Highly recommend Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, a captivating story about twins whose paths diverge in young adulthood. I couldn't put it down, and I'm absolutely thrilled this will be an HBO limited series! Thanks Pod Save America for the recommendation!

Saw someone describe this podcast as uncomfortable. I agree. It IS uncomfortable, but it is also NECESSARY that this reporting and these conversations are happening. #NiceWhiteParents

In this JHSB study of psychiatric patients' experiences, Vale and Good's participants describe trusting their doctors DESPITE their professionalism. Rather, emotional engagement, providing holistic care, and admitting limits of medical expertise were crucial to building trust.

Big win for Missouri! 😀 Passage of this amendment makes an additional 230,000 people eligible for Medicaid, i.e., those whose incomes are 138% the federal poverty level or below.

Really enjoying Diagnosis on Netflix! The New York Times and Dr. Lisa Sanders do an excellent job of capturing the uncertainty and pain of having an undiagnosed medical condition and explore a powerful way to crowdsource answers for these patients. Highly recommend!

"I marveled at the [ER], [a place] of bright lights and dark hallways, a place so quiet and yet so throbbing with life. I marveled at...how all of us had converged in these hallowed halls for a chance to reveal our wounds, to offer up our hurt and our pain to be eased." #books

"The official death counts may be substantially underestimating the overall effects of the virus, as people die from the virus as well as by other causes linked to the pandemic." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

TIL about mass casualty lightning strikes... Interesting to think about how to balance personal safety in dangerous conditions while delivering needed medical care.

Just so you know, hours of continuous doom scrolling is a leading cause of dry eye. And like 20 psychiatric diagnoses probably, but mostly dry eye.

Oregon decriminalizes possession of street drugs, becoming first in nation oregonlive.com/politics/2020/…

Thinking about how dogs just had the best year of their lives

So excited to win a Best Poster Award for my project exploring the relationship between women's deteriorating self-rated health and their migrant husbands' socio-emotional and economic support 🍾. #PAA2021

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Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda. Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children. 1/🧵

Help us welcome our amazing Chief Residents for 2023-2024! #sheifs #emergencymedicine

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.

Chief resident Natalie Jansen giving an amazing talk on #HealthLiteracy at CORD #CORDAA24