Connor J. Cook, MD
@cj-cregg-cook.bsky.social
I'm a gay Christian and pediatric resident physician. I am passionate about inclusive health care and education. 🇳🇱🏳️🌈 Ik Zal Handhaven
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Hi BlueSky Fam!
New Intro! Welcome to my page: 🧵🌈
A place where radically inclusive Christianity meets LGBTQ rights and passionate pediatric advocacy.
I’m Connor, a fruity and fabulous gay man from a proud Dutch family in Michigan. (1/7)
New Intro! Welcome to my page: 🧵🌈
A place where radically inclusive Christianity meets LGBTQ rights and passionate pediatric advocacy.
I’m Connor, a fruity and fabulous gay man from a proud Dutch family in Michigan. (1/7)
Sitting in a coffee shop next to injury lawyers talking shop confirmed a lot of stereotypes…
April 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Sitting in a coffee shop next to injury lawyers talking shop confirmed a lot of stereotypes…
Hope 🌷
Never forget, in the dark hours of this year, that the most defiant act of Hope in human history is when Mary, Mother of God, celebrated the Passover of the Lord’s Deliverance on Holy Saturday, while her Deliverance laid cold in a tomb.
Today we hold to Victorious Hope
Never forget, in the dark hours of this year, that the most defiant act of Hope in human history is when Mary, Mother of God, celebrated the Passover of the Lord’s Deliverance on Holy Saturday, while her Deliverance laid cold in a tomb.
Today we hold to Victorious Hope
April 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Hope 🌷
Never forget, in the dark hours of this year, that the most defiant act of Hope in human history is when Mary, Mother of God, celebrated the Passover of the Lord’s Deliverance on Holy Saturday, while her Deliverance laid cold in a tomb.
Today we hold to Victorious Hope
Never forget, in the dark hours of this year, that the most defiant act of Hope in human history is when Mary, Mother of God, celebrated the Passover of the Lord’s Deliverance on Holy Saturday, while her Deliverance laid cold in a tomb.
Today we hold to Victorious Hope
Pronouncing a child dead as a 28yo physician will never feel okay.
I don't know if it ever should.
Their mother asked me to place the rosary in their hand as I began my pronouncement.
The room of the dying is a mysterious and sacred space, spanning millennia.
I don't know if it ever should.
Their mother asked me to place the rosary in their hand as I began my pronouncement.
The room of the dying is a mysterious and sacred space, spanning millennia.
January 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Pronouncing a child dead as a 28yo physician will never feel okay.
I don't know if it ever should.
Their mother asked me to place the rosary in their hand as I began my pronouncement.
The room of the dying is a mysterious and sacred space, spanning millennia.
I don't know if it ever should.
Their mother asked me to place the rosary in their hand as I began my pronouncement.
The room of the dying is a mysterious and sacred space, spanning millennia.
How much Frankincense does one have to inhale before you’re convinced the Ox and Lamb are keeping time?
January 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How much Frankincense does one have to inhale before you’re convinced the Ox and Lamb are keeping time?
Warning: Domestic Violence
I REALLY need the world to know that domestic violence by men against the mothers of my patients is incredibly common.
I have had men assault women on our hospital campus. It is just insane. Men need to get their act together.
Women deserve better, they always have.
I REALLY need the world to know that domestic violence by men against the mothers of my patients is incredibly common.
I have had men assault women on our hospital campus. It is just insane. Men need to get their act together.
Women deserve better, they always have.
December 5, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Warning: Domestic Violence
I REALLY need the world to know that domestic violence by men against the mothers of my patients is incredibly common.
I have had men assault women on our hospital campus. It is just insane. Men need to get their act together.
Women deserve better, they always have.
I REALLY need the world to know that domestic violence by men against the mothers of my patients is incredibly common.
I have had men assault women on our hospital campus. It is just insane. Men need to get their act together.
Women deserve better, they always have.
My best friends made me watch Die Hard for the first time and I have never felt more straight in my life than I did enjoying that movie…
I also must say…it is definitively a Christmas movie…
Sorry not sorry
I also must say…it is definitively a Christmas movie…
Sorry not sorry
November 30, 2024 at 4:51 PM
My best friends made me watch Die Hard for the first time and I have never felt more straight in my life than I did enjoying that movie…
I also must say…it is definitively a Christmas movie…
Sorry not sorry
I also must say…it is definitively a Christmas movie…
Sorry not sorry
This might be an old school thing I inherited from my physician parents, but I get really annoyed when people try and call me a “provider” or “practitioner”.
I’m a physician and our training looks very different from other people who use those labels.
Maybe that’s ego, but I appreciate precision.
I’m a physician and our training looks very different from other people who use those labels.
Maybe that’s ego, but I appreciate precision.
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 PM
This might be an old school thing I inherited from my physician parents, but I get really annoyed when people try and call me a “provider” or “practitioner”.
I’m a physician and our training looks very different from other people who use those labels.
Maybe that’s ego, but I appreciate precision.
I’m a physician and our training looks very different from other people who use those labels.
Maybe that’s ego, but I appreciate precision.
I apparently got the work reputation as the resident who won’t allow Christmas music in the work room before the appointed time, lol
All I did was say no to Mariah Carey. I’m not a Scrooge, lol
All I did was say no to Mariah Carey. I’m not a Scrooge, lol
November 27, 2024 at 12:37 AM
I apparently got the work reputation as the resident who won’t allow Christmas music in the work room before the appointed time, lol
All I did was say no to Mariah Carey. I’m not a Scrooge, lol
All I did was say no to Mariah Carey. I’m not a Scrooge, lol
I feel so unpresentable getting ready to show up at Thanksgiving. I've been inpatient for 21 weeks and just feel like I don't know how to be human or presentable anymore.
When residency is over do you feel more human again?
When residency is over do you feel more human again?
November 26, 2024 at 4:34 PM
I feel so unpresentable getting ready to show up at Thanksgiving. I've been inpatient for 21 weeks and just feel like I don't know how to be human or presentable anymore.
When residency is over do you feel more human again?
When residency is over do you feel more human again?
This will sound silly, but there is a specific song I listen to while I cry in the parking lot on days like this.
It's kind of a tradition to honor my tears.
It's kind of a tradition to honor my tears.
I’ve been an attending for 8.5 years and I SOBBED leaving the hospital today.
Sometimes the weight is too heavy.
Sometimes the weight is too heavy.
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.
Sometimes this job is just truly very sad. And I'm human.
November 26, 2024 at 6:37 AM
This will sound silly, but there is a specific song I listen to while I cry in the parking lot on days like this.
It's kind of a tradition to honor my tears.
It's kind of a tradition to honor my tears.
I just finished cross-covering nights on the pediatric infectious disease service during respiratory season.
Please clap…
Please clap…
November 24, 2024 at 10:13 PM
I just finished cross-covering nights on the pediatric infectious disease service during respiratory season.
Please clap…
Please clap…
Reposted by Connor J. Cook, MD
#RFKJr has made public statements that antidepressants (SSRIs in particular) cause school shootings. This is unambiguously false. There's plenty of talk about his absurdity in other areas of health, so I am going to review some of the evidence showing this particular claim is nonsense. 🧵 1/
November 22, 2024 at 7:44 PM
#RFKJr has made public statements that antidepressants (SSRIs in particular) cause school shootings. This is unambiguously false. There's plenty of talk about his absurdity in other areas of health, so I am going to review some of the evidence showing this particular claim is nonsense. 🧵 1/
I have two night shifts on inpatient infectious disease standing between me and my first vacation of residency…
November 21, 2024 at 11:54 PM
I have two night shifts on inpatient infectious disease standing between me and my first vacation of residency…
It's really hard being a PGY1 in pediatrics clinic in an urban, underserved setting.
It's a mixture of being young in training and just having to be ready for truly anything to walk through the door.
It's a mixture of being young in training and just having to be ready for truly anything to walk through the door.
