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Emily Fridenmaker
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Wife | Mom | Appalachian | MD | Pulmonary & Critical Care
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Watching the second half tonight which is much more crying than cackling.
Introducing my 9yo to Fiddler on the Roof and he is CACKLING. He loves Tevye.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Candle burning, cat purring, electric blanket on, gray sky outside with leaves falling, Psycho on the TV. Vacation mode activated.
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Gotta be honest RFK jr. sprinting away from you is probably the very most he can support your health.
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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nobody needs a billion $$.
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Introducing my 9yo to Fiddler on the Roof and he is CACKLING. He loves Tevye.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Fall evenings and hush puppies
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Rewatching Stranger Things and season 3 was so good. 😭
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I am scheduled for venofer next month and if I feel like a new person after getting it I’m going to be mad that I waited a decade to do it.
Yikes my ferritin is 8.5 🙊
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Emilio Estevez is Martin Sheen’s son?! And Charlie Sheen’s brother?!
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Just finished a consult weekend and I’m wondering what a consult service looks like in New Zealand @caulimovirus.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The coal miners lost that 1921 battle, but they also laid the groundwork for future labor gains. The Battle of Blair Mountain became a rallying point for labor rights in Appalachia, catalyzing the United Mine Workers of America. The red bandana also stood for multi-ethnic class solidarity.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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In this moment, coal miners turned their red bandanas into a symbol of solidarity — both to distinguish themselves from the enemy and to show that, across racial lines, coal miners were united along class interests

For this reason, they were known as the "Redneck Army."
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Known as the Battle of Blair Mountain, this was the largest labor uprising in US history and the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. For a month, 10,000 coal miners confronted some 3,000 company guards, state soldiers, and strikebreakers. Nearly a million rounds were shot.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Tensions ran high in the summer of 1921 when union-sympathizers Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were gunned down on the courthouse steps by company-hired gunman as part of a company-sponsored terror campaign. In response, 10,000 coal miners marched in Charleston, West Virginia.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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"One intangible advantage of capillary refill time is that performing it brings the clinician back to the bedside to reassess the patient. This act may be itself the holy grail of early sepsis management."

great piece on #sepsis
💬 Editorial: While capillary refill time shows promise for early #SepticShock management, integrating it into broader, multimodal resuscitation strategies remains key to improving outcomes.

#LIVES2025 @esicm.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Feeling a little overwhelmed at all the things I need to be good at—diagnostic bronchs and lung cancer, other therapeutic pulm procedures, MICU, cardiac crit care, neuroICU, MCS, PH, complex ILD, CPETs, neuromusc resp failure, CF, pleural disease…3 years out of training and feel like I can’t keep up
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Why do we have to make phones so freakin big
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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“That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it.” In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people” -Stellen Skarsgård
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Billy is by far the scariest character in all of Stranger Things.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Interviewing PCCM candidates and reviewing all these impressive CVs with so much scholarly activity and I can’t figure out why anybody let me into fellowship.
October 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The main reason that I don’t have a bunch of kids.
The kid I already have needs a mom.
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM