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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

11 months

have you ever asked yourself —what is medicine for? my latest piece in @BMJLeader #MedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

6 years

Man at store sees me wearing a UM Med school fleece: “Hey honey. You want to go to med school someday?” Me: “I actually was in med school. A long time ago.” Him: “Oh yeah? What happened?” Me: “I graduated.” Him: Me: Him: #ilooklikeadoctor #WomenInMedicine

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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6 years

Me: “Do you want to be a doctor?” Son: “No.” Me: “Why not?” Son: “Because I like to sleep.” #KidOfADoctor #medtwitter #priorities

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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5 years

hey #medtwitter , am I the only one who closes her eyes when I auscultate the heart cause I feel like it helps me hear better..

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5 years

“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” St. Augustine

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5 years

keep thinking about how the husband of patient who died in the hospital, after spending the last night of his wife’s life with her in her hospital bed, lying beside her, afterwards described it as one of the most beautiful nights of their entire marriage #love

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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5 years

working on a talk I’m giving and I’m discussing the breakdown of time with the boys - 40 min for talk, 20 min for Q and A. and my son asks “how much time is set aside for applause” and this is exactly the encouragement I need right now

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

I’ve heard my ED colleagues ask “where did all the non-COVID diseases go?” Answer: they are still there. The strokes, heart failure exacerbation, PEs, etc—are still there. They are happening to people, such as my elderly patients—but you aren’t seeing them. Why? 1/5 #MedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

when I saw the movie “dead man walking” as a teenager it changed the way I thought about the death penalty. so tonight it was one of the true highlights of my life to be able to meet @helenprejean . thank you sister for your words of encouragement and for your powerful witness

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

you ever read someone else’s CV and it’s so amazing you feel like going home and burning yours in a huge bonfire in your driveway cause it’s so garbage in comparison and you feel like the term “CV” is insulted that yours even carries that name

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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5 years

you think memorizing the Krebs cycle is hard, but what about trying to figure out what shoes to wear with a pink sequined skirt #GirlMedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

my mom is going to be baptized and enter the Catholic Church in a few weeks in April.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

please consider praying for everyone in healthcare that is being/will be called upon to care for the public affected by #COVID19 . the phlebotomists, respiratory therapists, nurses, EMS, custodians, physicians, pharmacists etc. #coronavirusus

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

6 months

being baptized in 2016 after spending most of my life as an anti-theist with a strong anti Christian bias

Fr. Dwight Longenecker

@dlongenecker1

6 months

What is something you vowed you'd never do, but wound up doing it and thanking God for the blessing? Me? Living in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

I’m worried about the long term sequelae, especially on our house staff, as a result of their being on the frontlines of #COVID . I remember the moment in my training when it became real to me that death comes for everyone & the limits of medicine. When we lost one of our own 1/11

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

before med school: “I want to take care of people.” transitions to: “I take care of people with disease X.” (diabetes) then: “I take care of diabetics (person getting lost in the narrative) then: “I manage diabetes.” (Person absent) don’t lose sight of the person #MedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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5 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but going to bed earlier helps you to feel less tired the next day

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

always a good idea to remind ourselves of the basics. good brief visual on how to properly doff PPE. #COVID19 #covid4MDs #MedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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5 months

I have a piece under edit where the editors rn are fussing over whether my word choice should be “all together” or “altogether” yet the editors of this piece let these writers call a member of Homo sapiens a “pathogen” like nbd

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

2 months

it is an impoverished view of healthcare that aims to eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferer

Jason Chen

@chenphilosophy

2 months

@HSRdirector @AmerMedicalAssn I think assisted death is consistent with the role of the physician as a healer. We value healing partly because it increases people's well-being. Death can do the same.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

still shocking to hear things from patients that reveal major misconceptions about basic ways their bodies work. Physicians should not be the privileged few who hold the “secret knowledge” of how bodies work. Everyone has a right to this info. This is an education problem

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

7 months

this simply isn’t true. @umichmedicine has done pioneering work helping these children live longer — can read about some of this amazing work here:

