My Viewpoint published today on #EMTALA Case before #SCOTUS . It is reckless for Idaho to tell emergency physicians they must ignore their moral/ethical standards and stand by while a pregnant patient's sepsis or hemorrhage threatens their health. ama-assn.org/about/leadersh…

As a surgeon at a level one trauma center, I deal with life or limb situations every day. Idaho would have me ignore the limb part. Their arguments are abhorrent, and are anathema to everything the medical profession stands for. This article says it better than I ever could.

If you read one thing about the Iowa abortion argument in SCOTUS today, make it this! An ER doctor patiently disassembles the state's arguments. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

Calling on my physician friends to sign our national letter calling on The Supreme Court to rule in favor of doctors and patients and protect #EMTALA . Abortion care is healthcare, and no judge or politician should get between us and our patients.

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This argument imagines a world where physicians would, or should, purposefully allow people to be patently at risk of death before intervening.
Esther Choo, MD MPH

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“Our emergency licensing board exams don’t test us on ‘Massachusetts medicine’ or ‘Texas medicine.’ We have a national standard of practice. Emergency physicians in all states need access to the full range of stabilizing treatments for the full range of conditions we see.”

The conclusion of “personhood” amendments is the end of IVF, depriving thousands from help to HAVE CHILDREN. Only pro-choice legislators can save Pennsylvania from this nonsense.

Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are ‘children’ - POLITICO politico.com/news/2024/02/2…

“The first study says that 1 in 10 people who had Covid when they were pregnant will develop #LongCovid ”

“The results were shared at Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s annual meeting in Maryland. Researchers used data from NIH Recover Initiative”
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🚨A company tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations for anti-abortion ads & “provided that data for one of the largest anti-abortion ad campaigns in the nation.”

Congress must pass the amendment THIS THURSDAY to close the data broker loophole. politico.com/news/2024/02/1…

I cancelled my New York Times subscription this morning. I'll miss the recipes. p.s. You don't have to like Biden to dislike a newspaper fawning on a clown who wants to be a dictator.

This is crazy!!

8 students have been hospitalized so far after a hate crime against pro-Palestinian and Palestinian students on campus two days ago. Still no word from Columbia University University.

Today, I am proud to announce my re-election campaign as the State Representative for McCandless, Franklin Park, Ohio Twp, Kilbuck, Emsworth, Ben Avon, Ben Avon Heights Borough, and western Township of Hampton. 🧵

2024 just called and says we're still not properly acknowledging Long Covid.

It's 26 degrees in Denver, a temp that ppl experiencing homelessness can be forcibly displaced & have their belongings taken. So do me a favor read this very short thread 1/

.@grantwahl's legacy is celebrated in a new anthology of his works, WORLD CLASS, coming out June 4, 2024 & available for preorder now:
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I'm honored to have written the foreword.