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Shematologist, MD

4 years

Organizing my tweetorials! SCD and racism COVID coagulopathy Hormones and Thrombosis DIC Iron deficiency Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Shematologist, MD

@acweyand

4 years

It's a new year, time for a new tweetorial! This one is for all of the amazing #tweetiatricians taking care of adolescent girls. 14yo female presents to primary care with a complaint of fatigue. Labs are ordered and hemoglobin is 6.0. She describes periods as "fine" 1/n

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@acweyand

2 years

In case you missed it the US has been subtweeted today by the WHO, Canada, France, Spain, Norway, and Denmark.

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Here’s to over educated women! May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.

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2 years

Abortion as a supply chain issue for the domestic infant supply was not on my bingo card.

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1 year

PSA: Your period should not 🩸last longer than 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen more than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic

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2 years

Like or retweet if you’re on prescription medications or have played video games or don’t believe in God, and yet have somehow managed not to shoot anyone.

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2 years

Every single pediatrician I know was first in line to immunize their children against #COVID19 That should tell you something.

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2 years

Please for the love of all things holy can we let menstruating students go to the bathroom when they need to?

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8 months

PSA: Your period should not 🩸last longer than 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen more than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic

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2 years

Chemo delayed. Surgery postponed. Treatment deferred. Death from #COVID19 is not the only bad outcome.

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4 months

This is HUGE. ✨No cervical cancer in those fully immunized with the #HPV vaccine✨ NONE.

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4 months

No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV, Public Health Scotland has revealed.

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3 years

Did it hurt? When you followed all of the rules and got vaccinated right away and still wear a mask but yet things are actually worse?

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3 years

As someone who works at a children’s hospital in a town that hosted 107,000 people in one stadium yesterday, with two littles of my own who are ineligible for vaccination, all I can say is This isn’t the kind of gesture you think it is.

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3 years

The first Iowa Wave of the season 👋 Players and fans turn to wave to the Children's Hospital behind the stadium.

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3 years

Just to be clear. 1 Not the GOAT(see Serena Williams) 2 Took $1 million in PPP money 3 Trump supporter 4 Anti mask 5 Deflategate And too many more to list.

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3 years

7: Mom, I have one question before I go to bed. How does your body make blood? Me: (mouth agape) 7: Are you googling it? Me: No sweet pea, my whole entire life has been in preparation for this very moment.

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2 years

But I still can’t bring any liquids greater than 3.4 ounces right?

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2 months

These shorts are terrible but the comments 💀

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1 year

Thanks @Delta but I actually don’t need, and didn’t ask, for your permission to wear a mask on board. And all the trolls, you can hold your breath because I’m loving how I no longer get sick post air travel and am never going back.

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2 years

Ectopic pregnancy is the implantation of a fertilized egg outside of the uterus. It is the leading cause of maternal death in the 1st trimester as fatal hemorrhage can occur. Treatment is abortion. #AbortionIsHealthcare

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2 years

Turns out every person for themselves isn’t the best public health strategy.

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1 year

A first for me: patient will only see male physicians and demanded I consult with and get their approval for the plan. For a disease that I recently co-authored international management guidelines for.

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3 months

In honor of Superb Owl day, I’d like to remind you all of how long their legs are. You’re welcome.

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1 year

While traveling abroad, a friend ended up taking her child to a local clinic for an infection. The clinic was super apologetic they didn’t take US insurance & gave her paperwork for reimbursement. No need for that though, total out of pocket cost was LESS THAN HER COPAY.

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1 year

Today I learned about a school that limits bathroom breaks for high schoolers and if you have a doctors note you get a large obnoxious lanyard you must wear that identifies you as having a “medical problem” and I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS.

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2 years

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@WHO

2 years

Safe abortion care is essential to protect the health of women & girls everywhere. Removing access to #abortion care will put more women & girls at risk of illegal abortions and the consequent safety issues that would bring

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2 months

Four days in Europe has me wondering what the f&€k we are doing in America because it really feels like we got everything wrong.

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1 year

The HPV vaccine prevents >cervical cancer >vaginal cancer >vulvar cancer >anal cancer >mouth, throat, head & neck cancer >genital warts

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11 months

Health insurance is wild. You pay every month for years, decades, in case something catastrophic happens. Then it does and the insurers are like yeah no not THAT kind of catastrophe.

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3 years

❤️💛💚💙💜

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2 years

Can we please start letting menstruating adolescents leave class when they need to? Is that too much to ask?

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1 year

All y’all talking about babies needing to get sick have clearly not spent enough time around sick babies.

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2 years

What if we all just committed to wearing an N95 when around others for the next 2-3 weeks?

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2 years

The world: We can’t shut everything down. Omicron: I can.

