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Esther Choo is an emergency physician and professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. She is a popular science… more

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A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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And that it was specifically in response to these kinds of shitty beliefs about “people like this don’t get care here”!
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Wait until he hears that the rule is that we see people in order of acuity and time in department. Period.
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Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
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Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
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Just keep fighting those cat wars
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Make it make sense
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Soothing the pain with matcha bubble tea and whimsical donuts, of course
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If you get shot your assailant’s gun was a right

If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege
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I work in the ER and have gotten no alerts about backup staffing needs. Today my kid’s trumpet lesson got canceled because his teacher is under the weather. Went to the carwash instead. Sun is out. What were we talking about?
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Update from the Portland suburbs. Yesterday went to a peaceful rally where there were adorable little girls dressed as princesses holding signs that read, “NO KINGS ONLY PRINCESSES.”
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Reposted by Esther K. Choo, Will Jennings, Juliet B. Schor , and 12 more

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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
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Visit... War-Ravaged Portland
a fake touristic poster of Portland that says "visit... war-ravaged Portland"
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What struck me is how much these women’s advocacy is grounded in love for their patients. So it is mutual 💕
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Here are some heroes for today: Idaho physicians fighting for women’s health in a heartbreaking practice environment (35% of the ob/gyn workforce have left since Dobbs) after realizing that there was no cavalry coming #WIMS
An ob/gyn, a family med doc, and an ER doc sit on a stage at a women in medicine conference
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Oregon will allow pharmacists to administer Covid and other vaccines, starting TODAY. Whew! Thank you Gov. Kotek, West coast Gov’s, Oregon BOP. Get ‘em now, folks! www.oregon.gov/pharmacy/Doc... #covid19 #medsky #pharmsky @choo.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @tinakotek.bsky.social
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Sickening. I’m sick of it and we all should be.
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“And so my state of Oregon, along with Washington, California and Hawaii, wisely decided to step away from a dysfunctional enterprise and establish its own evidence-based health alliance.”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
West Coast Health Alliance is a noble effort to offset RFK Jr.'s damage at the CDC
Attempting to create a system that will issue public health guidelines like the CDC will be a monumental task for Western states in a new alliance.
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We are excited to launch our new talk series: Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems (CORE) Talks. Free Zoom seminars on policy-relevant evidence about EDs, telemedicine, and urgent care.

www.coretalks.org

Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”
Dr. Jesse Pines stands in an emergency department room.
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“We are worried about the wide-ranging impact that all these decisions will have on America's health security.”
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“And he championed federal legislation that will cause millions of people with health insurance through Medicaid to lose their coverage. Firing Dr. Monarez — which led to the resignations of top C.D.C. officials — adds considerable fuel to this raging fire.
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“He announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs that protect millions of children and keep Americans safe, citing flawed research and making inaccurate statements.
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“He canceled investments in promising medical research that will leave us ill prepared for future health emergencies. He replaced experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views.
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“Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United States in a generation, he’s focused onunproven treatments while downplaying vaccines.
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“Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and severely weakenedprograms designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more.
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“What the health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months … is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced.
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by Esther K. Choo — Reposted by Devon Greyson

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From nine former CDC directors, who collectively worked at the agency for more than 100 years:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Read every word.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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by Atul Gawande — Reposted by Esther K. Choo, Joanna Bryson, Kim L. Scheppele , and 38 more

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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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One of my mentors says to think of every patient like they are a member of your family — then what you do for them is clear.

These deaths are happening to us, our families. So what we do is clear. Mourn. And then do all we can to keep the next family member from going through this.
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