When boomers were young, necessities were cheap and luxuries expensive. They cannot fathom that this has completely reversed. Living is expensive and TVs are cheap.

So, not a statistician, but surely the same kind of claim could be made about *anything* that prevents child mortality, right? People will have more kids if their children are more likely to starve, die of viruses, die in car accidents, etc. Having a lot of children is a

Harvard notified me today that this K99 grant is terminated.

When I was in my 20s, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids” I was left disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child. 🧵

Let me clarify what “the bottom 60%” means… It means the majority. The majority of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life.”

The fact that stegosaurus is more popular than Ankylosaurus proves that people will just go along with anything. Ankylosaurus is a living tank. It’s a war armadillo equipped with a mace for a tail. Stegosaurus just lumbers around covered in solar panels like some nerd.

A puberty blocker is an exact copy of a hormone we naturally produce in our brain. It is the hormone that stops the testicles or ovaries from starting puberty too early, and the same hormone we use to turn off the testicles and ovaries when the sex hormones cause harm. They are

With the Guardian reporting that “UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive,” I thought I

Preach! #MedTwitter, it is NEVER your place to make decisions in place of your patient. Too many of you seem to think that because you know more that you know better. It's not a good look.

“Difficult” patients aren’t difficult, you’re just bad at your job.

#saveWOT #The Wheel of Time deserves to be completed with this wonderful cast. #Sony needs to find another platform #HBO, #Appletv, or others — to give this amazing story the future it deserves. Fans won’t give up!

"More sophisticated than The Witcher, more thrilling than The Rings Of Power, and more distinctive than House Of The Dragon, it's hard to imagine a better version of Robert Jordan's epic book saga" - Empire magazine on #TheWheelofTime season 3 and this is what Amazon cancelled

Biological Reality Isn’t Science It’s Just Nostalgia via Transvitae transvitae.com/biological-rea…

Here’s the thing about suggesting “cooking classes” as an alternative to insulin for diabetics. It’s ignorant. It’s ableist. It’s eugenicist. We know all of this. It’s also incredibly privileged. It assumes that healthy eating is accessible to everyone. It’s not. 🧵

Why do doctors work without sleep? Tradition.   In the 1890s, Dr. Halsted created a model for training where residents worked nearly 24/7.   Only later, we learned: Dr. Halsted used cocaine to stay awake & morphine to fall asleep, relying on residents to cover up the addiction.

Well #TwitterOfTime 💙 - “There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.” It’s been a dream come true to get to play within the beautiful world Robert Jordan created for us these last 7 years. I’m so very proud of what we

Ok, so I can actually explain why this happens... ready?

Did you know the ADA doesn’t require physician sign off on workplace accommodation requests? Companies choose to require it because they can, they don’t believe their employees, and they want to create additional barriers for disabled workers.

This is the current federal minimum wage: 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵🪙 $7.25 for an hour of someone’s labor. The average cost of a Chipotle bowl? $9 It’s not radical to believe that an hour of someone’s labor is more valuable than a chicken bowl from Chipotle.

Medicaid has a 2k asset limit. Do you know HOW FUCKING HARD it is to survive with a 2k asset limit when you're disabled? I need to save up 10k to see specialists for my eyes. HOW am I supposed to do that when I can't have more than 2k of savings without losing my healthcare?