Ellena Popova, MD

What messaging worked in Kansas? Let's look at the ads from the winning "NO" team...

I frequently find myself in conversations w/ well-meaning people who’ll ask about crime, “Well, we have to do something about it!” And I ask them, “Then why support the same things we’ve always done, which plainly fail to prevent it, hurt people, & cost a fortune?” A dialogue:

@DavySRan I offer two photos of the beautifully derpy Maddie

can someone send me the dumbest picture of their pet, i want to draw some dumb cute pets today

Today marks the end of what is surely one of the worst terms in #SCOTUS history. Guns and prayer and abortion got most of the attention. But that's not all the Court did. Here are just some of the Court's bad decisions: 1/25

A reminder that if you happen to be in Mexico and you have an ulcer you can get Misoprostol at a pharmacy for $25. You can also bring the pills back to the U.S. in case you one day have an ulcer. And if you dissolve the pills in your cheek, it’s undetectable.

@HunsdonJessica @prisonculture @BLACKandPINKorg also!

@RainbowAugust @AfibWithRiver The estrogen used for feminizing therapy and the estrogen used in birth control are slightly different. Testosterone is also really strong effect (e.g. you don't need estrogen suppression for masculinizing therapy). Only caveat is if you're high risk for clots, talk to your doc!

@AfibWithRiver Wait this is actually really good to know, I was under the impression it had to be progesterone-only. I'm not in a relationship where I can get pregnant so I never had a reason to discuss it with a provider myself

This is why I will never ever be off my birth control ever 🥲 the thought that T prevents pregnancy is so wrong and I don’t want to experiment!

@Dr_Oubre To clarify, I usually have a narrative summary (whole hospitalization in 1-2 short paragraphs) followed by a problem-based summary with more detail to include the highlights of diagnostics & follow up plans for each problem

@Dr_Oubre I like to have a colorful, bolded header section at the very top, after the cc and before everything else w/ bulleted "to dos," split between PCP & specialist - then also repeated in my problem-based summary for more context, but I hope that section can be a quick reference!

How to write better discharge summaries: 1. Tell a narrative story (this is obvious, but not the norm) 2. Write on day of discharge when it's fresh. 3. BOLD pending at discharge labs or things that need to be done as outpatient. PCP's, any other tips?

A (true) tale of 2 young women—one Black, one White—starting their internship with FM program that requires hair & urine samples for drug testing. Both test +. BW hair sample + for THC (legal in state). Explains she used an oil in tea for anxiety several months prior. A🧵1/4

This is wild. revolutionary. I, an outpatient doc, am sitting in clinic seeing patients, homeless, in opioid withdrawal—sweaty, crying, noses running—and handing them methadone. Pulling it from the drawer and watching them take it, and watching relief wash over their faces. How?

Myth: "My periods are so painful that I miss a couple days of school each month. Sometimes I think about calling 911 because of the pain. My doctor said this was normal and I'd grow out of them." 😱😱😱 THIS IS NOT NORMAL. 🧵 #MedTwitter #obgyntwitter #tweetorial

@DrDoyleSays I like to recommend free blue light filter apps for electronics and podcast/audiobook apps with sleep timers instead of the "turn off everything." It's the blue light that's the problem, not intrinsically the electronics themselves!

Yup, "sleep hygiene" recommends turning off our electronics, and sleeping in a dark, quiet room. But "sleep hygiene" doesn't count on our racing thoughts or nighttime triggers that can be WAY more activating than a smartphone screen or a podcast playing to soothe & distract us.

@Lionhearted_ben That you need more queer/trans friends irl? At least that's what it usually means for me....

Thread on how Amazon treats its workers Context: Amazon full-time warehouse employees make $31,200 a year. Jeff Bezos makes that every 12 seconds. Cost to give warehouse workers 2 weeks paid sick leave + pay bumps so they don't qualify for food stamps = 0.9% of Bezos' fortune

VICTORY! The Biden-Harris Administration (@WhiteHouse) announced it is implementing policy changes that we've been advocating for since NCTE was founded. Here are changes trans people will see to passports, TSA, social security, and more: