Esther Choo

October 29, 2025 Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...

“just as the gov’t stops addressing food insecurity & as healthcare costs skyrocket, the admin permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores…” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-29... - Heather Cox Richardson, continuing to witness this disaster

Sometimes the primary relevant diagnoses are cruelty and greed.

davidschwartzny • 10h MOLINA: How can you, Zohran Mamdani, convince New Yorkers to go and vote for you when you just said you lied? MAMDANI: It's not a lie; my father's cousin is my aunt. G 2 • 2.1K + de

POV: YOU’RE ASIAN

You call every woman too old to be your sibling and too young to be your grandmother “Auntie,” this is just reality, neither I nor Zohran Mamdani makes the rules

Local #NoKings First Aid team = Ready

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

And that it was specifically in response to these kinds of shitty beliefs about “people like this don’t get care here”!

Just our dipshit vice president literally advocating that undocumented people — who pay taxes — should bleed out on the sidewalk instead of going to the ER.

Wait till he sees how crowded the ERs get when hospitals close due to his & Trump’s massive Medicaid cuts.

Wait until he hears that the rule is that we see people in order of acuity and time in department. Period.

Bin-go

Just keep fighting those cat wars

Make it make sense

Soothing the pain with matcha bubble tea and whimsical donuts, of course

If you get shot your assailant’s gun was a right

If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege

I work in the ER and have gotten no alerts about backup staffing needs. Today my kid’s trumpet lesson got canceled because his teacher is under the weather. Went to the carwash instead. Sun is out. What were we talking about?

Update from the Portland suburbs. Yesterday went to a peaceful rally where there were adorable little girls dressed as princesses holding signs that read, “NO KINGS ONLY PRINCESSES.”

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

a fake touristic poster of Portland that says "visit... war-ravaged Portland"

Visit... War-Ravaged Portland

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

What struck me is how much these women’s advocacy is grounded in love for their patients. So it is mutual 💕

An ob/gyn, a family med doc, and an ER doc sit on a stage at a women in medicine conference

Here are some heroes for today: Idaho physicians fighting for women’s health in a heartbreaking practice environment (35% of the ob/gyn workforce have left since Dobbs) after realizing that there was no cavalry coming #WIMS

Oregon will allow pharmacists to administer Covid and other vaccines, starting TODAY. Whew! Thank you Gov. Kotek, West coast Gov’s, Oregon BOP. Get ‘em now, folks! www.oregon.gov/pharmacy/Doc... #covid19 #medsky #pharmsky @choo.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @tinakotek.bsky.social

Sickening. I’m sick of it and we all should be.

West Coast Health Alliance is a noble effort to offset RFK Jr.'s damage at the CDC Attempting to create a system that will issue public health guidelines like the CDC will be a monumental task for Western states in a new alliance.

“And so my state of Oregon, along with Washington, California and Hawaii, wisely decided to step away from a dysfunctional enterprise and establish its own evidence-based health alliance.”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Dr. Jesse Pines stands in an emergency department room.

We are excited to launch our new talk series: Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems (CORE) Talks. Free Zoom seminars on policy-relevant evidence about EDs, telemedicine, and urgent care.

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Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”

“We are worried about the wide-ranging impact that all these decisions will have on America's health security.”

“And he championed federal legislation that will cause millions of people with health insurance through Medicaid to lose their coverage. Firing Dr. Monarez — which led to the resignations of top C.D.C. officials — adds considerable fuel to this raging fire.

“He announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs that protect millions of children and keep Americans safe, citing flawed research and making inaccurate statements.

“He canceled investments in promising medical research that will leave us ill prepared for future health emergencies. He replaced experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views.

“Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United States in a generation, he’s focused onunproven treatments while downplaying vaccines.

“Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and severely weakenedprograms designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more.