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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

@jjfitzgeraldMD

3 months

A ( long but I think worth reading) thread on Gynecologic Surgical reimbursement and how it affects all of us:

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

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4 years

In med school, I took an elective called "Stress", foolishly thinking I was going to learn about meditation and yoga. Instead the professor spent 6 weeks proving that being poor or a minority literally destroys your health on a molecular level, and I think about that every day.

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Baby boomers did a pretty good job teaching their millennial daughters that they could be anything they wanted to be and a pretty terrible job of preparing their sons for what that would mean for them as husbands and fathers

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We are so scared as a society about talking and educating openly about what really happens to women’s bodies after delivery and it is absolutely because we are afraid that with more information more women would forego motherhood. That is a concept people just can’t cope with.

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2 years

To all of the women coming to my office understandably enraged that nobody told them their vaginas could fall out from having babies: I am so sorry that for so long the patriarchy was scared of what you would do with that information.

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Until you have inserted a laparoscope into a dying patient’s abdomen full of blood you do not get to even breathe the inconceivable, femicidal falsehood that an ectopic pregnancy is a person.

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4 months

What if I told you there was a disease that tangles a woman’s organs together but the only money we’ve spent trying to figure out why is because sometimes it means she cant get pregnant

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IF YOU SEE A YOUNG PATIENT WITH A UTERUS AND GI SYMPTOMS AND DEBILITATING PELVIC PAIN AND ALL OF HER WORKUP HAS BEEN NEGATIVE SHE HAS ENDOMETRIOSIS UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE

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2 years

I taught the med students on OB/GYN this week and I could see the frustration on their faces when for question after question on the pathophys/treatment of COMMON diseases like fibroids, endometriosis, PCOS etc. I kept having to say “we don’t know, we just don’t know that yet”.

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I’m convinced that nobody goes into pregnancy knowing what a Urogynecologist is because then we’d have to admit up front WHY Urogynecologists need to exist (and why there’s a 6 month waiting list to see one).

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4 years

Stress, Immune Function, and Health: The Connection . This is the book he wrote, I have no gain in the promotion of it. It was just an amazing class!

Stress, Immune Function, and Health: The Connection

Written by a renowned figure in the field of immunology and compiling a wealth of scientific information, Stress, Immune Function, and Health: The Connection looks at the long-term effects of stress...

www.amazon.com

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

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5 months

Ladies: your pelvic floor is one of your most precious commodities for healthy aging. Please think very seriously about if childbirth is something YOU really want, or something society has taught you that you want.

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Women are out here crushing it because they were raised to want the life their fathers have—but unfortunately the men were also raised to want the life their fathers have. We all know the traditional role women play is not a good time

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We must ALWAYS always be on the side of trusting women with the full spectrum of information—good, bad, ugly—and allowing them to make informed choices. Life is messy with a lot of pros and cons to everything. But ignorance is not it.

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4 years

For those asking: I found 8 of his easy-to understand lectures on the effect of stress on your health (and tips for how to cope with it) organized online for free!

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2 years

Women can do absolutely whatever they want with the facts. They are capable of risk-assessing their own lives and values. They are allowed to make the empowered choice to not become mothers. You can’t claim to value women’s body autonomy AND downplay maternal birth outcomes.

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2 years

A non-medical friend recently asked me to describe clinic. I told her to imagine you have 20 meetings in a day, half of them new clients with urgent needs. Each requires your best self. You are late for at least 10 of them. You must prepare a report and deliverables for each one.

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1 year

Just read a letter of recommendation that described the applicant as “a no-drama worker bee”. You know immediately this is not a male applicant.

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2 years

I have never discussed postpartum pelvic floor conditions with a friend or patient and had them accuse me of fearmongering or increasing their anxiety. The universal response after “why hasn’t anyone ever told me this before!?”is “thank you so much for telling me this can happen”

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2 years

When the answer is that we’ve underfunded female reproductive health by 100 years and continue to do so.

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2 years

The dissonance between how vast female reproductive health is as a field to how relatively little we know about it is embarrassing and undercuts the seriousness of it all in the eyes of trainees. “If this was important, wouldn’t we know the answers?”

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3 years

I read somewhere recently that men are evaluated on their potential, but women are evaluated on their outcomes and I just cannot stop thinking about it

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Surprise: it’s because vaginas fall out, bladders leak, sex hurts, and anal tears lead to 💩 accidents. Anyone who sells the fantasy that vaginas just come out of expelling a 7lb person unscathed is living in a fairytale.

