Appreciation to Ohio Senator Ken Smith in meeting with our ACOG delegation; a stalwart supporter of physicians, patients and public health

As a high risk obstetrician, I know that patients with complicated pregnancies reply on Medicaid. With our already tragically poor maternal and infant outcomes, we cannot afford more cuts. Tell Congress to vote no on HR 1: #ObGynsInAction #MedicaidMatters #HandsOffMedicaid @acog.org

@acog.org on the third anniversary of Dobbs

Ohio-ACOGs written opposition testimony to HB 162, which would dangerously undermine adolescent medical confidentiality, particularly for reproductive care

ACOG-Ohio’s opposition letter regarding the current state budget proposal.

Ohio has obstetric deserts that need services, including fetal ultrasound.

Instead the current budget is wasting $2.5 mil on 3D ultrasound machines that will be used for non-medical purposes by non-professionals for cute pictures that discourage abortion.

This could have been actual medical care

And changing public record releases to March rather than the current November-adjacent months of September & October

Yesterday the Ohio House unveiled their state budget, documents always hundreds of pages long often with little Easter eggs

Like changes to physician abortion reporting requirements on p. 273 that make it easier to find patients from out of state

Ohio Ob/Gyns advocating with ACOG for rural health and in support of our critical Medicaid and Medicare programs.

#clc2025
@acog-org.bsky.social
@mariaphillis.bsky.social
@jamiebyler.bsky.social

My favorite fact reading this book:

The word “Lumpectomy” started as a derisive joke used by traditional surgeons mocking those who removed only “lumps” rather than the more morbid radial mastectomy.

History both proved them wrong & the word later entered medicine’s formal lexicon
#MedSky #BookSky

Annual #SMFM2025 Cleveland / CWRU alumni gathering with current and former residents and fellows, ping pong night at downtown Denver’s Ace Eat Serve

#SMFM2025: An RCT of Atosiban tocolysis for preterm labor demonstrated no benefit

Another RCT of another tocolytic without benefit

Authors: “This questions the widespread use of tocolytics in many countries”

In Cleveland we stopped using tocolytics years ago

It’s time to stop

#MedSky

#SMFM2025: Researchers from UT Houston presenting their data on patients with pre-viable membrane rupture in Texas after the abortion ban.

Maternal sepsis tragically increased four fold

$MedSky

A #SMFM2025 old-Twitter, pre-X/Musk tradition was introducing new attendees & mentees:

Welcome to SMFM Dr. Peyton Johnston, our 3rd yr resident at University Hospitals Cleveland, applying in this cycle

Friday afternoon poster #1096 on racial differences in IAI Dx

Who else on here is new?

Annual Christmas pudding

The MFMs I have found so far by cross referencing my old Twitter account