Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavan_salles Twitter profile

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

5 years

Can women really "take control" of our fertility with egg freezing, IVF, etc? My latest for TIME magazine: @ErikaRangelMD @NovaSzokaMD @choo_ek @darakass @drjessigold @DrHowardLiu @TomVargheseJr @NeilFlochMD @SashaShillcutt @DrPoorman @AmaliaCochranMD

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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I’d like to thank the Academy for reminding us that no matter how much progress we think we make, the real world has always been and remains a Ken-dom.

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Greta Gerwig: Made a critically acclaimed, culturally profound, feminist movie about Barbie and the patriarchy that made a billion dollars at the box office. Oscar nomination goes to … Ken. #Barbie #Oscars2024

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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There is NO reason to stop wearing masks in the middle of this pandemic.

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11 months

Since AirBnB is trending, here’s my story from a recent stay in Milan. When I checked in, the host left me standing on the street with my bags for about 20 mins. Not ideal, but what happened next is the real issue. When he showed up, he did not apologize for keeping me…

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Jessica Pettway died of cervical cancer at age 36. She had 3 hospitalizations in 7 mos requiring 18 blood transfusions before anyone did a pelvic exam. Our tendency to dismiss women’s symptoms, especially if the women are Black or other WoC, literally kills. #MedTwitter

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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10 months

Did you know up to 200 women at Yale’s fertility center were forced to undergo egg retrievals without narcotics? These procedures are typically done under heavy sedation, but these women were awake enough to talk; one even told them she was alert enough to drive. These women…

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Got a blowout for this wedding, and my mom, who always asks what I’m going to do with my hair (implying it looks bad as is), looked at it and said, “Did they even do anything?” Honestly it’s not funny anymore. Please don’t talk to your adult children like this.

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This, from the owner of this site, is just despicable. @PeterHotez created a patent-free vaccine for sars cov-2 (hence the Nobel nod). He has donated countless hours of his life to educating the world about vaccines and so much more. He deserves so much better than this nonsense.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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…and got out of there. But then a couple of days later I was notified the guy had written a review of me. How is that allowed?? I don’t even know what he said, but I asked them to remove it, and they did. All this to say, AirBnB doesn’t value the safety of their customers…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Seemingly “natural” homogeneous gatherings like this are a result of the systematic exclusion of marginalized people and further perpetuate the marginalization. Here are my favorite tweets pointing out this absurdity.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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For all the people saying this is normal or expected, I refuse to accept misogyny and violence against women, wherever they may occur. I also fully recognize things could have been way worse and am grateful they weren’t.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…and in particular doesn’t at all understand the challenges for women traveling alone. I gave them a reference for gender-based discrimination and offered my services, as an expert on gender-based discrimination and harassment, to educate their team…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…but the best part was they said they would call him and ask him to be nice to guests. When were they going to call him? Oh, right away, ma’am! While I was staying at the place?! They were going to call and tell the unhinged man I complained?? I asked them not to do that…

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I don’t know how many non-physicians follow me on here, but this is not at all true. Not even in the least bit. These two people, neither of whom has a medical degree and certainly neither of whom is a surgeon, are perpetuating racism which, btw, actually endangers lives.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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9 months

We don’t talk enough about coercion in healthcare. I just had a procedure I did not want to have because I was forced to do so in order to move forward with IVF. I stated multiple times I would accept the risk of foregoing the procedure. (The risk, as far as I can tell, is…

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…and said I wanted to leave and get a refund bc I did not feel safe. Remember, the guy who just berated me nonstop for 20 minutes has access to the place at any time. Their response? Only the host can grant a refund. That’s so ridiculous it’s hard to know what to say…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…and luckily when I posted about it on TT people suggested specifically calling out this discriminatory behavior.* So the next day (after a sleepless night) I followed up with AirBnB, and lo and behold all of a sudden they were able to process a refund. So I got a hotel…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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…They did not, however, take me up on that offer. *he would not have treated me that way if I were a man or if a man had been with me. “Gender discrimination is when someone is treated unequally or disadvantageously based on their gender but not necessarily in a sexual nature”

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“My daughter-in-law refused life-saving care for my grandson and the doctors were so mean about it that they documented her decision!” Since when has it been “despicable” to try to provide evidence-based care??

