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bicmay

@bicmay@med-mastodon.com

She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Surfing Hallyu | Boosts ≠ endorsements - I share what I'm reading, but it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with it | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with

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bicmay, to random
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"Many women are not able to travel and are forced to continue pregnancies, despite financial and health risks. We must remember them, stand up for them and continue to fight for the simple dignity of having control over our own bodies." - Dr. Cheryl Hamlin

https://msmagazine.com/2024/05/15/abortion-stories-mississippi-roe-v-wade/

#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #physicians #doctors #DoctorsForAmerica #advocacy

bicmay, to Insurance
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"In letters sent Thursday to the five largest health insurers and four largest pharmacy benefit managers first shared with The Hill, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked for information on how the companies plan to respond to federal guidance designed to improve no-cost access to birth control."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4667964-raskin-presses-insurers-pbms-on-free-contraception-coverage/

#healthcare #contraception #ReproductiveJustice #insurance #PrescriptionDrugs #drugs #ACA #PBM

bicmay, to random
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"Police were pushing into the camp after an hours-long standoff. Chan, 31, a medical tent volunteer, said protesters limped in with severe puncture wounds, but there was little hope of getting them to a hospital through the chaos outside. Chan suspects the injuries were caused by rubber bullets or other 'less lethal' projectiles, which police have confirmed were fired at protesters."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ucla-protest-gaza-israel-rubber-bullets-injuries-volunteer-medics/

#healthcare #protests #PublicHealth #LawEnforcement #police

bicmay, to NativeAmerican
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"Thursday is graduation day for the first class of the nation’s only tribally affiliated medical school, the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation. Started in 2020, it’s an effort to boost the numbers of both Indigenous physicians and doctors willing to treat patients in rural areas experiencing severe physician shortages."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/16/medical-school-cherokee-nation-native-american-doctors/

#MedEd #MedSchools #healthcare #doctors #physicians #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #UME

bicmay, to random
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"More than 50 percent of Black girls and women of reproductive age live in states with little to no abortion access, according to a new report.

The analysis from National Partnership for Women & Families and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda found that nearly 7 million Black women ages 15-49 live in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4665926-black-women-reproductive-age-little-no-abortion-access-research/

bicmay, to Entertainment
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"The Hollywood Reporter spoke with eight of The Sympathizer’s Vietnamese cast members in a group conversation below that revealed that, although they all share the same ethnicity, they are diverse in age, nationality and experience, together forming a living account of the modern Vietnamese diaspora — what it has been through, and what it is like now."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/sympathizer-vietnamese-cast-interview-1235886677/

bicmay, to random
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"More than four years after covid first raged through many U.S. nursing homes, hundreds of lawsuits blaming patient deaths on negligent care have been tossed out or languished in the courts amid contentious legal battles.

Even some nursing homes that were shut down by health officials for violating safety standards have claimed immunity against such suits, court records show."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nursing-home-pandemic-immunity-wrongful-death-lawsuits/

#PublicHealth #covid #USlaw #NursingHomes #aging

bicmay, to random
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"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from California corrections officials who sought immunity from lawsuits claiming they acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at one of the world’s most famous prisons four years ago.

The justices turned down the appeal without comment or dissent."

https://apnews.com/article/california-prisons-covid-deaths-supreme-court-3e1f3554760e2c91c7b5546706cc487d

bicmay, to random
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"Almost two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, most Americans still support abortion access.

About 6 in 10 Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 8,709 adults released Monday.

The share of American adults who believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases has increased by 4 percentage points since 2021, according to Pew."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4661288-americans-abortion-access-pew-poll/

bicmay, to SanFrancisco
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"Chinese American voters in the city have long supported Chinese American candidates, but that may be starting to change.

In recent elections, Chinese American politicians, who’ve tended to be more progressive, haven’t always won the support of increasingly moderate-leaning Chinese American voters galvanized during the pandemic due to anti-Asian hate, concerns about street conditions and crime, and public school closures."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/chinese-american-politicians-voters-19448552.php

bicmay, to random
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"In 2020, her abdomen bloated and her pelvis pulsed with pain. Ferrone called a half-dozen clinics near her former home in Auburn, Ala. Three attributed her distress to irritable bowels or heavy periods. A doctor in Georgia finally gave her a Pap test. She had stage-3 cervical cancer. Ferrone credits him with saving her life.

Swope said the news was harder to take than her own diagnosis. 'I can’t help but feel like I failed her,' she said."

