Internist, Researcher, Author @everydayAMB | Médico Internista, Investigadora, Autora. Caracas-based 🇻🇪
Caracas, Venezuela
Joined February 2009
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Thank you @bmj_latest for sharing my perspective on covid, from Venezuela, and why we must “centre equity over exceptionalism, as a path that is not only morally robust, but also one on which we are all better off.” #medtwitter
"Managing the covid-19 pandemic requires an understanding that essential healthcare, including covid vaccines, should never be framed as gifts from the rich to the poor, but as entitlements in a world that values human life equally." @kateotto
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As an internist/primary care doctor and mother, I stand with #DoctorsForGunSafety. Gun violence causes needless, horrific death. Surviving gun violence can entail debilitating injury, paralysis, pain, trauma. We have an obligation to our patients to support action on gun safety.
If you are a doctor or healthcare worker who supports action on gun safety tweet #DoctorsForGunSafety
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Fellow tweeters: I’m currently looking for writing/translating gigs! Can do English and Spanish, in-site reporting in Mexico City and online reporting/research/translation everywhere in the world (and I can literally write about anything).
A RT is also helpful :)
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#covid19 🧵
Hay evidencia no oficial de alta transmisión de covid19 en el área metropolitana (lamentablemente los datos "oficiales" no lo reflejan). Esto es compatible con omicron dado la cantidad de casos vistos en entornos específicos ( fiestas, reuniones, Playa, Etc)
Gracias @bmj_latest por compartir mi perspectiva sobre el covid, desde Venezuela, y el por qué debemos "centrar la equidad sobre la excepcionalidad como un camino moralmente sólido que nos lleva a estar todos mejor".
"Managing the covid-19 pandemic requires an understanding that essential healthcare, including covid vaccines, should never be framed as gifts from the rich to the poor, but as entitlements in a world that values human life equally." @kateotto
bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o20
Trainees deserve our respect and protection. They keep hospitals afloat. They give up crucial life years to care for the sick, with a salary unreflective of the sacrifice. I became a mom during residency. I rarely stayed late, and still missed holidays, family trips, first steps.
I gave my all at work. Even used portable pumps to maintain productivity while making food for my baby. I worked hard & was prepared for signout, so that I could see my child once, before bedtime. And you know what? My attendings supported me. My patients valued the team culture.
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BREAKING: 2.5 million nurses from 28 countries have filed for a UN investigation of human rights violations by the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, and Singapore for blocking the waiver on Covid-19 vaccine patents as new strains proliferate: covid19criminals.exposed
Thank you @rachel_kowalsky for this absolutely beautiful short story exploring what it means to 'be seen' in medicine.
My new short story, The Billboard, won the @NEJMPerspec fiction competition: nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… So happy, proud, grateful.
@NEJM @HValleyWriters @ED_WCMC @WCMpeds @acep_mhs @ACEPwellness @OrcaLiterary @feminemtweets @AAPNews @abrahamverghese @PerriKlass
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Seven years ago today I walked out of the hospital after surviving Ebola.
That day at a news conference—my knees shaking—I begged the world to focus on the still-raging outbreak in West Africa. Instead, when the immediate threat was over, we moved on.
Years later, Covid hit 🧵
A must-read, moving essay by the inimitable and deeply compassionate Dr. Mgbako. Thank you for sharing, so beautifully, the power of a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship.
In this long season of loss, this is surely a triumph. My patient Jim means the world to me, so I wrote about our relationship, rooted in poetry, for The New Yorker. I’m so happy to share this with the world. For Jim. newyorker.com/science/annals…
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Loneliness and isolation are such important risk factors for worsening disease in HIV care and in all chronic disease. We need more resources to fight despair. #lessonsfromclinic
Bittersweet to be a doctor-mom living in Venezuela as CDC recommends COVID vx for kids in the US. As we (rightfully!) celebrate kids & communities being better protected, let's also recognize the kids (and adults) globally who lack access to the same protections.
Conversations abound about whether vaccine mandates violate the human right of autonomy, but far less is said about whether deprivation of access to a life-saving tool—one that prevents a disease of universal susceptibility—is an active violation of the human right to health.
Let's have these conversations. Please share info onward if you support #VaccineEquity. Let’s support those like @peoplesvaccine leading the charge to hold political/ corporate leaders accountable for equal access. And please suggest more resources here! linktr.ee/peoplesvaccine
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Los países ricos han administrado más dosis de refuerzo (3ras dosis) en 3 meses, que la cantidad total de vacunas #COVID19 que han administrado los países pobres en el año.
Los gráficos de @jburnmurdoch y el artículo de @donatopmancini se pueden leer aquí ft.com/content/35a3d40a-f71f…
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Honors PSL students are grappling with Everyday Ambassador by @kateotto. Thoughts on how this text (and other class resources) might help us work for change in our community and our world?
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Anyone interested in progressive family leave policies for residents/fellows in academic medicine?🙋♀️
If so, check out the new @acgme institutional requirements & PLEASE submit a comment by 8/25--these DO matter! I'll make it easy in next tweet 😊 1/6
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