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

3 months

On behalf of all women, you know what we all hate? That one of six of us have been raped.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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9 months

My plea to people who design women’s dresses: please design them in such a way that a person can get them on all alone. There are a lot of single women out there—we can’t rely on someone else to zip us up!

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…waiting. I tried to explain that there was an opportunity for better communication to avoid this situation. That made him really angry. So the entire time he showed me around, he alternated berating me/defending his position with banal…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…were in pain, and they were brushed off. A nurse in the clinic had swapped out fentanyl for saline in hundreds of syringes. So for FIVE MONTHS women had these horrific experiences. They told their doctors, but nothing was done. One of the women recalls her doctor saying…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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Rape is not casual. It’s not entertainment. It’s not a consequence for bad performance. And it’s sure as f*ck not funny.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

…your health or the outcome of the care you received…” What?! Can you imagine a situation where men were not receiving narcotics for procedures for MONTHS? I cannot. If we listened to and believed women the way we do men, there would have been so much less harm here…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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—I was mad about him yelling at me incessantly), that he runs so many properties he can’t be everywhere at once, etc etc. It’s hard to convey the nastiness and anger in his tone, but I can tell you I was shaking by the time he left. I immediately called AirBnB…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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The biggest threat to women’s health isn’t cancer or heart disease. It’s men.

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“A 36-year-old father in Georgia is accused of killing his two young daughters (1 & 3) by locking them in his car & setting it on fire during an argument with his wife.” Such stories of men killing their own children to “punish” wife/ex occur regularly…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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…instructions about the iron and the a/c. It was surreal. This went on for about 20 mins, during which time I said almost nothing (I was hoping he would just leave). He insisted he had communicated very clearly, that I shouldn’t be mad about waiting 20 mins (I wasn’t—

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I know this is too long already, but I should note they “investigated” and determined this was not discriminatory behavior. That’s why I offered them some education which, if they were wise, they would have gladly accepted. But they just don’t care.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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I don’t know if y’all have been following what’s been going on with the men this week, but here are some tips: 1. Whether you’re a famous celebrity or an unknown baby daddy, you have no right to tell a woman what to wear. She is not your property. Your discomfort…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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…only that he was “perplexed” and “surprised.” Without another explanation, some of the women were convinced it was their own fault; they must not be sensitive to fentanyl. The patients weren’t aware of the fentanyl swap, but they knew something was wrong. One of them said…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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8 months

Showed up to the reception dinner like this and everyone is looking at me very concerned and asking if I’m sick. It doesn’t even occur to them that I’m masking to AVOID getting sick. What a world.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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10 months

…Everyone in healthcare needs to listen to this story. Modern medicine has and continues to treat women shamefully poorly. That’s on us. Women deserve better than to have pain medicine withheld, be made to think it was their own fault, and then be told there was no harm.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…about the clinic, “you are treated like a hysterical woman from the second you walk in there.” I, too, have felt this way in multiple fertility clinics. But that’s a story for another day. Back at Yale, these women all struggled to make sense of their experience without…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Do people understand all the staffing shortages and supply issues are due to millions of people dying and becoming disabled? And that people are still dying and being disabled so none of that will get better anytime soon? This is the “normal” y’all wanted to rush back to?

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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What frustrates me is this was predictable AND avoidable.

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Showed up to the reception dinner like this and everyone is looking at me very concerned and asking if I’m sick. It doesn’t even occur to them that I’m masking to AVOID getting sick. What a world.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading. Here’s a terrifying article about AirBnB’s practices around safety and trust.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…the support of their clinical team. Having been traumatized, some of them never went back to that clinic. Eventually Yale identified the problem and sent a letter informing patients saying, “there’s no reason to believe that this event has had any negative effect on…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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3 months

A man died of measles last week in Ireland because people didn’t get their children vaccinated. There was a 45-fold increase in measles cases in Europe in 2023 compared to 2022. The scientists who worked hard to save us from diseases like measles didn’t know we’d rather die.

