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Emergency and Internal Medicine physician, APD, passionate about #MedEd, eliminating bias in med ed, and gamification. Dog mom, fiestaware enthusiast. Views are my own, not those of my employer or medical advice. (She/her)
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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social This is a five-alarm fire.

We aren’t all farmers…

You can prevent infectious diseases AND chronic diseases. Vaccinating for an infectious disease takes a few minutes. Warding off chronic disease takes a lifetime. The former is not in the way of the latter.

Every single vaccine in the childhood schedule has been subjected to the highest level of scrutiny for any medical product. Because vaccines are given to an otherwise healthy population, safety and effectiveness are essential.

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

Oh my gosh, the lying grifter lied to congress. Who'd have seen this coming.

In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

Americans have the right to vote and have a say who our elected leaders are. But MAGA Rs want to pass The SAVE Act which would make it harder for millions of Americans to cast a ballot, including women who changed their name after marriage. Call your MOC and tell them to vote No!

It's an amazing vaccine that prevents CANCER. We have data to prove it. Also, not just cervical cancer, there are many HVP related cancers that it prevents.

Hey congress, keep RFK Jr in check with some legislation: The gov can't ban a med or vax that has been FDA approved for over a certain amount of time without multiple reproduced studies, published in reputable peer reviewed journals that show harm. No BS conspiracy sources. Real science.

A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Somehow it gets worse.

The madness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

Gutting Medicaid, which many rely on for maternity care and to pay for the NICU (birth weight < 1,200 g), is the most anti fetus, anti-newborn legislation possible.

Congress is considering a bill that would hold critical federal funds hostage unless states comply with Trump's agenda. Tell your representatives to vote NO on this bill by texting SANCTUARY to 82623.

Fun fact: Decades of research has shown that mifepristone is as safe or safer than common medicines like Tylenol or Viagra 💊💊✨✨

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

This is precisely why journalists should not be casting Trump and RFK as crusaders against Big Pharma. What they object to is regulation and consumer protection, i.e. they want to make it easier for corporations to poison and lie to us.

Here’s what we did today

@thedemocraticparty.bsky.social is fighting back!

Proud to join @repraulruizmd.bsky.social and colleagues today outside HHS Headquarters as we called for the Senate to reject the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFK Jr. is simply not fit to run our federal public health programs.

Influenza-like-illness plus significant conjunctivitis = wear appropriate PPE (respirator mask, EYE PROTECTION & gown) and ask a lot more questions about bird flu risk factors, especially animal exposures. #MedSky #EMedSky

Good morning anyone in the FBI who cares! Senators are getting threatened with bodily harm if they don't vote a certain way. A list of "DEI" targets is in circulation that includes lots of personal info. A group of hackers has infiltrated the Treasury and other gov agencies. Get to work!

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

Where is the AMA?

Can someone explain why, when we have blatant criminal acts occurring - private citizens trespassing in high security gov sites, hacking into our treasury system, etc. we have to wait until someone sues to have the justice system get involved? Can people not get arrested for this?

Trying to look up the 2024 HIPAA privacy rule for reproductive health care and it is no longer on the HHS website. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Trans people are people, humans, deserving of rights. Fetuses are not. The people who carry them are people, humans, deserving of rights.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! Follow these #MedSky leaders among us: go.bsky.app/3wc2Q3G

RFK Jr.’s War Against Cancer…Prevention: Robert F. Kennedy misrepresents the data about HPV vaccines while making millions off litigation over the vaccine, by @pauloffit.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

For fucks sake. We didn’t lose because of the price of eggs. We lost because Republicans SAID it was the price of eggs. Now they’re dismantling government, stripping rights, starting trade wars and Dems are saying “look at the eggs!” Leaders lead! Stop chasing their bullshit! Focus and fight back!

They are tainting our guidelines which are based on best research practices and evidence to fit their world view…we practice medicine based off best evidence and provide care to ALL people, not just a select few. I will not cause harm to my patients and will practice using best guidelines

Reminder once more that the President has ZERO authority to reallocate funds already appropriated by Congress for a particular purpose. And an unelected billionaire oligarch has even less than ZERO authority to hijack & reallocate funds. This is a coup. A hostile takeover. A Constitutional crisis.

Just a hypothetical. Based on the info that Musk lackies are able to plug into any gov system, and most gov workers don't know who they are or if they can. If I were the leader of a terrorist group I would totally send agents in to say they are DOGE and start stealing info and crashing stuff.

The biggest news today isn’t Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. It’s that an unelected billionaire now has access to your Social Security income. Americans should be asking: Who really controls our future? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u... #SocialSecurity #WealthPower

I fully believe that he hasn't read it. He doesn't have to. The people surrounding him wrote it. They write his material and he signs it.

Where is the fierce, vocal, widespread OPPOSITION from our medical orgs? Where are the AMA, ABIM, AAP, ACS etc?

Anti-abortion politicians will stop at nothing to deny people essential health care, including threatening to lock up doctors and those who help people get abortions. No one should face prosecution for helping someone end their pregnancy.

“A vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take America back to a troubling era when countless children suffered and died from horrific infections, leaving many with lifelong disabilities.” www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...