C Hancock, MD, MS
@doctorahancock.bsky.social
Family doc, mom, primary care and addiction medicine advocate, occasional social scientist, lover of deserts & mountains.
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Jerome Adams was President Trump's Surgeon General. He is calling out the current administration for its dehumanizing language and tying it to the shootings at CDC last week. This isn't a partisan issue. Violence against public health workers is wrong full-stop. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...
Former surgeon general: The CDC shooting must be a wakeup call
“When influential figures amplify falsehoods, they legitimize the anger that leads to violence,” writes former Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
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August 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Jerome Adams was President Trump's Surgeon General. He is calling out the current administration for its dehumanizing language and tying it to the shootings at CDC last week. This isn't a partisan issue. Violence against public health workers is wrong full-stop. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...
Not OK.
Kennedy Abruptly Cancels Tomorrow's USPSTF Meeting www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w... via @medpagetoday.bsky.social Oh, HELL NO!
Kennedy Abruptly Cancels USPSTF Meeting
Move raises concern that the task force may face a similar fate as CDC's federal vaccine advisors
www.medpagetoday.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Not OK.
I know well what it means for 1 patient to lose #insurance -sometimes it’s the difference between life or death, or between being at home or stuck in the hospital. I’ve had my own periods of being #uninsured. What I can’t imagine is that devaststing process repeating itself 16M times. #voteno #HR1
July 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I know well what it means for 1 patient to lose #insurance -sometimes it’s the difference between life or death, or between being at home or stuck in the hospital. I’ve had my own periods of being #uninsured. What I can’t imagine is that devaststing process repeating itself 16M times. #voteno #HR1
June 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
June 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I’m horrified by the shootings targeting Minnesota lawmakers, including Senator John Hoffman and State Rep. Melissa Hortman.
Violence is never the answer. Never.
I'm holding everyone affected by this attack in my heart.
Violence is never the answer. Never.
I'm holding everyone affected by this attack in my heart.
June 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’m horrified by the shootings targeting Minnesota lawmakers, including Senator John Hoffman and State Rep. Melissa Hortman.
Violence is never the answer. Never.
I'm holding everyone affected by this attack in my heart.
Violence is never the answer. Never.
I'm holding everyone affected by this attack in my heart.
June 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A six year old patient I’ve been working with for years on #obesity and healthy #food choices brought me some radishes she grew today! 😁. Apparently something I said over the last few years has gotten through ❤️ #fmstrong #primarycare
May 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A six year old patient I’ve been working with for years on #obesity and healthy #food choices brought me some radishes she grew today! 😁. Apparently something I said over the last few years has gotten through ❤️ #fmstrong #primarycare
I’m no expert on #barns, but this one is pretty good looking, especially with the #silo and puffy white clouds. #asseenwhilebikeriding
May 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I’m no expert on #barns, but this one is pretty good looking, especially with the #silo and puffy white clouds. #asseenwhilebikeriding
This is amazing & brings tears to my eyes. It’s not something we could have imagined even a decade ago. Hats off to the dedicated, brave & collaborative researchers and physicians who made history, and to our predecessors for supporting this science 🧬 . www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
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May 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is amazing & brings tears to my eyes. It’s not something we could have imagined even a decade ago. Hats off to the dedicated, brave & collaborative researchers and physicians who made history, and to our predecessors for supporting this science 🧬 . www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
This is pretty amazing news, but we still need to sustain the changes that made this possible or else we’ll see the trend reverse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/h...
Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports
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May 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is pretty amazing news, but we still need to sustain the changes that made this possible or else we’ll see the trend reverse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/h...
To those who don’t believe in #stigma around #substanceuse and #addiction, I would kindly ask you to explain this recent news item…
May 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
To those who don’t believe in #stigma around #substanceuse and #addiction, I would kindly ask you to explain this recent news item…
This article captures our current national challenges with #stimulant use well. However, it fails to mention that we do have an effective treatment - #contingencymanagement - and we should be figuring out now to implement it even if it’s not a pill, patch or shot. 💊 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...
