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Esther Choo
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Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Writer | Health Services Research | Public Health

Preserving a modicum of peace where I can. If engagement is not respectful, I will block.

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Esther Choo is an emergency physician and professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. She is a popular science communicator who has used social media to talk about racism and sexism in healthcare. She was the president of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine and is a member of the American Association of Women Emergency Physicians. She was a co-founder and a board member of Time's Up. On February 26, 2021, Choo was named in a lawsuit against OHSU alleging that Choo failed to take action when she was made aware of an alleged sexual assault involving Dr. Jason Campbell, who became popular on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic. .. more

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Sep 1
From nine former CDC directors, who collectively worked at the agency for more than 100 years:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Read every word.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Esther K. Choo

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10h
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.

Reposted by Esther K. Choo

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Esther K. Choo, Michael Zimmer , and 3 more

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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 15h
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 2d
This is a still from SNL, which spoofed the scene today in its cold open

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 2d
SNL tonight lol

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 3d
I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.
An elderly man has had a syncope event and everyone else in the room rushed over to help. The president stands facing the camera without apparent curiosity or empathy about the event.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 3d
You just know these quiet heroes at the Oregon Department of Human Services hustled to get the payments out the door knowing families depend on them
Oregon DHS worked quickly to get SNAP payments out through its EBT vendor to make funds available as soon as the court order to fully fund the program went through

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 4d
“an economy that works great for those at the very top and leaves everyone else hanging on by their fingernails” www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/rese...
UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need
This past year has been indelibly shaped by concentrated wealth and power. The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion weal
www.oxfamamerica.org

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4d
Important study

Children & adolescents are "far more likely to experience rare but serious heart & inflammatory conditions after a COVID-19 infection than after being vaccinated–and the risks after infection lasted much longer"

Next post has link to study itself

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www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
COVID-19 infection poses higher, longer heart risks to children than vaccination
A comprehensive analysis of English health records finds higher risk of rare heart complications in children and adolescents who caught COVID-19 compared to those who received an mRNA-based COVID vacc...
www.gavi.org

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 6d
“We take oaths to the Constitution, not to KINGS”

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 6d
Governors have never mattered more - @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 6d
[Narrator]: bsky.app/profile/ally...
allybaster.bsky.social Jess Conger-Henry @allybaster.bsky.social · 6d
And yet, he will not.

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Jess Conger-Henry @allybaster.bsky.social · 6d
And yet, he will not.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 6d
This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 12d
“just as the gov’t stops addressing food insecurity & as healthcare costs skyrocket, the admin permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores…” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-29... - Heather Cox Richardson, continuing to witness this disaster
October 29, 2025
Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 12d
Sometimes the primary relevant diagnoses are cruelty and greed.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13d
POV: YOU’RE ASIAN

You call every woman too old to be your sibling and too young to be your grandmother “Auntie,” this is just reality, neither I nor Zohran Mamdani makes the rules
davidschwartzny • 10h MOLINA: How can you, Zohran Mamdani, convince New Yorkers to go and vote for you when you just said you lied? MAMDANI: It's not a lie; my father's cousin is my aunt. G 2 • 2.1K + de

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 24d
Local #NoKings First Aid team = Ready

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NPR @npr.org · 29d
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Oct 2
And that it was specifically in response to these kinds of shitty beliefs about “people like this don’t get care here”!

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Oct 2
Wait until he hears that the rule is that we see people in order of acuity and time in department. Period.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 1
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 1
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Oct 1
Just keep fighting those cat wars

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Oct 1
Bin-go

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Sep 30
Make it make sense

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Sep 30
Soothing the pain with matcha bubble tea and whimsical donuts, of course

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Sep 30
If you get shot your assailant’s gun was a right

If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Sep 28
I work in the ER and have gotten no alerts about backup staffing needs. Today my kid’s trumpet lesson got canceled because his teacher is under the weather. Went to the carwash instead. Sun is out. What were we talking about?