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jackfin

@EMjackfinn

#medicareforall | tweets my own, certainly are not medical advice | emergency physician | champagne socialist

Chicago, IL Katılım Ağustos 2019
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imalivebutimdead
imalivebutimdead@jossyoursalad69·
@SecretVixen76 She did not have dysphagia when she wasn’t over medicated! It was medication induced. And they’d give meds before meal time 🤡
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imalivebutimdead
imalivebutimdead@jossyoursalad69·
I have witnessed this first hand 😔 a woman with dementia kept getting referred to me for difficulty swallowing. It was bc she was clearly over medicated on anti-psychotics. I kept telling the staff over and over that this was why + she needed med adjustment. Was ignored.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost

U.S. nursing homes are fabricating schizophrenia diagnoses to hide their use of dangerous antipsychotic drugs to subdue dementia patients, a government watchdog report found. The drugs increase risk of falls, strokes and death. wapo.st/4tfSUsr

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jackfin@EMjackfinn·
@LegoKingo I worked in a Miami ER. You would be flabbergasted by the frequency of near lethal BBL complications.
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BoringKate
BoringKate@BoringNerdyKate·
Be careful not to buy a Chinese toaster! It may be SPYING ON YOUR TOASTING HABITS and sharing your valuable toast data with the Chinese government! This post was sponsored by Door Snitch! It's a camera you put on your door that snitches on you (to local cops who can kidnap you)!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@SitemanReturns·
If SNL had stav play Bari Weiss I'd tune in
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The Halfway Post
The Halfway Post@HalfwayPost·
BREAKING: Protesters are reportedly calling the ICE hotline all day and playing audio from the Nuremberg trials for whoever picks up.
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Normal Steven🌹🍻
Normal Steven🌹🍻@overallsthinker·
The paramilitary arm of the White House just executed a union federal employee for political speech and lawfully documenting government activity. His 800k union siblings in @AFGENational could shut it all down by withholding their labor. What would it take to make that happen?
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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets. They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.
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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We have a responsibility to protect Americans from tyranny. DHS just shot a man in broad daylight two weeks after they shot a mother in the face without consequence. They need our votes to continue. We cannot give it to them. Every Senator should vote NO.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur

Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.

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Goatstein
Goatstein@MandelaFace·
Lmao
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Fairy Gothmother, MD
Fairy Gothmother, MD@jenny2x4·
There is no difference between ICE agents and Nazi soldiers. They will be remembered the same in history and should be treated as such now
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jackfin@EMjackfinn·
@raghu_venugopal American ER doc here. Can confirm that even in our glorious american private care system, patients often wait several hours- even patients with serious complaints like chest pain- before being seen by a doc. Timely service really only occurs in affluent communities
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Raghu Venugopal MD
Raghu Venugopal MD@raghu_venugopal·
ER doc here. Whenever there is a publicized poor outcome in ER, you can bet a minority will say Canada's publicly funded healthcare system is a failure. There are many problems with this nihilistic approach. 👇👇👇 Bad outcomes are real. There are no ER doctors in Canada disputing this fact. ER doctors like me are central to investigating and fixing the factors leading to bad outcomes - and we do it. However, you have to look at the whole picture. The whole picture means the denominator. The problem with naysayers is they have zero appreciation how many patients with chest pain (a salient example) get timely and correct care. The naysayers don't care about the vast majority of cases gone well. Bad outcomes in ER mean we need more investment. We lag behind in hospital bed capacity in Canada. This has massive implications. The solution to this is more investments in hospitals - not less. Naysayers would scoff that why throw more good money at a bad system. Why not be "innovative" and try something "new". In reality, if we had more hospital bed capacity we would have less ER overcapacity and patients with chest pain could be seen in the right place at the right time. The naysayers will then go on and say let's privatize more of our healthcare system. This is the wrong approach. The average Canadian makes $72K before taxes. They don't have money to spend on healthcare (and they're already paying for it through taxes). Profiteers love it when there is a bad outcome in our publicly funded healthcare system as it feeds their narrative and desire to get a cut of the big healthcare budgets. But no where in medical school or residency training are we taught that the wealth of the few improves the health of the many. The other major problem is there are basically zero journalists and reporters in Canada who report in a fair and balanced manner the tremendous good that happens in our healthcare system on a daily basis. Why would they? Mrs. Jones had chest pain, she got timely tests, she had an angiogram the same day showing coronary disease, she got stented, went home and did well. This real type of story doesn't generate outrage, sell papers, get clicks or get people engaged/enraged. That's a problem. I love our serious Canadian reporters but they only report on the few bad outcomes, never the good and so the public generates a pent-up overall negative view of the entire healthcare system - a view that is totally false. Thanks for reading.
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