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Hasan Shanawani MD
@hshanawaniMD
Director of Quality at @bcbsm former @deptvetaffairs #HealthIT. pulm/crit, quality and safety, medical informatics. Husb 2 @suzieassanie Tweets mine RT≠endorse
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Apr 26, 2019 • 50 tweets • 15 min read
2 days ago, my dad got a VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE (VCF): a break in TWO of the 33 back bones.

Here is a normal scan and one of a broken vertebral body. 2things 2know:

1-when u break your spine, if u make the wrong move, u can be permanently paralyzed fr the waist down (or worse)

2-My dad is a brain/ spine/ nerve doc. He knows exactly what's happening. He knows he can be paralyzed forever-

He's in pain--worst EVER in 83y
Apr 25, 2019 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
So my dad is in hospital with complex problem. In a perennially top-ranked facility. Hes an MD. Im an MD, in systems mgmt 4 a huge bureaucracy.

I can’t navigate my dads care. Im struggling-& LIVID.

If i cant do this, no WAY anyone can

When im calmer, y’all getting a thread OK, as promised, here’s the start of my THREAD, titled
(MIS)ADVENTURES OF AN MD SON OF AN MD.

Subtitled "TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS OF NAVIGATING THE US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BY A GUY WHO SHOULD HAVE NO TROUBLES DOING THIS, BUT IS DROWNING BC THIS IS WACK."

so gather 'round, friends...