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Un Dominicano en Colorado. Me gusta la ciencia, política y el fútbol! Neumólogo, intensivista e investigador

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3 years

Race-based medicine in pulmonary... a thread Spirometry is an essential component of pulmonary function tests. Spirometry is used to measure flow of air. The most commonly used values are the FEV1 and FVC which are key to diagnose diseases like asthma, COPD, ILD, etc. 1/n

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2 years

If you’re a white-passing latino… you’re white

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“Omicron is mild” Well, I still don’t want it

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If you weren’t there admitting entire families with COVID, hearing people ask you “am I going to be ok?” while you were intubating them, seeing people die alone, etc STFU and sit this one out

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My parents move to this country little over 2 years ago. With a lot of sacrifice, they started their own bakery and then the pandemic hit. After many months of sweat and tears, they have started catering to a local hospital Twitter world, can you send them some love??? 🤗

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So much going in the world… thinking of Haiti, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Yet some people in the US have the nerve to say that their freedoms are being compromised by masks and vaccinations.

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Born to unemployed parents in DR. Moved to the US alone at 16. Graduated Med school at 24.

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what’s one of y’all biggest flexes from this year? please i am begging you to brag on yourself

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Can we agree that this “honor system” thing with masks and vaccines didn’t work?

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We need more doctors -> let’s open more medical schools but not the equivalent in residency spots Policy failure.

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Logan Paul, a white American man living in PR, saying that Bad Bunny, a native Puerto Rican, is taking advantage of living in Puerto Rico. Can’t make this up

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I promised the family I would be at bedside so that he didn’t die alone. We listened to Imagine by John Lennon, his favorite song. I cried. No one should die alone

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Let’s stop using the word professionalism. If you mean: -punctuality, bedside manners, work ethic, etc. Just say that. The p-word is too often used as a disguise for discriminatory practices.

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Jesus forgiving sins is really unfair for those of us who have never sinned

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3 years

Happy Hispanic Heritage month!

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4 years

Who’s going to tell them?? 🥴

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Sometimes the answer is more fluids, other times it’s pressors or more antibiotics. On some occasions though, the answer is to realize that the patient is dying.

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Preparing to intubate a patient while hearing the room TV playing a newscaster talk about “fear mongering” is something I never thought I would experience. Fear mongering? Healthcare collapse is something you should be 100% afraid of.

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So much commentary about the Will Smith and Chris Rock incident. After conversing with my black friends, as a white person, I have reflected on the implications of this. On this thread, I will explore ableism, black on black violence and the role of the white person… 1/542🧵

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There is no "complying" "being unarmed" "being a child" "being at home" when the police is in the business of killing Black and Brown people. There is no reform to this. Abolition is the answer.

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Just saw a thread about which state has the best Mexican food… Idk, have you tried Mexico?

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Ivermectin doctors made up their data…. Checks out

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@KMurryByrd This is not funny 😭😭😭

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If you “don’t take IMGs”, you should delete the diversity statement in your website

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Money doesn’t buy happiness but it buys healthcare, housing, education, and food which are essentially the same thing

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4 years

URMs did not “steal” your medical school spot. They are just better candidates

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3 years

Wish people fought for things that actually affect child development… masks have no known long-term effects but gun violence, racism, underfunded schools and neighborhoods do.

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4 years

Just a quick reminder that your patients deserve an interpreter! Raising your voice and speaking slower English doesn’t work

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I’m a whole pulmonologist but vaporub is still that girl

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3 years

People become “good” doctors DESPITE brutal training not because.

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3 years

I missed my first wordle today. Please respect my privacy during this difficult time.

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4 years

In August 10th of 2008, a 16-year-old boy left his family and moved to the US. Having to deal with academic pursuits and the immigration system has not been easy. Today, I became a citizen of this country. A country that has seen me grow into who I am today.

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There is no “back in my day” that compares to doing med school/residency/fellowship during a pandemic.

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Dying 💀💀💀

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The cost of you wearing a mask indoors is zero but you not wearing one, can cost everything to someone else

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“Patient is confused” No, they aren’t. They just don’t speak English. 😡

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A man, carrying an AR-15, killed two and wounded another. He will now live a normal life. -whiteness in America

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imagine being this dumb

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I refuse eating mangos in America… If you’re ever eaten them abroad, you’ll understand

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It’s not allergies. You got COVID.

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3 years

$400,000 baby

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Pharmacists are so nice... PharmD: “hi, we noticed that you ordered 4000mEq of K on this patient who has end-stage renal disease. Did you mean to do that?” MD/DO/APP: 😳😳😳😳

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WITHOUT GOOGLING Name a famous historic battle.

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We should not open more medical schools until we have more residency spots

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Im a board certified doctor. It’s OK to eat donuts. And yes, this is a subtweet.

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If someone had it in them to say this publicly at a conference, i cant imagine what they say indoors. Academic medical centers are not safe places for Black and Indigenous folks.

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Vaccinated Americans vacationing in countries that don’t have enough vaccines... 🥴🥴🥴 #ColonizerVibes

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3 years

The CDC, AHA, and White House literally just said: “we are done… y’all are on your own now”

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Folks that write on the electronic medical record, Have you ever thought about the fact that writing “non complaint” “pain seeking” “difficult” et al. can literally be the deciding factor between that patient getting a life-saving intervention or not?

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My anxiety

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4 years

As an MS4, I failed to match to my specialty of choice and matched at an IM program I wasn’t excited about. The worst part was having to pretend I was happy. Things worked out for me, but the months post match would have been a lot easier if I had allowed myself to be sad.

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Academia....

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This “mild” variant is breaking our healthcare system.

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People that call Disney the “happiest place on earth”, clearly haven’t been to the VA’s patriot store

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Not FDA approved 👇🏾

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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board? Me: Yes. Flight attendant: Ok! We have a research project and we need someone that already has too many but can’t say no. Me: Okay. I’m here.

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4 years

People complaining about “vaccine passports” have never been through the US immigration system.

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Respect your patients’ rights and get them an interpret. This ain’t the time to practice your sh*tty high school Spanish.

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We don’t want applause. We don’t want free food. We don’t want thoughts and prayers. We don’t want to be called heroes. We want you to get vaccinated. We want you to protect each other.

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4 years

Stop calling implicit bias what is actually explicit discrimination

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4 years

Recruiting DOs and IMGs once they are well-published, grant-funded, and have a national reputation does NOT count as being inclusive. Recruit them when they are applying to your residency programs

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Dear twitter troll: I make $0.00 from every vaccination I give. I get $0.00 from every intubation. I get $0.00 from diagnosing COVID19. I literally just want you to get vaccinated so that you or those around you dont die.

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No one: All my friends: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THIS RASH IS? ARENT YOU A DOCTOR??? DID YOU EVEN GO TO MED SCHOOL? 🥲

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YES… VACCINATED PEOPLE CAN STILL GET COVID. BUT IT IS UNVACCINATED PEOPLE THE ONES ENDING UP IN HOSPITAL FLOORS AND ICUs!

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AMERICAN DOCTORS ARE NOT AN OPPRESSED CLASS

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Stop equating homelessness to unemployment or, worse, laziness. Many of us are one long hospitalization away from it.

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People in medicine love to hide their racism/sexism behind “professionalism”

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No matter how popular, smart, well-published, well-funded someone is, academic institutions need to stop protecting harassers/abusers

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3 years

I hate it here

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Dear program directors, As the new season approaches, remember that recruitment of minorities requires active intervention. Our exclusion from medicine and academia was intentional so DEI statements won’t do it. You need INTENTIONALITY

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This has to be the worst take I’ve read from @Theholisticpsyc The war on drugs is/was a US-government sponsored idea to incarcerate/kill Black and indigenous folks in US and throughout Latin America. It not only failed but led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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Lots of intubations in the last couple of shifts. Wondering if it’s ARDS “from” or “with” COVID. 🙄

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It's sad how easy it is for humans to "accept" the deaths of the elderly, disabled, immunocompromised, children, and others for an imaginary sense of freedom.

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Doctors on Twitter: “My job is really hard, so much sacrifice, I hate nurses, and this is very hard”🥴

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Fellow MD/DOs: 1) NPs arent trying to "replace you" 2) Stop hiding your discontent under "patient safety" 3) If youre really upset about it, fighting RNs/NPs wont get you anywhere. You should be talking to hospitals/insurance companies

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If you’re screening out IMGs and DOs, you’re missing out on A LOT talent

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3 years

*enters elevator* WW: “you have beautiful hair” Me: thanks! WW: “what are you mixed with?” TF is that supposed to mean? Idk… German Shepherd?

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My parents are relatively healthy but i am very involved in their doctors appointments. Why? Because I see how y'all talk to spanish speaking patients and how y'all tweet about how you talk to patients in general

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People ask me all the time, “how do you deal with death in the ICU?” I find that helping someone die with dignity is a huge privilege for me. It’s one of the things that keep me going. Being there for the patient and family is priceless.

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How to identify LatinX at a party…

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Medicine has required to sacrifice so much. Now the AHA wants me to sacrifice my life too.

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@blinkingbrat Los latinos blancos son blancos .. en que idioma lo quieres?

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Got my uncle vaccinated! 😭 No.. he is not an anti-vaxx. But he suffers from lack of healthcare access and anxiety related to the vaccine. Instead of using fear tactics and threats to “deny” care based in vaccination status, let’s focus on interventions to reach our communities

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Tomorrow we will see which institutions are ACTUALLY committed to diversity, equity and inclusion...

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Medtwitter doctors: “OMG, this nurse paged me this very ridiculous message. I mean, they are required to contact me since it was within the ordered I placed but who cares… let me ridicule them!!”

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3 years

Hoping that when the Moderna vaccine is fully FDA-approved, they call it ivermectin.

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Concerned about the effects of masking on children? Wait until you hear about what ECMO does.

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Why is credentialing at a new hospital so difficult and redundant?!! Doesnt the fact that I am board-certified and have a medical license imply that I, in fact, have a medical school diploma?

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I 🦠have 🦠 an 🦠 idea 🦠 maybe 🦠 related 🦠 to 🦠 what 🦠has 🦠 led 🦠 to 🦠 almost 🦠 one🦠 million 🦠 deaths 🦠 in 🦠 the🦠 US

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My career goal is to become the “triple threat” of academic medicine. A good clinician, successful researcher, and a Twitter fighter.

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How can medicine claim to protect patients when it can’t even protect students and trainees?

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I just bought some antibiotics here in Mexico so I can bring them back “just in case”. I became my mother 🥲

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5 years ago today.. when others kept bringing me down, these people believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself

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If you think that, as a healthcare provider, your only responsibility is the patient in front of you, you’re part of the problem. Healthcare is inherently political and you not realizing that speaks volumes about your privilege and upholding of the status quo

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Back when I was in medical school, I worked 200hours/week, I walked 13 miles to work uphill both ways while carrying 100lbs of books, I never went to the bathroom and I never looked at my attendings in the eye. This made me the perfect and superior doctor I am today.

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Did it hurt? When you spent time after work prepping a meal for the next day just to forget it at home

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“Tom Brady is the best American athlete”

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So tired of having patients having to choose between seeking care or avoiding financial ruin

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Not the White House fighting these mfs

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It’s ok to be upset that there are so many unvaccinated and COVID numbers are rising. But can we stop posting scenarios that suggest that we will deny care or de-prioritize the unvaccinated? It’s not going to happen and it creates further mistrust

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@soupmd_ @WendelynOslock These interns were attacked by el*n musk… The least they should expect is public support from their employer @StanfordMed @Stanford

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