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Rachel Fleishman
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Neonatologist, writer, wife, and boy mom. || Medical Humanities. Thoughts and opinions my own. (she/her)
www.rachelfleishman.com

TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1lPb-IWx9U
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Rachel Fleishman @rafleishman.bsky.social · Jan 25
With the heft of @nejm.org I ask a simple but subversive question: What is the Relative Value of a Baby?

Spoiler: Babies (& mothers) are invaluable
Greed, misogyny, and other pathologies of power place babies' lives at stake

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

#NeoSky #MedSky #NICU #PedsSky #OBSky #RVU
What Is the Relative Value of a Baby? | NEJM
As she cares for a newborn who’s struggling to breathe, a neonatologist contemplates how politics and power structures affect the availability of critical perinatal services in the United States.
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With gratitude to @huffpost.com, my cousin, aunt, mentors, and my late grandmother, I’m excited to share a tiny sliver of what I try to channel at the bedside for families whose children have #DownSyndrome
#MedSky #PedsSky #NeoSky #DisabilityJustice www.huffpost.com/entry/down-s...
I Was Caring For A Patient With Down Syndrome. A Fellow Doctor’s 8-Word Remark Left Me Stunned.
“We stood silently facing each other in the hospital corridor, until I heard the little boy’s Tonka truck clank to the floor.”
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April 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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My uncle Marty Fleishman was a remarkable man & physician. Thrilled to honor his legacy @thelancet.bsky.social. Given the devaluation of human lives by healthcare leaders nationally and globally, I'm screaming his humanistic message to the world.
#MedSky

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A doctor's lineage
As you lay dying in hospice, my father was sick in a hospital. Your prognosis was absolute. My father's diagnosis was elusive, his outcome uncertain. You both spoke to each other daily. Facetime, tele...
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January 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
rafleishman.bsky.social
With the heft of @nejm.org I ask a simple but subversive question: What is the Relative Value of a Baby?

Spoiler: Babies (& mothers) are invaluable
Greed, misogyny, and other pathologies of power place babies' lives at stake

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

#NeoSky #MedSky #NICU #PedsSky #OBSky #RVU
What Is the Relative Value of a Baby? | NEJM
As she cares for a newborn who’s struggling to breathe, a neonatologist contemplates how politics and power structures affect the availability of critical perinatal services in the United States.
www.nejm.org
January 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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When I took writing classes, professors said "write what you know." My latest @msmagazine.com on #NICUs, books, and birth trauma/PTSD.

With gratitude to #MirandaJuly for her novel #All Fours.

#NeoSky #MedSky #OBGynSky #NICU #childbirth

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When Nothing Bad Happens: Miranda July's 'All Fours' Captures the Importance of Understanding Infant Health - Ms. Magazine
When November's announcement by the CDC that our infant mortality rate remains abysmal did not make even the tiniest of dents in the post-election news cycle, my thoughts pivoted from the patient’s I’...
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December 19, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Honored to give this #tedx talk about my journey as a physician author and the magic of storytelling for patients and healthcare workers
If you watch, please let me know what you think!
#meded #MedSky #NeoSky #NICU #Neonatology #WomeninMedicine #narrativemedicine

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Can Medical Storytelling Save Lives | Rachel Fleishman | TEDxNewRiver
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November 16, 2024 at 9:33 PM