Faces From a Meth Surge
The devastating stimulant has been hitting Portland, Maine hard, even competing with fentanyl as the street drug of choice. Although a fentanyl overdose can be reversed with Narcan, no medicine can re...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This article captures our current national challenges with #stimulant use well. However, it fails to mention that we do have an effective treatment - #contingencymanagement - and we should be figuring out now to implement it even if it’s not a pill, patch or shot. 💊 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...
This is what I have to say about today’s developments.
April 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This is what I have to say about today’s developments.
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Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.
RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong.
The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.
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April 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.
Bellingham, WA
April 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Bellingham, WA
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Bridging the Gap: AHRQ’s Role in Rural Health Care Access Amid Hospital Closures academyhealth.org/blog/2025-04... via @academyhealth.bsky.social
Bridging the Gap: AHRQ’s Role in Rural Health Care Access Amid Hospital Closures | AcademyHealth
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April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Bridging the Gap: AHRQ’s Role in Rural Health Care Access Amid Hospital Closures academyhealth.org/blog/2025-04... via @academyhealth.bsky.social
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Surveyed 1 month after inauguration, frontline US primary care clinicians sending early warning signal of harmful impact of Trump-Musk policies on health care workers, patients, communities. Brief led by @rebeccaetz.bsky.social published today @milbankfund.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2udmc7ds
#FMSky
#FMSky
Report from the Frontlines of US Primary Care on the Impact of Recent Federal Policy Changes | Milbank Memorial Fund
Primary care clinicians are a bellwether for the state of health care and health in the United States. With the Trump Administration moving at breakneck
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March 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Surveyed 1 month after inauguration, frontline US primary care clinicians sending early warning signal of harmful impact of Trump-Musk policies on health care workers, patients, communities. Brief led by @rebeccaetz.bsky.social published today @milbankfund.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2udmc7ds
#FMSky
#FMSky
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The Senate Finance Committee voted to advance the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead CMS.
In this special bonus episode of “What the Health?,” KFF Health News’ Rachana Pradhan and Stephanie Armour join host @julierovner.bsky.social to recap his hearing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx0...
In this special bonus episode of “What the Health?,” KFF Health News’ Rachana Pradhan and Stephanie Armour join host @julierovner.bsky.social to recap his hearing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx0...
The Dr. Oz Show Comes to Congress
YouTube video by KFF Health News
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March 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Senate Finance Committee voted to advance the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead CMS.
In this special bonus episode of “What the Health?,” KFF Health News’ Rachana Pradhan and Stephanie Armour join host @julierovner.bsky.social to recap his hearing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx0...
In this special bonus episode of “What the Health?,” KFF Health News’ Rachana Pradhan and Stephanie Armour join host @julierovner.bsky.social to recap his hearing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx0...
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THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
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The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
Continued investment in the NIH is essential to fighting current and emerging health threats and to ensuring the U.S. remains a global leader in medical innovation.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...
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Please listen to this. It is devastating and important. #foreignaffairs #publichealth #internationaldevelopment #consequences www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Please listen to this. It is devastating and important. #foreignaffairs #publichealth #internationaldevelopment #consequences www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
I’m not sure why, but I figure it can’t hurt the world to see this work by Amanda Newell right now; it seems to capture some of the uncertainty and sadness of the pandemic that feels resurgent at the moment, as well as a very comforting human response to it. #blueteddybear #christchurchartgallery
February 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I’m not sure why, but I figure it can’t hurt the world to see this work by Amanda Newell right now; it seems to capture some of the uncertainty and sadness of the pandemic that feels resurgent at the moment, as well as a very comforting human response to it. #blueteddybear #christchurchartgallery
This really tickled me. Cheeky kea! (And yes, I know this is a few years old 🤪) youtu.be/WvHZy9i9LMA
Kea Flies away with GoPro
YouTube video by Alex Verheul
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February 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This really tickled me. Cheeky kea! (And yes, I know this is a few years old 🤪) youtu.be/WvHZy9i9LMA