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Michelle Cohen

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rural Ontario family doc | writer | Queen's Family Medicine | OMA Women Committee | she/her Health equity, health policy, wellness pseudoscience, women's health, history of medicine. 🔗 https://informedperspectives.org/expert/?id=001fK00000INrSnQAL

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · Sep 11

NEW: I wrote about the physical and psychological harms of Hollywood male beauty standards that idealize dehydration.

How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys - Healthy Debate

Increasingly distorted male beauty standards have come to celebrate visible dehydration as a physical ideal.

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✨️neuron divergent med student✨️ @fuqekgs.medsky.social · 12h

Highly convinced that RFK jr learns a new medical term one day and decides to talk about it the next without knowing what it is. Today it's placenta and circumcision, tomorrow it's hemolytic anemia

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 1d

Incels for most of my life have also have aired a whole lot of unhinged circumcision theories. Many of them likewise blame the Jews. But a lot of them blame their parents and John Kellog. I don't know how and when so many of them reached the broader manosphere, but the tapestry is rich now.

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 1d

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

Fucking disgusting

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

Also he's suggesting that a few days of Tylenol *doubles* the rate of autism? So every child who's broken a bone or had surgery has, what, an order of magnitude higher risk?

I know it's redundant to say this about an RFK quote, but it makes no fucking sense.

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

Imagine dogwhistling about "early" circumcision without knowing that Jews traditionally give the newborn wine, not Tylenol.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

Now I'm just picturing a lecture with a slides of the placenta coloured Smurf blue because of RFK's fondness for methylene blue.

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

If you ever suffer from imposter syndrome just remember that Health Secretary Brain Worm thinks the fetus grows in the placenta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

"And the baby was in the placenta and the baby looked at me"

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

A Canadian doctor participated in an event where effigies of public officials were hung in nooses.

The speakers compared COVID mitigation measures to the Holocaust.

His medical college decided not to discipline him. He's still in practice in BC.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

If everyone who made a gross comment about their enemies being hanged at Nuremberg were charged with a hate crime, the entire antivax movement would be in prison by now:

Cold Spring Resident Accused of Threat

Arrested with women charged with defacing NYT building

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

So if I "prescribe" affordable access to high quality foods, will that make food deserts disappear?

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 2d

This is a really bad idea lol

Experts Push to Expand Role of Nutrition in Medicine www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...

Experts Push to Expand Role of Nutrition in Medicine

Doctors should prescribe food just like they prescribe medications, expert suggests

www.medpagetoday.com

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 2d

By the logic of science JP must be a tip-only guy.

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 2d

It's amazing how frail he is. The weakest strong man ever.

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 2d

YES. I'm going to start writing that on medical forms. "Pt on leave due to spiritual attacks."

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 2d

JP's daughter: “We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks.”

Spiritual. Attacks. No better explanation.

Ok fess up. Which one of you has been spiritually attacking Professor Beef?
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Jordan Peterson was ‘near death’ after ‘terrifying’ health issues

Psychologist Jordan Peterson spent about a month in intensive care and was “near death” after he was hospitalized for pneumonia and sepsis this summer.

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Amy Johnston, PhD @amydjohn.bsky.social · 2d

I am looking to connect with a qualitative researcher to collaborate on a a study on women's health (Gynecology-related).

Canadian researcher preferred 🇨🇦

#Endometriosis #MedSky #EpiSky

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Alt: Looking Searching GIF

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 3d

A Prayer for the Palestinian People
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A Prayer for the Palestinian People - Ritualwell

"May this prayer help open hearts and bring down walls of oppression for all humanity"

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 3d

Through all the broken ceasefires, bombs sent, and innocent people needlessly killed, many of the civilians kidnapped two years ago remain captive. Though they have been abandoned by the promises of powerful men, their families are still left wondering if they live.
www.heyalma.com/jewish-praye...

Jewish Prayers to Say for the Release of Hostages - Hey Alma

Ever since October 7, so many Jewish people, regardless of our level of religious observance, have been turning to Jewish rituals, like prayer, to cope with our feelings of grief, anger and anxiety. W...

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 3d

It's clear to me now that the trajectory of my career is to become increasingly grumpy on insurance/employer medical paperwork until I transition into my final form.

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ALT: a close up of a muppet with an angry expression

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 4d

This time of year is when witchy women are at their most powerful so you better give them little treats

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 3d

Chief of surgery, chief of anesthesia, first year psych resident.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 6d

“When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto's University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year.”

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Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model | CBC News

The Dunn House, a long-term housing project with easy access to healthcare, is helping 48 of Toronto's most-frequent visitors to the ER. The program has greatly reduced the number of hospital visits a...

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 6d

“The first story is from Victoria Gibson at the Toronto Star — about Jason Miles, a man whose addiction and homelessness cost more than $260,000 through ER visits, shelters, and jail stays. Not because he wanted that path, but because there wasn’t another one.”

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Jason Miles’ addiction cost $260,000 in emergency room, shelter and jail stays. A Toronto hospital’s radical solution: just give him a home

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 6d

#IdeasAtWork

“It still feels unreal sometimes. What started as a “radical” idea — that health begins with home — became a place where people who were living inside and out of hospitals, shelters, or on the street could finally exhale.” - Andrew Boozary

h/t @uhn.ca @unitedwaygt.bsky.social

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Andrew Boozary MD MPP in • 1st
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It's been one year since we opened Dunn House - Canada's first social medicine housing initiative. And this has been family over the past year.
It still feels unreal sometimes. What started as a "radical" idea - that health begins with home - became a place where people who were living inside and out of hospitals, shelters, or on the street could finally exhale.
A year later, the preliminary data is staggering. Emergency Department visits for the tenants have plunged by over 50%. And days spent in hospital have similarly plummeted by nearly 80%.
But the real drive for change, I hope, is how human dignity and health economics are completely aligned.
The first story is from Victoria Gibson at the Toronto Star - about Jason Miles, a man whose addiction and homelessness cost more than $260,000 through ER visits, shelters, and jail stays. Not because he wanted that path, but because there wasn't another one.
The second is from Liam Casey in the CBC, about our University Health Network teams and community partners deciding to try something different and center those patients that been sidelined in the health system. The cost calculus is clear when it can be over $50k per month in hospital, $15k in provincial jail and $4k for supportive housing.
I believe both these stories show the cost of crisis - and the return on compassion.
It's still early, and there's a lot more to do across the province. But one year in, I'm certain of this more than ever:
housing is healthcare. compassion saves lives.
and dignity has to be designed into the system - not left to Chance.

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 5d

I think the main measure of success for Kulldorff is whether he, personally, benefited (which of course he did).