Doctors discover novel way to treat pancreatic complication in child with trisomy 18

Faith Smith spent nearly a year in and out of the hospital for pancreatic problems. Because of her complex medical issues, the standard approach to treatment wasn’t an option

www.michiganmedicine.org

Ann Coulter

@AnnCoulter

7 months

The prolife movement has gone from compassion for the child to cruelty to the mother (and child). Trisomy 18 is not a condition that is compatible with life.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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5 years

was chatting with a Muslim medical student today about how his faith intersects with his view of medicine. he does basic science research. his view is that God made everything & research helps to discover God’s work. he therefore considers research a type of worship in a way

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

9 months

heard a medical educator ask if we need to even teach clinical reasoning anymore given we have generative AI. will die on the hill that we need to teach clinical reasoning even if it means doing it in some back room in an underground system with fellow believers ;) #MedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

during #COVID19 some of us will be patients some of us will be called to care for them. Jesus Christ can be seen in both the patient & the caregiver. the great surety of the Christian faith is that Christ is both the suffering servant & the great physician. #ThursdayThoughts

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

took the kids to play their instruments at a nursing home today. in our ableist and ageist culture where the elderly are increasingly marginalized, I’m reminded of Psalm 71 “Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.”

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

we need to stop using the phrase “circling the drain” when talking about patients. @RanaAwdish writes about how she heard this when she was ill & how this might have been the last thing she ever heard. human beings, on the edge of this life, are not impending trash. #MedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

be image bearers of God

Matthew Loxton is also on Mastodon

@mloxton

4 years

Name something that you think humans will always do better than robots (including AI)

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

6 years

used to think that if I trained long enough, or saw more death & dying, that I would become immune to it. that I would get “used to it”. I realize now that is not the case. & that’s alright. the day that a patient’s death no longer bothers me is the day I should leave medicine.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

took some heat on here recently for my shoes not “matching” my skirt. matching is pretty much the kiss of death in fashion, really only acceptable in limited situations. such as with today’s tartan. I don’t make the rules, I just relay them here. #GirlMedTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 months

follow the money follow the money follow the money follow the money

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

as a physician, and frankly, as a human being, what could be more powerful than hearing these words tonight at mass “bodies that are broken will be made whole again”.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

That data is too hard to capture. But it’s clear to me — even though many patients who die during this time don’t die because they were infected with the coronavirus—let’s be clear —many others are still dying as a result of #COVID19 , but not in a way that is as visible. 5/5

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

1 month

it’s not just that the tears will stop or that everyone will stop crying but that every tear will be wiped away

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

10 months

hey @SportsCenter — appears @CocoGauff is actually *praying*. this should be an acceptable word to use, right? especially if one wants to be authentic and honest in one’s coverage and correctly name people’s meaningful practices

SportsCenter

@SportsCenter

10 months

. @CocoGauff took a moment to soak it all in after winning her first Grand Slam title ❤️

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

my mom is starting RCIA tonight. please pray. so many barriers in the way. #CatholicTwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

ever finish a book and then miss the characters terribly

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 months

weeping over these verses from Wendell Berry: “I would like to know my children again, all my family, all my dear ones, to see, to hear, to hold, more carefully than before, to study them lingeringly as one studies old verses, committing them to heart forever. I have not paid

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

fascinating how folks ask my father in law complex medical issues when we are both around. he has been retired forever & was a sub-specialist when he did practice. & I sit here as the practicing internist who got a nearly perfect score on my recent ABIM recert exam like hello

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

one of my rescue kitties is dying. her sibling knows and covers her on what I think may be her last night #love

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

6 months

if the baby could speak he would tell of the tree wrapping her boughs around him and cradling him tight against the storm and how he was soothed by the tree murmuring a soft tree lullaby

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

6 months

A four-month-old baby has been found alive in a tree after he was sucked up into a tornado in Tennessee.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

when this is all over, instead of having award shows for nonsense like the mtv vmas we can have an award ceremony for the healthcare workers who put their lives on the line and did their best to get our country thru this crisis.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

