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Disheartening things I find w/ #ChronicPain & #ChronicIllness is misunderstanding &judgement from others. Weight seems to be a big thing for others. Overweight or thin seems to be an issue. Is it though or are those "others" basing it from their reality instead of the reality of
#ChronicPain & #ChronicIllness. I'll share just one of the many examples I've experienced. Recently I had to shop in the little girls' section & buy the largest size little girls to find a #sundress that would fit!!!(still a little big)So I'm a fairly small person. I, literally,
also had major #abdominalsurgery 2 weeks ago. A friend gave me a ride to get my staples out yesterday. He, on the way home, asked about my exercise, &about how often I walk. Yes, he knows about #ChronicPain & #chronicillness. Unless someone is asking you for exercise health
Please Advise #HelpNeeded excel-medical.com
I have been working with woman who has been struggling with a number of #physicians & getting mixed messages re #prescribed #medication. She was pulled off a combo of meds that worked for her a few years ago. Since then has 1
I have been working with woman who has been struggling with a number of #physicians & getting mixed messages re #prescribed #medication. She was pulled off a combo of meds that worked for her a few years ago. Since then has 1
struggled with accessing meds that worked & #stabilization of health conditions. In desperation to improve QoL reached out to #Clinic above. They prescribed w no issues. It was difficult for #patient to access at #Pharmacy. She then attempted to contact #physician re questions 2
& was told could not talk to #physician & then received this message last night. I am furious & looking for advice on how she should disengage & get back w regular #physicians, yet she is afraid they will terminate care based on her actions & she is fearful she did something 3 
Kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth w/ an appreciation thread of physicians:
1/ Charles R. Drew, MD
- American surgeon & researcher
- pioneer in the field of blood transfusions
- developed techniques for blood storage
- first African-American surgeon to examine for @AmCollSurgeons
1/ Charles R. Drew, MD
- American surgeon & researcher
- pioneer in the field of blood transfusions
- developed techniques for blood storage
- first African-American surgeon to examine for @AmCollSurgeons
2/ Vivien Thomas
- cardiac surgery pioneer & lab supervisor who developed procedure used to treat cyanotic heart disease
- supervised surgical labs at Johns Hopkins for 35 yrs
- awarded honorary doctorate & named an instructor of surgery @JohnsHopkins
#BlackHistoryMonth
- cardiac surgery pioneer & lab supervisor who developed procedure used to treat cyanotic heart disease
- supervised surgical labs at Johns Hopkins for 35 yrs
- awarded honorary doctorate & named an instructor of surgery @JohnsHopkins
#BlackHistoryMonth
3/ LaSalle D. LeFall, Jr. MD
- Surgeon, oncologist & medical educator
- first black physician to pursue training in surgical oncology @sloan_kettering
- first black president of @AmericanCancer (1978) & @AmCollSurgeons (1995)
#BlackHistoryMonth #equanimityunderduress
- Surgeon, oncologist & medical educator
- first black physician to pursue training in surgical oncology @sloan_kettering
- first black president of @AmericanCancer (1978) & @AmCollSurgeons (1995)
#BlackHistoryMonth #equanimityunderduress
A 29-YO👨⚕️#physician, a needlestick injury with a needle used to collect a fluid sample from a man who had a pustular rash (later confirmed to be #monkeypox), the gloves appeared intact to him
Four days later, a vesicle appeared on the pricked finger (A)
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#MedTwitter #Doctor
Four days later, a vesicle appeared on the pricked finger (A)
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#MedTwitter #Doctor
#Monkeypox virus was identified in its fluid by PCR
MONKEYPOX AFTER OCCUPATIONAL NEDDLESTICK INJURY FROM PUSTULE
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doi.org/10.3201/eid281…
#IDtwitter #MedStudentTwitter
MONKEYPOX AFTER OCCUPATIONAL NEDDLESTICK INJURY FROM PUSTULE
2/7
doi.org/10.3201/eid281…
#IDtwitter #MedStudentTwitter
Progress of #monkeypox index lesion:
A) on the 4th day of illness
B) on the 6th day of illness
C) on the 18th day of illness
D) Necrotic scab underneath the devitalized tissue of the index lesion on the 24th day of illness
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#resident #medicine
A) on the 4th day of illness
B) on the 6th day of illness
C) on the 18th day of illness
D) Necrotic scab underneath the devitalized tissue of the index lesion on the 24th day of illness
3/7
#resident #medicine
Almost 25 years ago I entered the world 🌍 of #raredisease when 1st my husband was dx w #PRSS1 & then our children.