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3 years

I spent 29 years of my life in school in order to care for children “with underlying medical conditions” Their lives matter just as much as anyone else’s despite what some people would like you to think.

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4 months

Omg 😭

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2 years

One of the craziest things about being a doctor in the US is having absolutely no idea how much anything costs because there isn’t even a real price.

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3 years

Remember when you wanted what you currently have.

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@acweyand

2 years

Just your regular reminder that every single pediatrician I know vaccinated their kids as soon as they possibly could.

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@acweyand

2 years

When I was in residency a coworker came to work with very mild cold symptoms (just like 8 million other physicians have done) Turns out it was RSV. Two babies in the NICU got it and one ended up on ECMO. What causes sniffles in an adult can be deadly in little ones.

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3 years

PSA: There are NO fetal cells in #COVID19Vaccines And if you object to taking things TESTED on fetal cells, that includes 💊Tylenol, Advil, aspirin, Aleve 💊Claritin, Benadryl, Sudafed 💊Tums, Maalox, Pepto-Bismol 💊Lipitor, Norvasc 💊ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir

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A few reasons why I’ve been late to see patients: A child’s cancer relapsed, family devastated An adolescent expressed suicidal intent A child with life threatening anaphylaxis Things that have never been the reason I was late: Eating bon bons Not valuing patients time

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@acweyand

1 month

Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t have one. Don’t want to celebrate a given holiday? NO ONE IS MAKING YOU. The world would be a better place if y’all stopped worrying about things that don’t affect you.

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4 months

Ok, but are you following bonpon511, the cutest little old couple who only post their incredible matching outfits?!

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4 months

one of my favorite menswear IG accounts is this Japanese guy I've been following online for 20 years. he posts photos of his outfits and the people who visit him. he also occasionally accidentally uploads the same photo three times. IG akamineyukio

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2 years

I paid off my own student loans and if everyone else gets theirs cancelled I’m going to be so effing happy for them. #CancelStudentDebt

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9 months

New referral: hematologist told mom they “don’t believe in IV iron” and that all women/girls who menstruate have low iron and this is normal. And this is now my villain origin story.

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2 years

Don’t worry y’all. You can swim in the designated no peeing part of the pool.

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4 days

A friend of mine who is a full time physician with 3 kids and an employed often traveling spouse, was required to come in on a day off for an 8 hour team retreat to help with burnout. When “wellness” is truly unwell.

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2 years

Apparently my gynecologist friends are receiving a flood of requests for sterilization in twentysomethings. A morbid surgery as the only way to ensure bodily autonomy. This is where we are.

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2 years

Lord have MRSA.

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2 months

As someone who has attended a delivery of a baby from someone much too young to be carrying it and witnessed the aftermath, I’m here to tell you that this is absolutely despicable.

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1 year

Did you know that we actually have a vaccine that prevents cancer?! Seriously. A three shot #HPV series decreases cervical cancer rates by 87%.

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8 months

Vitamin K for newborns is literally a life saving intervention. And it’s a vitamin.

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2 years

I’ve sadly taken care of many kids harmed by #COVID19 and #MISC . Know what I’ve never seen (or even heard of)? A kid harmed by wearing a mask.

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2 years

The thing about sanitary pads and tampons and menstrual cups and period underwear is that ok now that all of the non menstruating people have stopped reading, just a reminder to do everything you can to protect reproductive access because our lives actually depend on it.

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2 years

Medical record: periods normal. Patient: Hemoglobin 4, bleeds 3 weeks out of every 4

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2 years

PSA: Please avoid neck adjustments. Turns out you have some important vessels in that area.

Georgia College Graduate Paralyzed After Visit to the Chiropractor, Family Says

Caitlin Jensen experienced four severed arteries in her neck after a routine appointment at the chiropractor

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1 year

I recently learned of an all girls high school that has a required financial literacy course. Which sounds awesome except for the fact that the big project is putting together a wedding budget.

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2 years

If I learned anything in pediatrics residency, it’s to never trust a baby with a respiratory virus.

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3 years

You only have to see one child with a catastrophic stroke following chiropractic manipulation to not be a fan.

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2 years

Forgets password. A million steps to reset. Enter new password. “The new password cannot be the same as the current password”

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2 years

My husband accidentally bought single ply toilet paper in bulk. Please pray for us.

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7 months

PSA: Your period should not 🩸last > 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen consistently > than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic

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2 years

Boosted.

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2 months

Measles. If you’re lucky you’ll just get a runny nose, cough, rash, red eyes. If you’re not, you could go blind or die years later due to subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (persistent infection in your BRAIN). Personally, I’m partial to the vaccine.

