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Lovemadle
@lovemadle.bsky.social
MD, wife, mother, feminist, fiercely independent voter. lover of books, tea, wine, cheese and sarcasm.
So little time, so much world to see.
#medicine #running #womenshealth #foodie #travel #ruralhealth

Yep. Not every voice is meant for you to hear.
May 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Carl had it right on this one.
May 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
41% of births in America are paid for by Medicaid. A large majority take place in county hosp.
Do these legislators believe these births just stop happening? Are the deliveries less complicated if they fail to receive prenatal care bc they don’t qualify for Medicaid early? The hosp will close too.
Roughly half of all persons who seek care from Community Health Centers are on Medicaid. This means millions of patients across Illinois, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Arizona will struggle to get medical care so that billionaires get the tax cuts promised in Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"
Community Health Center Patients by Payer Source | KFF
www.kff.org
May 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
We have come to the pinnacle of our celebration of ignorance.
May 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Unfuckingbelievable
This right here......
May 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This is pretty clear.
The Economist is not mincing words in their fact checking of
Trump’s tariff claims: www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
April 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Yes, exactly this.
Someday our grandchildren will look back on this time and feel nothing but shame for what we were in 2025.
She's obscene. And she's producing this cruelty porn for the MAGA audience. Don't let any of them tell you they voted for Trump because of the price of eggs. They voted for THIS because THIS is what they want.
March 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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"I don't know anything about it"

In a functioning democracy, Hegseth would resign and Trump would be impeached over this.

OVER JUST THIS.
Trump asked about his Cabinet officials including Jeffrey Goldberg on a secret war plan Signal exchange:

"I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that’s going out of business. It’s not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it."
March 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
March 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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This is exactly what happened to me, except that my story ends with a near death experience and an emergency D&C after transfusion. Pregnant women in Texas are in danger. And I worry most about Black women who experience medical racism. www.propublica.org/article/pors...
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
March 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This should not be a controversial statement. In any school. In any state.
March 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Texas women are dying. We have been screaming it from the rooftops, but we finally have data to prove this…The Christian Taliban doesn’t care. The cruelty IS the point. They take their mistresses and daughters out of the state and always have. Hypocrisy is a lifestyle for these people.
Also, how many doctors?
Well now women are dying. So much support of life 🙄

open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
March 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Lisa murkowski is/was/will be one of the biggest disappointments in the history of the US Senate. You can’t play footsie w leopards and then act surprised when a leopard eats your face. Moderate republicans own this travesty and the misery it has brought to our country. They could have aborted it.
March 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Yes.
In case you're wondering why libraries are being targeted . . .
March 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Make it make sense
#medsky
“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”
NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.
www.statnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic
RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."
March 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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This will not end well. He’s a domestic terrorist.
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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No matter where a woman is in the United States there are still safe choices.
Call (707) 710-8866
Or visit this website.

Please spread the word
For our mother's, daughter's & granddaughters 💜💜💜
Women still have options no matter where they live in the United States.

Visit: www.asafechoicenetwork.com

#ASafeChoice 💙
December 4, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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I’ve been an attending for 24+yrs and I cried all the way home last Tuesday. From clinic.
Sometimes what we do is carry the weight so that others can walk out a little lighter… and that weight has to dissipate a bit before we get home or it transfers to those we love.
Let it out.
Well it's official. I didn't make it thru my first week working in the ICU without crying. Last year it was within the first day.

Sometimes this job is just truly very sad. And I'm human.
November 25, 2024 at 12:44 PM
#medsky
Unfortunate milestone reached.
Vaccinate your children.
Update your own vaccinations.
Pls help your elderly family, friends and neighbors update their vaccinations.
apnews.com/article/meas...
An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak
A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.
apnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
These numbers are higher in Texas. What are rural hospitals (those that are left) going to do to make up for this loss? They won’t. They will close. The patients don’t go away. The county hospital will still see them. The hospital just won’t be paid.
Do Cornyn and Cruz understand this?
Medicaid covers:
- 40% of children
- 41% of births
- 60% of nursing home residents
-23% of non-older adults with mental illness ppl
- 25% of adults 19-64 yo with disabilities
Congress is about to cut #Medicaid by $880 billion. CALL THESE REPS. They are vulnerable--close margins in their elections and with lots of people in Medicaid in their districts. You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. List below. Call now and all day tomorrow. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
February 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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As physicians we pay a lot of taxes (more than Elon and Trump and Bezos!), but we don’t mind if the $$ is being spent on education, infrastructure, and healthcare. Because as physicians, we care for the welfare of other humans.
#Medsky
February 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM