have ever made - thank you thank you images.app.goo.gl/gGwWwRHuGuTx...

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

Healthcare professionals must be vigilant against implicit bias, particularly racial bias, which can lead to delayed diagnosis and poorer outcomes for marginalized patient populations. @cjstreed.bsky.social closler.org/lifelong-lea...

USPSTF states that evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for food insecurity on health outcomes in the primary care setting. #PCP thoughts? In 2022, 12.8% of households experienced food insecurity in 2022. #Medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Another patient telling me they are disappointed with my lack of responsiveness on the patient portal (I had a team member respond) - please folks understand that we #PCP care but we do t have any time built into the day to answer these messages closler.org/connecting-w... - #saveprimarycare #bekind

To Elon Musk and his fellow oligarchs, “restoring free speech” means using billions of dollars to subject everyone else to their constant “me speech.”

Instead of destroying things what can we build, grow & nurture?

T H I S 📍 #primarycare #saveprimarycare

2/ .. of every employed pediatrician, internist, family med doc and geriatrician doing 15-20m/30m visits over a long day The trainees know it They also know that the salary for this panel-caring work is the lowest across all specialties, &also when compared to impatient work Older docs, .. ->

#medsky #primarycaresky The patient visits, documentation, billing and intervisit care produced by a panel of 1500-3000 is work that an employed primary care physician can not get done in a work day at work Been this way for years It seriously bleeds into needed rest &personal family time ..->

4/ .. Unwillingness 2meaningfully redistribute dollars 2the foundational doc/care that makes all the high ticket hi reimbursement care possible Margin quest that won’t course correct its obsession w same old punishing short term thinking, even in primary care Serious myopia of financialization

Indivisible has no intention of surrendering to Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans. Our democracy is in danger. The path ahead will be hard. Indivisibles are ready to do the work - it’s time for a Senate Democratic Leader who is too. indivisible.org/statements/i...

April is #NationalPoetryMonth. Do you have a poem related to patient care or healthcare you'd like to publish in our Creative Arts in Medicine column? We'd love to share it! DM for more info. @drkopacz.bsky.social @meggerber.medsky.social @ #MedSky closler.org/creative-art...