Dr. Zubin Damania
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Planned a trip with my kids to
@calacademy
in SF today to get our
#science
on, but learned they now require boosters for KIDS 🤨
Thanks, but we'll get our science the old fashioned way: by blowing a bunch of s**t up in our backyard 😎
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Let's be civil and give Washington state senator Maureen Walsh a chance to sincerely apologize for insulting the integrity and hard work of nurses everywhere. Demeaning caregivers who one day may care for you or your loved ones is a card game you don't want to play ;-)
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We’ve seen a lot of YouTube videos by med students and residents explaining what it’s like to do medicine. But
@VPrasadMDMPH
is having none of it 😂🔥🔥🔥
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Here's our video on
#boosters
with
@MonicaGandhi9
that
@TikTokSupport
banned as misinformation, despite FDA now agreeing with us! Let's see if we can get Twitter to ban us too just to generate yet more trust in our tech giants' ability to adjudicate scientific discourse 👍
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When you're on a flight typing away on Twitter and the guy in the seat next to you is staring at your screen, and you tweet about him staring at your screen. And he keeps staring at your screen. (PS this is in fact that very tweet)
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I've really screwed up. I let loyalty, emotion, & stupidity blind me to what was the right thing to do & then lashed out at the very people who expected more of me. I am so sorry to cause more suffering just when we need less. I will try to do better, video coming soon.
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I joined
@tiktok_us
under duress after my own kids shamed me into it. They proceed to remove my video on boosters for healthy people with
@MonicaGandhi9
for “misinformation.” Look, if I wanted to be inappropriately censored as misinformation I would’ve just stuck with Facebook 🥴
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Sometimes I wonder if our elected leaders understand human beings at all. Here's why I think this federal vaccine mandate is a terrible idea.
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On this Memorial Day, we honor the fallen...and that must include those who returned home only to die by suicide. We can and must do better to provide mental health services and support for our military men and women and their families.
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.
@eugenegu
's got some 'splaining to do. I'm listening; you can tell us on one knee (how romantic)! Or maybe ask
@marylaurymd
to explain? Or we could ask
@DoctorMeowskis
about what you think "romantic" is. Oh, and I hope
@DGlaucomflecken
likes my avatar!
#brownface
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To every hospital administrator who would silence the front lines during COVID: we will NEVER forget this.
#silentnomore
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Walking by a parked Tesla on downtown public street, doc has windows rolled down and is talking to ER on stereo speakerphone with audio so loud the whole block can hear patient details. I mean, HIPAA is for people who drive Hondas, right? 🤷♂️
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Now THIS would be fun.
We really need to get
@ZDoggMD
and
@AndrewYang
to sit down for a session on his healthcare plan!
@ZDoggMD
had a GREAT video months ago about M4A and how to fix it (he’s a doc after all) and it literally lines up with
@AndrewYang
’s M4A plan!
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Southwest Airlines flight attendant: “This flight is not full, everyone can have a window and aisle seat if you spread out. If you sit in a middle seat between 2 people, you’re just being mean.”
*turns to look at mean person sitting in middle seat next to me* 🤨
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My second “random” TSA screening of the day. Guess I triggered the “vaguely off-white” security algorithm 🤩
#sadlynocavitysearch
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Dear
@AndrewYang
you are hereby officially invited to come on my show and talk about any of the things.
PS I cofounded our clinic with Josh, one of your Venture For America fellows, so that means we’re homies by default ok? 🤓
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It's Not Burnout, It's Moral Injury | AMA 15 w/ZDoggMD
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Now is the time for our non-clinical hospital administrators to prove they aren't just unnecessary parasites: help resource and organize the COVID-19 response so our frontline healthcare workers can stay safe, supported, and effective.
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My wife: “Why are you crying?”
Me: “It’s just...so...beautiful.”
Weezer Pulls Weird Al On Stage To Help Them Cover Toto's 'Africa'
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Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a big rise in pancreatic cancer diagnoses since I started training (when they taught us it was RARE)? Maybe just anecdote, but...I swear something “feels” different.
#AlexTrebek
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We’ve created a rotten culture where social status is gained through outrage generation and “calling out” behaviors on platforms like Twitter, assuming evil intent of others and piling on. I’ve been guilty of it, but I’m done. It’s sick and unproductive and solves nothing.
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@SandraLeeMD
Because the dermatologist might surprise bill 20X for an explanation that’s 5% more complete but maybe 50% more confusing? 😉
Sorry, I’m just butthurt cuz I’m a “board-certified internist” who had to do months of keto just to fit in this bikini 😭
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Here’s my point by point take on Dr. Peter McCullough’s claims in his recent interview with
@joerogan
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OMG Dr. Oz finally got on the phone with me and my producer caught the tail end of it on camera...holy! 😳
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Fresh off the presses from the New England Journal of DUH 🤓
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This is dedicated to all the ZPac'ers who are missing their card games to care for the vulnerable this weekend 😽
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Humor me and pretend
@GaryTigges
in this
@DallasCMS
publication is right. By his logic, according to the data if we paid based on actual clinical outcomes rather than fee-for-service volume churn, MEN would be the ones complaining about a pay gap -->
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Ah, the Whole Foods checkout line. You'll never find a more wretched hive of woo and quackery...
#ButHandsOffMyHeirloomChicken
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This "documentary" is pure extract of crazy.
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What a terrifying precedent: arresting a front line nurse for a deadly error that was the result of both human and systems failures. Whatever happened to Just Culture in healthcare? Straight SHAMEFUL.
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A young emergency physician. A police officer with children. A 25 year old pharmacy resident. All murdered in a place of healing today. I've heard from some who were there...and it left me speechless. But it's time we ALL spoke up.
#silentnomore
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I know as docs we can seem grumpy and busy and generally cray. But under that chaos is love that comes from knowing that you'll always be there for our patients (and for us, even when we sometimes feel unworthy). Happy
#NursesWeek
and THANK YOU
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If I do an accent for a satirical video, it’s always white folks who message accusing me of racism on behalf of the poor weak minority group that clearly needs their protection. It’s yet another symptom of outrage culture gone wild; I’ve coined it
#ButthurtByProxy
🤷♂️
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I think there's a lot of nuance around whether vaccinating kids 12-15 for COVID is crucial, but my 13 year old really wanted it and got it today 🙌 Here's a deeper dive on how to critically think about this (you might disagree with me, so weigh in)
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RT
@DoctorSammyU
:
@teamhealth
you fired Dr Ming Lin for speaking the truth. Now you will deal with every angry physician in the country.
@pppforpatients
@AAPSonline
@HConomics
@ZDoggMD
@PeaceHealth_Ore
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Did Robert Malone "invent" the mRNA technology used in our current COVID vaccines?
@DrPaulOffit
co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, spells out how this process works.
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There's really only 1 way to get through a pandemic: develop population immunity.
@MonicaGandhi9
returns to talk vaccine & natural immunity, public health messaging gone bad, vaccine passports/mandates, & MORE
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Just finished my regular county hospital rounds, and I think I can safely say the social determinants of health are not the most important factor at play. They're the ONLY factor at play.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair.
And we wonder why change in medicine is so hard...
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ZPupp: Daddy, you're a doctor right?
Me: Purportedly.
ZPupp: So are you friends with Dr. Pepper?
Me: *snickers* More like colleagues, really. He sends Daddy a LOT of business 🤓
#ThatDiabetesTho
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I'm thinking about doing a Netflix documentary about the multitude of medically-related Netflix documentaries. The world's first
#metadocumentary
? 🤔
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This is the best summary I've seen of everything we've been saying for years --> Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury.
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I humbly request that folks stop engaging antivax cultists on Twitter. 1) it’s gonna get nowhere, they’re delusional, OK? Block & move on. 2) IT’S F**KING WRECKING MY DAMN FEED AND IT’S SO F**KING BORING SO PLEASE MAKE THE HURTING STOP BY NOT TAGGING ME 😭😭😭 Love + Kisses 😘
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🙌🙌🙌 RT
@cl_wilson1969
:
@ZDoggMD
As a nurse I’ve played “cards” many a time. CARDizem, proCARDia, niCARDipine.
#proudtobeanurse
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Headline should have read: "Kentucky Governor Admits To Intentional Child Abuse, Steps Down"
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The one and only
@DrPaulOffit
returns to lay down the smack on:
👉 Boosters for young healthy people
👉 Pharma companies dictating public health policy
👉 So-called "inventors of mRNA technology"
& much more 🔥
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When you get recognized at LAX by a doctor and do a selfie, and then everyone around stares thinking “we’re in LA so you must be a celebrity, so why don’t I know who the f**k you are? Maybe Vin Diesel’s ill brother?” 😂
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Welcome to the
#AltMiddle
🙌
NOT a very successful place to be on Twitter, but likely a better place to be in life.
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It all started with a racist ophthalmoscope...
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*frantically reviews the mania-inducing effects of dexamethasone*
*more frantically wonders where that nuclear button is right now*
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And they run the only funny ophthalmologist in the world off Twitter. Thanks, guys. RT
@DGlaucomflecken
: I'm gonna leave twitter for a little bit. Never thought I'd be accused of racism for dressing up a cartoon ophthalmoscope in early 20th century attire, yet here we are.
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Dozens at Vandy have messaged me to support this nurse, they'd recently gone live with Epic when this error occurred & med systems were glitchy AF. So if we arrest this nurse for homicide, should Epic and Vanderbilt's leadership go to jail as accomplices?
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Ya know, I've had it with polarizing Twitter accounts that engage in call-out/outrage culture and exist purely to generate division (because that's how they thrive and grow on this platform). It's not about discourse, it's about scoring points with them (cont.)
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A brand new music video dedicated to some true heroes of healthcare. Happy
#NursesWeek
🙌🏽 Thx to
@BoardVitals
and our Facebook Supporters for making it possible!
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, the world's greatest fluff piece. What happened to actual journalism? "We can't show you how many clicks cuz HIPAA" WTF (video from me coming soon)
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Incidentally, if you believed any of that bullshit “Plandemic” movie you have no business practicing in healthcare because you have no critical thinking skills whatsoever. Harsh truth but someone has to say it. How’s that for free speech?
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EMRs altered our cognitive and practice patterns for the worse with designs having little to do with patient care but much to do with billing. AMA’s income derives from their CPT coding system, so teach students to accommodate their cash register, right?
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Prior infection with COVID confers REAL immunity that may be even better than vaccine-induced immunity. Can we just say that? Here's what this means for mandates and more.
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#silentnomore
RT
@ZDoggMD
: RT
@nashbash2
: This is the hole a patient’s husband punched into the wall of my unit. I just want to be able to go to work. This is why I don’t want my last name on my badge.
#violenceinhealthcare
#silentnomore
@ZDoggMD
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#189
– COVID-19: Current state of affairs, Omicron, and a search for the end game (w/ tha' homies
@MartyMakary
&
@PeterAttiaMD
)
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The three horseman of the Covid apocalypse on one show 😂 Wherein we propose the "Omicron" as the measurement unit of media click generation. With
@VPrasadMDMPH
& MedPage editor-in-chief
@MartyMakary
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Sudden Deaths, Damar Hamlin, FDA Bivalent Fail (w/
@VPrasadMDMPH
) A BRAND NEW
#VPZDShow
!
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Overheard in my kid’s elementary school class:
Teacher: There’s always a ‘first time’ when it comes to presidents. JFK was the first Catholic president. Obama was the first black president. Yes, Katie?
Katie: Trump is the first orange president!
Teacher: 😮
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Important to balance imparting false equivalence with having a proper and healthy debate of ideas without invoking political BS (I'm looking at you, Twitter) -->Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized
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I left the ZPupps home for 20 minutes so I could get some groceries, came back and they were chillin’ like little angels 😻
Then I checked my iCloud video notifications...
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And THIS is how you do science reporting 🙌
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Oh snap, our Nurse Medimoji thinks Senator Maureen Walsh ain't playing with a full deck 🐱
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Spotted by my wife at Stanford during her lunch break:
Her: They put a poster of you...in the cafeteria.
Me: THEY PLACED ME HIGHER THAN THE CONDIMENTS! 🙌🙌🤘
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Amazing TSA precheck experience @ SFO, screener looks at my carry-on x-ray, cocks her head and says "Are you a singer?"
Panicking, I said "Yes?"
"Sing me something...NOW."
Panicking MORE: 🎤"Once I was 7 years old..."
"Daaamn...ok those are mics then, safe travels!"
Me: 😅
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Watching
#Hamilton
on repeat? Well King Pharma knows “You’ll Be Back” 😉
#directtoconsumer
#sideeffectsmayinclude
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F**k with the satirists? They quickly become JOURNALISTS.
@gomerblog
in the house. -->Meet Dr. Eugene Gu and His Girlfriend Eugene Gu?
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That'll teach me for checking my email while on vacation 😂
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OK this may just be feeding my confirmation bias...BUT OPEN THE F**CKING SCHOOLS ALREADY.
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New episode
#TheVPZDShow
with
@VPrasadMDMPH
! 👇
1) VP gets a booster or loses his job
2) Vaccinating kids under 5?
3) Attempts to cancel Joe Rogan/Spotify
4) The urgency of returning to normal for our kids
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Sadly, it seems that it took a reminder of the horrors of these diseases to get folks back on board with vaccines -->Vaccinations jump 500% in antivax hotspot amid measles outbreak
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Just when you think through hard work, perseverance, and luck you’ve managed to exert some influence in the world...you go to the DMV.
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Spoiler Alert: It's often pay-to-play, so don't trust those stupid "Best Doctors" pieces in magazines.
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Anyone who thinks COVID vaccination in kids and teens (especially boys, or those with prior infection or myocarditis) is a black & white answer needs to think again, or at least open a dang excel spreadsheet and do some math. Per
@VPrasadMDMPH
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ZDoggMD Industries: Triggering Delusional Antivaxxers Since 2010 😘
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