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11 months

As a doctor who treats bowel incontinence, I get this question almost weekly from my patients. I am here to formally announce that yes, the need to 💩 when you walk into Target or TJ Maxx is real. You can thank the neurotransmitter rush you get to your brain and your gut ✨

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4 years

Are you a woman? Did you use a credit card without a man co-signing for it today? RBG did that 💳

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The good news is, there are treatments available. The problem is that we only tell women about these on the back end after they’ve suffered and delayed care: this is damage control mode. Women deserve to GO INTO birth armed with what resources are available to them postpartum.

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2 years

Long story long, my personal and professional opinion is that choosing to withhold education to women on the common existence of pelvic floor conditions like POP because “they’re going to have babies and age anyway” is paternalistic. Trust women with their bodies always!

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1 year

If we put any real social value on childcare and domestic work the burden could be shared equally among professional parents. But we know that these traditionally female tasks get you zero fanfare/privilege in a world that defines economic success as 💰 so nobody wants to do it

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

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2 years

If there are two applicants for a position who are “equal on paper” and one of them was born with advantages and privilege and the other was not, then they are not equal. The person WITHOUT the advantages has in fact done and proven themselves more based on starting from behind.

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1 year

There are very good reasons people aren’t clamoring to do the thankless work of running a household, we don’t reward that with money, power, or influence in any kind of real way. If we did more men would sign up.

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2 years

It isn’t hard for patients to grasp the concept that there is no easy, risk-free way to have a baby or to age! But just as we can counsel about risks of cesarean we can educate on outcomes of vaginal delivery without it being rooted in fear. It can simply be educational.

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9 months

Women are really out here putting their pelvic floors on the line and then giving these kids their husbands name

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3 years

Just for once I’d love to attend a panel of men discussing “work-life balance.” How DO they do it all!? 🤔

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5 months

Did you know? If a patient goes into the hospital and is diagnosed with a twisted and dying ovary (ovarian torsion) there is no surgical billing code for the procedure to untwist it? But there sure is for testicular torsion.

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

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4 years

cc: @JWLuiza that class was really ahead of its time. Everyone should have to take it.

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2 years

Ob/Gyn needs every medical professional with us right now. We know how bad this will get and silence is no longer an option.

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And it happens to 1 in 10 of them and slowly debilitates them over time. #endometriosis

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It has to be said that gaslighting a woman that her symptoms are “just anxiety or stress” is a modern day hysteria diagnosis

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Almost every Gynecologic surgeon I know has a story about being told that they “were wasting their talent” by doing an Ob/Gyn residency. As though women don’t deserve great surgeons.

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2 years

It will never not bother me that med school taught about endometriosis like it was a zebra 🦓 when in fact it is a HORSE 🐎

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1 year

Healthcare providers: please STOP refusing to fill birth control pills without an annual appointment. The risks of prescribing them do not outweigh the benefits of holding them hostage.

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1 year

Regular reminder from a vaginal surgeon that a “husband stitch” after delivering a baby is assault.

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1 year

@NataliaHodgins The doctor who delivered my son told me I should be grateful he didn't give me a c-section and that the "husband stitch" he secretly gave me "might make" sex more painful for me but better for my husband

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2 years

There are many, many well cited studies and sources on both the anatomic and symptomatic epidemiology of pelvic organ and vaginal prolapse but here is a good resource

Narrative review of the epidemiology, diagnosis and pathophysiology of pelvic organ prolapse

ABSTRACT The exact prevalence of pelvic organ prolapse is difficult to establish. The anatomical...

www.scielo.br

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2 years

In my rage tweeting I should have put they/them, I apologize. ALSO in a patient who is post-hyst these symptoms can also be present, especially if they had a hyst but the Endo was never removed.

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4 years

@AliviaBlount I think it was that in studies you can control for pretty much ANY difference between two groups of people and the enormous discrepancy in disease (both under a microscope AND epidemiologically) remains when you live in an unstable, uncertain, dangerous environment 💔

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3 years

I am of the opinion that if you are a medical provider and tell a woman that her physical symptoms are all in her head that you should lose your license to practice.

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2 years

I’m just a girl Standing in front of an insurance company Asking them to please cover the medications I prescribed very thoughtfully after 16 years of medical training

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2 years

I’m the kind of surgeon who repairs birth trauma and let me tell you with complete and absolute certainty that forced birth is an assassination of human rights.

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4 years

@julieboiko YES! He was a real pioneer (there are so many people studying this, of course) but as an immunologist to study the effects of REAL stress and then turn it into a course on social determinants of disease for Med students was truly commendable.

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3 years

This is not at all my usual content, but my mom and I made these ravioli roses today!🥰 🌹 🍝

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2 years

One of the most outrageous inequities and injustices in medicine is how we treat, teach, and research female pelvic pain. Because we don’t.