🎁: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/cervical-cancer-rates-rising-hpv-vaccination-e57e37b3?st=dmnc6kub6kvzp1q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

bicmay, to GME
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"According to new statistics from the Association of American Medical Colleges, for the second year in a row, students graduating from U.S. medical schools were less likely to apply this year for residency positions in states with abortion bans and other significant abortion restrictions."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medical-students-residents-spurning-abortion-ban-states/

bicmay, to Insurance
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"Even if you have health insurance, you might expect to be charged a copayment for some routine care, like office-based exams and consultations. But you probably don’t expect to receive a bill a few weeks later charging you an extra $100 or more...In most states, a 'hospital facility fee' can legally appear on your bill if your doctor is affiliated with a large hospital system — even if you never set foot on the hospital’s campus."

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/05/08/youve-covered-your-copayment-now-brace-yourself-for-the-facility-fee/

bicmay,
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@Jennifer

In Doctors for America, we've launched a campaign against greed in healthcare. Sign on here and share with your friends: https://doctorsforamerica.org/action/.

bicmay,
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@thepoliticalcat @Runyan50 @Bwasscher

Sure, we have EMTALA, but that only guarantees access to emergency care. It doesn't guarantee affordable care for all.

I am a primary care physician in Texas who cares for patients with mental health conditions and intellectual disability disorders. Currently, I have 3 patients who need diagnostic testing for abnormal cervical cancer screenings and 1 patient with an abnormal colon cancer screen. Their options are cost-prohibitive.

bicmay,
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@thepoliticalcat @Runyan50 @Bwasscher

It's definitely a state issue. Texas Medicaid is limited essentially to children, people who are disabled, and pregnancy-related.

Hospital mergers, along with private equity, is worsening disparities. If you follow KHN/NPR Bill of the Month stories, there are lots of outrageous costs and fees disputed by hospitals and insurance.

Overall, the U.S. healthcare system is leaving a lot of people behind especially in states that haven't expanded Medicaid.

bicmay, to random
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"...the lost wages of even a day or two can be equivalent to a month’s worth of gasoline a worker would need to get to their job, or the choice between paying an electric bill or buying food. Wething said showing up to work sick poses a risk to co-workers and customers alike. Low-paying jobs that often lack paid sick leave — like cashiers, nail technicians, home health aides, and fast-food workers — involve lots of face-to-face interactions."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/paid-sick-leave-post-pandemic-state-laws/

bicmay, to Texas
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"Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned."

🎁: https://wapo.st/3QvF1oI

bicmay, to Futurology
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"Asian Americans are the least likely group to feel strongly that they belong in the U.S. Asian Americans are also least likely to feel strongly that they are accepted in the U.S.

38% of Asian Americans completely agree that they belong, while only 18% completely agree that they are accepted in the U.S. for their racial identity."

https://www.taaf.org/our-work/staatus-index-2024

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bicmay, to random
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"The ongoing outbreak of H5N1 avian flu virus looks a lot like a public-health problem that the United States should be well prepared for.

Although this version of flu is relatively new to the world, scientists have been tracking H5N1 for almost 30 years. Researchers know the basics of how flu spreads and who tends to be most at risk...Yet the U.S. is struggling to mount an appropriate response."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/04/bird-flu-response-failing/678243/

bicmay, to ai
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"Last Saturday, I was at a community gathering of around 30 Vietnamese immigrants, all in their 50s and 60s, in Oakland, California, when I asked if anyone knew anything about AI or artificial intelligence.

None of them had ever heard of it...And in this room full of elders from my community, the Vietnamese community, no one knew about it, which meant no one knew to look for it."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/how-i-explained-ai-and-deepfakes-using-only-basic-vietnamese/

bicmay, to random
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"Abortion funds were already straining to meet the need of patients. Now, they must raise more money for people traveling longer distances, later in pregnancy when abortions can be more complicated and expensive. This is the post-Dobbs reality: For all the optimism surrounding state ballot measures in November, abortions are increasingly out of reach or financially ruinous for large numbers of people."

https://newrepublic.com/article/181104/florida-six-week-abortion-ban-travel

bicmay, to random
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"At least 15 people died in Texas over a decade following a physical encounter with police during which medical personnel also injected them with a powerful sedative, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found...The deaths were among more than 1,000...documented across the United States of people who died after officers used...physical force or weapons such as Tasers that — like sedatives — are not meant to kill."

https://apnews.com/article/texas-lethal-restraint-police-sedation-injections-1cd1fa7635381dd7c3fa5096a9e5df15

bicmay, to science
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"...menstruation has been understudied for decades, creating a knowledge vacuum in which patients with pain or heavy bleeding wait years for a diagnosis. In recent years, however, more scientists have begun to study the process and menstrual fluid — research that could uncover crucial information about human health that’s been unjustly ignored."

https://www.vox.com/health/2024/4/17/24132112/period-mental-health-depression-anxiety-menstruation

bicmay, to Ohio
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"Since February, there have been 11 reported [mpox] cases within Cuyahoga County, which encompasses Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. Eleven have been reported in the Cuyahoga County and 12 have been reported within the state, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) said."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/04/25/mpox-outbreak-cases-cuyahoga-ohio/73453522007/

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