#TipsForNewDoctors build relationships not only w/ one other, but w/ the housekeepers, cafeteria cashiers, phlebotomists—everyone around u. know their names. maintain a hospitable spirt to create a culture of encounter that will not only help u survive training but thrive w/in it

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

Every Easter, I’m reminded of the call that I took 20 yrs ago now, as an intern @umichmedicine . It was Good Friday & I was headed into the evening admitting patients to gen med. it was April, I was burned out, exhausted & tired of spending another holiday in the hospital 1/11

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

life is too short to wear sensible shoes all the time #girlmedtwitter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

7 months

all the talk about the pelvic floor, but not enough talk of what this feels like

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

6 years

was running behind in clinic today which I try not to do & when I walked in late to the next patients room & was apologizing they stopped me & said “it’s ok. Someone must have needed you. You’ve always given me the time I need & someone else needed you that way today.” #thankyou

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

was apologizing for the weather to our applicants who are here from across the country, and one applicant from Wisconsin said “I was just thinking about what a nice day it was”. #perspective

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

Because the owners of these terrible maladies are afraid of coming into the hospital & catching COVID. But even more than that, it’s the restrictive visitor policy. They can’t imagine being worked up, ill & afraid, without loved ones around them. So they aren’t coming in. 2/5

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

9 months

“Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone” Psalm 71

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

16 days

physician assisted suicide bill fails to pass for the fifth straight time in NY. the @JournalofEthics says that Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer would be impossible to control & would pose serious societal risks

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

even in a pandemic, reviewer 2 lives on

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

9 months

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1633 Rembrandt

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

after my talk last night, one of the young women asked if she could ask a private question that she didn’t feel comfortable asking during the formal q and a. she wanted to know if the sequins on my shoes changed color if you rubbed them to flip them over. #TheQuestionsThatMatter

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 months

it’s my birthday and also the anniversary of the preaching by John Donne of his final sermon “death’s duel” which he gave at St. Paul's Cathedral in 1631. the themes of his sermon are as relevant today as ever—that of death and resurrection

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

there’s a thunderstorm & I’m telling my little guy about how once you see lightening u start counting & then whatever number you’re on when thunder hits is how many miles away the storm is & not sure if that’s even true but I’m passing this info down cause that’s what parents do

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

“Eliminating suffering by eliminating those who suffer is not a new temptation.The normalization of medical killing poses a threat to the poor, the elderly, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable members of society.” @RyanTAnd @Heritage

Affirming Ethical Options for the Terminally Ill | The Heritage Foundation

Ryan T. Anderson, PHD: Eight states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws allowing physician-assisted suicide.REF Thankfully, earlier this year, such a law was defeated in Maryland. But...

www.heritage.org

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

3 months

reminds me of the prescient words of French pediatrician and geneticist Jerome Lejeune in 1990 when he said “a day will come when clinics will put a sign on their door “here we do not kill” and patients will rush to these places of life

Avis Favaro

@Avis_Favaro

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Some people living with disabilities are worried about the stress of facing unexpected questions about whether they have considered #MAID . Some are drawing up cards, like the one below. Others suggest ID bracelets that say "No MAID". "So many of us are worried about this,"

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

keep thinking about a recent conversation I had with a patient who lost a family member in the hospital. she couldn’t be with her when she died. I was lamenting this with her and she said “Dr. Collier, she wasn’t alone when she died. The Lord was with her.”

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

6 years

my father in law has another man’s heart beating inside of him because of the #giftoflife . the parents of his donor gave him this today

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

-had my fourth son -turned 40 -became a Christian and was baptized -rescued four cats -celebrated 15 years of marriage -took good care of my adult patients

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

maybe someday when my little David is older, he’ll tell the story of when he turned 11 years old during the pandemic and his mom didn’t have flour so she made him a flourless cake and it was the best birthday he ever had because he was with his family

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

just a few reminders as things open up -nothing about the virus has changed since we went into lockdown weeks ago -just because you may be “tired of the virus” doesn’t mean that that somehow weirdly goes the other way -the virus doesn’t spread itself. people spread the virus

