We knew COVID, even « mild » COVID could cause clots, heart attacks, strokes, and ultimately death since 2020. Seeing a lot more cases of clots in the last few weeks. Here’s a real quick 🧵

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

"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, @DawnWil04548237, Laura Kehoe, Christopher Shaw, & Sarah Wakeman #accepted

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 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/C…

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. 🤘🏼

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.

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. In the

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. 🤝❤️‍🩹 bit.ly/3O2HGp5

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

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

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.

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DEI in medicine is under attack. California's medical board faces litigation over implicit bias policies, health systems are pausing DEI training, & far-right legislators seek to prevent med schools from teaching about structural racism & more. This is bad news for anyone who

This is my mom. She was an asylum seeker. She slept in a church b/c she had nowhere else to go. She is a housekeeper & a waitress. She is my hero. These degrees are for her. Harvard Medical School, M.D. ✅ Harvard Business School, M.B.A. ✅ Harvard Kennedy School of Government,

And we did it, mommy. Dr. LaShyra Nolen, MD, MPP Cum Laude Harvard Medical School Harvard Kennedy School #DrNolen #FromComptontotheWorld

Thank you/mil gracias to everyone who has been part of the CoNECTaR journey! Today marks a major milestone of 100 shows! We could not have done it without each and every one of our speakers and media partners. #gratitude