Anna Mirer, MD, PhD, MPH

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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If the big beautiful bill is making your health insurance unaffordable, here are a bunch of docs who work outside the traditional medical payments system. If you're in Milwaukee, check out @doctormirer.bsky.social and Presence Primary Care. #directprimarycare

It’s incredibly easy to lose weight…and then regain it. Avoiding weight cycling is the impossible part for about 85-95% of people depending on what data you look at. This is why studies of weight management interventions need to be designed to follow people for at least 5 years after reaching goal.

Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone

Was coming here to say this.

Peak validation: putting down the stack of boxes I was carrying to unlock the clinic door, and being complimented on my “perfect squat form” by a passing stranger who turns out to be a FedEx driver.

Facial cellulitis from Hib infection

X Ray showing epiglottis

Day 2 of vaccine preventable disease education. Don’t forget that we don’t need these to come back… #vaccineswork #MedSky #PedSky

Images of measles

Going to post a primer on vaccine preventable diseases daily. Just because they are all coming back and we need to recognize them. #vaccineswork #MedSky #PedSky

the-news-hole [0019] Direct Primary Care with guest Dr. Anna Mirer - Riverwest Radio

Had a great time chatting with Eric and AJ at The News Hole about #DirectPrimaryCare, and clarifying that Michel Foucault is not, in fact, pop culture. Episode below!

Hospitals that can afford Super Bowl ads shouldn’t be sending their patients to collections

“The patient is a physician and has a good understanding of the potential benefits and harms of this plan.”

These words are always preceded by a paragraph describing the wildest dumbfuck idea you ever heard.

Overheard my teen on the phone with my mom, advising her grandmother “Vehicular manslaughter is not the answer to your problems.” 🤔

Been wanting to fix that bathroom sign for weeks.

Bwahahaha yes if you ignore my apparent sironomelia.

Me: Haha look at this messed up picture of me where I look like an AI-generated image with a statistically improbable number of limbs.
Loyal friends: OMG you look so hot.

@dandelionqueer.bsky.social @cabell.bsky.social

Ugh come ON I don’t have time for them to all be this shitty.

Not me typing into a meeting chat “Are we pushing anal cancer screenings up there with cervical cancer screenings?” 2026 goals include not having to type “OMG, phrasing, I’m so sorry” into any more meeting chats. 2025 is already toast. #CauseOfDeath

Rapid fire #FAQs about #DirectPrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #PrimaryCarePhysician #Milwaukee #Wisconsin #TikTokDoc TikTok video by Dr. Anna Mirer

Did a whole bunch FAQs about #DirectPrimaryCare really fast over at TikTok before it (probably?) disappears.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2JtAJbG/

Last I heard there were 160+ of us in Wisconsin. Across the country it’s been accelerating since the start of COVID. And yes, happy to talk @erikgunn.bsky.social .

This

I have no love for PornHub but it’s done less harm than the US Supreme Court.

Poster from the Presence Primary Care waiting room titled “Please Respect Others in this Shared Space” that reads as follows: No negative comments about anyone’s body, including your own. Remember that people using this space may have visible or invisible disabilities. Nobody else’s gender is your business. Wear a mask if you are sick. Keep diet and weight loss conversations between yourself and your doctor. We never know a stranger’s story. If it’s not hurting anyone, it’s cool.

Poster from the Presence Primary Care waiting room titled “Kids Area Rules” that reads as follows: Never play cards with warthogs. They cheat. The toys taste like sour lemons covered in farts, so don’t lick them. Put them in the clean up bin when you’re done playing. Don’t stand on two other kids’ shoulders inside a white coat and pretend to be the doctor. It’s too convincing. If you’re sick, wear a mask. Otherwise people will recognize your face, and there goes your career as a famous jewel thief. Stay close to your grownup and help them make safe choices. Don’t let them clean their hands with hot sauce. Not after what happened last time. Don’t play any tubas. You’ll only fall inside the big end.

New posters for my waiting room just dropped. Thanks to my niece Margaret and nephew Arthur for their help with the kids poster. Being my own boss is the best. I get to make all the rules. #DirectPrimaryCare #IndependentPhysician

To that ICU nurse who taught me, then the intern, the trick of shoving cotton balls with a few drops of essential oils up my nose before tackling disgusting jobs: you have truly improved the lot of this family’s designated vomit fairy. (It’s me I’m the vomit fairy).

Y’all will not top my stripper name: Fatty Chimichurri

Ask me if I want to do an exercise with the 10 lb dumbbell or the 12 lb and I’ll choose 12. Ask me if I want 12 lbs or 15 lbs and I’ll also choose 12. Cause the 12 lb weights are a pretty periwinkle color. #doyouevenliftbro

My TikTok about #DirectPrimaryCare as a harm reduction alternative to shooting CEOs appears to have gone viral so perhaps y’all will enjoy it too.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYmrFumQ/

You literally can't make a system better than the one that already exists for trans minors.

Which is why, when some cis people learn about this, they immediately either demand the impossible -- a zero error rate -- or jump straight to bans.

Which was clearly their goal all along.

There’s more appetite than you might think…

Thanks for this! I’m signing up to list myself on your directory. May have fallen asleep in the middle last night cause I got all excited and did that instead of going to bed.