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2 years

@o0oCLauDiaaa @feliciamesser It SURE ISNT. I am just so so tired of the sugarcoating of pregnancy that perpetuates generation after generation, it invalidates the female experience

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2 years

Just in case anyone thinks I am just making this up, there are studies that show prenatal education on postpartum pelvic floor disorders DECREASES the trauma response

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3 years

When patients tell me, “You look so young!” ...ma’am, I haven’t seen the sun since 2003

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4 years

@dremilyportermd In defense of interns and gynecologists (lifesaving surgeons who don’t really deserve to be the “joke” specialty used to imply incompetence, it plays into the sexist idea that vaginas aren’t serious)—ANY specialty intern on July 1 would be equally inexperienced at intubating 🤷🏼‍♀️

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4 years

WOW! The Post-Gazette wrote about him TODAY! He really is like Mr. Rogers meets Bill Nye. Awesome. via @PittsburghPG

Us: Dr. Stress to the rescue during pandemic

He’s retired now but Dr. Bruce Rabin continues his mission of helping people reduce stress, especially children.

www.post-gazette.com

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There’s a 6 month waiting list to see a Urogynecologist/Female Pelvic Floor specialist because in the US we train one Urogynecologist per state per year. But 44 million women will have a pelvic floor disorder (prolapse, incontinence) by 2050. The math is not mathing 🧮

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5 months

I won’t be entertaining any suggestion that arming women with more information about the risks and benefits of childbirth is anti-natalist. In doing so you show your sexist bias towards choice. Having wanted and thoughtfully considered children is a beautiful thing.

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2 years

A lovely review

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4 years

And another book for everyone (again, I have no connection to this!) but think these are some tools we have right now to help buffer what is wild systematic inequality. Be well all. 💙

Coping with Stress for Mental and Physical Health and Longevity

I have three primary goals, and I want you to be aware of these now. I also want you to know that sometimes you may be uncomfortable with what you are hearing. However, it is important to understand...

www.amazon.com

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3 years

To the people “upset” over the declining birth rate: this is a wake up call to the fact that women realize society doesn’t provide an iota of support for what mothers need, and are unwilling to pay the exorbitant personal price of becoming one. Sounds like there is work to do.

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2 years

If 10% of men had a disease that caused debilitating penis pain, peritonitis, infertility, a bladder that felt like a chronic UTI, and trouble pooping, we would have a congressional order to treat it like a national emergency. #endometriosis

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2 years

@metacognisant EXACTLY! It prepares people. They feel armed with knowledge.

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2 years

The entrenched myth that pregnancy and birth is safe, easy, routine, “natural”, or no-big-deal and without immediate or long term serious consequences to the person carrying that pregnancy has played a significant role in getting us to this point.

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When you say Ob/Gyns aren’t surgeons, you’re telling every woman who has had a C-section, hysterectomy, vaginal reconstruction, fibroid removal, endometriosis excision, ovarian cancer debulking that her surgery (and thus her diseases) are not real/important/painful/valid. STOP.

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4 years

@AbdullahHaroo16 IMO every student should have to take this course! It was mind-blowing. All factors controlled for, age, gender, obesity, there was no other explanation for the enormous difference in the profiles of immune systems and health outcomes of people born into disadvantage. Real stress

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2 years

@shaheenkhazali No women were available for this?

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@searching4blue 💯 we treat IC, pelvic floor dysfunction, UTIs, etc etc!

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2 years

And here is my entire thread on the subject. So many think that education about prolapse is rooted in vaginal delivery vs. c-section—but it is not. It is simply empowering information.

Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

@jjfitzgeraldMD

2 years

As promised, a tweetorial on pelvic organ and vaginal prolapse!

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As promised, a tweetorial on pelvic organ and vaginal prolapse!

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3 years

When your dad @ACE_Fitzgerald trends on twitter for 🔥roasting🔥 @tedcruz and being the yinzer Will McEvoy/Jeff Daniels >>>>

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3 years

Since we are on the topic of vaccines these days, this is as good as of a time as any to remind everyone that Gardasil (the HPV vaccine) is approved for MEN and WOMEN up to the age of 45 and is useful even if you already have HPV because it is for NINE strains! 🥳

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If Twitter folds, I’d like to thank you all for allowing me to die on the following small mountain range of hills; Women’s health is underfunded, undervalued, and underpaid relative to the immense skill involved OB/GYN is too big and too complex to be contained into one field

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@dremilyportermd We need to ask what internalized misogyny we have that makes even women quickly jump to flippantly diminishing an entire field of medicine (that takes care of women!) and use us as a joke to make a serious point. No more tearing down women to validate other ideas. #WearADamnMask

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3 years

Be nice to your med school classmates, you’ll be texting them questions for the rest of your career

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It would be just so, so great if the millions of men who have benefited from abortion could jump in here and speak up with us.

