Megan (Meegan) Gerber, MD, MPH ☮️
@meggerber.medsky.social
General internist & proud primary care doc - passionate about #traumainformed care
Editor: Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches (Springer) #womenshealth #meded #narrativemedicine #medhum #abstractpainter - #medsky #medtwitter refugee
IG: @meggerberMD
Editor: Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches (Springer) #womenshealth #meded #narrativemedicine #medhum #abstractpainter - #medsky #medtwitter refugee
IG: @meggerberMD
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Clinicians can enhance health outcomes for trauma-affected patients with trauma-informed care.
This JAMA Insights offers guidance on sensitive communication, personalized care, and collaborative decision-making. https://ja.ma/4kvkpKe
#MedEd #MedSky
This JAMA Insights offers guidance on sensitive communication, personalized care, and collaborative decision-making. https://ja.ma/4kvkpKe
#MedEd #MedSky
TY @jama.com for sharing our JAMA insights on #trauma-informed care - we hope this inspires #healingcentered #healthcare as well as a continued expansion of the evidence base around #traumainformed interventions #impsci #aces #PACEs
#grateful to many colleagues #TIHCER who have informed this work 🙏
#grateful to many colleagues #TIHCER who have informed this work 🙏
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Amid increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, clinicians have an ethical duty to provide inclusive care. Read on for how to create welcoming environments in clinic and connect LGBTQ+ patients with appropriate resources. @meggerber.medsky.social @minorityhealth.bsky.social #MedSky tinyurl.com/3r7d6j8v
September 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Amid increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, clinicians have an ethical duty to provide inclusive care. Read on for how to create welcoming environments in clinic and connect LGBTQ+ patients with appropriate resources. @meggerber.medsky.social @minorityhealth.bsky.social #MedSky tinyurl.com/3r7d6j8v
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These portraits of grief, resilience, and dignity, foster empathy and dialogue—reminding us that hope and compassion are vital to medicine and community. @meggerber.medsky.social @drkopacz.bsky.social @drscotthadland.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social #MedSky tinyurl.com/8f9ua5zr
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
These portraits of grief, resilience, and dignity, foster empathy and dialogue—reminding us that hope and compassion are vital to medicine and community. @meggerber.medsky.social @drkopacz.bsky.social @drscotthadland.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social #MedSky tinyurl.com/8f9ua5zr
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This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse.
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Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
What a joy this evening was! Incredible energy in the room w/ #UAlbany #undergraduates & #AlbanyMed #medicalstudents - #gratitude for
newfound #healthhumanities colleagues - #narrativemedicine truly does create #affiliation
newfound #healthhumanities colleagues - #narrativemedicine truly does create #affiliation
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
What a joy this evening was! Incredible energy in the room w/ #UAlbany #undergraduates & #AlbanyMed #medicalstudents - #gratitude for
newfound #healthhumanities colleagues - #narrativemedicine truly does create #affiliation
newfound #healthhumanities colleagues - #narrativemedicine truly does create #affiliation
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Burnout doesn’t just hurt clinicians.
It impacts patient care, hospital costs, and community trust.
🎬 Let’s break the silence. Let’s build something better together.
Please support our film: suckitupbuttercupfilm.com
#SuckItUpButtercup #FPSky #PedsSky #MedSky #NurseSky
It impacts patient care, hospital costs, and community trust.
🎬 Let’s break the silence. Let’s build something better together.
Please support our film: suckitupbuttercupfilm.com
#SuckItUpButtercup #FPSky #PedsSky #MedSky #NurseSky
August 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Burnout doesn’t just hurt clinicians.
It impacts patient care, hospital costs, and community trust.
🎬 Let’s break the silence. Let’s build something better together.
Please support our film: suckitupbuttercupfilm.com
#SuckItUpButtercup #FPSky #PedsSky #MedSky #NurseSky
It impacts patient care, hospital costs, and community trust.
🎬 Let’s break the silence. Let’s build something better together.
Please support our film: suckitupbuttercupfilm.com
#SuckItUpButtercup #FPSky #PedsSky #MedSky #NurseSky
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Agree w Asaf Bitton MD - nothing “dead” about #primarycare www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org “primary care gets mislabeled, misinterpreted, misallocated, misreimbursed — because it’s not seen as an equivalent in the tower of medicine” #medsky #healthcare
Alive and Kicking | NEJM
In the first podcast episode of NOS Season 3, “The Forever Crisis of Primary Care,”
Lisa Rosenbaum talks with primary care guru Asaf Bitton about the vast values gap
between patients and the health...
www.nejm.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Agree w Asaf Bitton MD - nothing “dead” about #primarycare www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org “primary care gets mislabeled, misinterpreted, misallocated, misreimbursed — because it’s not seen as an equivalent in the tower of medicine” #medsky #healthcare
Thank you @jama.com for allowing Angela Adger-Antonikowski, PhD,MA & I to engage in dialogue about the application of #traumainformed care beyond the exam room - #healthcareworkers
#vicarioustraumatization #healingcentered #medsky @tihcer.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#vicarioustraumatization #healingcentered #medsky @tihcer.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Extending Trauma-Informed Care
To the Editor The recent Insights article by Drs Gerber and Adger Antonikowski emphasizes the need for clinicians to recognize trauma’s pervasive impact and center safety, trust, and empowerment in me...
jamanetwork.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Thank you @jama.com for allowing Angela Adger-Antonikowski, PhD,MA & I to engage in dialogue about the application of #traumainformed care beyond the exam room - #healthcareworkers
#vicarioustraumatization #healingcentered #medsky @tihcer.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#vicarioustraumatization #healingcentered #medsky @tihcer.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@theintima.bsky.social 💕🙏Crossroads blog post by Colleen Cavanaugh, MD #gynecologist discussing her piece, "The Lingerie Shop" (Spring 2025) & how my painting resonated with her writing & childhood experience finding mother's #mastectomy bras www.theintima.org/blog/inspira... #medhum
How Art Inspires: Looking at “The Wish” by primary care physician Megan Gerber. A reflection by Colleen Cavanaugh — Intima
Although many of my non-fiction stories dwell on loss, there is always a lesson to be learned or an inspiration which somehow has evolved into compassion. In “ The Lingerie Shop ” (Spring 2025 Intima...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
@theintima.bsky.social 💕🙏Crossroads blog post by Colleen Cavanaugh, MD #gynecologist discussing her piece, "The Lingerie Shop" (Spring 2025) & how my painting resonated with her writing & childhood experience finding mother's #mastectomy bras www.theintima.org/blog/inspira... #medhum
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Reconciling these two traditions comes with challenges. But also with strategic opportunities for academic medical centres. An illustrative ROI framework based on work at @gumedcenter.bsky.social MHI as below.
#AcademicSky #SocSky #Scicomm #PhilSci #MedHum #Humanities (2/4)
#AcademicSky #SocSky #Scicomm #PhilSci #MedHum #Humanities (2/4)
September 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Reconciling these two traditions comes with challenges. But also with strategic opportunities for academic medical centres. An illustrative ROI framework based on work at @gumedcenter.bsky.social MHI as below.
#AcademicSky #SocSky #Scicomm #PhilSci #MedHum #Humanities (2/4)
#AcademicSky #SocSky #Scicomm #PhilSci #MedHum #Humanities (2/4)
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Whether a seasoned healthcare professional or a trainee, reflecting on your medical journey fosters humility, resilience, and a deeper connection to your work. @drkopacz.bsky.social @meggerber.medsky.social #MedSky @rschaefmd.bsky.social closler.org/creative-art...
September 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Whether a seasoned healthcare professional or a trainee, reflecting on your medical journey fosters humility, resilience, and a deeper connection to your work. @drkopacz.bsky.social @meggerber.medsky.social #MedSky @rschaefmd.bsky.social closler.org/creative-art...