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4 years

Weeks into his hospitalization, a patient on maximal ventilator support writes, “I’m not giving up.” This is just the inspiration I needed. Maybe it’ll help you too? Whatever it is you’re struggling with, don’t give up. 🙏

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I’m about to have a gynecological procedure without adequate pain medication despite asking for it. Great healthcare we’ve got going.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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This is why we should have been investing in ventilation two years ago. After 2.5 hours in a theater, the CO2 level is super high (3355). I wore an N95, as I always do indoors. But many in the audience were not wearing any masks 😟

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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At the start of my intern year I called the pharmacist every day. “The K is 3.2, how much should I give?” “The magnesium is 1.3, how much should I give?” “What adjustments do I need to make to this patient’s TPN today?” Hospitals cannot run safely without pharmacists.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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A man drawing circles on natural parts of women’s bodies is worse than mid, bro. It’s vile, and it shows you’ve never seen what women look like outside of airbrushed magazines. Doubt that will change anytime soon.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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2 years

Driving to the appointment where you try to make a baby with a stranger’s sperm is a special kind of loneliness.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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3 months

Just a reminder that other multi-billionaires could be doing things like this instead of trying to go to space, build caverns, or stoke racism

Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces Free Tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students. Learn more at . #MedicalSchool #MedEd #giving

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…perhaps slightly lower success rate for implantation.) I invoked shared-decision making and bodily autonomy to no avail. I was reassured, in the classic paternalistic medicine way, that this was in my best interests. I am a 43-year-old physician. If my doctor doesn’t think…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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This is how it looks btw

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The US: Pregnant people don’t deserve healthcare The people: Ok then we’ll pursue permanent contraception The US: Why is the birth rate so low?

ABC7 Eyewitness News

@ABC7

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US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

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After her baby was diagnosed with a rare chromosomal abnormality, Rachel Parrot says, “I came home and screamed in my husband’s arms for hours, begging for my baby. Wailing that she was right there and I couldn’t save her.” Abortion is healthcare.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…I am competent and capable of making decisions about what’s in my best interest, do they think anyone is? So today when the PA wanted to confirm that I wanted to move forward with the procedure, I told her the truth: No, I did not want to have the procedure, but…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Hurt CoPain

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pov: you go to a job interview for a company that has “we value diversity” on their homepage

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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At a previous job, when I was called to a meeting with a boss, 2 separate colleagues advised me I didn’t have to stay in the room if I didn’t feel safe. I asked what they meant—they said he had a tendency to get violent during meetings. I was shocked. This man…

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Nicole Brown Simpson called a domestic violence shelter 5 days before she was murdered. She had called the cops at least 9 times. He stalked her for two years. The jury was not told any of this. “The foreknowledge [of her] death was stalking her.”

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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@jtrebach This is such a bizarre video. I have many questions but fear I will become dumber if I think about this any more.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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…the procedure, and this was my answer. Do you know what it’s like to be alone in this? To “consent” to a procedure you don’t want to have? I knew it wouldn’t be great, but I was surprised when I started crying. I’m sharing this because I am part of a medical community…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Just like most men will gladly wear condoms?

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@designmom Most men would gladly take male birth control if they were allowed

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Just came here to say... that this patient was extubated!! And left the ICU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope is not canceled yet, friends! 😊❤️

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

4 years

Weeks into his hospitalization, a patient on maximal ventilator support writes, “I’m not giving up.” This is just the inspiration I needed. Maybe it’ll help you too? Whatever it is you’re struggling with, don’t give up. 🙏

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Episode 1 of The Retrievals is here:

‘The Retrievals,’ Episode 1: The Patients

From Serial Productions. Women experience unexpected pain during fertility treatment.

www.nytimes.com

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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For people asking why the patients didn’t ask them to stop—as a fertility patient, I can’t imagine doing that. After a couple of weeks of injections, the emotional roller coaster ride, & the cost, with the hopes/dreams of becoming a mother on the line, who would ask them to stop?

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Normalize gaps in CVs.

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This guy is hitting women with his car, some men in NYC are punching women in the streets, and all we do is advise women how to protect ourselves rather than addressing the misogyny that leads men to do attack us.

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A Utah man was charged with multiple counts of attempted murder after prosecutors say he plowed his car into at least six women over the last seven months

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A radiologist refuses to perform an ultrasound bc they don’t “feel comfortable” with a trans patient. A physician asks if their kidney disease is caused by being a “deviant” (bc they’re gay). Another physician asks if testosterone caused their Kawasaki’s disease (at age 2).

