Ben Brown, MD, MS (he / him)

Good morning!

Teen who lost his hearing from Neisseria meningitis

Baby in ICU for >1 month w/ Pertussis

Child in liver failure from hepatitis A

Young adult w/ asthma who died from flu

👆🏻 All are vaccine-preventable illnesses I saw in pediatric training

#medsky #vaccine

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No one should have to go into debt in order to access care in the first place…

The crushing medical debt we experience in this country is a policy choice. We can also make choices to prevent it.

That said, I am very happy for these 11,500 people!

#MedSky #ObGynSky #HealthPolicy

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Donate $40 or more as a one time donation, or make a sustaining donation to receive a small piece of unique art as a token of our appreciation this #GivingTuesday2024.

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Hi, we're Physicians for Reproductive Health.

We're over 500 physicians breaking down health policy and building community to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Going into a second Trump administration, we must amplify voices of science and justice. You in?

Hello, @prhdocs.bsky.social!!!

So happy to see you here!!!

Self-Managed Abortion

Thank you to all the clinicians & advocates who made this stellar ACOG statement about self-managed abortion possible:

“Health care professionals should recognize that the greatest risk of harm related to SMA is the harm resulting from potential criminalization.”

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Would love to join! ✋🏻

I think in the near future, it will be especially important to have effective science communicators. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I thought it might be useful to explain my major principles for science communication that I use in my own work 🧵:

Did other people not grow up with two separate categories, “hot dogs” and “hot dog sandwiches”…?

In my mind, that’s the strongest evidence for the “not a sandwich” camp.

But also, language is whatever, so while I find having a strong opinion amusing, you do you… 😇

Academic decision algorithm v 7.0- a testament to #SocialMedia peer review, as all versions past 1.0 were improved upon by feedback from colleagues on
social media

Thank you to Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman at the @wsj.com. Measles. 1/

Since yesterday morning, I have attended a half-dozen births, staffed multiple ER consults for gynecologic symptoms, provided medication and procedural abortion care, taught some incredible resident doctors, read my book club book, snuggled my dogs, and watched a movie.

#Abortion is normal.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

#pedsky #medsky
The American Academy of Pediatrics is collecting stories from physicians about patients we have cared for with vaccine preventable diseases to help in their advocacy against RFK’s confirmation.
Please share your stories to patientstories@aap.org

An abortion researchers starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/SHS3EQa

Would love to join the team! ✋🏻

The joy I feel finding #medsky buddies on here that I know from the other place!

Good morning, Bluesky.

Abortion is healthcare.

I love the communities I’m part of, and the communities I care for.

Let’s keep doing the work.