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Zackary Berger

15 days

A few friends of mine have asked for clarification. Q: Are you a Zionist? A: Zionism has meant many things since the term was coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890. I am a supporter of a number of those things, including use of the Hebrew language,

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

21 days

I am so sick of the moral panic about everything but killing people.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

Newsflash: Transgender people are people. They need healthcare. If you're a doctor, or nurse, and can't care for them, pick another line of work. --Humanity

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Zackary Berger

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5 years

I'm not going to make any Holocaust analogies, because only NYT editorial writers are allowed to make them, but man does turning away much of a boat of refugees back to danger and death sound like *certain* ships I could name.

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Zackary Berger

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4 years

As a Warren supporter and a physician, I'd like to ask (together with many other people): what kind of additional health information do you want to see from Bernie? He released physician letters. Do you want to see his vitamin D level from 2009? Or what?

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Zackary Berger

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4 years

Hi, i have several degrees and yeah i teach medicine at a Top Dog Hospital so listen close as I tell you a covid control secret: give poor ppl money

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

@realDonaldTrump Maybe start with resigning? Choose small, accessible goals. #MotivationalInterviewing

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

Ethicist here, reporting that denying care to the unvaccinated is not "complicated" or "nuanced" -- it's just obscene, morally wrong, we shouldn't do it, full stop. Editors, happy to explain this. It's not hard.

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Zackary Berger

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22 days

My son took this photo of, he said sarcastically, "a violent mob of 150 people at Hopkins shouting Free Palestine." Proud of him for participating, he wore a yarmulke and a hijab-wearing person thanked him for being there. (Not wild he took a photo on yontev but can't win em all)

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Zackary Berger

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3 years

What if I told you that the patients who can't access a patient portal are the ones who might need the vaccine MORE

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Zackary Berger

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump We've aged 100 years since Inauguration Day.

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Zackary Berger

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2 years

RT if you think hospital food service workers, janitors, patient service workers, EVERYBODY in the hospital deserves a union and a living wage

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Zackary Berger

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5 years

Hour 0: Submitted manuscript Hour 4: Got email. "Please resubmit double spaced." Hour 4.1: Resubmitted. Hour 12: Rejected without review. #FunWithJourmals

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Zackary Berger

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6 years

@sarahchad_ her name is Terpsichore Laundrybasket, please have some respect

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Zackary Berger

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6 years

@TEbergie @realDonaldTrump hey that's great kidnapped kids must really be your speed. keep on keeping on, champ

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Zackary Berger

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5 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're "adopting" a child who the Republicans have kidnapped from their family, you're actually complicit in kidnapping.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

Sick people aren't at fault for getting sick.

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What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

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6 years

@IvankaTrump @trumps_feed "Don't tear kids from their parents." --Human Saying

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6 years

@emrelli @sarahchad_ Telephone Lanyard is just doing the best she can.

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Zackary Berger

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7 years

I'm going to start a healthcare podcast which is basically just me screaming DON'T CUT MEDICAID over and over again.

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Zackary Berger

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3 months

The CDC ending Covid isolation will kill people.

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Zackary Berger

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1 year

I'm not sure we should retain sterile technique in surgery, now that effective treatments for sepsis are so widely available. Who's up for another Annals of Internal Medicine submission?

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Zackary Berger

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2 months

talk about baltimore without being racist 2024 challenge

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

I love how the Urgent Normalizers think it's easy for everyone to get Paxlovid.

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Zackary Berger

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3 years

You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite antihypertensive. You immediately leave. What’s the antihypertensive?

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

My favorite faxes are Epic notes printed out faxed to me then scanned into Epic

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 months

Israel is starving Gazans. US medical schools and bioethics programs are basically silent. Some days I am so ashamed of my profession.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

I'll never get an award as a great diagnostician bc I'm not any better than any one else in catching the rare stuff. But I am good at history taking, and that's guaranteed to pick up half a dozen ignored common things. I'm like the guy at the party who remembers paper towels.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

To thank the Air Force for its service, I'm going to walk by the Pentagon with a recording of a vent alarm on repeat.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

If the @CDCDirector can't communicate the CDC guidelines, the @CDCDirector is in the wrong job. If the CDC guidelines are unclear and ungrounded in themselves? Same conclusion.

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Zackary Berger

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4 months

I am in touch with American Jewish mainstream circles (hell, I *am* in American Jewish mainstream circles) and the amount of willed delusion regarding what Israel is doing, and its international reputation (even setting aside the Hague) is quite remarkable.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

The Spinoza expert Yitzhak Melamed gets an official community apology for the unhinged rabbis' letter.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

@SpeakerPelosi @magi_jay @realDonaldTrump More impeachment, less self congratulations

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

Shout out to healthcare workers (residents, students, docs; nurses; janitors; nurse aids; surg techs; patient service people; etc etc) who are going to be asked to give more, expected not to get sick or take off, and will get resilience language sprayed at them by leadership

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Zackary Berger

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3 years

Medications should be free. that's it that's the tweet go and study the rest is commentary

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

3 years

We're actually debating whether prisoners and undocumented folks should get vaccines. This is a topic of discussion.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

Everyone: Don't talk about religion and politics Jews: What if we have everyone over to do that and get some of them drunk?

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

My patient is an endoscopy nurse. She gets home from work around 9 or 10pm. Then gets up at 4:20am so she can get to the hospital by 6am and get free parking. We should pay for nurses' parking, is what I say.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

A rose is for friendship Thorns are for hating True love for your kids Means vaccinating #healthpolicyvalentines

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

If you recognized everyone in the Super Bowl halftime show, it's time to have a careful discussion with your internist based on shared decision making about the risks and benefits of cancer screening.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

Just checking in to report that Amazon purchasing a large primary care organization will further the same logics that are getting us inequitable and algorithmized treatment of patients.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

My favorite employee wellness programs? 1. Living wage 2. Unionization 3. Medical leave without barriers #SGIM19

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

PLEASE don't stockpile medical equipment. It will not help you, and will hurt others.

brittany ferrell, mph, rn

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4 years

N95 masks are pretty much sold out everywhere.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

The Supreme Court supports theocratic coercion over reproductive health.

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

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4 years

NEW: The Supreme Court just upheld a Kentucky law that mandates doctors to perform ultrasounds & show fetal images to patients before they can perform abortions. There is no medical basis for the law; it’s designed to coerce women out of having abortions.

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Zackary Berger

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2 years

What can academic medical centers do to help their communities? I'm glad you asked. 1. Pay more taxes. 2. More union jobs at good wages. 3. Don't sue patients. 4. Don't police the neighbors.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

@realDonaldTrump quick where is Argentina don't google it

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

Noncompliance is often medicalese for "can't afford it."

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

1 year

@EpiEllie You're such a Marxist ragtag, Dr Murray

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

How many ICE prisoners have already died from COVID-19? (We don't know, and we won't.)

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

@maggieNYT @dandrezner I think it would help if you weren't overconcerned with the appearance of bias and called things, and people, by their proper names. "Racist," for instance.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

1 year

It's such an American achievement to have both parties reach across the aisle to throttle the poor.

Russell Contreras

@RussContreras

1 year

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached a tentative deal to raise the debt ceiling to 2025, @Axios has learned from sources in both parties

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Zackary Berger

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5 years

@MittRomney Happy to sit down with your health care staffer and walk through models of care that other countries use to achieve lower cost and better outcomes than we do.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

7 years

Roses are pricey And just a formality When access to care Reduces mortality #healthpolicyvalentines

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

1 year

#MedTwitter is on fire with the NYT piece exhaustively documenting how the rich get special treatment in NYU's ED. What if I told you that every day, poor and sick people are treated in overworked, overscheduled resident clinics, while the rich and well insured see attendings?

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

3 years

tell pharmacies etc to stop asking for insurance cards, then.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

1 year

The USA in 2023 is rich people going hog wild over Ozempic to fit into their designer clothes while my patients die for lack of diabetes medications.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

People love prioritization ethics puzzles. They are important, don't get me wrong, but they are downstream of systemic inequities. It's a lot easier to judge people who present to you with a package of characteristics that you can't change.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

15 days

a nation state centered on Jewish supremacy and ruling over millions of Palestinians who are not represented or given a choice in this occupation. I do not support nation states, in general, and I cannot support Israel in its current form. [I also have critiques of the US, ofc]

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

22 days

@youngnjjew Basically every part of your tweet is ignorant. Congratulations to you on a perfect score.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

For those of you shocked by the article saying that #JacobBlake , paralyzed by murderous cops, is now shackled to his hospital bed -- you don't know what healthcare is like for those under police custody.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

@BillOReilly @trumps_feed is "social resume" what you call sexual assault and racism?

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

You forgot "pay poor people money"

JAMA

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4 years

For the foreseeable future fundamental #publichealth measures such as physical distancing, wearing a mask in public, frequent handwashing, and staying at home when symptoms occur will remain the best tools to prevent #COVID19

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

The corollary? Our ability to judge *when* a person "should have gotten vaccinated" is pretty poor.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

"I'm not sure if doctors should get political" As Virchow said (translated from German): "omg buddy look around you, medicine is political already. what planet have you BEEN on"

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

this thread comes to you from half a dozen patients today who can't afford food, meds, housing, or all three

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

Why at 4:30a am I in a Lyft to BWI airport, fleeing the Baltimore humidity on #July4 for the greater heat of El Paso? Full statement is attached. Basically, #CitizenPresence is the reason. Making sure moral outrages of the camps are before our consciousness. Follow my day here.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

2 years

six rapid covid tests via Target: $156 Our country's clinging to capitalism as we sink under the waves: priceless

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

I don't think I'm supposed to say this on social media, but I'm pretty scared. But it's okay to be scared. Patients are scared. Everyone's scared. Many people are suffering, will suffer. We are going to do what we can, at bench and bedside, at phone and office. We're here.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

3 years

A colleague's child is fighting for their life -- in the ICU with Covid, even as we are celebrating patients' vaccinations. It never seems to end.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

Apparently my institution is telling medical assistants NOT to wear masks but telling doctors they can if they want to... ...all in this together, are we?