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

6 years

I need a stat opthy consult from @DGlaucomflecken or a similarly qualified professional as to the pathophysiology behind Han Solo’s blindness after he comes out of hibernation in Return of the Jedi. #visionloss

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

just woken up by a page and now can’t get back to sleep, so will take the opportunity to let everyone know it’s my birthday today. in lieu of flowers pls send favorite poem

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

who wants to pitch in to buy this place to start an all girls boarding school with me? stages of grammar, logic, rhetoric. everyone takes music, poetry, & math. no screens, cats roaming freely. will teach cursive! & prepare women to be defenders of truth, beauty and goodness.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

next time you get annoyed with yourself about calling someone by the wrong name at a holiday party, just remember the time my spouse, when he was a teenager at a court appearance, called the judge “your majesty” instead of “your honor”.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

7 months

for the fourth time the delegates of the @AmerMedicalAssn refused to change their position on physician assisted suicide saying “Euthanasia is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer.” #MedTwitter

AMA Retains Policy against Assisted Suicide | National Review

The organization also refused to change the descriptive and accurate term ‘assisted suicide’ to the euphemistic ‘medical aid in dying.’

www.nationalreview.com

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

tim and I just went on a walk with our little one who still says “aminal” instead of “animal” and neither of us corrected him because he is likely our last little one and one of these times he won’t say it like that anymore

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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5 years

one of my patients got terrible news this week and my heart is heavy for her. meditating on Tolkien’s eschatological quote “everything sad is going to come untrue.” especially on the word choice of “untrue”. so beautiful makes me want to sob and sob

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

been working on Bach’s Goldberg variations. have a long way to go. there is something so comforting at a time like this playing the same notes that so many others before me have done for hundreds of years

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

3 months

I suspect whoever created this advertisement has a low view of women. the sexist overtones, the way they want women to think they have to pit themselves against their offspring —I find it all insulting.

Eva Basilion

@EBasilion

3 months

Well would you?

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

many thanks to the wonderful @Delta crew on tonight’s 1645 flight to Detroit as they assisted me in taking care of an in flight medical emergency. you were everything one could hope for in such a situation— calm, cooperative and with a wonderful ability to improvise

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

did anyone go back to work today after some time off and honestly wonder how you do this everyday because it’s so physically and emotionally hard #ReEntry

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

don’t get me wrong, we’ve enjoyed every stage of parenting but the stage where you can go the gym with your husband just the two of you in the middle of the day and leave the big kids in charge at home is a good stage

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4 years

#covid4MDs #GetMePPE

Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc (He/Him)

@AndrewMIbrahim

4 years

A novel solution to the N95 mask shortage from the brilliant Dr. Slatnick and the Innovation Team at @BostonChildrens . Reusable. $3. Uses existing hospital inventory. #VisualAbstract below. #Covid_19 Video demonstration:

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@eliistender10 Love with wild abandon

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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yes —this is the amazing phenomenon known as fetomaternal microchimerism which I’ve written about here for @ChurchLifeND

Some Human Beings Carry Remnants of Other Humans in Their Bodies

Kristin Collier on the philosophical and theological implications of fetomaternal microchimerism.

churchlifejournal.nd.edu

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

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During pregnancy, fetal cells migrate out of the womb and into a mother’s heart, liver, lung, kidney, brain, and more. They could shape moms’ health for a lifetime, @KatherineJWu reports:

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on airport shuttle, chatting with the driver. him: what do you do? me: I’m a doctor him: a resident? me: no, an attending him: oh, a *doctor* doctor #DoctorDoctor

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my four year old niece has a “buddy bench” at her school. you go sit there if you don’t have anyone to play with, but want someone. she sits there a lot. wonder how many of us would be brave enough to sit there, & how many of us would be charitable enough to come take our hand

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was knitting at a meeting. one of the med students told me she wishes she could knit at the meeting too. when asked why she doesn’t she said she doesn’t have the “authority”. So guess what. I bestowed upon her the authority to knit at our meeting from now on. #WomenInMedicine

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my parents kindly picked me up from the airport tonite & I wonder how they think I managed traveling out in the world on my own with statements like “watch your head” “do you have money for dinner””do you want us to take you to our house to sleep” etc #YouAreAlwaysAKidToYourFolks

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yes your professional bios and CV are impressive but who are you as a person? how do you like the saltiness of the sea, how do you take your coffee, which glove do you put on first?

