Molly

Whenever I see someone sleeping on the bus or train I think “wow I’m so glad they have at least somewhere they can sleep and don’t need to be on high alert for their safety” then I move on with my day

Staggering details from this story: - After TX banned abortion, rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the 2nd trimester - The rate of maternal deaths in TX rose 33% btwn 2019 + 2023 even as national rate fell by 7.5%

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

A lot folks forget that a 2 hour flight is actually 5-6 hours - an hour to get to the airport, 90+ minutes of TSA and boarding, 2 hours in flight, another hour dealing with ground transportation to the destination. A 6 hour high speed train is a competitive replacement.

A day later but still bravo CNN. See, it’s easy to run a headline without whitewashing Israel’s crimes.

Lots of learning on service today (my senior had never heard of Chappell Roan nor Charli XCX)

My entire scientific career I have been cautioning against climate doomerism. It’s dangerously unhealthy for young people and leads into apathy. Humanity won on ozone depletion. Much of the world has been successful on acid rain and air pollution. Climate is winnable.

FIRST SUNSET WITHOUT BOMBING IN GAZA!

“Wait aren’t you psych?” — off service senior one second before retracting the ultrasound probe she’d offered to me

Had a very psychiatry didactics today (we decorated cookies then the attendings gave us like $50 worth of presents each)

@Mark_Kemball @CaseySeidemanMD It was fun :)

@CaseySeidemanMD @mollballhello How’s it going for you?

Never take call the Friday 13th / Full moon combo. 🤫

health insurance executives kill people every day by denying them coverage btw

Not to get too sappy but I had to write a ton of discharge summaries yesterday which was actually very wonderful bc it meant we got all of those people out in time to spend thanksgiving with their families

Are y'all gonna do anything about it? If not, then I don't really need to hear about it every time he does something illegal.

Hand to hand-write a prescription today, hope they can read it

Weird how the administration that ran on protecting Roe (lol) and canceling student debt (my payments went up by $2k every month), and is hated for actively funding a genocide by its most likely constituent base, is losing

While we may have gotten an extra hour of sleep this morning, it's not worth the hour of sunlight we're losing for the next 6 months. Let's stop changing the clocks and finally make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

@medburnbook The byline of each of these articles need to say how much med school cost when that person graduated

They keep trying to shame us out of wanting better but it’s not gonna work lmao ❣️🎀 You can’t underpay us, short us on benefits, have us beholden to insane loans, overwork us for a decade plus (med school/res/fellowship) and expect us to shut up. Pick a struggle!