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Internist, health policy and public health wonk. I do CBPR to improve health equity, get underheard voices to have influence. CHAT game co-inventor. Into native gardening, labradors and anything outdoors.
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Medicaid provides 40% of the funding for community health centers. Medicaid supports 2 out of 3 people in nursing homes. Medicaid provides health care to 41 million children. Trump and his Republican friends want to enact massive cuts to the program. We won't let them.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

aaaand now it all makes sense

William Warrick Cardozo, physician, and pediatrician, was a pioneer investigator of sickle cell anemia and a leader in medical research of problems affecting people of African descent. www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

www.nps.gov/people/dr-re.... For Black History month.

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Dear Leaders of the Free World, Fight him at every turn. Make his life miserable. Expose his ignorance and sociopathy. Oppose and condemn and marginalize him. The decent people of this nation are not with him. We stand with you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

Please share..

In honor of Black History Month I will be sharing stories about Black doctors. Only 5% of doctors are Black. Here’s one about Dr. Remus Robinson. www.bridgedetroit.com/how-the-stor...

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

RFKennedy Jr knows less about #Medicare and #Medicaid than the interns I teach. #Democrats in the Senate should ask tough questions illustrating his incompetence.

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“The head of each executive department or agency that provides research or education grants… shall take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

Obama’s inauguration - 28 degrees I’m going to leave this here ALL day Jan. 20 …..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On #MLKDay, we honor his legacy by choosing love over hate, justice over injustice, and hope over fear.

All of us bear witness to the travail in the world. It's soul crushing some days. This image reminded me of what all the defenders of democracy, truth, inclusivity and love do to heal us. Love to us all. 💗

They have a point.

100%!! 👌🏼

If bird flu turns into a pandemic, and patients and the public respond to medical and public advice the way they did for covid, I will no longer practice primary care medicine.

@julierovner.bsky.social piece on what Trump could do to restrict access to abortion. Question: If the #ComstockAct is activated/enforced, could drugs for erectile dysfunction and "adult" magazines also be forbidden to be sent through the mail?