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PSA: Your period should not 🩸last longer than 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen more than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic

submitted 81 days ago • 24 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 82 days ago • 1498 comments

🚨#MedSky--please amplify!🚨 For INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENTS: Is the role of chief resident (specifically for the year after residency) still desirable to residents? Feel free to speak in generalities; I realize this is a public forum! Thank you for your insights!

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

submitted 124 days ago • 179 comments

Hint: it’s not about ADHD meds Glad to have written this with @atulgrovermd.bsky.social

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

If you’re feeling fatigued it could be existential doom or it could be iron deficiency. One is much more easily treated so get those ferritins checked! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 160 days ago • 11 comments

How many girls, women, doctors, fathers & husbands know this? "Among 12- to 21-year-old US females b/w 2003 & 2020, iron deficiency affected almost 40% & iron-deficiency anemia affected 6%, with variation by ferritin or hemoglobin thresholds used" + Iron & MH!🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 216 days ago • 2 comments