Tulsa Shooting Timeline: May 19, gunman had back surgery May 24, discharged home from hospital May 29, purchased semiautomatic handgun May 31, received additional treatment for back pain June 1, 2pm purchased AR-15 rifle June 1, 5pm killed his doctors 13 days after surgery.

I believe all medical schools should have people from the local community on their admissions committees, especially when it sits in an area like North Philly. I am so proud to have been Chair of the Student Diversity Council and helped spearhead this initiative.

This is 4 hours of traumas at my hospital... There is NO internal consistency for lawmakers who believe in the sanctity of life so much to ban abortion, but not enough to fight for gun control. FYI, GSW = Gun Shot Wound. #ThisIsOurLane #DoctorsForGunSafety #GunControlNow

Breonna Taylor should be with her family today, celebrating her 29th birthday, but police violence took that away from her. The system failed you, Breonna. We won’t forget. Rest In Power.

I am not over the fact that a gun company made a gun named the Crusader, stamped Psalm 144:1 on it, it's in such high demand that there's a 12-18 month waiting period, and we don't treat it as a call for religious terrorism.

Tough night in the ED. Was reprimanded by one man who was approached by another man who felt disrespected by me but didn’t want to address me directly out of fear of being misogynistic. The reprimanding man suggested that I take things less personally. #FemInEM

hey (with the intention of making sure you’re up-to-date on your routine vaccinations because the first polio case reported in the U.S. in almost a decade was just detected)

Clinically, the #ED is the access point to the healthcare system. Academically, the ED can/should be the driver of research that demonstrates societal/institutional -isms to better care and accountability to underserved pts. #socialEM

Best/worst exit line, from my back pain pt in the ED: “just like herpes, I’ll be back!”

Healthcare is a human right but so is respecting one’s dignity to decline it. Wrote about how Mayor Eric Adams’s involuntary #mentalhealth street sweeps will be dangerous to patients and hospitals. shorturl.at/HMQT6

Today Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled a $1B plan to: -Bring those 850 beds back online -Add 42 ACT teams, including 22 in NYC, where I found hundreds waiting for a spot -Introduce new policies for hospitals to determine when to admit/discharge psych patients subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023/0…

What a treat to get special time with the genius and generous Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA during her visit to @Sinai_Emerg_Med academic consortium! cc: Sinai EM NCSP at Penn National CSP Penn EM Residency

Despite public perceptions that AsianAms oppose affirmative action, AAPI Data found 70% of AsianAms FAVOR affirmative action. But 1 group stands apart in opposition: Chinese Americans. Here are some thoughts as a Chinese American in academia (thread):

"And now it's 'Oh my God, we have to save these people.' When it was us, it was just criminal charges and just deal with it." 🚨📜Read our new publication in Soc Sci & Medicine Max Jordan Nguemeni Sara Jacoby Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

Superstar Lisa MacDonald presenting results from our scoping review on Medicaid policy & health and non-health outcomes for people with a history of incarceration at ACCJH Ben Howell Mount Sinai Department of Emergency Medicine Sinai EM

News🚨via today's afternoon Playbook: New York hospitals will be required to waive charges for patients who earn 200% or less of the federal poverty level, thanks to a new policy in the state budget being finalized now.

This one’s for the EMTALA nerds

My stomach is in knots over the EMTALA case in the Supreme Court today. Here’s what’s at stake:

Proud of my New York City Council member Yusef Abdus Salaam