Geriatric Hospitalist. Political Junkie. Immigrant. INTJ. Wanderer. Aggressively Midwestern. Proud @umich Wolverine. 💛💙〽️ She/Her - Views my own.
Jan 12, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
going to summarize this as best I can, I hope some people find this useful (🧵) 1. Establish rapport - I've found in past month that most unvaxxed people with #COVID19 are not inherently bad people - they get bad information from @FoxNews , etc. - don't be dismissive off the bat
You want to ask them why they didn't get vaccinated, where they get the info about whatever treatment (ivermectin, Vit C, etc.) and that gets to 2. Establish expectations early - tell them your hospital does not offer those treatments, because they have not been found effective
Apr 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So these are my thoughts. First, I am not a parent, so I have no stake in that side of this debate. However, I AM an extremely overstretched #hospitalist doctor who has seen both hospitals in #AnnArbor balloon to unmanageable patients levels three times now, with...
patients being housed in simulation centers, in team/break rooms, in ED hallways. And that is without schools being open locally, but we cover a large catchment area, and schools never closed in other counties.
Aug 3, 2020 • 30 tweets • 9 min read
So I read this trainwreck of an article from beginning to end. I have thoughts. This article is clearly racist, "blaming" underrepresented in medicine minorities (Black and Latinx Americans) for not being "good enough" to be cardiologists, and also whiny ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…
At start, while Dr. Wang provides useful historical context, he already introduces his (wrong) opinion on why URM numbers are low: "AAMC short‐term goal was missed because of a paucity of qualified candidates, particularly blacks" qualified URMs are not mentored in colleges...
