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The toll Omicron is taking on WA hospitals is coming into focus, and it's not a pretty picture. 📈🏥🆘 Latest stats make one thing very clear: our hospitals are overwhelmed. It's happening. But I want people to have a sense of what that looks like, and what's still to come. 1/9

“In the Opinion Video above, nurses set the record straight about the root cause of the nursing crisis: chronic understaffing by profit-driven hospitals that predates the pandemic.” Mic drop 🎤 ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2022/01/19/opi…

"You know what else you could do? You could pressure our own U.S. government [to] actually open our borders to refugees. We lead by example and open our borders to Haitians, to Afghans, and, yes, to Ukrainians." My MSNBC monologue on the refugee crisis:

Ten days into residency, I was given a diagnosis. Facing my own mortality was terrifying and humbling; it also filled me with gratitude and a deeper determination to care for others. Grateful to NEJM for giving me a space to reflect bit.ly/3i0oqrB @nejm @cuttingforstone

Last year, delta overwhelmed hospitals in Idaho, causing 6,300 patient transfers in 4 months. Audrey Dutton and I looked at this period as a case study of the US’s decentralized healthcare system, for Documenting COVID-19 & Idaho Capital Sun: (1/11) idahocapitalsun.com/2022/03/16/ida…

So excited to meet you all!!! 🥳🎉

Every now and then I hear discussion about whether dogs smile, at least in the way we humans do. As my contribution to the debate, here are some of my favorite photos of sled dogs smiling.

Let's be clear, wealthy women will always have access to whatever doctors, medicines and procedures that they want. Ending Roe is an attack on the autonomy of poor and working class women.

If the Supreme Court does indeed issue a majority opinion along the lines of the leaked draft authored by Justice Alito, the shift in the tectonic plates of abortion rights will be as significant as any opinion the Court has ever issued

New physician grads: do not put your home address down when you register for your NPI number. Make sure you put down the hospital address! Otherwise, your home address will be out there for all to see! (Your NPI information is available easily via google). #MedTwitter

I'm so grateful to @MGH_StARR and Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD for the opportunity to spend a year learning about sepsis and clinical trial design!

Does anyone have a favorite set of gloves for working with cactuses? My mom is trying to replant a bunch and I'd like to save her hands. #planttwitter #gardening

Racial bias in temporal (forehead) thermometers🌡 Out JAMA JAMA Network ja.ma/3cLF53j 23% relative reduction in fevers detected in Black patients w/ temporal compared to oral thermometers Another medical device that could be failing our patients (1)