@washingtonpost only got part of this right.
Healthcare has become Much more complicated. More moving parts. More obscure diseases, meds, treatments, individual preferences of Treatment Choices.
Patients move around a lot & Change Primary Care Docs a lot.
Lack of continuity.
Patients Don’t Tell Everything & Often Lie, Minimize or Maximize Symptoms, Often don’t know the right words, express pain as anger. Read something on the Internet or the neighbor said, try this.
They don’t hear everything.
Doc: You have Cancer
Patient hears Blah, Blah, Blah 😑
Personally on a Journey being Retired Disabled Nurse of 35 years with #MultipleSclerosis I feel I have #Gadolinium Deposits in my body, left behind after 11 MRI’s in 9 years. @Wagner_Nephro listens and believes it is Possible. Listening is Highly underrated as a Physician Skill.
Every Doctor I have, Each Highly Educated Academic Medical Center Employees & Educators, Every Doctor has gone skeptical on Me when I mention Gadolinium. I finally listed on allergy list so I won’t get it again. We Patients try to raise awareness of Gad Retention. Try, Try, Try.
It doesn’t help when newspapers throw in their oversimplification explanation. It’s all much more complicated. I don’t blame Doctors. In my case, I blame @US_FDA for allowing #Gadolinium to be used &
Rare Earth Vendors selling Gad. USA for ignoring China using Slaves to mine.
Lastly, Environmental Activists ignoring #Gadolinium polluted waters downstream from Hospital MRI Bathrooms.
It’s Complicated. Hospital Systems Profit, Pharmaceutical Companies Profit, Doctors get Sharper Images, problems light up ⭐️ Did Seeking Diagnosis cause Disease? Fin.

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1 Nov
Need tip line. There’s a Nurse 👩‍⚕️ 👨🏽‍⚕️ 🧑‍⚕️ out there, who knows the exact scenario. Forced 2 break Usual Influenza Virus Protocols-isolation, STOP 🛑 Admissions from Hospital!
Mercy Ship & Javits Center Open
2 sites, if used, would have saved Thousands of Vulnerable Elders.
I would focus on Charge Nurses, Directors of Nursing with Families, who need jobs and would consent to such violations of containment of infection. Dedicated Staff. No mixing of air, meals or walkways. Giving Tip caller immunity would level the playing field. To AC, it’s a ⚽️
I would write a letter to The Licensing Entity and copy each owner of facilities agreeing to engage in unsafe transfers and cohorting infected patients with vulnerable elders in Facilities. The Highest Protected Class.
CC: Legal Aid (at least half NY Medicaid funded).
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30 Oct
Peer-2-peer healthcare: are we ready for a revolution?, by @GavinGiovannoni gavingiovannoni.substack.com/p/peer-2-peer-… Excellent Dr. G @GavinGiovannoni 👍🏼
Lately has been hard to get basic medical questions answered, “Press 1 to speak with Phonemail “. My Friends online are here all the time.
@GavinGiovannoni When first diagnosed, I was a long time Nurse. Support group offered but I didn’t want to see people or travel more. I worked on the road. National MS Society too upbeat, too basic. Discovered @shiftms and a Match is made. We’re all different. I need discussion.
Maybe it’s good to expand on your work of pros and cons of various platforms, apps. Maybe assign your Students to follow groups or even lead a group. Hard to ask Doctors. #Gadolinium toxicity my latest crusade. My latest tools: @Apollo_Neuro and @ouraring traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com/search?q=Apollo+
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29 Oct
Gadavist (gadobutrol) injection | Radiology US Always On (in) My Mind.
Next tweet will share Highlights of our Battle against #Gadolinium. Meanwhile, take a gander at what the @FDA Accepts as safe. Have You ever been asked How many MRI’S W/Gad you’ve had?
radiologysolutions.bayer.com/products/contr…
⬆️⬆️⬆️ From @Bayer website.
@Wagner_Nephro @sennasthunder @lambertdebb @Gadolinium_MRI @planetd1 et al 🙏🏼👩‍💻
Bayer should Correct “Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis”.
It is Systemic Fibrosis.
It is Caused by the Drug Gadolinium.
It is Iatrogenic Systemic Fibrosis.
Not just renal pts.
@US_FDA
1️⃣ I am seriously puzzled by Iatrogenic Systemic Fibrosis isn’t Listed under Adverse Reactions.
2️⃣ What happens to People who’ve had multiple lifetime doses, pregnant, pediatric patients and people with Inflammatory Conditions? I’ve never been asked these questions.
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@Voices4Seniors @GovKathyHochul @rontkim and Families, Friends, Advocates,
This is the essential, very sad task of analyzing what went wrong. No denying, it was catastrophic. Next step is Reform and Defining the Chain of Command for decisions, pitfalls. Mistakes were made.
It will be helpful to hear from the People in the Chain of Command. Owners of Facilities involved, Administration, Directors of Nursing, Infection Control Nurse, Attending Physicians along with Families & Representatives. Don’t forget Emergency personnel, Ambulance company reps,
Local Agency on Aging, Health Department at the Local State and Federal Level, Ombudsmen, Legal Aid, CMS. Guardian advocates. Last but Certainly the Most Telling are Stories of Elders themselves. Once Vibrant Aging turns South, the Loss comes just as Your ability is diminished.
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@rafshmatko I believe @OfficeofMelania
Represents a Beautiful Successful Woman
Immigrant, Speaks 7 Languages
Married to a Wealthy Successful Businessman and USA 🇺🇸 President 2016-2020. Republican. He Threatened ending Congress’s limitless credit line.
She Doesn’t engage slinging rot.
@rafshmatko @OfficeofMelania You know #realDonaldTrump 45th President of the United States 🇺🇸
Banned by Twitter. Guess You might have heard of Cancel Culture. Hard to believe that this is Condoned by many. Meanwhile the same nude photo of FLOTUS45 is always going around. Gee, does Jack Dorsey Know? Care?
@rafshmatko @OfficeofMelania Wait… do any Women in Media Care?
Woman’s Rights Groups?
People?
How a Beautiful Successful Woman is Shunned, Downplayed Ignored.Sniped at, Tried to rile Her up.
It didn’t work.
She doesn’t rile easily nor share her inner core.
❤️ Melania
Your Father Captured Her Essence.
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Just attended My Church on @YouTube @Ord_Off 🙏🏼
Great Service 👍🏼
One slide had me pondering,
#realDonaldTrump image flew by.
He was constructing a Wall. A Barrier where Non Americans walk into USA. No Fence, No Customs, No Declaration, No #Covid Questions.
Canada Border Closed.
I just watched this video by #realDonaldTrump which explains a lot. He talks Regulatory Reform, Property Rights, Stepping up Ventilator manufacturing and sharing with less fortunate countries. He called #COVID19 the China Virus. At the time he was mocked for this by #MSM
#Telehealth in speech #realDonaldTrump Covid-19 necessitated Distance Assessment and management of Patients by Medical Staff. No credit by #MSM . In Fact @Twitter banned him for “inciting a riot”. He did not. Why was Nancy Pelosi’s elevator unlocked? Capitol police stood back.
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