Ben Brown, MD, MS (he / him)
@benbrownmd.bsky.social
Obstetrician-gynecologist, Policy researcher, Ethicist, Quaker. Asst Prof at Brown University.
https://vivo.brown.edu/display/bbrown#All
https://vivo.brown.edu/display/bbrown#All
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Teen who lost his hearing from Neisseria meningitis
Baby in ICU for >1 month w/ Pertussis
Child in liver failure from hepatitis A
Young adult w/ asthma who died from flu
👆🏻 All are vaccine-preventable illnesses I saw in pediatric training
#medsky #vaccine
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Baby in ICU for >1 month w/ Pertussis
Child in liver failure from hepatitis A
Young adult w/ asthma who died from flu
👆🏻 All are vaccine-preventable illnesses I saw in pediatric training
#medsky #vaccine
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination programs with RFK Jr.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.
www.reuters.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Teen who lost his hearing from Neisseria meningitis
Baby in ICU for >1 month w/ Pertussis
Child in liver failure from hepatitis A
Young adult w/ asthma who died from flu
👆🏻 All are vaccine-preventable illnesses I saw in pediatric training
#medsky #vaccine
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Baby in ICU for >1 month w/ Pertussis
Child in liver failure from hepatitis A
Young adult w/ asthma who died from flu
👆🏻 All are vaccine-preventable illnesses I saw in pediatric training
#medsky #vaccine
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
No one should have to go into debt in order to access care in the first place…
The crushing medical debt we experience in this country is a policy choice. We can also make choices to prevent it.
That said, I am very happy for these 11,500 people!
#MedSky #ObGynSky #HealthPolicy
The crushing medical debt we experience in this country is a policy choice. We can also make choices to prevent it.
That said, I am very happy for these 11,500 people!
#MedSky #ObGynSky #HealthPolicy
North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
'Like a miracle': N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years
The lien on Donna and Gary Lindabury's home for a 2009 heart surgery debt was among 11,500 wiped away by Atrium Health after an NBC News report.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:56 PM
No one should have to go into debt in order to access care in the first place…
The crushing medical debt we experience in this country is a policy choice. We can also make choices to prevent it.
That said, I am very happy for these 11,500 people!
#MedSky #ObGynSky #HealthPolicy
The crushing medical debt we experience in this country is a policy choice. We can also make choices to prevent it.
That said, I am very happy for these 11,500 people!
#MedSky #ObGynSky #HealthPolicy
The Womxn Project educates, advocates, and organizes for bodily freedom in Rhode Island!
Donate $40 or more as a one time donation, or make a sustaining donation to receive a small piece of unique art as a token of our appreciation this #GivingTuesday2024.
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Donate $40 or more as a one time donation, or make a sustaining donation to receive a small piece of unique art as a token of our appreciation this #GivingTuesday2024.
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TWP Ed Fund: Giving Tuesday 2024
❤️ Support the continued actions and community stregthening as we defend Bodily Freedom Forever in Rhode Island ❤️
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December 3, 2024 at 1:19 PM
The Womxn Project educates, advocates, and organizes for bodily freedom in Rhode Island!
Donate $40 or more as a one time donation, or make a sustaining donation to receive a small piece of unique art as a token of our appreciation this #GivingTuesday2024.
givebutter.com/c/GivingTues...
Donate $40 or more as a one time donation, or make a sustaining donation to receive a small piece of unique art as a token of our appreciation this #GivingTuesday2024.
givebutter.com/c/GivingTues...
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Hi, we're Physicians for Reproductive Health.
We're over 500 physicians breaking down health policy and building community to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Going into a second Trump administration, we must amplify voices of science and justice. You in?
We're over 500 physicians breaking down health policy and building community to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Going into a second Trump administration, we must amplify voices of science and justice. You in?
November 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Hi, we're Physicians for Reproductive Health.
We're over 500 physicians breaking down health policy and building community to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Going into a second Trump administration, we must amplify voices of science and justice. You in?
We're over 500 physicians breaking down health policy and building community to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Going into a second Trump administration, we must amplify voices of science and justice. You in?
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Thank you to all the clinicians & advocates who made this stellar ACOG statement about self-managed abortion possible:
“Health care professionals should recognize that the greatest risk of harm related to SMA is the harm resulting from potential criminalization.”
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
“Health care professionals should recognize that the greatest risk of harm related to SMA is the harm resulting from potential criminalization.”
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
Self-Managed Abortion
www.acog.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Thank you to all the clinicians & advocates who made this stellar ACOG statement about self-managed abortion possible:
“Health care professionals should recognize that the greatest risk of harm related to SMA is the harm resulting from potential criminalization.”
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
“Health care professionals should recognize that the greatest risk of harm related to SMA is the harm resulting from potential criminalization.”
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
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I think in the near future, it will be especially important to have effective science communicators. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I thought it might be useful to explain my major principles for science communication that I use in my own work 🧵:
November 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I think in the near future, it will be especially important to have effective science communicators. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I thought it might be useful to explain my major principles for science communication that I use in my own work 🧵:
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Academic decision algorithm v 7.0- a testament to #SocialMedia peer review, as all versions past 1.0 were improved upon by feedback from colleagues on
social media
social media
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Academic decision algorithm v 7.0- a testament to #SocialMedia peer review, as all versions past 1.0 were improved upon by feedback from colleagues on
social media
social media
Since yesterday morning, I have attended a half-dozen births, staffed multiple ER consults for gynecologic symptoms, provided medication and procedural abortion care, taught some incredible resident doctors, read my book club book, snuggled my dogs, and watched a movie.
#Abortion is normal.
#Abortion is normal.
November 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Since yesterday morning, I have attended a half-dozen births, staffed multiple ER consults for gynecologic symptoms, provided medication and procedural abortion care, taught some incredible resident doctors, read my book club book, snuggled my dogs, and watched a movie.
#Abortion is normal.
#Abortion is normal.
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
Reposted by Ben Brown, MD, MS (he / him)
Reposted by Ben Brown, MD, MS (he / him)
An abortion researchers starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/SHS3EQa
November 15, 2024 at 1:03 PM
An abortion researchers starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/SHS3EQa
Good morning, Bluesky.
Abortion is healthcare.
I love the communities I’m part of, and the communities I care for.
Let’s keep doing the work.
Abortion is healthcare.
I love the communities I’m part of, and the communities I care for.
Let’s keep doing the work.
November 14, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
Abortion is healthcare.
I love the communities I’m part of, and the communities I care for.
Let’s keep doing the work.
Abortion is healthcare.
I love the communities I’m part of, and the communities I care for.
Let’s keep doing the work.