Ryan Stroder, DO

A young woman came in, 2 days after her last ER visit, appearing unwell and uncomfortable. Her smile was kind, her laugh nervous. 1/x

@SenBillCassidy This. Is. Your. Fault.

As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective. The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate. Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker. Acting CDC Director O’Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.

My comments with @ddiamond @washingtonpost more MAHA antivaccine pseudoscience coming down the road washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11…

@SenBillCassidy Your plan is awful. Btw, why should any of us trust the guy that gave us RFK?

Repeating talking points won’t make them true. We passed the largest rural health fund in decades, $50B that Democrats voted against. Putting resources where they matter most. My plan, which President Trump and Republicans like, puts every dollar in patients’ hands. Why would you want to keep sending billions to insurers to prop up a broken system? 80% of people support a plan like mine.

@SenBillCassidy You got played. It is beyond embarrassing that you didn’t see this coming… The downstream effects of this will be massive, and that is completely your fault.

I’m a doctor who has seen people die from vaccine-preventable diseases. What parents need to hear right now is vaccines for measles, polio, hepatitis B and other childhood diseases are safe and effective and will not cause autism. Any statement to the contrary is wrong, irresponsible, and actively makes Americans sicker. We need to understand the real causes of autism. Studies show there’s a genetic predisposition when a mom who’s pregnant is exposed to environmental toxins which can increase a child’s risk of autism. It’s deeply troubling that, according to HHS officials, they appeared to have canceled hundreds of millions in research on autism genetics. Redirecting attention to factors we definitely know DO NOT cause autism denies families the answers they deserve. We had two children die and many more hospitalized nationally from measles this year. Louisiana is experiencing its worst whooping cough outbreak in 35 years. Families are getting sick and people are dying from vaccine-preventable deaths, and that tragedy needs to stop.

Utterly obscene cnn.com/2025/09/05/bus…

@SenBillCassidy Too little, too late, Senator. You knew exactly who this man was when you confirmed him. The deaths that have/will result as a result of RFK’s policies will be forever associated with you.

If someone is paid thousands to take a side on an issue, they shouldn’t also be making sweeping public health decisions about that issue. That’s a conflict of interest. Because you can’t be truly impartial when money has already tied you to one side.

@SenBillCassidy How do the massive Medicaid cuts prioritize Louisiana families, Senator?

We passed the One, Big, Beautiful Bill to re-prioritize Louisiana families in our tax code. Making the Child Tax Credit permanent is a critical part of that, putting more money back in the pockets of hardworking parents. theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/op…

@SenBillCassidy @POTUS What about those cuts to Medicaid in the BBB which will worsen health inequity in the US?

Louisiana businesses, just like the family-owned Wall's Gator Farm, are benefitting from @POTUS' One Big Beautiful Bill👇

@SenBillCassidy Are you actually going to do anything useful? Our public health system is crumbling because you let RFK run it

These high profile departures will require oversight by the HELP Committee. washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthc…

@SenBillCassidy @RandPaul You realize this is your fault, right?

The vaccine is safe as proven by study after study. MAHA starts with preventing vaccine preventable diseases. @RandPaul

Empirically, this is not true. Not all mothers have prenatal care. Some get infected between testing in the first trimester and delivery. In some cases, the test is overlooked. If a child is infected at birth, they have a 95% chance of becoming chronically infected UNLESS, they get one dose of hepatitis B vaccine. If they do, they have less than a 5% chance of being chronically infected.

Happy Doctor’s Day platitudes from hospital admin are the equivalent of the corporate pizza party

“…collegiality might make EMS personnel more likely to defer to the police, in part for fear that they’ll be perceived as obstructing justice by caring for someone who the police consider a suspect.” statnews.com/2023/02/06/ems…

@doctorjss Wow, your view looked much better than mine! Also, those socks are sick!

@drstroder A few years earlier with a little less cloud cover. I felt like I was about to fall to my death every 20 minutes or so.

Hiking rule of thumb: local guides will always underestimate the length of a hike by 50% and the difficulty by 90%. So, if they say a hike is a moderate 2 hours it will be 3 hours and you will want to die

@quality_nguyen I’m sure the view is sick, but can’t they just drop me by helicopter plz and ty

@jtrebach Dear Josh I have been thinking about you all week

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY i am 29 and feeling fine 😎🎂 for my present please type “dear josh i have been” and then let predictive text finish the sentence

@RyanMarino @jtrebach V predictable

Physicians, Your hospital doesn’t care about you. There. I said it.

Should we be viewing medicine as more of a job and less of a profession or a “calling”? A question that’s been on my mind a lot recently. Do trainees and physicians get taken advantage of more often by the healthcare system simply bc this is a “profession” we signed up for?