November 20, 2024 at 11:34 PM
It's really hard being a PGY1 in pediatrics clinic in an urban, underserved setting.
It's a mixture of being young in training and just having to be ready for truly anything to walk through the door.
It's a mixture of being young in training and just having to be ready for truly anything to walk through the door.
Hi #pedsky #medsky Family!
As we talk about pediatric literacy and working to identify kids at risk in clinic, I want to make sure we are recognize the leaders of pediatric literacy, our English teachers.
Mrs. Bond is the GODDESS of pediatric/teen literacy and we should all be following her.
As we talk about pediatric literacy and working to identify kids at risk in clinic, I want to make sure we are recognize the leaders of pediatric literacy, our English teachers.
Mrs. Bond is the GODDESS of pediatric/teen literacy and we should all be following her.
Hello BlueSky!
I’m Chanea (sha-nay). I teach high school & community college English & writing. My core value is compassion. I love learning and poetry is my jam.
I strive to be the the Black woman educator I always needed 💛
I’m Chanea (sha-nay). I teach high school & community college English & writing. My core value is compassion. I love learning and poetry is my jam.
I strive to be the the Black woman educator I always needed 💛
November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
One of the hardest things to admit as a gay man is that I love the church.
I love this crazy place that is so often so broken, yet so beautiful.
There is a great irony that the place that taught me how to hate myself, taught me how to love others.
I love this crazy place that is so often so broken, yet so beautiful.
There is a great irony that the place that taught me how to hate myself, taught me how to love others.
November 17, 2024 at 8:52 PM
One of the hardest things to admit as a gay man is that I love the church.
I love this crazy place that is so often so broken, yet so beautiful.
There is a great irony that the place that taught me how to hate myself, taught me how to love others.
I love this crazy place that is so often so broken, yet so beautiful.
There is a great irony that the place that taught me how to hate myself, taught me how to love others.
It's Okay To Cry 🧵 #medsky #pedsky
There is something I love about Peds Emergency Med.
In clinic, my kids show me the side they show to the world, where they believe they need to grow up fast, be tough and put together.
But the ED is different. In the ED my patients know tears are okay. (1/4)
There is something I love about Peds Emergency Med.
In clinic, my kids show me the side they show to the world, where they believe they need to grow up fast, be tough and put together.
But the ED is different. In the ED my patients know tears are okay. (1/4)
November 17, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Trying to do that resident move where you attempt to put all the pieces of your personal life together in the one day you have off…
Why is grocery shopping so hard?
Why is grocery shopping so hard?
November 17, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Trying to do that resident move where you attempt to put all the pieces of your personal life together in the one day you have off…
Why is grocery shopping so hard?
Why is grocery shopping so hard?
I want to tell [them] to hear God.
You have to be willing to experience what’s holy
In places many people don’t deem to be sacred.
-Amena Brown
You have to be willing to experience what’s holy
In places many people don’t deem to be sacred.
-Amena Brown
November 16, 2024 at 11:50 PM
I want to tell [them] to hear God.
You have to be willing to experience what’s holy
In places many people don’t deem to be sacred.
-Amena Brown
You have to be willing to experience what’s holy
In places many people don’t deem to be sacred.
-Amena Brown
There is something sacred in the rooms of children who are dying.
It is a space that commands boldness.
Boldness to work, knowing your best will never be good enough.
Boldness to dignify indignity.
Boldness to look at Death and not run away, afraid of one’s own inadequacy.
It is a space that commands boldness.
Boldness to work, knowing your best will never be good enough.
Boldness to dignify indignity.
Boldness to look at Death and not run away, afraid of one’s own inadequacy.
November 16, 2024 at 11:49 PM
There is something sacred in the rooms of children who are dying.
It is a space that commands boldness.
Boldness to work, knowing your best will never be good enough.
Boldness to dignify indignity.
Boldness to look at Death and not run away, afraid of one’s own inadequacy.
It is a space that commands boldness.
Boldness to work, knowing your best will never be good enough.
Boldness to dignify indignity.
Boldness to look at Death and not run away, afraid of one’s own inadequacy.