"Critics, meanwhile, told lawmakers that Senate Bill 31 doesn’t go far enough to protect women facing pregnancy-related medical emergencies and even quietly resurrects 160-year-old laws that could be used to criminalize those who have undergone an abortion or have helped those who receive an out-of-state abortion."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/27/texas-abortion-bill-senate-31/

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf: 29 states have a not-so-secret weapon to fight for democracy: In the states, equal rights amendments are protecting people where the federal government can't—or won't.

#ERA #abortion #physicians #HumanRights #uspol #resistance #immigration
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/29-states-have-a-not-so-secret-weapon

"Since at least April 2021, the Montana medical licensing board has had evidence, including thousands of pages of patient files and medical reviews, that Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, a popular Helena oncologist, had hurt and potentially killed patients, ProPublica and Montana Free Press have learned. Yet in that time, the board renewed his medical license — twice."

https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-medical-board-renewed-st-peters-hospital

#Physicians, #Nurses, #Researchers, #Healthcare workers, #lab techs, do you want to get out of ?

Boy do we have an offer for you: #MedMastodon

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/canada-announces-new-immigration-stream-specific-to-health-workers.html

From @medpagetoday: #Physicians against & in support of nomination of #RFKJr to head US Dept. of Health and Human Services are organizing to persuade lawmakers. *Kennedy doesn't think any vaccine is safe and effective.* https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/113765

#UnitedHealth’s Army of #Doctors Helped It Collect #billions More From #Medicare
The biggest #MedicareAdvantage insurer presented #physicians with checklists of potential diagnoses; ‘I didn’t think I was obese’ WSJ via MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/diseases-and-conditions/unitedhealth-s-army-of-doctors-helped-it-collect-billions-more-from-medicare/ar-AA1wFNxO #healthinsurance #scams #healthcare

#AI is getting better at diagnosing health issues than human #physicians. Spooky but true: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/30/if-ai-can-provide-a-better-diagnosis-than-a-doctor-whats-the-prognosis-for-medics Add medical doctors to the list of jobs AI is going to take over! #future

New #OA paper: What was the experience of family #physicians in #Canada during the #COVID-19 pandemic? Semi-structured #qualitative interviews with 68 family physicians show numerous additional roles to reduce the risk of #transmission of the virus with the support of their administrative staff. #Pandemic plans must include guidance for the roles taken on by primary care administrative staff..

https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2024.1471236

Physician friends are sharing lists of medical influencers sharing facts and science who should be followed and uplifted. Who else should be included? Mastodon accounts preferred!

MEDICAL INFLUENCERS - on Threads or Instagram or BlueSky:
Dr Jen Gunter
Dr Karen Tang
Dr Megan Ranney
Dr Harpreet Tsui
Dr Uche Blackstock
Dr Jennifer Lincoln
@erictopol
@gorskon
@luckytran
#medicine #doctors #physicians #PublicHealth #ReproductiveHealth

Edit: Added suggestions from comments

Via the #Montreal Gazette, October 17, 2024

Losing your #GeneralPractitioner is stressful and the long wait to find a new care provider is frustratingly long. But all #Quebecers should be extremely worried about the plan in the works to resolve the scarcity of family #physicians once and for all: cutting loose all the people in decent #health and assigning only vulnerable patients with chronic conditions to dedicated doctors.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/allison-hanes-we-should-all-be-outraged-by-the-latest-attempt-to-solve-quebecs-family-doctor-crisis

Asrar led a team of #NASA and European Space Agency #ESA experts that included NASA’s Dana Bolles, an #engineer working with NASA for 30 years. Bolles is a #DisabilityAmbassador in space and Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths ,#STEM, and was part of the first crew of #DisabledProfessionals that flew in zero-gravity under #MissionAstroAccess (an organization that promotes #disability in STEM and space). The other co-author is Dr. Thu Jennifer Ngo-Anh from the European Space Agency (ESA), who has served as Team Leader for ESA’s Human and #Robotic Exploration, responsible for coordinating ground-based and space-based science activities.

Asrar is also a national mentor for #Equity, #Diversity, #Inclusion, and #Accessibility #EDIA in primary care through an initiative under the Equity in #Health Systems Lab and College of Family #Physicians of #Canada. 

https://voiceonline.com/toronto-universitys-dr-farhan-asrar-leads-nature-publication-on-unique-disability-inclusion-and-diversity-project/

*Me, my Mom & my youngest brother are some of the many thousands of patients in #BritishColumbia who have been on the #WaitingList for a new family #doctor since our previous GPs retired.*

When the province introduced its #HealthConnectRegistry in 2021, we were told this would help #patients to find a #FamilyPhysician.

About 900,000 #BritishColumbians have no doctor, and while the #Health Ministry continues to announce the recruitment of new #physicians, that number has remained fairly constant for years.

Yet the #inability of the Registry to make meaningful progress is only one of its failings.

More troubling is that the Registry makes no attempt to place patients based on their age or #medical condition. This conflicts with one of the basic principles underlying medical practice, that faced with an inability to treat everyone who needs help, those with the most pressing requirements should come first.

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/editorial-tell-us-where-we-stand-in-queue-for-a-doctor-9358753?utm_source=Times+Colonist+Headline+News&utm_campaign=b06b386dfc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d22ba5c6e6-a978a9ba3c-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=b06b386dfc&mc_eid=48512ab3b3

Interested in joining #Doctors and other #HealthCare professionals in support of #KamalaHarris?

“Doctors for Harris is a grassroots, all-volunteer coalition of physicians, healthcare professionals, and advocates committed to protecting the health of Americans

We are standing up for our patients -- for access to health care, #ReproductiveRights, lower drug prices, climate change action, #GunViolence prevention, jobs, and our #Democracy itself.

Under President #Biden and VP #Harris, we've seen a better life and better future for our patients”

#doctorsforharris #doctor #physician #physicians #MedMastodon
https://www.doctorsforharris.com

45 American #physicians and #nurses who volunteered in #hospitals across #Gaza: "No kid gets shot twice by a sniper by mistake".

»The signatories unanimously described treating #children who had suffered injuries they believed must have been deliberately inflicted. “Specifically, every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were #shot in the head and chest,” they wrote.

“We wish you could see the nightmares that plague so many of us since we have returned: dreams of children maimed and mutilated by our weapons, and their inconsolable #mothers begging us to save them. We wish you could hear the cries and screams our consciences will not let us forget.”«

CW: The linked articles describes graphic details of the work of the health professionals.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/26/world/open-letter-45-us-physicians-gaza

What's behind waits and closures at B.C. #EmergencyRooms? | CTV News https://bc.ctvnews.ca/doctors-speak-up-what-s-behind-waits-and-closures-at-b-c-emergency-departments-1.6969577

In a nutshell. Working ER is not just about working in ER

“It’s not worth it,” said several #physicians when asked about the incentives at smaller hospitals, saying they don’t need to put up with the stress and anxiety of working in challenging conditions when larger, well-resourced facilities are also looking for staff.”