Alan Plotzker, MD

Brain, uterus, panda, alpaca…who’s to say, really?

Nobody warned us how adorable infant hiccups were going to be

I was nervously watching those same people as someone with asthma and thinking “I would very much like the medical freedom to keep doing this whole breathing thing. Breathing is just the bee’s knees”

Face of the Giant Panda Sign (dark red nuclei and substantia nigra with surrounding midbrain T2 hyperintensity, classically seen in Wilson’s Disease)

To be fair, actual radiologists look at this and see a giant panda, so 🤷‍♂️

I waited for months after starting my current job to get it (started March 2021), and it still blows my mind that there were people IN INPATIENT HEALTHCARE SETTINGS, that were just like “no, and how dare you???”

Terror in Resonance

Anime shot with closed caption: “For some growers, the Air Force.”

Anime shot with closed caption: “Arts and crafts”

Anime shot with closed caption: “Sperm.”

This is what happens when you let computer audio recognition do your closed captions

Why not both?

I recommend watchmaking

If you don’t understand the most basic elements of medical consent in pediatrics, you should probably sit this one out. The patient, their parents, and multiple treating physicians all agree they should receive a treatment, but apparently the only one who matters is YOU, an online transphobe

My son just had his bris. I had mine at 8 days old. 58% of US male babies are circumcised. I’m glad my parents made that decision for me because circumcision as an infant causes vastly fewer problems than doing it as an adult, and an adult cannot retroactively decide to be circumcised at 8 days

Puberty is not reversible. It is very literally an irreversible change to their bodies that you want to force. That you want to FORCE trans girls to have male puberty and then ban them from sports for it is grotesque. You would deny them a choice EVER because the choice cannot be made as an adult

It is entirely within our power to prevent trans girls from going through male puberty at all (and thus having even a theoretical advantage at some aspects of some sports), but you seemingly want to force irreversible changes on their bodies instead, against their wishes and their parents’ wishes

I sense that this is going to quickly lead to me blocking you, but on the off chance you’re asking this in good faith, the reason is that puberty blockers are not useful in adults. That boat has sailed

*Puberty* irreversibly alters your body, in ways that trans teens may not want

I still remember being a med student on peds seeing a small 8-year-old girl with BPs in the 180s and the intern trying to convince me it was just due to anxiety

Also, “trans women have an unfair advantage because they went through male puberty” rings extra hollow when the same people yammering about this are trying to FORCE trans girls to go through male puberty against their wishes by restricting puberty blockers

Throw in Aum Shinrikyo (sarin gas, and also quite a bit of drugging people for attempted brainwashing) and you’ve got a whole pharmacology lesson plan

I got in a Twitter fight with Adam Baldwin, and it turns out that the reason he was so good at playing a dumb, paranoid asshole on Firefly is because he is in fact a dumb, paranoid asshole

He also seems to respond to drinking songs. This one in particular: m.youtube.com/watch?v=OuTY...

Oohhhh. I was baffled at how hockey championships had somehow become female-coded

I feel like Stanley Cups is some lore I must have missed at some point

Penis museum in Reykjavik

Well the dial is from a guy in Qatar who makes them (who is a really impressive artist). The rest of the parts I get online (mostly Alidepending on what I think would go well together and build from scratch. Looks something like this before starting

New hobby is chanting “chug, chug, chug” while our newborn is nursing

I’m convinced that he responds to the encouragement

“We need to stop all the COVID testing. We only have so many cases because of all of the testing”

Update, part 3:

Tag at the bottom is totally false advertising

People who understand basic economics and reality must be bots. Cool bro. Muting you now. You’re too stupid to help

Learning there’s only one R In bupropion is the medical equivalent of learning there’s only one R is sherbet. Seems like the entire world has just been messing with you for years

Post What on earth makes you think corporations want mass deportations and limited immigration? That's just unequivocally bad for them. Decreased labor supply and decreased demand for products ... Beeks @lurkermclurkface.bsky.social • 6h It's bad for them which is why their stocks are through the roof...? ... Alan Plotzker, MD @alanplotzker.bs... • 6h Unequivocally bad for them, yeah. As are tariffs. Turns out that there are multiple things that influence stock prices. Crazy, I know • • Beeks @lurkermclurkface.bsky.social • 6h We've moved past a market economy. The wealth has accumulated upwards to the point where goods and services no longer matter, it's all just the rich shuffling around money in ways that absorb tax dollars. They can wholesale slaughter us and still make more money.

This sums up what’s annoying about this place. If you’re going to believe conspiracy theories as asinine as “businesses don’t care about selling stuff and make money through shadowy dark magic,” you might as well just become a chem trails person

Actual reality is bad enough without this crap

You are transcendently stupid if you think the SEC would be cool with all that just being made up or that businesses don’t want to sell shit

This seems pretty clearly like “I’m too lazy and/or stupid to learn about this, so it must be some vast conspiracy.”

Might as well be a chem trails person