What I’ve learned is #HealthcareInAmerica is brutal & often #harms those most in need.
The system is broken.
There is no disguising it.
I believe that our 1
What I’ve learned is #HealthcareInAmerica is brutal & often #harms those most in need.
The system is broken.
There is no disguising it.
I believe that our 1
#Healthcare system truly only benefits a small populous; individuals that are mainly #healthy & don’t belong to a marginalized group.
There are monumental system issues that need to be addressed that impact #medicalprofessionals ability to provide necessary 2
There are monumental system issues that need to be addressed that impact #medicalprofessionals ability to provide necessary 2
care. I understand that. I believe that #patients, #caregivers #medicalprofessionals need to work in collaboration to push back on the systemic issues that plague the system. I absolutely can give & find grace in many situations.
What I have no time for is the void of 3/
What I have no time for is the void of 3/
#NPSADay is on Saturday. How will you get involved this year? Start by learning the six actions you can take to prevent #physician suicide at NPSADay.org. #NPSADay
@drbreenheroes #FirstRespondersFirst
@drbreenheroes #FirstRespondersFirst
Action 1 is to learn the Vital Signs. Prevention begins with understanding suicide warning signs. The HEART acronym helps to easily remember the signs: Health, Emotions, Attitude, Relationships and Temperament. Learn more at NPSADay.org. #NPSADay
Action 2 is to share suicide prevention resources. Physicians face many challenges, and there are resources that can provide immediate and ongoing support. Help #physicians by spreading awareness of these resources. Learn more at npsaday.org/share-suicide-… #NPSADay.
Heartening to know that today there are gobs & scads of young #Dentist's who want to learn more about who precisely WAS "C.C. Bass, M.D", and what did he have to say about #PreventiveDentistry?
For the last few decades or so, just about any young #Dentist, when they first learn the real story of who "C. C. Bass, M.D." is, and what he actually did, are puzzled.
A couple of channels results from their #DentalSkool teaching, and thus their thinking.
Thread 🧵: Reflections of a Parent/Caregiver After Six Years Implementation of CDC Guidelines (warning long but I am very interested in feedback)
Since babies, my kids, have intimately known #pain. At one time their #pain was intermittent & #acute. Sadly, they now struggle 1/
Since babies, my kids, have intimately known #pain. At one time their #pain was intermittent & #acute. Sadly, they now struggle 1/
#chronicpain & are young adults. Our kids 1st 13/16 years of life, our family had a #safetynet, their #pediatrician. He was highly intelligent, compassionate, he challenged the system & in the most authentic sense #partnered with families. #Pain was not a major concern when 2/
In case you didn’t realize & made an honest mistake, let me remind you that there’s a #Physician & then there’s #NotExactly
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And others.
"Need to effectively utilize #CNMs has never been greater," says Kohl from midwife.org
Finding a supervising provider may prove difficult.
Body of evidence has consistently shown that although these barriers do not improve care.
"Need to effectively utilize #CNMs has never been greater," says Kohl from midwife.org
Finding a supervising provider may prove difficult.
Body of evidence has consistently shown that although these barriers do not improve care.
Kohl:
"Time to follow the economics and evidence and remove supervision of practice"
Notes that team based care is the "future of #healthcare in the US"
"Time to follow the economics and evidence and remove supervision of practice"
Notes that team based care is the "future of #healthcare in the US"
Join us tomorrow for the launch of a new accredited tweetorial – a case-based program on the assessment and management of patients with IgA #nephropathy (#IgAN). Free CE/#CME for #physicians, #nurses, #pharmacists! Expert author none other than @IgAN_JBarratt. FOLLOW US . . .