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The problem isn’t false accusations. It’s that men refuse to acknowledge rape. “They [rapists] had absolutely no sense of themselves as rapists and were only too happy to talk about their sexual behaviors.” Based on a study of rapists, as described in Missoula by Jon Krakauer.🧵

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…They force us to do things we don’t want to do, and they don’t listen to us. They clearly don’t believe in our capacity to make our own medical decisions. I also, of course, said I knew none of this was her fault and I wasn’t blaming her. But she asked if I wanted…

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When you’re septic, having to travel for hours on a bus to get to somewhere you can receive healthcare actually is one of the worst things you could do

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Simone: If you had to travel to another state to get an abortion, it’s not the worst thing in the world. Hopefully this is very rare occurrence in your life… Buying a bus ticket to go somewhere to get it is not the worst thing in the world.

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…I also had no choice. If I want to try to have a baby, I am forced to do this procedure (and without adequate pain medication, mind you). I told her my feeling that REI clinics know they have patients over a barrel…

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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I’m about to have a gynecological procedure without adequate pain medication despite asking for it. Great healthcare we’ve got going.

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The midwife recorded administration of 12,500 fake “vaccines” to 1,500 children. She was fined $300,000, of which she only had to pay $150k. She remains a licensed midwife.

Midwife fined for falsifying vaccine records, giving kids pellets instead

The state health department found that the midwife had entered nearly 12,500 false vaccine records into its Immunization Information System since 2019.

www.nbcnews.com

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Measles reported in Long Island, where a midwife falsified 1,500 vaccination records for children in recent years. She gave kids homeopath "pellets" instead of actual vaccines that would have actually protected them from measles, mumps & other diseases.

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I don’t know how many times I’ve called to tell someone their loved one has died. I had to do it again last night. We had 3 code blues and 2 deaths in 1 night 1/

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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…on this app. Please know that when you tell the patient she doesn’t have the right to freely choose what happens to her body, this is a potential outcome. You have a PA and staff dealing with a patient crying through a procedure. (I felt guilty—they were the only ones who…

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If your clinic is prioritizing “outcomes” that show up in SART instead of actually caring for the patients in front of you, you are part of the problem. I am BEGGING you to do better. Please don’t blackmail informed patients into doing things they don’t want to do.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology

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The posting: "Scholars from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply." The department:

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@ErinWestgate Wow. They seem really great. I wonder how often they call their guests narcissistic and imbecilic.

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Things I wish I knew before experiencing workplace harassment: 1. The ombudsperson is not an advocate. They can give advice or share resources, but they are not “on your side.” 2. HR is there to protect the company. Be careful what you share with them. +

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When people say “we should just hire the best person” what they’re saying is the “best person” can’t possibly be Black, or a woman, or someone with disabilities. The “best person,” to them, will always be a white man.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Imagine choosing to specialize and being annoyed that people in other specialties don’t have the same expertise as you do, expertise that you btw get paid quite a lot of money for having.

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…they could have kids. What disturbs me the most about all this is that I, as a physician, am likely getting the best these clinics have to offer. It is extremely disconcerting to think about the experiences of people without health literacy or those who don’t feel…

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Kaitlyn Greenidge

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The prize committee that judges whether or not your novel about Black life in the US is sufficiently authentic

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Can someone please tell me about a similarly painful procedure men have to routinely experience without any medication?

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@NadijaRieser

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Just tried to get my IUD replaced. The got the old one out and could not get the new one in. When can we get sedation/better meds for IUDs? That was a very long and painful ~20 minutes with essentially no gain. 800 mg of ibuprofen doesn't cut it.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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…actually seemed to care, in a situation they didn’t create). I’m sure people will say it’s my own fault bc I chose to do this. That’s like saying the women at Yale’s REI clinic chose to have procedures without sedation. They needed the procedures so…

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

Did you know up to 200 women at Yale’s fertility center were forced to undergo egg retrievals without narcotics? These procedures are typically done under heavy sedation, but these women were awake enough to talk; one even told them she was alert enough to drive. These women…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