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

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4 years

I’ve always admired the work of @CCamosy on behalf of vulnerable populations, but am especially proud of him tonight as he speaks on @TuckerCarlson against unjust practices that would ration care away from people solely on the basis of age or disability. #ResistThrowAwayCulture

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one of our boys took the AP English literature exam today and the AP computer science exam. the AP English lit exam was all on the computer and the AP computer science exam was a blue book

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neither are older adults. people with disabilities. people with chronic illness. you.

Benjamin Watson

@BenjaminSWatson

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Children are not a burden

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5 years

I wrote this piece for many reasons but one is that I hope, in some small way, the piece might be helpful for women who’ve suffered the loss of a child. #miscarriage #pregnancy

Some Human Beings Carry Remnants of Other Humans in Their Bodies

Kristin Collier on the philosophical and theological implications of fetomaternal microchimerism.

churchlifejournal.nd.edu

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

someone around here just referred to Pearl Jam as “classic rock”

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

in the ongoing effort to raise responsible boys, made a list for them to pack from today while I work. #scaffold

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

9 months

the thing about science is that is has no meaning in itself. Science doesn’t have a proper cosmology or a telos. It just is. And without a beginning (knowing where we came from) and an end (to whom we belong and where we will go when we die) there can be no meaning.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

@jonathanstea

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My favorite mug.

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

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written by a student on her time in Americorps “if I ever despaired about having reached the limits of what we could offer a patient at the clinic, the sisters would invoke the ministry of presence, the healing power of simply accompanying a person thru their suffering”. #MedEd

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

am I dreaming? just arrived at #FrieND19 & saw @cosmostheinlost in the hall, find myself sitting next to @TeawithTolkien & am listening to @pursuedbytruth @FrHarrison @FatherSciarappa & @shannon_last talk about friendship on social media. & I get to have dinner w/ @maggieskoch !

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

Seeing my elderly patients, on video visits, telling me about symptoms that terrify me, but hearing their fear & asking me what their options are otherwise, & trying to guide these conversations while respecting their values & wishes while laying out the risks has been hard 3/5

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

my current mood in gif regarding #COVID19 . please share yours

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

as I walk out of our hospital tonight, would ask in your charity to keep all the babies, children and adults who are here in our care, their families and staff here @umichmedicine in your thoughts and prayers

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

not just hard, but heartbreaking. while I understand the rationale behind the policies, seeing the effects played out in my beloved elderly patients is terrible. if these patients end up dying, will they be counted among the COVID stats? imo, they should be, but they won’t be 4/5

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

5 years

grief is the price we pay for love. sat with many patients today who are grieving & reminded that for many, this is the first holiday season without that special someone. Or the 10th, 20th or 30th..

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 years

“Even most of those who go on ventilators survive, but not by chance. They survive because we don’t give up. We take care of them even when we’re distressed. Even so, no one has any illusions about how difficult that can be.” #medtwitter

Richard M. Nixon

@dick_nixon

4 years

From the Chief of Surgery at Columbia:

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

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means so much to me that at every talk I put together for my program at the med school, I look out in the audience and see my father in law who comes to support my efforts. it takes him over an hour to drive each way. #family

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Kristin M. Collier, MD

@HSRdirector

4 months

the sooner we shift from the (illusory) idea of radical autonomy to embracing a dignity of dependence, the more on track we will be to a path of true flourishing

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

4 months

A growing number of older Americans are in need of long-term care. Some are turning to their friends to fill the gap and, in the process, transforming what’s traditionally been a relationship of dependence into one of equality, @rhainacohen reports:

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