Get important insights from Tamryn Fowler Gray, PhD, RN, MSN, MPH and others on the very important issue of supporting family caregivers within our healthcare communities

I'm stepping up to help Planned Parenthood Action Fund hold out-of-touch lawmakers accountable. Stand with us. weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/onlineactions/…!

No, not all of us have had covid. No, not all of us are resigned to getting it. No, not all of us are expecting a 'mild' disease course if we do get covid. Please, leave space for different expectations and experiences in this current stage of the pandemic.

I wholeheartedly agree! Palliative care epitomizes value. It’s a model for authentic healthcare transformation. The time is now. Let 2022 Be the Year for Community-Based Palliative Care: hospicenews.com/2022/01/27/let…

S2E2 The Quiet Parts Out Loud Thank you @DrJRubenstein @DrAndriaTatem for this amazing partnership. “Just like one cannot crawl without first sitting, the development of a diverse House of Justice cannot be built without the bricks of equity and inclusion." Dr. P. Dennar 1/7

In the past 2 yrs I started a practice of sending cards to the families of my ICU patients who died. I’ve found it’s almost as much for our team and myself as it is for them to know their family and loved one mattered to us; a way for us to pause amidst the busyness of the ICU🧵

My piece for ⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ is in print today in the Sunday Review! May we all find a way to hold each other through the grief engendered by COVID and losses beyond COVID. The prelude to compassion is the willingness to see. ❤️ ⁦Eduardo Bruno⁩

Our very own redwing keyssar mike rabow were on the GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast: Poetry & Palliative Care youtu.be/QLUeXRJySBM via YouTube #poeticmedicine #NationalPoetryMonth

Op-Ed: Op-Comic: My patients wrestle with end-of-life care, even if there's a living will - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Earthquake Live Earthquake Live 43s #Earthquake of magnitude 4.5 at 3 km ENE of Kailua-Kona, #Hawaii. Retweet if you felt it.

🧵1/5 I have never seen so many people quit or retire from medicine in such a short time Colleagues keep disappearing Patients can't get appointments Some practices just don't call referred patients or call patients back MD RN PT SW #HealthcareCrisis apnews.com/article/covid-…

Posted a #NewProfilePic about 2 hours ago and Carlos Eliason already transformed me into a Trapper Keeper-worthy graphic. Is it a Keeper?

We need to do away with the term “unskilled labor.” You hear people toss it around at everything from farm workers to servers to construction workers. Here’s the deal: if labor is required it’s not unskilled. If there’s anyone unskilled in the labor chain it’s executives.

At the heart of the global food crisis are Ukraine’s farmers. natalie keyssar and I spent weeks with these incredible women who survive attacks near the front line while feeding their people. Russia wants them to fail; their tenacity told me they won’t time.com/6215704/ukrain…

Even Now deenametzger.substack.com/p/even-now?r=1…

Wait a minute… it’s not?!!!

My traditional July 1 post for the last few years. Wishing joy in medicine for all those rising students, interns, residents, fellows, and faculty.

“My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”