Ruth Stewart, MD

Same. I think anyone who made life or death decisions for patients for any length of time has one. I hope your walk through yours is not laden with shame, but rather self forgiveness.

The cruelty.

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women." 

—FDR, 1932

Here!

We have one in East Nashville! I’d never heard of this until a kind hearted neighbor set one up for folks to use.

2012:

Pushing disproven ancient ideas, not bad science.

Best image of the day:

Jane Mayer makes a great point that Trump has made so much $ off his recent grift, he no longer needs Musk. So corrupt. Truly curious why this corruption is not a bigger deal for voters.

😕 pretty much

Tennessee, we could have had this. 😢

Nope, @nytimes.com I cannot stomach the VP on The Daily this am. Too full of rage and dread over blowing up the deficit and defunding effective funding to give to the ultra-wealthy. I hope you held his feet to the fire, but even if you did, I just can’t listen to his unpatriotic word vomit. 🤮

If everyone received the vaccine at 10 yo, it would prevent HPV in the entire population.

Eventually no one would carry the virus & it could not be spread to others

Side Benefit is reduction in cases of both #Cervical and #Penile cancers.

Opinion | Trump Isn’t the First Politician to Sell the Office

Read now and put the recommended solutions on the list of “future to do.” That is, if we get the chance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...

Opinion | The Enduring Fantasy of Porn’s Harmlessness

There's more than this essay can capture, but this is a good start. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.

An appropriate response.

No child has to die of measles. We have actively and collectively decided to let children die rather than prevent a vaccine-preventable disease. We are stupid, and our children pay the price.

I guess it’s useless to ask how these Advance Financial ppl sleep at night, but holy cow, what terrible greed.

Amazing to watch the understandable hubris of Anthony Bourdain’s first episode of Parts Unknown in Myanmar. I watched the other day, and the discussion about possible democracy taking hold in Myanmar was from the perspective of the presumed “fact” that our democracy was not fragile. Gutting.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

Who among us could cope with all of this and a minimal level of support? Not me.

Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...

This is anti-science, anti-intellectualism, anti-standards.

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

It IS a defining feature. Lots of numb folks walking around looking for new ways to numb them selves. My numbing drug of choice is work for sure.

“In the effort for transparency.” So, transparently, they will strip rights away and deport American citizens.

Chilling.

Markets are tumbling, but listen to this entire thing. He is going to do this unless we mobilize.
Trump plans to disappear American prisoners into that hellhole in El Salvador. Believe him when he says this.