Chantal Tapé

1 in 5 abortion patients have to travel outside of their state to receive safe, essential health care.

Imagine driving 8 hours to see your dentist or boarding a flight to see your primary care provider. It’s absurd.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

mifepristone 😞

Lots of inaccuracies floating around re: the new generic mifepristone. It's not the first generic, it's the second, and it's not a "new abortion pill." It's the same thing that's already on the market, there are just a total of three companies making the drug now (brand name and two generics).

This. And many rural family docs are IMGs…

seriously. y’all are amazing. 🥹

Addressing parents' concerns: do multiple vaccines overwhelm or weaken the infant's immune system? - PubMed Recent surveys found that an increasing number of parents are concerned that infants receive too many vaccines. Implicit in this concern is that the infant's immune system is inadequately developed to...

D. How do we know multiple vaccines don’t “overload” children? Let’s talk studies:
1). A landmark 2002 study suggested that an infant’s immune system could theoretically handle ~10,000 vaccines simultaneously without impairment.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11773551/

New: Planned Parenthood Arizona says it has "made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend providing essential health care services to patients insured through Medicaid" due to federal efforts to "defund" Planned Parenthood.

whoa! so many games i’ve never seen before. also, would love to see an adult outpatient version of empiric!!

seriously, though

we’re cooked.

🤦🏾‍♀️ missed it! thanks for posting this!

👏🏾 I’d add Covid-19 exposure during pregnancy to this list.

THIS. i also just saw that washington state is planning to give their affiliate $11 million to cover the medicaid gap. and all i can think about is what an independent clinic could do with that money. and how long it would sustain us without all the bureaucratic overhead… 😔

Yes, thank god. Let’s please start fat shaming men the way we do women. Let’s definitely imply that being fat is a threat to your masculinity. That will certainly make men healthier! 😱💀

i’d like to see some serious engagement with this from all the hacks i see trying to push AI as a cure for the failures of our healthcare system.

damn, i loved the star toothpaste! 🤩

Important because of how fat people are treated in our society but also because weight loss is hard and we have little to no understanding of how to make it happen other than saying, “Here! Take this med for the rest of your life!”

I’m not convinced that weight is a bigger problem than glucose control. I have seen many patients who achieve glucose control without dramatic changes in weight. Some with GLP-1’s and some without. I think we physicians should be questioning the weight-centric paradigm.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Are you implying that weight is the most common problem?

this is enraging. thank you both for covering this.

this is truly wild. thinking about how this will impact people who need care, of course, but also the very fragile and underfunded network of FQHCs that are barely scraping by trying to provide care that is affordable to everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

if you’re not already listening, i highly recommend @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social podcast! @adriandaub.bsky.social has been doing an incredible month-by-month deep dive into 1933, drawing on Klemperer’s diaries and on other sources, too! it’s really great.

big agree.

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“Confusingly, this effort is being taken up at the same time that people are Very Concerned about dropping birth rates, but it makes sense when you understand that they don’t like the children we currently have. They want us to make other ones, instead.”

gay for houses 😍🏡

This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.