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This is hideous
August 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is hideous
Reposted by Megan (Meegan) Gerber, MD, MPH ☮️
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f...
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, let’s hope that it also melts inhumane ICE policy and action.
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, let’s hope that it also melts inhumane ICE policy and action.
ICE Ships 7-Year-Old Queens Student and Mom to Texas Detention, Prompting School Principal’s Plea for Their Release
An older brother is detained in Newark while two other siblings remain in New York, “unprotected and traumatized” after arrests at immigration check-in.
www.thecity.nyc
August 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f...
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, let’s hope that it also melts inhumane ICE policy and action.
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, let’s hope that it also melts inhumane ICE policy and action.
Reposted by Megan (Meegan) Gerber, MD, MPH ☮️
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Hey #healthcare #primarycare employed physicians
This episode 👇👇
Honoring physicians who still hold onto the indivisible fact that caring for the patient is the APEX of it all
Every healthcare committee member on The Hill needs to listen
Hey #healthcare #primarycare employed physicians
This episode 👇👇
Honoring physicians who still hold onto the indivisible fact that caring for the patient is the APEX of it all
Every healthcare committee member on The Hill needs to listen
"And then something changed...… - 43cc - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · 43cc · 08/14/2025 · 51m
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August 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Hey #healthcare #primarycare employed physicians
This episode 👇👇
Honoring physicians who still hold onto the indivisible fact that caring for the patient is the APEX of it all
Every healthcare committee member on The Hill needs to listen
Hey #healthcare #primarycare employed physicians
This episode 👇👇
Honoring physicians who still hold onto the indivisible fact that caring for the patient is the APEX of it all
Every healthcare committee member on The Hill needs to listen
I’ve enjoyed being part of Narrative Mindworks - The World’s Leading International Narrative Practices Association; consider joining the global community advancing the art and practice of narrative in healthcare, education & communication. #healthhumanities #medicalhumanities
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Narrative Mindworks | International Narrative Practices Association
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August 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I’ve enjoyed being part of Narrative Mindworks - The World’s Leading International Narrative Practices Association; consider joining the global community advancing the art and practice of narrative in healthcare, education & communication. #healthhumanities #medicalhumanities
narrativemindworks.org
narrativemindworks.org
Just signed 🤞😣 #scienceisreal #publichealth @gimapreceptor.bsky.social @dhpomerantz.bsky.social @elasticdo.bsky.social @gabrieldane.me @colleenchristmas.bsky.social @indupartha.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Hey #healthcare #medsky
I think so much has to be done in our financialized spaces to hold onto our oath and patient relationships in the exam room …
I don’t like how the word HERO has been used, eg w the pandemic
Reeve’s second definition makes much more sense
Be the ordinary person 👇
I think so much has to be done in our financialized spaces to hold onto our oath and patient relationships in the exam room …
I don’t like how the word HERO has been used, eg w the pandemic
Reeve’s second definition makes much more sense
Be the ordinary person 👇
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Hey #healthcare #medsky
I think so much has to be done in our financialized spaces to hold onto our oath and patient relationships in the exam room …
I don’t like how the word HERO has been used, eg w the pandemic
Reeve’s second definition makes much more sense
Be the ordinary person 👇
I think so much has to be done in our financialized spaces to hold onto our oath and patient relationships in the exam room …
I don’t like how the word HERO has been used, eg w the pandemic
Reeve’s second definition makes much more sense
Be the ordinary person 👇
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When caring for pts who are unhoused, addressing food & housing insecurity is just as important as providing med treatment. Build trust & ensure psychological safety through trauma-informed interactions and a nonjudgmental approach. @meggerber.medsky.social tinyurl.com/pwt4498u
June 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When caring for pts who are unhoused, addressing food & housing insecurity is just as important as providing med treatment. Build trust & ensure psychological safety through trauma-informed interactions and a nonjudgmental approach. @meggerber.medsky.social tinyurl.com/pwt4498u
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As the US nears its highest number of measles cases in >30 years, I wrote in @statnews.com
about what is at stake:
A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u... #PedsID #IDsky #MedSky #PedSky
about what is at stake:
A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u... #PedsID #IDsky #MedSky #PedSky
A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status
We have had the ability to prevent nearly all cases of measles for more than 60 years. Yet the number of cases keeps growing.
