This is a really important thread and is how a lot of us felt at protests all over NYC yesterday. Police surrounding us with batons in hand, setting up blockades trying to prevent us from getting home. Who is that protecting??
NYC Has Become A Dystopian Novel: What Happened After 8pm Curfew
I’ve been to many protests and marches during my life, but I’ve never seen anything like what we experienced last night.
I think everyone around the country and world needs to understand what’s happening here.
We were so lucky to have
@florian_krammer
join our
@IcahnMountSinai
MedDOCs session today and teach high school students about the pandemic and the vaccines. The students (and
@beth_clif
and I) learned so much and Dr. Krammer was so gracious with his time
Just found out, for my scholarly year, I will be able to be apart of the
@ASBMR
student cohort pilot program! Excited to learn about all the current research going on and to meet my future colleagues!
#bonesquad
Final day at
#ASBMR2022
! Here are some pictures of the
@HSpecialSurgery
contingent, including ASBMR program coordinator Dr. Emily Stein, presenting groundbreaking research and celebrating our award winners
#teamhss
Got to help
@IcahnMountSinai
with vaccine distribution today and it was so amazing to see the hope and joy this brought people. Even with how bad things are right now, some hope is refreshing
First day back in person for medical school in over a year. Feels bittersweet all the time we lost but just excited to spend time with my classmates again
@mhc_76
A lot of these procedures require some "pre-hab" before starting to hopefully have better strength going in. Possible that after the season needed a week or 2 to have swelling decrease and then build some strength. They do something similar with ACL repairs
I helped deliver (well watched) a baby today by C section and cut the umbilical cord. A patient thanked me for helping and being there for her. I am so excited to see what this year brings
Having upsetting days in the hospital reminds me why I want to do this job. Bad medicine turns people off forever and I will never become a doctor like that
I think what's lost in this COVID discourse so frequently is the fact that we STILL haven't waived patents for the vaccines and refuse to distribute them equitably across the globe. These surges are all a result of just abysmal public health policy and this insane focus on profit
How about
@NYGovCuomo
instead of penalizing healthcare workers/facilities we provide resources to pay nursing/administrative staff to actually administer the vaccine. Rollout requires doses AND manpower and hospitals need help.
1) There is a lot of talk about decaying antibodies. I would like to walk you through a few findings about antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 that we put on medRxiv on Friday. Ill do this slowly over the day (while being in nonstop conference calls). But I feel this needs to get out there.
FANTASTIC NEWS—A potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis is now within sight on the horizon! And it’s an mRNA vaccine by BioNTech, maker of the Pfizer
#COVID19
vaccine. Study in mice shows great promise for improving symptoms & stopping MS progression!
I'm not going to name names, but every person stigmatizing mental health after an incident like this has never once actually cared about this topic. We are in a mental health crisis in this country and refuse to increase funding for these services or make them more accessible
Congrats to everyone finishing ERAS today!!! So many friends applying into the fields of their dreams who are going to be phenomenal physicians. So much hard work went into today and I am so proud of everyone!
Finishing my last shelf to see Roe overturned. The fight continues as we inch closer to being doctors. My classmates and I will never stop helping women all over this country get access to safe, effective abortion care. Abortion care is health care.
Unpopular take: ever time I get a reply all email to unsubscribe I get hype cause I get to see someone outing themselves as selfish and unable to use basic email function
Every year I go to
@ASBMR
I feel rejuvenated. There is so much incredible work going on to better understand our skeleton and provides inspiration for the future work I hope to accomplish.
A little late but so happy to present and see so many wonderful speakers with my team from
@HSpecialSurgery
at
@ASBMR
. Looking forward to continue advancing surgical care and advocating for better treatment of osteoporosis
Excited to share some of our work with COVID and vitamin D! My colleagues and I spent the summer of 2020 evaluating the impact that vitamin D had on both prevention and severity of COVID-19 infections.
HSS Bone Study Sheds Light on Complications After Spinal Surgery
So proud of our team! Thank you to the patients who agreed to help us and I cannot wait to share what else we have found throughout the course of this study!
Mental illness isn't responsible for gun violence in this country. Gun access is the issue. But if we want to talk about mental health, then fund these resources because that is also a separate, ongoing crisis in this country that no one in congress actually wants to address.
I'm just out here emotional thinking about how all my classmates will find out where they're going in exactly a year and how close we are to being doctors
@mhc_76
I don't know, honestly. Just guessing some of the rational? Rehab would likely need 1-2 weeks. Also possible they just wanted time to do more testing and get multiple opinions
Pretty remarkable how fast some people forget what it’s like to be a med student. Maybe if you fostered curiosity and encouraged participation and learning more people would want to join your field
It really is remarkable to me the number of "vaccine" experts there are on twitter with no medical or research experience 🧐. Makes you wonder why we're in this damn mess.
Love the United States spending possibly billions of dollars to look for a submersible that didn't follow regulations and was carrying a couple of billionaires but we are asking for too much, as physicians, to simply fund healthcare for our citizens. Really great
@CarinaSeah
@porozcos
@StaciLeisman
so lucky to have classmates and professors who are actively working to undo some of the racist, harmful practices we continue to use in standard clinical practice
For years, physicians and medical students, many of them Black, have warned that the most widely used kidney test is racist and dangerously inaccurate. Their appeals are gaining new traction.
Last day at MSH with 3 weeks left of 3rd year. Just feeling grateful for the education
@IcahnMountSinai
has provided and how many wonderful teachers have helped to impact my growth this year. You learn and change so much in this time and just feeling nostalgic and lucky
This one is pretty easy. Yes. Anything other than that answer shows an enormous amount of greed and implies that certain lives should be valued over others.
Healthcare worker burnout is a serious problem.
But it's also fixable:
Cutting documentation burden in the EHR, making workflows more efficient, showing genuine appreciation for healthcare workers, offering behavioral health counseling that's part of the workweek.
By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.
This will cost thousands of good-paying American jobs.
Instead of sabotaging the pipeline and promising mass amnesty during a pandemic, how about we focus on helping American workers?
We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.
This decision is going to limit opportunities for thousands, if not millions of deserving Americans. I am glad to work on
@IcahnMountSinai
admissions where there are steps already being taken to ensure our mission of having a diverse student body is upheld
Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at Harvard and UNC. The major ruling curtails race-conscious college admissions in the U.S., all but ensuring that elite institutions become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino.
The hospital is filling up again. COVID is storming back. But
@MountSinaiNYC
is now taking the necessary step requiring all employees to be vaccinated. These are the sort of steps that need to be taken to make sure our patients and providers are safe
If you are going to tweet that these shootings are related to "mental illness" then vote to increase funding. In my primary care clinic last month, every single person was looking for services and some people who had tried to commit suicide couldn't get them
This is the ~right~ thing to do. We need federal help to get this done and being as stringent as we’ve been on who can get vaccine and relying on hospitals slows rollout when we need to be getting as many people immunized as possible
CLARIFICATION: The new plan would also change guidelines to allow vaccinations immediately for anyone 65 and older and would help states set up mass vaccination sites should they request assistance.
@StaciLeisman
Had to spend an hour on the phone with my mom last ngiht trying to figure it out and get her scheduled! It worked but clearly going to be a large scale problem as vaccine opens up to more people
@KeenwaAcai
@AnActualWizard
@DrEricDing
They didn't say it "doesn't stop you from getting it." They said we do not know yet, but other vaccine trials/mRNA vaccines have shown that it does, in most people, stop transmission and spread.
Excited to share some of my teams new work out of
@HSpecialSurgery
:
Pre-operative bone quality deficits and risk of complications following spine fusion surgery among postmenopausal w…
BREAKING—We are out of vaccine reserves! Trump HHS Sec Azar announced this week that the govt would begin releasing
#COVID19
vaccine doses held in reserve for 2nd shots—but no such reserve existed!! Trump HHS had already shipped out reserves end of Dec!
Really proud and lucky to have Carina as a colleague who is working to break down structural inequalities in how we conduct research and has actively made me more critical and thoughtful in how I write and conduct research
We’ve been thinking about how structural racism impacts the findings of large scale genetic studies. Excited to share our thoughts on how to detect racism in our cohorts and actively work to mitigate the effects of bias to draw true biological conclusions at
#WCPG2021
Got a surprise message today from a patient I treated in my 3rd year and it made me emotional. It's amazing the impact you can have by just being there for someone. I love that my job is doing that day in and day out and it's something I hope I never take for granted.
Getting your step 2 score back is pretty surreal because it really feels like the culmination of 3 years of work and feels like one of the last major hurdles before applying to residency. It feels like just yesterday I was stepping onto Sinai's campus and I'm already almost done
Genuinely, which doctors? Where do these athletes find these doctors that are giving this advice? At this point, I have worked with hundreds of doctors and not a single one has been against vaccination, even for young, healthy people
J.T. Realmuto said he consulted with doctors he knew and decided he did not need a COVID vaccine. He will forfeit close to $260,000. "I'm not going to let Canada tell me what I do and don't put in my body for a little bit of money," Realmuto said. "It's just not worth it."
But everyone suffers when nurses, doctors, PAs and the students are overworked because we are human and are constantly asked to do more than we are capable of