. . . and tell your colleagues to join you here on @ckd_ce, your ONLY source for accredited #tweetorials in the #CKD space! #nephtwitter #nephjc @nephondemand @Nephro_Sparks @edgarvlermamd @ChristosArgyrop @goKDIGO @nicklimd @CKJsocial @ERAkidney @kidney_boy @kidneypathology
1) Welcome to our accredited #tweetorial on optimal contemporary mgt of #IgAN. Earn 0.5h CME/CE credit #physicians #nurses #nursepractitioners #physicianassistants by following this thread. I am @IgAN_JBarratt. @MedTweetorials #nephtwitter #nephjc #FOAMed #MedEd
1) Welcome to a new #accredited #tweetorial on a🗝️ topic in #cancer care & #vascular medicine: #VTE (#DVT and #PE). Cancer patients are at⬆️risk from their disease, their comorbidities, & often from their treatment. It's a sticky wicket & @cardiomet_CE is proud to welcome ...
2) ... one of the world's leading authorities on cancer-associated VTE as new faculty both here and on @onc_ce: Dr. Alok Khorana @aakonc of @ClevelandClinic, to talk about advances and best treatment in this space!
3) This educational program is intended for health care providers & is supported by a grant from Bristol Myers Squibb & its Alliance partner Pfizer, Inc. Faculty disclosures are listed at cardiometabolic-ce.com/disclosures/. Earn CE/#CME credit from prior programs at cardiometabolic-ce.com.
This 👇👇👇 (h/t @joemd)
Also, at midcareer female success is threatening to men our age AND to younger men who rely on patriarchal patronage systems. Women, overpoliced by the system, then, yes, are tougher bosses AND we *do* tend to adhere more closely to ethics.
I do do all:
Also, at midcareer female success is threatening to men our age AND to younger men who rely on patriarchal patronage systems. Women, overpoliced by the system, then, yes, are tougher bosses AND we *do* tend to adhere more closely to ethics.
I do do all:
On #MedTwitter there is a pattern of “callouts”, yes vs all genders & ages, but also pattern of misogyny and misogynoir. It happens towards nurses & doctors alike. One of the reasons I connected with @ShrimpBrokkoli is because I saw a yt male resident ridiculing her online.
I saw that behavior being taught by NON-clinical faculty & that REALLY crossed a line.
If you are a woman + nurse + frontline + Black/WOC, you already live with so much violence towards you. Added online made up drama from a trainee vs nurse?
No, no, & no.
webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/…
If you are a woman + nurse + frontline + Black/WOC, you already live with so much violence towards you. Added online made up drama from a trainee vs nurse?
No, no, & no.
webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/…
This is what targeted racial harassment looks like: nitpicking things like “smiled” or “wore clothes like a celebrity, as a celebrity” or “bought cookware.” It is part of the “gold digger” narrative.
This is common in #healthcare “#professionalism” where there is hazing & bullying by racist &/or classist made up non-rules lacking standards…yet people are called “breaking the rules.”
It’s exactly how bullies operate: double standards, mislabel/smear, exclude, marginalize.
It’s exactly how bullies operate: double standards, mislabel/smear, exclude, marginalize.
In the U.K., “BAME” includes the formerly colonized, thus making race constructs or power different from U.S. as latter had race-based chattel slavery.
Thing is, those formerly colonized have many who have internalized self hate & racism.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-69…
Thing is, those formerly colonized have many who have internalized self hate & racism.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-69…
Dear @OptumRx & @SanfordHealth you are NOT his #physician. You know nothing of his #health hx. Two years ago #Sanford #Bismarck #pain clinic pulled all #patients off #opioid #pain medications. This was not #patientcentered care, but care deemed appropriate BY administrators 1
Now @OptumRx & @SanfordHealth #insurance sending out letters re #opioid #pain #medications. My son had to move from a #Sanford clinic to another clinic due to #abandonment. Yep, abandonment. Plain & simple what you did was harmful & not based on #patients needs. You need 2
to look at research, that shows the harms of what u r doing. @SanfordHealth administration in Bismarck informed me 2 years ago when all #patients pulled off #opioids that it was the ‘national standard’ of care established by @CDCInjury @CDCDirector. The guidelines are NOT 3/
Um absolutely adore this thread! I must read for #NEISvoid #CPP #RareDisease. My kids experienced much of what is mentioned in thread. 1st they have a rare disease, 2nd had a rare medical procedure to try to address symptoms, it caused complications. My kids now have T3 1/
the ‘care’ they receive has often been #traumatic as they don’t fit nicely into a box 📦. It’s because of their experiences (& my husbands) that I advocate. As young adults they still have to interact w the #healthcare industry but they are distrustful ( & rightly so). So many 2/
Physicians do not understand #medicaltrauma & their roles in it. I know it’s hard to be a #physician today, I know it’s hard to be in #healthcare but to dismiss, shame & blame a #patient is harmful not only psychologically but physically. 3/
@medcitynews reports that even with the #remote #patient #monitoring (#RPM) codes, reimbursement for #digitalhealth remains a challenge. The article is linked below, but for a deeper dive, read the thread 1/
medcitynews.com/2021/09/remote…
medcitynews.com/2021/09/remote…
We've knows about this for a long time @omadahealth--really since our founding. We got an #NPI. We billed #claims. We helped get the first ever #CPT code (0488T) for fully virtual care. But there's more to do. 2/
(You can learn about contracting as a #virtualfirst #provider @_DiMeSociety workshop on that very topic this week! Register here:us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… ) 3/
1| "Physician #burnout is real. The rate of suicide is really high. On top of that, with all the stressors of #Covid, we're hurting & we're afraid to show that we're hurting for fear of repercussions, for fear of being termed weak."
Watch the full video: bit.ly/3ywIszP
Watch the full video: bit.ly/3ywIszP
2| "It's the mentality of the patient comes first, which is great. But where do the providers come? And maybe that's a paradigm that needs to shift. We need to take care of ourselves. We need to take care of each other so that we can then take care of our patients."
3| To learn more about @ACLifeMed's Physician and Health Professional Well-Being Course visit bit.ly/2WlN7Yw.
#lifestylemedicine #physician #healthcare #physicianburnout #nurse #nursing #healthcareheroes #healthcareprofessionals #providerwellbeing #COVID19
#lifestylemedicine #physician #healthcare #physicianburnout #nurse #nursing #healthcareheroes #healthcareprofessionals #providerwellbeing #COVID19
I wanted to share some comments by #parents whose children have #pancreatitis. As I have shared before, the #pain care for these kids is NOT adequate. Their #pain is often not being addressed. I have asked parents to start writing up their stories to share. When #pain is not 1/
addressed it causes trauma, not only for the child/youth but parents. We know unaddressed #pain can lead to #chronicpain. I absolutely believe in #biopyschosocial approach but what we are seeing is a #psychosocial approach being utilized and #bio aspect missing. This leaves 2/
#parents and #patients feeling angry & abandoned. One of the reasons I started getting involved in #advocacy is that my kids #pain was dismissed, they were labeled. This leads to #trauma, #chronicpain & distrust of #physician. What HCP need to understand is that when this is 3/
1/ 🧵🎥 Chronic Pain
#Pain comes in all shapes & sizes. Let’s explore how we process pain. Watch & Listen to what Anderson Cooper tells Stephen Colbert about #grief and #suffering: “You can’t have happiness without having loss and suffering.”
#Pain comes in all shapes & sizes. Let’s explore how we process pain. Watch & Listen to what Anderson Cooper tells Stephen Colbert about #grief and #suffering: “You can’t have happiness without having loss and suffering.”
2/ My lucid & kind patient (pic w written perm) uses scalding water as a coping mechanism for abdominal pain from pancreatitis. He wants to share his rationale.
#MedTwitter #ChronicPain #nurse
#MedTwitter #ChronicPain #nurse
3/ Before I share what he told me, I first want to make my mindset as his #physician clear: My first job is to believe in him. Then to understand him. Then to devise a plan to help him.
