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I’m A Doctor. The Things I’m Now Being Trained To Do In Trump’s America Are Terrifying.

July 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Reposted by Dipti S. Barot

Noah Michelson

@noahmichelson.bsky.social

"There are no sacred spaces in this regime of terror"

@diptisbarot.bsky.social has a chilling new essay up on @huffpost.com Personal today about what her life is like as a doctor in the United States right now and it's absolutely terrifying

“It was then I realized that I was being prepared to be a doctor in an emerging police state.”

Contributor: The heroes of the resistance are stepping up

July 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM

Reposted by Dipti S. Barot

Mariel Garza

@marielgarza.bsky.social

I'm happy to say that despite interference from the owner, the LA Times Opinion team is still publishing powerful pieces like this one from @diptisbarot.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The Trump administration is playing a losing game of whack-a-mole trying to silence the growing chorus of critics.

Contributor: The heroes of the resistance are stepping up

March 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

I wrote this because, "This is America. You should be able to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute, and a genocide a genocide." Thanks to @latimes.com for the platform.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The Trump administration is playing a losing game of whack-a-mole trying to silence the growing chorus of critics.

There’s only one way to describe the A’s leaving Oakland: Generational theft

March 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 9/26/2024 about the generational theft of the Oakland A's.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

At the final Saturday night A’s game at the Coliseum, I saw the end of another sports era caused by another greedy billionaire stealing joy from generations

Opinion: How can Usha Vance stand by her husband as he fans bigotry?

March 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @latimes.com on 9/23/2024. The question posed: How can Usha Vance stand by her husband as he fans bigotry?

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

JD Vance, the GOP vice presidential candidate, used to say he deplored Donald Trump. Now they both foment hate for nonwhite people. But Usha Vance knows better.

My father-in-law can't fight cancer and his insurance company at the same time

March 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 6/17/2024. I wrote about my father-in-law with Stage 4 cancer and the ways his insurance company tries to deny him the care he needs.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

My father-in-law is fighting for his life. The last thing he needs is to be fighting his insurance company, too.

Grieving for Gaza — and my friend Marla

March 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 5/19/2024. I described it as, "not perfect, and certainly not everything I wanted was in there, but I did my best."

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

My friend Marla recently came to me in a dream. She was an American killed by a Hamas bomb in Jerusalem in 2002, shortly after we both graduated college.

Dedicated doctors are leaving medicine. This isn’t burnout. It’s a medical crisis

March 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 7/6/2023. "This isn’t burnout. You can only destroy yourself so long fighting to provide the kind of care you can barely countenance."
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Some of the best people I know in health care are jumping ship and precious little is being done to stem the tide of what is a clinician exodus.

My father made a promise to his mother. When she died, he had just hours to keep it.

March 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 5/14/2023. I had the privilege of telling my father's story about a promise he made to his mother.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

My father’s vow to honor his mother’s request and perform her last rites in India stretched him to his limits.

COVID hit the class of 2023 hard. Do they think of themselves as victims?

March 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 12/24/2022. My nephew and his friends, part of the Covid Class of 2023, reflected on their time in high school.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

They’ve faced lockdowns, a mental health crisis and the dawn of climate change. What does the COVID class of 2023 think of the world they’re poised to inherit?

New COVID variants are sending immunocompromised people like me back to solitary confinement

March 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 11/14/2022. I wrote about the impact of new Covid variants on the immunocompromised.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Evusheld was a game-changer for immunocompromised like me. But the drug may no longer work against new variants.

In my mother's kitchen, Diwali came early this year

March 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @salonnewsroom.bsky.social on 10/24/2022. I wrote this piece to honor my Mom and our Diwali traditions, knowing that I am not promised more of these moments.

www.salon.com/2022/10/24/i...

Given who my Mom is, a little cancer or chemo was never going to get in the way of her annual Diwali food operation.

www.salon.com

March 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @latimes.com on 10/20/2022. I wrote at the time, "The only people for whom COVID is truly over are the thousands who die each week because of it."

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: New COVID strains are coming. It's no time to let down our guard

Vulnerable people will pay with their lives. Some simple precautions would make a huge difference in mitigating spread of the disease and reducing its death toll.

As a doctor in California, my life hasn’t changed since the end of Roe. I’m disgusted by that.

March 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 8/30/2022. I wrote, "If ever there were a time for doctors to have an “I’m Spartacus” moment...that time is now."

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

This moment in history compels us to ask ourselves: Do we have the requisite courage to...

My aging mom fell. If I weren’t a doctor, our health care system wouldn’t have helped her up

March 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 7/17/2022. Nothing spells failure like your Mom falling on your watch as her Mother’s Day turns to night in the ER.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

Every encounter with our medical system feels like it’s a fight for our lives.

My Dad Made An 'Immigrant Float' For Our July 4th Parade And Something Beautiful Happened

March 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @huffpost.com on 7/4/2022. I wrote this "to remind people that unless you were indigenous, you came from somewhere else."

www.huffpost.com/entry/july-4...

"The local police tried to dissuade him from moving forward, saying that they could not make any promises about our safety. Dad refused."

Thank you, Andrew Wiggins, for getting vaccinated

March 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. Published by @fansided.bsky.social on 6/17/2022. I wrote about the Warriors' NBA championship and thanked Andrew Wiggins for getting vaccinated against Covid.

fansided.com/2022/06/17/a...

Andrew Wiggins made a sacrifice, setting aside his concerns and getting vaccinated against Covid. The Warriors couldn't have won without it.

fansided.com

March 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 6/10/2022. I wrote about my nephew’s high school in Berkeley that had just averted a mass shooting.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

My nephew’s high school in Berkeley just averted a mass shooting. Liberal communities are not immune

Gun violence is a manifestation of the sickness in society we all helped create.

A new COVID shot could make ‘normal’ safe again. So why am I one of the few to get it?

March 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 5/6/2022 about Evusheld, used for the immune compromised as pre-exposure prophylaxis.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Not enough high-risk patients know about Evusheld, and neither do their providers....

My 11-Year-Old Patient Was Pregnant. Here's What I Want You To Know About Being 'Pro-Life.'

March 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @huffpost.com on 5/3/2022. Our clinic rooms will always be too small for anybody but providers and our patients.

www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...

"Our medical assistant came to me, panicked, and handed me a positive test. ... 'Run it again,' I sputtered — to buy some time and gather my wits and hope by some miracle it would produce a different ...

Contributor: My friend the nurse who gives her all needed help. The healthcare system let her down

March 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @latimes.com on 4/2/2022 about the failure of the healthcare system in the context of our healthcare workers.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

As a healthcare worker, my friend was pushed to the brink during the pandemic — and almost no one came through for her.

I Was A COVID Doctor. Here's The One Thing I Refuse To Do As We 'Get Back To Normal.'

March 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was about Covid and "getting back to normal" published by @huffpost.com on 3/15/2022.

www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...

"For the past two years, I have wanted a megaphone to drown out the voices of those who didn’t seem to mind if their policies landed me in a body bag."

Lifting the California mask mandate basically says chronically ill and disabled lives don’t matter

March 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a piece about lifting the mask mandates and the effect on the immune compromised published by @sfchronicle.com on 2/16/2022.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

When you prioritize the lives of the most vulnerable, everyone is protected.

Omicron can still kill you. Here’s what it took to get the pills I needed to save my mom

March 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Dipti S. Barot

@diptisbarot.bsky.social

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was about our broken healthcare system and the Omicron variant published by @sfchronicle.com on 2/22/2022.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

For those most at risk of falling gravely ill, COVID treatments like Paxlovid are quickly...