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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

3 years

Idk who needs to hear this but you can love your job and find it deeply meaningful, and yet still want to work only a certain number of hours and want to have relationships, hobbies, and an identity outside of medicine.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Anyone else feeling too tired to be productive but not productive enough to “deserve” a break?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

The cognitive dissonance of my husband not being allowed to come to my OB or ultrasound appointments but hypothetically being able to go to a sports game with 10000 other attendees is a lot to take in…

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Genuine question: Is there any medical reason why sedation is the norm for colonoscopies but not even routinely an option for IUD insertions?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

2 years

To the girl who tweeted about the hack to wear an N95 with your hair down: I hope your pillow is always cold on both sides.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

2 years

You know how a doc discovered hand washing between dissecting cadavers and delivering babies could save lives? Imagine if 3 yrs later, they were like “that’s mildly inconvenient so I’m gonna go back to not washing my hands”. That’s what maskless MDs look like to me 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Losing followers every time I tweet about #BlackLivesMatter or #DefundThePolice . Good riddance ✌🏻Who else wants to leave? I’m a doctor, don’t expect me to stay quiet about public health issues.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I need billionaires to compete to solve global warming the way they compete to go to space.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

2 years

@NatLauter Someone found it in a comment above!

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Hearing an anti-vax protest outside of a children’s hospital filled with vulnerable kids too young to be vaccinated feels like a sick joke.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

The last human case of rabies in Ontario was in 1967, yet I have to show proof of rabies vaccination to get my dog groomed. Tell me again why we shouldn’t have COVID vaccine mandates for haircuts/personal care services?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

I’ve decided to stop removing exclamation points from my emails. I like being enthusiastic and friendly and I shouldn’t feel the need to tone it down.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

I once read a tip saying when you drive home from in-hospital call, you should roll the window up on the end of your ponytail so that if you fall asleep at the wheel, it yanks you awake. If that doesn’t tell you what’s wrong with 24-hour calls I don’t know what to tell you...

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

#SuperBowl in a nutshell: one team’s star player is an anti-masker, whereas one of the other team’s players is a HCW who skipped the season to serve on the front lines. That’s all I need to know.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Assume nearly every woman in your life has experienced sexual harassment and then speak, tweet, and advocate accordingly.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Apparently a lot of people need to hear this: don’t waste your money on skincare until you’re actually using sunscreen regularly.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

I can’t wait to move past the tequila-scented hand sanitizer part of the pandemic.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I feel like “resilience” has just become medicine’s way of victim-blaming people who burn out instead of actually enacting structural change.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Sexual harassment allegations against a colleague within our specialty? Crickets. One Black mother saying she feels more comfortable having a surgeon repair her child’s laceration? Time to take out the soapbox.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

@CaitlynMooneyMD It just baffles me that sedation seems to be more readily available for dental procedures with local anesthesia than gyne procedures without

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

I wish medical schools valued anti-racism the way they value “professionalism”. #DNRTulane

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I am once again pleading with the powers that be for MD titles to be revocable 😩

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Choosing to “not be political” on social media *is* a political choice. It’s a choice to be silently complicit with the status quo.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Made the difficult decision to tell my family I won’t be attending our Christmas gathering this year. Despite being 💉💉💉 + having rapid tests, I just can’t chance it without knowing what the risks are to my pregnancy 😞

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Med people on insta: *curates a cutesy study setup* Med people on Twitter: “what’s your favourite place to cry in the hospital?”

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Is @fordnation aware that health care workers have been asked or made to cancel their vacations multiple times during the pandemic?! Sorry if I don’t feel a shred of sympathy for your vacay/skidoo joyride being interrupted while your province is under siege.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Please interact with this tweet if you see it, I'm trying to see if some terms/hashtags are shadow banned. R*cism

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Life hack for those unsure of ways not to inappropriately touch female colleagues: Don’t touch them.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

@stephhegarty Someone posted a video on IG as well. Awful. @PolandMFA @CanEmbUkraine @CanadaPoland

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Medical schools be like:

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Started using “y’all” as a more gender-inclusive replacement for “you guys” and I love it. Short. Rolls off the tongue. Probably sounds strange said with a French Canadian accent but I don’t care 😂

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

@museummammy I thought we all watched it semi-ironically because it was a feel-good cheesy show providing escapism from the pandemic... A Golden Globe???

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

There’s a special place in hell for HCWs who use their authority to spread fear-mongering for clout.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Fave baby purchase thus far: this stroller with a sidecar for my dog 😭😭😭

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Under no circumstances should attendings be sending inappropriate messages or pictures to trainees. Period.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Legally bound 💍

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

What buzzwords let you know you’re likely dealing with pseudoscience? I’ll go first: anytime someone explains a process happening “on a cellular level”.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Every time a rapist goes free, it just reiterates the message to survivors that it’s futile for them to go after their aggressor.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Are people really unfollowing people for tweeting in celebration of Pride?! Ok, lemme make it easier for you then. Happy Pride, y’all!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️❤️

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

In case anyone needs a reminder of how cool Derm is: we can usually guess a patient’s dietary restrictions if they have this rash 🕵️‍♀️

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I’m wearing makeup, please clap.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Size of social media following doesn’t correlate with expertise. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

If you're extremely concerned with the government's plan to shut down the legislature before mandating #paidsickdays , #PPE , and other measures to protect essential workers and all Ontarians, click this link to email Ford and his team. #CovidON

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I am once again asking y’all to make it make sense.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Can we all collectively agree to stop saying “so do you have any plans this weekend?” as a means of making small talk? The answer has been “no” for the past 9 months.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Has anyone ever been on the roof of their hospital like they do in the movies?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

2 years

Quite the mindf*ck to be having a difficult pregnancy while there are reports of Roe v Wade being overturned. The thought of someone having to endure these symptoms for an unwanted pregnancy is completely barbaric.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Imagine a YouTube video of @taylorswift13 in conversation with, say, @choo_ek discussing common concerns about the vaccine and try to tell me it wouldn’t reach far more people than we currently are with our messaging.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Please interact with this tweet if you see it, I'm trying to see if some terms/hashtags are shadow banned. Racism.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

The idea that someone with Ebola *and* meningitis would be well enough to go to a restaurant….

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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And btw this applies to every profession. Your need for boundaries doesn’t make you any less dedicated and passionate.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Residency programs that value research + publications far more than they value advocacy may be systematically disadvantaging URM applicants who feel a responsibility to devote time for advocacy and mentorship at the cost of more time for research

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Whenever I see wanna-be aspirational posts like these, I often wonder if these women would choose to go back to work that early if a substantial mat leave was the norm and not the exception in the US. May be might confirmation bias but I never see similar tweets about 🇨🇦 MDs.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

What’s the carbon footprint on a space trip?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

The look of a dog who knows she’s about to get a lot less attention. Baby Copps-Bagh coming May 2022! @deepak_bagh

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Has anyone successfully convinced a vax-hesitant *relative/loved one* to get vaccinated? How did you bring it up without getting worked up or potentially harming the relationship?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

2 years

He’s here! Armaan Victor Copps-Bagh joined us on May 19th. We are completely obsessed with him ❤️.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Overwhelmed by everything but at least this chunk is healthy 😍

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

@mynamesnotgordy This booster rollout should have been months in the making and instead they’re treating it like some impromptu school bake sale calling for volunteers.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

When men try to discourage women from pursuing demanding careers, what I hear is “I don’t contribute enough to our home life for my wife to be able to have a demanding career, so I don’t see how you could either”

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Hot take: Calling weekends off “golden weekends” enforces the idea that it’s special and a reward and not something you should be routinely entitled to.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Med school tip: When considering a specialty, pay attention to which specialty people generally seem to be happy or unhappy in 🤭

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Passed Step 3! No more USMLE forever ✌🏻

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

As a chief resident, if I found out a resident missed their flight to do a biopsy instead of feeling comfortable delegating it to the resident on call or other, I would take it as a sign we need to change our program culture.

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I remember when I was a fellow. It was a Friday and I had a flight home that evening. As we were rounding it became apparent that this guy had vasculitis and I spent the rest of the day setting him up for and doing a kidney biopsy. I missed my flight. It was the right thing to do

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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The dopamine surge from crossing off an item on a handwritten to-do list just hits different.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Happy Diwali from our little family to yours!

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

@sinnysinatra Bruce McArthur targeted men in the Toronto gay village for 7 years and police refused to believe it was a serial killer for the longest time. Keep bringing attention to this.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I really can’t be bothered to argue with the mansplainers trying to argue why both scenarios are completely justifiable at the same point in time but this pretty much sums it up.

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@drandrewb

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people are going to lost trust in public health institutions when it feels like they’re asking you to give up everything but work for an employer or only condone interactions you have to pay for.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Why is it that when a sexual predator is exposed, some people incredulously respond with “but he wasn’t abusive to *me*...”? Does a murdered have to murder *you* specifically to still be called a murderer?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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People who help their immigrant parents navigate the language and logistical barriers of the healthcare system are one of the backbones of our pandemic response

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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The fact that we can tell if patients are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease based on their earlobes? You can't tell me derm isn't magic. (It's called Frank's sign if you want to look it up.)

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I'm all out of new passwords. I no longer have the imagination nor the memory to come up with new ones.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Why is anki so complicated? I just wanna study, not learn how to code.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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@EKing719 A lot of these replies seem to have a subtext of trying to put a Black woman in her place and it’s really gross. For what it’s worth you did the right thing advocating for your child and I think most in medicine have called upon contacts/privilege in a time of medical need.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

If you’re reading this, unclench your jaw.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

Merry Christmas from our little family to yours!

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

I need to start telling people in social settings that I’m a gynecologist. Surely people wouldn’t feel the same level of comfort asking about gyne issues as they do showing me their skin issues?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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🗣 A Tulane residency program is systematically ranking applicants from historically Black med schools at the bottom of their lists. #MedTwitter , if there’s something to be #medbikini -level outraged about, this is it. #DNRTulane

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...And if you think #DNRTulane only applies to #MedPeds , please look at this snapshot from the complaint about this ATLAS tool... #medtwitter . (I’ve got time today.)

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Normalize not putting down other specialties. How many times must we say this?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Are you even in medicine if the sound of any ringtone that sounds remotely like your pager gives you a small heart attack?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

3 years

I wish the men of medtwitter who DM women inappropriately (in nature or in frequency) realized that women talk to each other. Especially when the men have wives or GFs. Do yourself a favour and stop.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Sexual harassment and/or assault hits close to home for many of us. So when you’re silent about people like Dr. Jason Campbell, don’t think we don’t notice.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Please interact with this tweet if you see it, I'm trying to see if some terms/hashtags are shadow banned. #DNRTulane

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Y'all, this is not meant to bash home births. I just found the picture unsettling for an ad supposed to promote home births.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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White people, we have got to stop conflating someone pointing out our racism or blind spots with meanness or hostility. Just because it feels uncomfortable to hear, doesn’t mean the messenger is wrong. (Not to mention the perception of hostility itself is subject to racial bias).

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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I can’t believe I get to be pregnant at the same time as Rihanna

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Did you know if your hands burn from cutting peppers you can immerse them in vegetable oil (after washing them) because capsaicin is fat soluble?

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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@DrJenGunter That's a lot of words for "no one wants to have sex with me".

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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If you have pets, may I suggest never getting a glass table unless you want to feel guilty every time you eat.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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Mentally I’m already here.

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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I’m always baffled that the tweets that galvanize medtwitter never seem to align with those denouncing larger issues within society/medicine 🥴

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

4 years

Before authors submit a paper, there should be a pop-up window that says “Are you *sure* this paper isn’t racist?”

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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@yesallcrops You deserve all of the blessings!!!

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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@MakeupForWOC Poison ivy is technically “clean” and “natural”. Clean beauty doesn’t mean safe or free of allergens 😊

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Béatrice Copps, MD, FRCPC

@drcopps

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The racism situation in Ukraine at the border and within the country itself is awful. Please know there are *actionable* steps you can take + help amplify to help #BlackPeopleInUkraine #fleeingwhileblack Here's some:

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@drcopps

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My favourite thing about twitter is following and interacting with people who are smarter and wiser than me.

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@drcopps

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I’m genuinely curious, do y’all not have conversations with your partners about what you consider unacceptable human behaviour?

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@drcopps

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@LyssKnobbe 6. Have worked through your internalized misogyny and realized the above rules are made up.

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