#MEDICINE

Y'all bashing Ooni, well. It's mere ignorance. A black man called Dr Sebi has been curing HiV and ALL diseases KNOWN to mankind since 1970s. He even won USA in
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The physiological effects of racism manisfests as chronic conditions. Doctors blame & shame people yet trauma lives in the DNA, a trauma experienced in utero, a trauma manifesting today but
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Taking mental health medication is tougher than it seems. I have been taking MH medication, on & off, for more than 10 years now. This is a thread of some
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A THREAD: Took my dog to the vet the other day for an ear infection & they treated both ears by putting a cream in them that I can’t wash
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This week, our series on 'Global Histories of Health, Medicine & Disease in the Early Modern World’ continues with Prof. Janet Gyatso, who speaks about her book, ‘Being Human in
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Learning about Dr. Kellogg today, he is most known for his cereal that gets you to stop beating it and is misattributed for the creation of the Kellogg cereal company
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Decolonizing Medicine is recognizing that health equity was never part of the agenda of western medicine. The agenda was to keep Brown and Black people healthy enough to use our
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A few non-ED phyisican friends are being re-deployed to take care of patients in ED. They want to help but are understandably apprehensive. They have questions. Here’s my 10 point
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@Apollo_Pharmacy Got denied the SOS medicine based on this prescription. The chemist feels there is overwriting in the date. Went back to have a conversation, and they said "this is
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Final commentary and then I’m dropping this out of sheer sadness. There is one crucial difference between my current profession of medicine and my previous one of aviation. In medicine,
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Whenever someone makes a thread on why that agbo from Madagascar should go thru proper drug testing b4 public use, pple r always quick to label them anti-african.They're quick to
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Random thought experiment of the day (brought on by HCQ discussions):In criminal law, the burden of proof lies on the government. The defendant is innocent until proven guilty, rather than
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Earlier this week, an ER physician leader friend asked for any lessons I’ve learned during crisis that might help her team as they dealt with COVID19. I provided some input
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Remembering my first call as an intern on the HIV ward at BIMC in NYC. 9 Linsky. Seven admissions, three LPs for PCP, 2 paras (HCV coinfection), and 2 lines
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In the antebellum period, the United States' framework for medical licensing collapsed.What happened? (Hint: there are implications for today)[a #medhistory thread] Early medicine in the US was far more art
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Diversity initiatives often resist & ignore the hard work of helping Black people recover from racial trauma at work. Last night, 3 Black women physicians shared how they all endured
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