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Physician | Medical writer and editor 💛 books, dogs, outdoors, science • Bend, OR
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
1956 university of Michigan Children’s Hospital. Three-year-old Peggy Kennedy enjoyed these ducklings paddling around in a tub. Peggy, a polio patient, wore a plastic chest respirator. The ducklings were donated by a local farmer to help cheer up the children.
This is what happens without vaccinations.
The ducks are adorable.
The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic.
And now preventable.
The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
05.09.2025 04:15 — 👍 1853 🔁 473 💬 6 📌 10Americans will visit Japan and post on social media, “Japan is living in 2075,” and meanwhile they’re just talking about a functioning public transportation system and healthcare not bankrupting people.
18.08.2025 18:24 — 👍 4019 🔁 648 💬 86 📌 27I hope you all are up to date on your vaccines. I predict that, as soon as RFK Jr.’s new ACIP (packed with antivax cranks) is up and running, the CDC schedule will be shedding vaccines faster than antivaxxers think those vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines shed spike protein.
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Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.
28.05.2025 23:39 — 👍 16001 🔁 3436 💬 1160 📌 404
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment. Technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with rare condition CPS1 deficiency has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases, by Gina Kolata www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h... via @nytimes.com
15.05.2025 17:26 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0My take on the "Biden aides thought he needed a wheelchair" is I hate how much stigma stops people of all ages to use mobility devices when it could help them.
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Steam rising from orange pipes on a Manhattan Avenue.
The rats have chosen a new pope.
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Back by popular demand ... Hope it's not too early to gear up for the next Peepal Conclave 🐤 🐤
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
04.05.2025 14:22 — 👍 36939 🔁 12423 💬 3006 📌 1143So we aren’t getting Liberated now?
What about Liberation Day?
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road.
Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.
Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).
The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
06.04.2025 10:23 — 👍 21587 🔁 4041 💬 912 📌 697I should have made more AOCs.
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14.03.2025 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And ABC has just shut down 538
05.03.2025 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Important thread about the likely impacts of the cuts to Medicaid. TLDR: It won’t just hit the 37 million children on Medicaid but could collapse the whole pediatric care system. Imagine pulling the bottom blocks out in Jenga. @miafarrow.bsky.social: seems of interest to you.
02.03.2025 21:24 — 👍 44 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 2HPV vaccine has been shown to reduce cervical cancer incidence by at least 90%. A new report (below) shows that the incidence of precancerous lesions has dropped by about 80% since 2008 as well. The Secretary of HHS, Mr. Kennedy, claims that HPV vaccines *cause* cancer.
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So much for his Hippocratic oath.
04.02.2025 16:56 — 👍 27260 🔁 5180 💬 1490 📌 297Right back at you!
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
26.11.2024 23:01 — 👍 3461 🔁 2012 💬 39 📌 79In recent weeks, there have been reports of increasing bird flu hospitalizations, new mpox strains, deadly foodborne bacterial outbreaks, measles cases up 20%, and Long COVID prevalence may be much higher.
And yet the US plans to appoint an anti-vaxxer as its top health official.
bird sounds
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