1/ New report from @AmerMedicalAssn provides:
•Detailed look at official US healthcare spending estimates through 2019 using data from @CMSGov
•Preliminary estimates of 2020 health spending from @Altarum
ama-assn.org/system/files/2…
•Detailed look at official US healthcare spending estimates through 2019 using data from @CMSGov
•Preliminary estimates of 2020 health spending from @Altarum
ama-assn.org/system/files/2…
2/ •Health spending was 17.7% of GDP in 2019 and increased by 4.6% to $3.8 trillion ($11,582 per capita).
•Spending in hospital care (6.2%) and prescription drugs (5.7%) grew faster than physician services (4.2%) in 2019.
•Spending in hospital care (6.2%) and prescription drugs (5.7%) grew faster than physician services (4.2%) in 2019.
3/ • In 2019, spending growth in #Medicare (6.7%) and out-of-pocket payments (4.6%) reached their highest rates in the last decade while private #healthinsurance (3.7%) and #Medicaid (2.9%) were on a downswing.
In light of the Boston police Union leader child abuse, this is very plausible, even probable. I have 2x, on behalf of someone else, reported, via Title IX - the woman or gay man was not feeling safe enuf to report. Yes, there is blowback when one reports. But we can’t be silent.
I am a mandated reporter as a #pediatrician. I *must* report for my patients or face legal consequences. Am same for staff, students, trainees. But in #EmergencyMedicine who do I call if a child may be unsafe at home? Sometimes, cops. Are cops safe?
boston.com/news/local-new…
boston.com/news/local-new…
I have seen #mentalhealth and entire life paths destroyed by abusers preying on children like: This happened to too many people I know. I have seen institutions intimidate, mislabel, bury stories of the victims. (Some predators wait until 18th birthday.)
nytimes.com/2017/08/07/nyr…
nytimes.com/2017/08/07/nyr…
When you want to know why
-women & minorities leave medicine
-why research lacks data to serve needs of anyone not white & male
and/or
-why different mortality rates in patients by gender, race, SES
this is why
This is #MedBikini “#professionalism” again
#MedTwitter
#MedEd
-women & minorities leave medicine
-why research lacks data to serve needs of anyone not white & male
and/or
-why different mortality rates in patients by gender, race, SES
this is why
This is #MedBikini “#professionalism” again
#MedTwitter
#MedEd
Is insidious
but highly effective
maintains
-segregation
-different access
-barriers
As women, LGBTQ, minorities, disabled enter or advance in medicine, this professor’s public stance will be cited to mislabel having #ethics as “lacking #professionalism”
bioethics.net/2020/07/medbik…
but highly effective
maintains
-segregation
-different access
-barriers
As women, LGBTQ, minorities, disabled enter or advance in medicine, this professor’s public stance will be cited to mislabel having #ethics as “lacking #professionalism”
bioethics.net/2020/07/medbik…
#medbikini is not one article
=attitude of many physicians
=drives this
We saw this happen with @ayshakhoury and @uche_blackstock and so many others. It especially happens at midcareer to WOC, especially black. Also if Muslim, LGBTQ, disabled, #mentalhealth
#MedEd
#MedTwitter
=attitude of many physicians
=drives this
We saw this happen with @ayshakhoury and @uche_blackstock and so many others. It especially happens at midcareer to WOC, especially black. Also if Muslim, LGBTQ, disabled, #mentalhealth
#MedEd
#MedTwitter
Further, suboxone has required special training and certification, adding an administrative barrier and creating an added fear barrier among risk-averse clinicians whereas oxycodone can be prescribed easily with the DEA certificate we all have.
Because doctors/prescribers are definitely lacking in administrative burden and CME obligations, we're just twiddling our thumbs eager for someone to ask us to get MORE educated, taking time off from patient care to get this:
medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/add…
medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/add…
The law enforcement side sees doctors through this lens. So doctors seek to limit their risk and liability. I'm all for taking down those who harm patients. I've testified in cases like the ones below for the AG's office as a medical expert.
medscape.com/viewarticle/91…
medscape.com/viewarticle/91…
