Hey #MedTwitter! I’m Don White, an MD/PhD candidate at @LSUHealthNO applying to #InternalMedicine for #Match2025! 🥼
I’m passionate about heme/onc 🩸, biotech 🧬, and making innovative therapies accessible to all 💊.
Excited to connect with everyone!
Don’t worry! If your Thanksgiving dinner conversation turns from pie to prisons, or from cranberries to crime, we’ve got you covered.
We pulled together some of the false claims you’re likely to hear at the dinner table and the data to help you push back. 🧵
Today my brother made a video about how the patent on a drug for Tuberculosis should be expiring, but that Johnson and Johnson is extending with a legal loophole for four extra years.
As a result, experts estimate that six million people will die.
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You are worthy of the time it takes to:
Go to the dentist
Get regular check-ups
Get your cancer screenings
Go to therapy
You deserve the health you strive so hard to give to others.
Update: it was great!! Keep an eye out for her nonhuman primate studies looking at mechanisms implicated in hyperinsulinemia + cognitive impairment due to alcohol in HIV/SIV 👀 @tfitz_schmidt
Day 1 done with @tfitz_schmidt! Everything from the food, networking, & talks have been fab. Looking forward to hearing her talk tomorrow on cognitive impairment, HIV, alcohol use, and cardiometabolic risk factors. #grsalcohol2023
Headed to my 1st conference of grad school in the morning & I’m stoked it’s @GordonConf Alcohol-induced End-Organ Diseases 🍻. I’ll be sharing my work so far on modeling simultaneous metabolic and alcohol-associated steatohepatitis (aka SMASH) using 3D cell cultures!