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

Just told my daughter that she shouldn't use cannabis but it should be legal but if she goes to a state where it's legal she can use it but she should be careful but it's safer than alcohol but she should try new things. Damn, parenting never gets easy.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

I want graphs of US #COVID19 cases in * Prisons * Homeless shelters * Undocumented We're not looking for them, so we're not finding them. Looking for lost keys under the lamppost, because that's where the light's better. Our systems ignore these people in the best of times.

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Zackary Berger

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1 year

As someone who has spent a lot of time laboring in evidence based medicine, and published a fair number of systematic reviews, it took me *way* too long to understand how the politics of EBM are a neoliberal fantasy of quantitative rigor without the need for ethical a prioris.

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Zackary Berger

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4 years

Today in clinic: "You seem depressed." "Or is it that I have no money for medicines or food and I haven't worked for three months?" An important reminder not to medicalize our societal and political failings.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

I discovered this amazing fact earlier in my career

Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

I'm not even expert in epidemic prevention (I'm a PhD epidemiologist, but I've done more chronic disease things), but I'm a simple urban internist who knows that poor people are sick b/c they lack money

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Zackary Berger

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3 years

we're going to declare the pandemic over for all insured white people with cars

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

3 years

If an all-male panel is a manel, an all-white panel is a mayonnel.

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Zackary Berger

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5 years

2019: I'm filling out a form to get my patient's electricity turned on so she can feed her family/take her medications. Because that ain't obvious. Bc the electric company thinks ROI is more important than some black person in Baltimore. Sorry, mother-fucking electric company.

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Zackary Berger

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4 years

What I think about tonight's debate is that a man wept in my exam room because he can't afford to feed his children.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

I got radicalized about two years ago. Now my out-there position, completely unsupported by the health care system's status quo, is this: everybody's humanity is equal, no matter how unstable your life is, how marginalized you are, how unlike the doctor you are.

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Zackary Berger

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22 days

@sarahnadav Thanks for weighing in!

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

I'm not even expert in epidemic prevention (I'm a PhD epidemiologist, but I've done more chronic disease things), but I'm a simple urban internist who knows that poor people are sick b/c they lack money

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

4 years

Temperature checks are Covid security theater

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 years

I don't need to understand what makes the Nazi a person. I need to understand what makes the person into a Nazi.

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Zackary Berger

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4 years

RT if you want to see a executive order in Biden's first 100 days weakening ICE.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

@magi_jay @SpeakerPelosi @realDonaldTrump She's saying "our unity is our power." Has unity been her focus, recently?

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

5 years

Just spent time reassuring a patient that their pain is real even after another doctor said it was in their head. "Doctors are good at that," I said.

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Zackary Berger

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2 years

Insulin should be free.

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Zackary Berger

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6 years

Imagine black teenagers getting the chance to call out brutal cops on CNN.

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Zackary Berger

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4 years

Mark my words. Next year we'll see: * GoFundMe's to pay for vaccines * Heart-warming human interest stories on Pharma "donating" vaccines * Prestigious ethicists opining on whether citizens deserve vaccines more

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Zackary Berger

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5 years

I asked a patient what brings them meaning in life and then all of a sudden I forgot the pathophysiology of diabetes. It's a PLAGUE it's SPREADING

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Zackary Berger

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5 years

@joshtpm @brianklaas First Response to 9/11, Donald Trump: "What's in it for me"

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Zackary Berger

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7 years

Good night. I plan to be arrested tomorrow, as a doctor & Jew, using privilege to remind Senators: #HandsOffOurPatients #TrumpCareKills

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

6 months

Medicine is political, as is public health. Understanding war crimes and how nation states deny healthcare are as critical to medical and public health education as the HPA axis or the definition of odds ratios. Ignoring this is cowardice. Suppressing it is malice.

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Zackary Berger

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6 years

Dr. Cohen isn't my cardiologist he's just a guy I ask for informal right-heart caths from every once in a while

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Zackary Berger

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1 year

Fun times this morning in the frum doctors WhatsApp group, which I left when people started fondly reminiscing about conversion therapy and calling transgender people mentally ill.

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Zackary Berger

@DrZackaryBerger

15 days

as well as Jewish cultural and political autonomy. I also agree that the Land of Israel is an important (though not the only important) space of Jewish autonomy. However, these days, Zionism is taken to mean support for a State of Israel as currently constituted,

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Zackary Berger

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4 years

Preventive care doesn't save money and yoga isn't a panacea. We should be paying poor people money to live, not to indulge our controlling savior fantasies.

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

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If we spent a fraction of the money we spend in our healthcare system on actually keeping people healthy it would transform everything. We should be paying people to go to the gym/yoga studio/nutritionist instead of vice versa.

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my patient died in the OR, I last saw her three years ago, I called their kids to give my condolences and they thanked me for all I did and I'm literally crying rn

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Zackary Berger

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3 years

Can we stop with the "ivermectin is a horse dewormer" stuff? It's a real med used by thousands. I've prescribed it a number of times pre pandemic. Misinformation ain't better when it's "ours."

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