Mayver Gonzalez MD

The best day of my life! #Match2024 congrats to all who matched 🎉🎉 and support for all who didn’t. If you need guidance and help during the SOAP please send me a direct message 💕🫶🏻

We thank @ACPIMPhysicians for standing up and advocating for the thousands of physicians affected by the USCIS pause. Since December, US-trained doctors born in 39 designated countries have effectively been blocked from every legal pathway to remain lawfully in the US and continue caring for patients: no visa extensions, no work permits, no green cards, and no path to citizenship, despite doing everything right and giving years of service to the US healthcare system. These are not new applicants trying to enter the system. They are doctors already here who completed residency and fellowship in the US, are board-certified in their primary specialty, and are already caring for American patients. Many serve in rural and underserved communities, where losing even one physician can be devastating. After years of training and service, their careers are being brought to a halt for one reason alone: their country of birth. Yet almost no one knows this is happening. Media coverage has been minimal, and organizational advocacy has been scarce. ACP was among the first to recognize the gravity of this issue. This is not just an immigration matter. It is a patient care crisis unfolding in plain sight. @ACPIMPhysicians @AmerMedicalAssn @Cardiology @Cardiology @AANmember @AAMCtoday @ProjectImg @ReichlinMelnick acponline.org/sites/default/…

Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪!!!

But Venezuela won 🥇

@WBCBaseball @pmazahillmd Viva Venezuela!!

TEAM VENEZUELA WINS ITS FIRST #WORLDBASEBALLCLASSIC!

GANAMOS!!!! SOMOS CAMPEONES DEL MUNDO! QUÉ ORGULLO SER VENEZOLANA; GRACIAS, MUCHACHOS!!! 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪 🫓🫓🫓

Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪 Nojoda!!!

Congratulations to the #Match2026 class! We’ll be celebrating with you all week long, and we can’t wait to see where you’re headed on Friday! Use this social media toolkit and tag us @futurefamilymed so we can help you celebrate: bit.ly/4s3Jgso

“Muévete como si todo te fuera a salir bien, porque así será. En lo incierto, Yo te proveeré.” Mateo 17:20

A smart move to capitalize on the situation unfolding in the United States. What is not widely known is that the U.S. has effectively stripped thousands of experienced, highly qualified, U.S.-trained physicians of the ability to obtain green cards or extend work authorization based solely on where they were born. The policy affects physicians born in countries such as Syria, Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, and dozens of others. As a result, many of these doctors will likely begin looking abroad in the next 6–12 months, including cardiologists, surgeons, critical care specialists, and primary care physicians. For Canada’s healthcare system, this may present a rare opportunity: a sudden availability of highly trained specialists who are now being pushed to seek stability elsewhere. x.com/MD_pause/statu…

@RepBrandonGill I’m estimating 30% of the physicians selected for hospital residencies beginning in June will not have lawful status to work under USCIS hold. You’re about to find out the hard way how immigration shapes our country.

A Black physician reflects on being urged during training to change how he dressed & introduced himself. Choosing authenticity, patients responded positively. The essay highlights pressures on marginalized clinicians & calls for supportive environments annfammed.org/content/24/1/65

NOBODY talks about the late 30s to 40s personality shift… where you no longer want to be impressive. You want to be more rested, uninterested, and completely unavailable to anything that’s draining.

You aren't behind in life. You are just on your own timeline. Stop looking at someone else’s Chapter 20 when you are on Chapter 3.

Fun facts: > 28% of physicians in the United States are immigrants > some rural communities have such a shortage that immigrants make up 100% of the Doctor workforce

This Lady on Tiktok cleaning her house said something that really stuck with me: “Take care of what God has already placed in your hands, so He knows you’re ready for what’s next. If you don’t steward what you have now, you can’t expect more.” And that hit. Wherever you are in life right now the small apartment, the job you’re still growing in, the season you didn’t plan for honor it. Be responsible with it. Be grateful for it. Growth starts with stewardship. 🫶🏾

It’s a strong initiative to fast-track foreign physicians without U.S. residency to improve access to care, but what about home-grown physicians who are not U.S. citizens, who already completed 3–8 years of U.S. residency and fellowship training, largely funded by Medicare, became board-certified, and have been caring for American patients? Many are now unintentionally ensnared by overlapping immigration restrictions, and in the next year thousands risk losing the ability to keep working, be retained, or being lost to countries like Canada or New Zealand without an exception or solution. Focusing on that is of higher-yield.

Sometimes, you have to hit the absolute bottom to realize that the only way out is to look up. Your struggle is just a chapter, not the whole story. Keep the faith.

I’m starting to understand and relate to those people who disappear when going through stuff, then reappear later after they’ve sorted themselves out. Sometimes, you just need a break from everyone and everything, and that’s okay.

It’s ridiculous how this immigration pause had affect physicians who only desire is to serve underserved communities.