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BREAKING!!! @BarqRuby presents findings from @HOPE_sci_lab @ChildrensLA highlighting how #opioid stewardship needs to expand to infants undergoing cardiac surgery. Lots of room for QI efforts! #2024AAP @SusanHintzMD @henryleeneo @A_Lakshmanan_MD @OliviaKeaneMD

🗣️Calling all PGY3-4 & Research Residents!!!! DSI 2.0 is back and we are officially accepting applications starting TODAY!!!! Don’t miss this incredible opportunity! Apply here:⬇️ members.sbas.net/page/DSI20#:~:… @DrParisButler @Ethicon @htjacks @LatinoSurgery #SBASJnJDSI2 ✊🏾

A zip code should not determine a kid's ability to succeed. Retweet if you agree.

I grow weary of elected officials saying that "science" shows that children don't need to wear masks. What science actually shows is that children can get infected by SARS-CoV2, some get severely ill & that some die. And Black & Brown children have a higher risk. Thats science.

Periodic reminder that if you’re a patient with a twisted and dying ovary, you’ll wait twice as long for your emergency surgery than a patient with a twisted testicle. And if you have ovaries, guess what your surgeon probably has, too? journalacs.org/article/S1072-…

63 studies: women who assert their ideas, make direct requests, and advocate for themselves are liked less. They're also less likely to get hired—and it hasn't improved over time. It's 2021. When will we stop punishing dominant women for violating outdated gender stereotypes?

Check out this a〽️azing class! #2021WhiteCoatCeremony #GoBlueMed

This survey of physician ownership of firearms found that almost two-thirds treat firearm injury and more than 85% support the organization advocating for policies to reduce firearm-related injury. @AmCollSurgeons Read more here: journalacs.org/article/S1072-…

In 1955, Emmett Till was tortured by four white men in a barn in Mississippi. Today, the barn still stands, unmarked and unacknowledged, a symbol of the state’s struggle to remember its violent history, Wright Thompson argues: on.theatln.tc/KnxFlWg

Only about 1% of Africans are fully vaccinated, while some of the world’s richest countries will have 1.9 billion doses more than they need to vaccinate their populations by the end of August. Ref: @nytimes

Calling all applicants for #pedsurgbestsurg. It's early, but there's no time like the present. If you are applying to peds surg this year, please DM me so we can start a group chat! @drmlb @mvmazziotti @drmonicalopez @bnaikma @peter_masiakos @perrone_erin Please help circulate!

Just your yearly reminder from your friendly neighborhood trauma surgeon … leave the fireworks to the professionals ;)

Why So Many Formats When One Will Do? A Call for a Single Manuscript Submission Format journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

I AM TRIGGERED. And also on call. #TooReal

It's time to lean into the discomfort and do the hard work - here are my suggestions: Annals: #GetUncomfortable journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger… RASACS: Systemic Racism in Medicine facs.org/publications/n… Voice Unheard Podcast: The Glass Ceiling/Cliff Effect voicesinmedicine.com/lesson-from-an…

Missed part of #DiM2021?? Want to re-watch the straight 🔥🔥 our speakers and panelists were spewing? GOOD NEWS! All of our videos are live on the Socio platform and our YouTube Channel!! View HERE: youtube.com/channel/UC3yLN… @Okanlami @ayshakhoury @LashNolen @uche_blackstock

We are raising money for Textbooks for African Pediatric Surgery trainees: gofund.me/5d491b6f Donate , RT, Tag a friend. Future goal: Other LMICs! @bnwomeh @jessicazagory @sleighcastle @bnaikma @APSASurgeons @CAPSsurgeons @SocietyofBAS @WomenSurgeons @GICSurgery @papsaafrica

IDENTITY CRISIS: South Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung, who lived in Florida decades ago, said she doesn't "fully" comprehend why Asian Americans cry after watching the film she stars in, "Minari." #미나리

Right now, folks 75 and up can be vaccinated in MA. In a month or more, folks 65 and up will be able to. What is the life expectancy in Roxbury, MA, a majority Black community and one of the areas hardest hit by COVID? 59 years. This is how you ingrain health inequities.