www.statnews.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
As the US nears its highest number of measles cases in >30 years, I wrote in @statnews.com
about what is at stake:
A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u... #PedsID #IDsky #MedSky #PedSky
about what is at stake:
A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u... #PedsID #IDsky #MedSky #PedSky
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Prioritize talking with patients about how vaccines not only prevent infection but support cognitive health. This is one way that patients can take steps to preserve brain function. @drlizgeriatrics.bsky.social @agsjournal.bsky.social @blackingeron.bsky.social #MedSky
tinyurl.com/hp7f9yjs
tinyurl.com/hp7f9yjs
June 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Prioritize talking with patients about how vaccines not only prevent infection but support cognitive health. This is one way that patients can take steps to preserve brain function. @drlizgeriatrics.bsky.social @agsjournal.bsky.social @blackingeron.bsky.social #MedSky
tinyurl.com/hp7f9yjs
tinyurl.com/hp7f9yjs
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Agree important essay, 🙏🙏 Another way of phrasing this: “understanding those who have *used* violence” - terms like “perpetrator” & “victim” come from criminal justice system not always recovery-oriented #traumainformed @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social @martinajelley.bsky.social @tihcer.bsky.social
Understanding perpetrators of violence as potential trauma survivors can inspire empathy in clinicians and contribute to a universal, trauma-informed approach to patient care. @meggerber.medsky.social #MedSky #PTSD closler.org/lifelong-lea...
June 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Agree important essay, 🙏🙏 Another way of phrasing this: “understanding those who have *used* violence” - terms like “perpetrator” & “victim” come from criminal justice system not always recovery-oriented #traumainformed @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social @martinajelley.bsky.social @tihcer.bsky.social
100% this - “what matters to you” instead of “what’s the matter with you?” #traumainformed #healingcentered care thank you for the tag 🙏❤️ @closler.bsky.social
Pats’ past healthcare experiences influence their ability to engage in care. Taking time to learn about their life stories builds trust & empowers them to participate in their healing. @meggerber.medsky.social @traumainformedtalk.bsky.social @traumainformed.bsky.social tinyurl.com/sw5cetdu
June 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
100% this - “what matters to you” instead of “what’s the matter with you?” #traumainformed #healingcentered care thank you for the tag 🙏❤️ @closler.bsky.social
TY @jama.com for sharing our JAMA insights on #trauma-informed care - we hope this inspires #healingcentered #healthcare as well as a continued expansion of the evidence base around #traumainformed interventions #impsci #aces #PACEs
#grateful to many colleagues #TIHCER who have informed this work 🙏
#grateful to many colleagues #TIHCER who have informed this work 🙏
Clinicians can enhance health outcomes for trauma-affected patients with trauma-informed care.
This JAMA Insights offers guidance on sensitive communication, personalized care, and collaborative decision-making. https://ja.ma/4kvkpKe
#MedEd #MedSky
This JAMA Insights offers guidance on sensitive communication, personalized care, and collaborative decision-making. https://ja.ma/4kvkpKe
#MedEd #MedSky
June 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
TY @jama.com for sharing our JAMA insights on #trauma-informed care - we hope this inspires #healingcentered #healthcare as well as a continued expansion of the evidence base around #traumainformed interventions #impsci #aces #PACEs
#grateful to many colleagues #TIHCER who have informed this work 🙏
#grateful to many colleagues #TIHCER who have informed this work 🙏
June 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM