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Today we honor the memory of all the brave souls we lost 22 years ago. May we always remember their stories, the courage of our first responders, and the sacrifices our troops made to protect us in the years that followed.

Mass General Neurologist Nicte I. Mejia Gonzalez MD MPH FAAN, MD, MPH, FAAN, has been selected as a '23-'24 #ObamaLeader by the The Obama Foundation. The inaugural cohort is composed of changemakers like Dr. Mejia, dedicated to creating a more sustainable and inclusive world. spklr.io/6019lYQf

Doctors have their own diagnosis: 'Moral distress' from an inhumane health system wesa.fm/2023-08-02/doc…

Equity work often gets siloed, and many leaders in racial equity face burnout, vicarious trauma, and lack of career advancement despite the extra roles they play. A few weeks ago we centered around community to build a therapeutic space for healing. 🤝❤️‍🩹
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How it started/how it’s going

- with gratitude to my friends Brown University School of Public Health & excitement for all that comes next Yale School of Public Health @Yale 🌟

More than a little excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine UC San Francisco. Dreams for this little #chicana from #Texas do come true. 🤘🏼

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.

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Oh you’re going to a teaching hospital in July? Well get ready…

for the most compassionate care from extremely empathetic interns along with their vigilant supervising attendings. Hope you like open ended questions and doctors listening to you bc you’re gonna drown in it.

So excited to have my newest publication out! This is an important topic we need to address!!
#MedTwitter SAEM #racism Erik Hess (he/him) Wendy Macias-K MD Shama Patel #DiversityandInclusion
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'Access to safer injection equipment among people who inject drugs utilizing medical services in an urban hospital in the United States' by Dinah Applewhite, MD, Susan Regan, Karen Donelan, Wendy Macias-K MD, Dawn Williamson, Laura Kehoe, Christopher Shaw, & Sarah Wakeman #accepted

Timed to #HumanRightsDay , The Lancet's special issue: Advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and global health hubs.li/Q01tYbx80

'Our nation’s safety net is on the verge of breaking beyond repair; EDs are gridlocked and overwhelmed with patients waiting...' the groups said in their letter to Biden.
Biden warned staffing shortages sparking exodus of emergency room physicians, nurses thehill.com/policy/healthc…

New paper in Health Affairs: we find higher COVID-19 vaccination and narrower vaccination disparities in US cities with paid sick leave compared to cities without paid sick leave.

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#paidleave #healthdisparities #epitwitter

Emergency department doors never close. We are at a breaking point with boarding and overcrowding that limits our ability to provide the best care to patients. The stories in this letter to President Biden from ACEP Members and numerous partners in patient care are unfortunately too familiar.

Half-sun at Giza Pyramids today. This only happens every 5 years.