SarahScott Dietz

The absolute fucking irony.

Oh… Team #ComfortFood is ready! Let’s go #palliative care and #hospice folks! Also accepting donations from anyone who thinks ice cream should be its own food group.
#HCWvsHunger #HaPC #medsky

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

NIH cuts kill people - including children.

"The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, an association of 16 academic centers and children’s hospitals dedicated to trials of novel treatments for pediatric brain cancer, directed its members last week to stop enrolling...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Hey do yall remember that movie where something happens to the president so they get a lookalike to take his place? Haven’t thought about it in years. Can’t imagine why it just suddenly popped into my head this morning.

Were too! I saw you!

So. Much. Crying.

Accurate. ❤️

Bush, Obama and Bono Commend USAID Staff Members on Their Last Day

I just don't understand this. George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Bono just recorded videos commending the staff of USAID for their work and lamenting the agency's destruction...

And those videos were not released to the public.

RFK Jr now going after ALL vaccines.

He argues that the Covid vaccine (which he’s restricted) was the only one that had proper safety testing.

He says they “dysregulate the immune system”.

Get your boosters. He’s setting the stage for “natural immunity” where only “the strong survive”

Eugenics.

A store endcap display with a variety of handheld and portable fans.

Hey look, Five Below has a palliative section. 😁
#hapc

Please do keep this in mind when Republicans say they have no choice but to cut Medicaid

There’s Death Cafe, and my sister shared a flyer for “Death and Drafts.” I feel like we’ve missed a partnering opportunity:

“Death and Taxes”

On one side of the room, professionals explaining a mysterious and scary inevitability. On the other side, the hospice and end-of-life chat. #hapc

An email response from an anonymous teacher to Iibsoftiktok stating that their students will learn DEI, no one is illegal, Jesus was a migrant, and the current admin is antichristian.

Iibsoftiktok shared an email from a teacher at the high school attended by one of my progeny.

Background: environmental science teacher has an assignment deemed by a parent to be anti Trump. They contact L.o.T. who emails the teacher. A fellow teacher wrote back and brought the 🔥🔥🔥.

Fact Sheets Find all the tools you need to support community immunity and combat vaccine hesitancy in the Voices for Vaccines toolkits.

They are also available on the @voices4vaccines.bsky.social website and will remain available with other credible vaccine information vetted by a scientific advisory board, not RFK:

www.voicesforvaccines.org/fact-sheets/

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.

As a former Chief Wellness Officer, this is spot on. The work must go far deeper to change the culture of medicine which currently places “the work” above the humanity of those giving the much needed clinical care.

Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

Slide Efficiency of Care Delivered via Telehealth $ Less costly Patients Healthcare Systems Less time consuming Better for the environment #hapc25

TeleHealth works!

A personal plug for great patient care everywhere: Please tell your federal representatives to keep it going. The laws keeping it accessible expire at the end of March.

#hapc25

If all patients meet #PalliativeCare early in serious illness, in my experience probably...

1/3 who won't/don't find it helpful

1/3 who are uncertain early, but see/get the benefit later

1/3 who get benefit from the start

So let PC meet everyone and let patients vote with their feet.

#Hapc25

I'm going to be honest with you, anonymous conference attendee.

You are not loud enough to ask your question without a microphone. Go line up at the mic and make sure people can hear the question. People have hearing loss. Rooms have speakers for a reason. (also don't tell a story)

A page of notes about cannabis formulations, dosing, and administration in a mix of handwritten and typed formats. In the top right is an image of a cannabis leaf, and in bottom left is a German Shepherd wearing sunglasses with the words, “be cool man” next to it.

My sketch(y)(ish) notes from Thursday’s session, “How Many Gummies Again?” Very well done and informative session — is it too much of a stretch to say jam-packed with learning points? #hapc25 #hapc2025 #hapc #goodnotes

Amazing!! I will look for you, they’re perfect! 😍

Hospitality and curiosity strike me as very underrated palliative care superpowers! #hapc25

“Uncertainty lands as stress and danger in our bodies…what you are called to do is live your way into the question: what is my calling in this moment? See what this question begs you to see and to turn away from.”
- Krista Tippett

The litmus test of curiosity is whether or not you are willing to be surprised.
#hapc2025

An entire ballroom packed with #hapc professionals taking two deep, slow breaths together and the energy in the room palpably shifts. Powerful.
“A LOT of Stuff has been happening to us.” Indeed. Thank you, Lucas Johnson.
#hapc2025

Lucas Johnson from On Being reflecting on the work of #hapc clinicians- and the importance of this community for us. He imagines that it can be isolating and lonely (it can be) and how thrilled we are to see each other (profoundly). I feel seen. #hapc2025 @aahpm.bsky.social

“A distressed nervous system as a species level.”
Listening to Krista Tippett in opening session of #hapc, so much of this resonates.