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We all know women make less money than men. Did you know people are compensated less for performing procedures on female patients than if performing similar procedures on male pts? We’ve know this in the US, where compensation is based on RVUs which are determined by a group of…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

2 years

Was paged at 2:30 in the morning and was told (when I called back) they were trying to reach the surgeon to update HIM on the patient’s condition. Even when THEY paged ME, they still didn’t understand I was the surgeon. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #OperatingWhileFemale

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

2 years

One of my favorite things about Grey’s Anatomy is how the surgeons constantly take patients to radiology and monitor their scans without a tech or radiologist in sight.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

4 years

Ever wondered how women scientists were erased from the records? Science historian Margaret Rossiter once asked whether there were ever women scientists. Perhaps it was the answer—no—that propelled her to discover the treatment of women in science. THREAD 1/

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

2 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but go ahead and close all those tabs in your web browser. You’re not going to read those articles.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

…is your problem, not hers. 2. If you are pretending to be a women’s advocate, don’t talk down to women and blame them for making the best of bad situations. And if you do do that, don’t come out with two fauxpologies. Either be truly sorry, or consider the jig may be up. 3…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

9 months

…comfortable speaking up. Over and over again, women going through infertility treatments have to “consent” to things we don’t want to do bc that’s the only way we can have babies. But if we’ve learned anything from The Retrievals, it’s that it doesn’t have to be this way…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

2 years

Normalize physicians as humans who have other needs and wants in life outside of patient care.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

There’s also this from @cheguerrero88 for those who don’t qyt see why this is problematic

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

3. If a celebrated scientist says he feels discriminated against “as a male scientist” without giving any evidence to back up his statement, resist the urge to defend him. Upholding the patriarchy is not the righteous move you seem to think it is. Hope that helps!

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

For the people saying they’re just hanging out with their friends: in Hollywood, as in most other circles, people who look like them hold the majority of the wealth, power, and status. The same people left out of their social networks are left out professionally too. That matters

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

10 months

Mississippi: *is the Blackest state in the nation, with 4-in-10 residents being Black* Mississippi's statewide leaders since 1890:

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

4 months

…at the risk of people like Dr. Candia-Bailey. As a Black woman, she already had to put up with so much. She shouldn’t have had to overcome this kind of mistreatment as well. What happened to her is an unforgivable tragedy. May she rest in power 💔

HBCU Buzz

@HBCUBuzz

4 months

On Jan. 8, VP of Student Affairs at Lincoln University (MO) Dr. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey died by suicide due to distress from “bullying & severe mistreatment” in her role. The community is now calling for the termination of President Dr. Moseley. A thread ⬇️ #HBCUBUZZ

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

4 years

Last night, for the 1st time in a long while, a patient of mine nearly died right in front of me. I knew that was likely to happen. But I wasn’t mentally prepared for it to happen w/in a few hours of my 1st shift, & especially not to the “healthiest” patient I was caring for. 1/

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

10 months

Cesar Estien 🇵🇸

@EstienCesar

10 months

“We especially encourage you to apply, especially if you are from a marginalized or underrepresented background”

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

4 months

…gets violent in meetings often enough that 1) people know and 2) warn newcomers about it, and his behavior is normalized. The first time I spoke to the ombuds about what they were doing to me, the response was, “Oh, this is what they do,” very matter of fact…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

2 years

“Living with Covid” doesn’t mean giving up on everything that protects us and those we love. To me, living with Covid means wearing a mask indoors.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

1 year

@drjanaway @stillgray Exactly. Went out of his way to dunk on a stranger who has done nothing to him. Meanwhile his tweet negatively impacts so many.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

2 years

Recruiter: What is your desired salary for this role? Me: I’d rather not say. Asking applicants this question disadvantages those who have been historically excluded and undervalued. Recruiter: We usually ask. Me: What is “usual” isn’t necessarily right.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

3 years

Shout out to all my single healthcare workers out there caring for dying people and going home to be alone and reflect on the sadness and tragedy we’re immersed in at work.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

@arghavan_salles

11 months

I saw a post from a woman physician who had her first baby at 42. It made me feel so much less alone. I guess it was a reminder that I should keep talking about my own journey, which feels never-ending, with one obstacle after another. But this is me at 43, still trying.

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