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This morning, both Wayne and Washtenaw county #publichealth departments have reported measles cases in patients seen in local health care settings, who might have exposed others. Learn more about risks, prevention via vaccination, and seeking care safely:

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4 months

Medicine is systemically misogynistic. Majority of studies/knowledge based on men and then incorrectly extrapolated to women, who for the most part are seen as vessels to propagate the species.

Paul Wischmeyer MD,EDIC,FCCM⎪ #NutritionMatters 💪

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🙋‍♂️ What’s your unpopular opinion in medicine that will get you in this position? #MedTwitter

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6 months

PSA: If you use #Thanksgiving in your tweet a cute little turkey appears for people when they like/heart it.

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1 year

Y’all pediatricians are really not ok. Please, for the love of oxygen delivery, do everything you can to slow the spread of illness. This is not sustainable.

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1 year

I don’t know who needs to hear this but starting teenagers on birth control or vaccinating them for HPV doesn’t make them more likely to have sex. But it does make it safer when they eventually do.

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2 years

Vaccinated kids are 10x less likely to be hospitalized for #COVID19 than unvaccinated kids. TEN TIMES. If that isn’t a miracle of science, I don’t know what is.

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1 year

When I was in school if I was sick, my parents let the school know and the school believed them. Now I get asked by parents all of the time to write a required doctors note for missed days and I’m sorry but THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY STUPID.

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2 years

Negative is one line, Positive is two. Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated, Stop making this all about you.

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1 year

She believed she could but it was uncompensated, non promotable work she had no interest in so she set a reasonable boundary, protected her time, and said no.

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1 year

What percentage of the population is under the impression that urination occurs through the vagina and why is it above 0?

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1 year

Can you find ricin, digoxin, hemlock, cyanide, and arsenic in nature? Yes. Oh wait

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2 years

The fact that up to 5% of healthy toddlers hold their breath until they pass out when upset just shows that kids are way more hardcore than we give them credit for.

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2 years

This may be my villain origin story

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3 years

7 wants to be a vet. Me: Or a human doctor? 7: I don’t like to be that close to people I don’t know. And you have a LOT of meetings. I start to explain that all jobs have meetings. 7: Come on, mom! You think a dog is going to set up a zoom for their appointment?

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2 years

Anyone else seeing/hearing about way too many adolescent/young adult strokes?

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2 years

Another year of doctoring without any sign of that Krebs cycle I memorized.

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2 years

I’m just a girl standing in front of a pandemic, asking it to be over.

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2 years

The only man who ever impressed me with his car drove an ice cream truck.

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11 months

I don’t purchase, set prices of, or sell chemotherapy. Chemotherapy saves the lives of hundreds of children each year. So do vaccines.

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3 years

PSA: Vitamin K prophylaxis in newborns is a LIFE SAVING intervention.

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9 months

One thing I find mind boggling is someone choosing to go into Ob/gyn but due to their religious beliefs being unwilling to prescribe birth control. The closest thing in my field would be going into hematology but being unwilling to transfuse blood.

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3 years

An intern paged me today for a consult on a super complex kid. Started with “I’m a new intern so I’m going to do my best but please let me know if you have feedback or tips on how I can do better” Then completely nailed it.

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@acweyand

3 years

Listen to @Schwarzenegger

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2 years

HPV is contagious & is associated with >90% cervical & anal cancer 70% vaginal & vulvar cancer 60-70% oropharyngeal cancer 60% penile cancer Over 46,000 HPV associated cancers occur each year in the US alone.

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2 years

Good morning!

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2 years

To help 5 fall asleep my husband will trace her arm or leg, using all the anatomic terms. Tonight she asked me to do the same but stopped me about 2 seconds in. “Daddy names a lot more. Do you even know all that stuff?” If you need me I’m searching for Netters and my pride.

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10 months

Health insurance.

Fascinating

@fasc1nate

10 months

What is something that is clearly a scam but is so normalized that most people don’t ever notice?

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3 years

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me and physician friend head over (wearing hoodies and yoga pants) Flight attendant: I’m sorry ladies, if you’ll please return to your seats, we are looking for a physician. Me: …

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1 year

Children dying is pretty much the worst fucking thing ever.

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1 year

The best part about getting old is no longer having to pretend to care even a little bit about putting on clothes or leaving my house on New Years Eve.

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1 year

Motion to ban the term hysterical from ever being used in reference to female patients or the issues that affect them.

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4 months

I’m not crying…ok actually we are all crying.

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4 months

You are not ready for this mother's reply. ❤️💙

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11 months

Anyone who understands what @PeterHotez has done, understands that he is an absolute mensch and a gift to the world. People who say otherwise are grossly misinformed.

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2 years

Good news y’all. The health system is collapsing/has collapsed so if you’re a HCW and get sick, we’ll let you come back early!

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