Mrs Scotsman, MD

a woman with red hair is sitting in a crowd of people and says ew feelings . ALT: a woman with red hair is sitting in a crowd of people and says ew feelings .

In surgery, skill with a scalpel matters.
But so does skill with your own emotions.
“Emotion regulation”= noticing, labelling, and modifying one’s emotions.

👉 This skill is crucially important for performance/longevity in surgery and CAN improve

#NontechnicalSkills #SurgSky

Major Childhood Cancer Initiative Formed - Childhood Cancer Prevention Consortium to Focus on Reducing the Dramatic Rise in the Number of Children Diagnosed with Cancer /PRNewswire/ -- A major concerted effort that brings together childhood cancer and childhood health organizations, guided by PREP4Gold Childhood Cancer...

Real work (not “MAHA”) to address childhood cancer www.prnewswire.com/news-release... @wspehsu.bsky.social @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social

Did you know that fevers in early pregnancy also cause genetic mutations in fetuses and resulting developmental abnormalities? Know how we treat and prevent that? Yeah, Tylenol.

Some of the same mechanisms may be behind the rise in childhood cancer www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

All kidding aside, suffering from both leprosy & syphilis at 79 is no joke, but I am sure whatever cure RFKjr is mixing up will get him back on the golf course in no time.

Women in surgery: The social construction of gender in surgical practice Despite comprising over half of Canadian medical graduates, women remain underrepresented within surgery. Strategies to address this gap have largely focused on increasing numbers or targeting individ...

Hits close to home, set in Canada
“ The attitude that obstetricians and gynecologists aren't real surgeons is prevalent a lot..”

#ilooklikeasurgeon #SurgSky
@fionamattatall.bsky.social
@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social

www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S000...

Bondi fires justice department employee for making vulgar gesture at National Guard Paralegal dismissed by US attorney general for ‘inappropriate conduct’ towards troops deployed on the streets of Washington

@legaleagle.tv is this legal? Is this not exactly a violation of First Amendment right to free speech and free expression? Please make an explainer video about this.

OBGYNs Sent ‘Highly Biased’ Survey By Group That Targeted Abortion Pills A group of anti-abortion doctors claims it’s researching the “moral and professional complexity” of abortion. Their study raises red flags following other junk science and retractions.

NEW: Last week, some OBGYNs received a strange survey via email. The email used inflammatory terms like "dismemberment" and "feticide," and the survey website suggested affiliation with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG tells Autonomy News it sent a cease and desist:

Graphic with words “why gain-of-function research is vital and safe”, over illustration of cells

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Sadly the people who most need to watch this whole thing won’t. But we sure will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

(Mehdi is not the one you want to bring the weak sauce to)

US map from JP Weiland with red highlighting of states on the west and south where ER visits for COVID are increasing.

✨Please repost! My newsletter is out.✨

In this issue:
🌊COVID wave starting especially in West and South
💉GLP-1 meds for MCAS and Long COVID?
🧠Human Pegivirus and Parkinson's Disease
📈GI cancers increasing for young

& much more buff.ly/hXjrwjz

#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

photo: JP Weiland

THIS IS NOT NORMAL!
82-year-old grandfather misplaced his Green Card.
Immigrated Chile to US in 1987.
Made appt at immigration office to get new card.
They cuffed him & took him away.
Told family he died in custody.
ICE actually sent him from PA to MN and then to Guatemala where he is hospitalized.

Make America Healthy Again? The Reality Is Corporate Theater How the sugar industry's 60-year playbook is alive and well in the Trump administration's "historic health reforms"

The same administration that promotes Skittles ingredient changes as major victories passed legislation projected to push 17 million off Medicaid and withdrew from WHO pandemic response.

Candy ingredients get celebrated. Healthcare gets dismantled. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...

Pragmatism = progressive
Purity = regressive

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Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US | CNN There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/h...

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Louis Pasteur’s risky move to save a boy from almost certain death Louis Pasteur was hard at work developing a rabies vaccine, using dogs as his experimental subjects. Up until now, however, he had not administered the vaccine to a human being.

“Since the death of the child appeared inevitable, I resolved, though not without great anxiety, to try the method which had proved consistently successful on the dogs.”

A nine year old boy was given rabies vaccine #OTD in 1885.

via @pbs.org #MedSky + #HistorySky.

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

As violence, threats, and hatred targeting reproductive care providers escalate, ACOG stands with our members and all who support reproductive care. We condemn ideological violence and urge leaders to protect reproductive care providers and access to care. Read our full statement: buff.ly/3AlKObQ

Trump isn’t just burning his MAGA coalition over Iran he’s inspiring a new one Trump’s sudden re-embrace of the ‘neocons’ he just recently spurned is leaving Democrats a major political opening — if they can seize it, writes John Bowden

Hey MAGA: What happened to "America First"? Your felonious king brushed off the skunk-haired former Democrat for warning about the dangers of nuclear war.

No more wars, huh? We'll see.

*sip*☕️

#ProudBlue
#USDemocracy
#ResistanceUnited
#Voices4Victory

www.independent.co.uk/news/trump-i...

The bad billionaire's bill will kill rural hospitals!
#USDemocracy

Time to call and email your Representatives with @5calls.org app.

Cuts to Medicaid- insures 50% of kids and 50% of pregnancies.

$500 Billion Medicare cuts (68 Million Seniors & disabled)

Patients won't be able to pay.

Hospitals may go bankrupt or reduce services.

Longer wait times

#medsky

Kennedy and Trump Paint Bleak Picture of Chronic Disease in U.S. Children

"But it is unmistakably Mr. Kennedy’s worldview, echoing many of the talking points — some intensely disputed — that the health secretary, a former environmental lawyer and outspoken vaccine skeptic, has repeated for decades."
State propaganda that denies science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

ACOG has released new clinical guidance on pain management for in-office uterine and cervical procedures, including IUD insertion. The recommendations emphasize patient counseling, evidence-based techniques, and shared decision making to improve care and reduce disparities. buff.ly/rxhFVnM

Multiple headlines about the first CRISPR 2.0 personalized genome editing and photo of the baby treated

This week's genome editing triumph is a big deal.
Here's why
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-...

US measles total climbs to 800 cases, 10 outbreaks

Measles cases climbing www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

Medicaid is a lifeline for ob-gyn health. Nineteen percent of adult women are enrolled in #Medicaid; cutting it puts their health at risk. Urge Congress to put patients first and protect Medicaid: buff.ly/VWLBc6o

Senior NIH scientist, who does world-leading work on how what we eat affects our bodies, leaves NIH due to Trump changes there.

He believes #NIH is no longer a place where he “can freely conduct unbiased science.”

And now Boston area hospitals are laying off staff because of Elons NIH cuts. This is going to be duplicated at hospitals around the country.