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Family doctor, vintage paperback hoarder, amateur historian of medicine, a๐Ÿ—shun enthusiast, little treat connoisseur. #reprojustice #freepalestine โœจ ๐Ÿด

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The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise.

Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctorโ€™s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who arenโ€™t fully vaccinated.

09.10.2025 01:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 303    ๐Ÿ” 97    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

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. Itโ€™s absurd.

05.10.2025 21:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
05.10.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muรฑoz, 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

03.10.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26578    ๐Ÿ” 13738    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 771    ๐Ÿ“Œ 533

mifepristone ๐Ÿ˜ž

03.10.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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).

03.10.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 175    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

This. And many rural family docs are IMGsโ€ฆ

02.10.2025 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

seriously. yโ€™all are amazing. ๐Ÿฅน

01.10.2025 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
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 donโ€™t โ€œoverloadโ€ children? Letโ€™s talk studies:
1). A landmark 2002 study suggested that an infantโ€™s immune system could theoretically handle ~10,000 vaccines simultaneously without impairment.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11773551/

29.09.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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.

30.09.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 233    ๐Ÿ” 107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

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

30.09.2025 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

seriously, though

26.09.2025 00:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

weโ€™re cooked.

25.09.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿพโ€โ™€๏ธ missed it! thanks for posting this!

24.09.2025 11:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ Iโ€™d add Covid-19 exposure during pregnancy to this list.

24.09.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 overheadโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜”

23.09.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, thank god. Letโ€™s please start fat shaming men the way we do women. Letโ€™s definitely imply that being fat is a threat to your masculinity. That will certainly make men healthier! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ’€

20.09.2025 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

iโ€™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.

19.09.2025 22:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

damn, i loved the star toothpaste! ๐Ÿคฉ

18.09.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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, โ€œHere! Take this med for the rest of your life!โ€

17.09.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™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-1โ€™s and some without. I think we physicians should be questioning the weight-centric paradigm.

17.09.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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."

17.09.2025 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9625    ๐Ÿ” 3705    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 91    ๐Ÿ“Œ 91

Are you implying that weight is the most common problem?

17.09.2025 12:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is enraging. thank you both for covering this.

13.09.2025 00:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

07.09.2025 23:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if youโ€™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 Klempererโ€™s diaries and on other sources, too! itโ€™s really great.

07.09.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

big agree.

06.09.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Retro ad of an adorable pink and white cartoon ice cream cone that says, โ€œDonโ€™t wait! Melt that ice today!โ€

Retro ad of an adorable pink and white cartoon ice cream cone that says, โ€œDonโ€™t wait! Melt that ice today!โ€

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04.09.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œConfusingly, 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 donโ€™t like the children we currently have. They want us to make other ones, instead.โ€

04.09.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

gay for houses ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿก

01.09.2025 01:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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