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A thread 🧵 on some MATERNAL (not fetal, that’s another huge thread) consequences of forced birth from an OB/GYN and Urogynecologic surgeon who repairs postpartum maternal trauma:

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To my OB/GYN colleagues in Texas: I really am in a state of panicked confusion—how are you going to do your job? How are you going to do it without going to jail? Are women just going to bleed to death in the ER? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO!?

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3 years

Stop telling women they have ovarian cysts when they SIMPLY ARE OVULATING

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10 months

Did you hear that ladies? Your c-sections, hysterectomies, laparoscopies for ectopics, endometriosis, fibroids, torsions, hysteroscopies, ovarian cancer debulkings, pelvic reconstructions, D&Cs etc don’t count as surgery! Don’t even think about needing time to recover 🙃

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@jfitzgeraldMD Got told on my gen surg rotation I had the skills to be a surgeon to which I replied that I wanted to do OBGYN. The response “that doesn’t count.” 🙄

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For as self-aware as @chrissyteigen is, I don’t think even she fully comprehends how much of a WATERSHED MOMENT sharing her and John’s pain is for women’s health. She has exploded the cover off of the often dark reality, morbidity, and deep complexity of pregnancy. Thank you.

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That erectile dysfunction medication is covered by insurance to make penises work into old age, but a complimentary female medication, vaginal estrogen cream, is NOT covered by insurance, creates a wildly unequal situation for unlubricated women and their Viagra-ed partners.

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Today is the perfect day to remind the medical community that Labor and Delivery IS the Emergency Room for pregnant women and thusly the staff of that unit should be on the vaccine priority list.

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1 year

I have had to undo the over-correction of vaginal laceration repair more than makes me comfortable in the year of our lord 2022. Any doctor who is thinking about a man’s sexual pleasure while managing the trauma of a delivery should be fired and lose their license on the spot.

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@SwiftiePaulie @powerpoints101 Couldnt agree with you more. The cure for the real problem isn't in a doctors office, it is fixing the system. This class was on how to try and reverse some of the body/mental damage once it has been done, which is the wrong order 100%

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3 years

If men had uteruses, the doctors with all of the uterus knowledge would be paid like neurosurgeons or cardiologists.

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One of my friends, herself an OB/GYN in Texas (her husband is also an OB/GYN) found out last week at her anatomy ultrasound that her baby had anencephaly, exactly as depicted in this ad. They got on a plane and flew to Pennsylvania this week for her abortion.

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After a brief conversation, the doctor hangs up the phone and tells the parents, “Yeah, that’s gonna be a no. Best of luck to you.”

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I would challenge every med student who shows up to their OB/GYN rotation to ask themselves what their preconceived notions are of being in a high-stakes, predominantly female environment before deciding if it’s truly hostile or not in an evaluation.

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Imagine taking an oath to do no harm that you can no longer keep. OB/GYNs are often the the only wall standing between women and death. We are not ok today.

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For those who aren’t aware: I am a Urogynecologist, which means I am a pelvic floor surgeon who repairs vaginal damage (mostly, not all) from childbirth, aging, etc. These disorders are my entire job and the waitlist is long. These are treatable but rarely reversible, issues.

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@Mediterranean_Z It happens to 1/3 of women in their lifetime 👀

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In my experience women’s instincts for knowing when something in their bodies is not quite right is unmatched

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3 years

For Mother’s Day, let’s get baby changing tables in men’s rooms.

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You aren’t a true Maxxinista until you know there the 🚽 is. ✨

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@ShadyBeautyMD29 A little different but related! They are both neurologic/parasympathetic conditioning processes

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I honestly feel bad sometimes telling people what I do for a living because they realize how common pelvic floor disorders are that a WHOLE DOCTOR type exists to treat them

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@jjfitzgeraldMD

4 years

Medical trainees such as residents and fellows are, on an hourly basis, paid the least of almost anybody in the hospital, work the most, take the highest risks, and cannot, in most scenarios, unionize. They (among many others) deserve Hazard Pay. 1/

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

@jjfitzgeraldMD

4 years

I am shattered at the idea that Justice Ginsburg had to die feeling like our democracy rested on her shoulders. I pray that she died knowing that she saved us—and she raised a generation of women and men in her strength. I beg of you—vote. For Ruth.

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

@jjfitzgeraldMD

4 years

@CoquiTalksTrash Daily, try to meet patients where they are and understand their barriers to health. Teach others who didn’t get the same opportunities I did. More broadly, raise awareness and vote 😇

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

@jjfitzgeraldMD

1 year

My q6 month tweet request to PLEASE stop prescribing Cipro for UTIs unless it is the literal only oral option. 🧫 💊

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Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

@jjfitzgeraldMD

3 years

If you were one of the “starters” you’re a surgeon now I don’t make the rules

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