Joanne Thambuswamy (she/her)
@drthambuswamy.bsky.social
Family physician, activist, educator, professional trouble maker
Had an amazing time at Everett Pride 🌈💛
Grateful for the chance to share the work we’re doing at Inclusive Health to make healthcare truly inclusive — for every body, every identity, every story.
Thanks for stopping by and showing so much love. This community gives us hope. 💙
myinclusivehealth.com
Grateful for the chance to share the work we’re doing at Inclusive Health to make healthcare truly inclusive — for every body, every identity, every story.
Thanks for stopping by and showing so much love. This community gives us hope. 💙
myinclusivehealth.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Had an amazing time at Everett Pride 🌈💛
Grateful for the chance to share the work we’re doing at Inclusive Health to make healthcare truly inclusive — for every body, every identity, every story.
Thanks for stopping by and showing so much love. This community gives us hope. 💙
myinclusivehealth.com
Grateful for the chance to share the work we’re doing at Inclusive Health to make healthcare truly inclusive — for every body, every identity, every story.
Thanks for stopping by and showing so much love. This community gives us hope. 💙
myinclusivehealth.com
Virtual primary care is here! We welcome all: races, genders, sizes, orientations, abilities. Compassionate tailored care. Accepting Aetna, Coordinated Care, First Choice Health, Medicare, Premera, Regence, UHC, & WA Healthcare Authority (more soon). Appointments start 4/1. www.myinclusivehealth.com
Inclusive Health
www.myinclusivehealth.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Virtual primary care is here! We welcome all: races, genders, sizes, orientations, abilities. Compassionate tailored care. Accepting Aetna, Coordinated Care, First Choice Health, Medicare, Premera, Regence, UHC, & WA Healthcare Authority (more soon). Appointments start 4/1. www.myinclusivehealth.com
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The website shows a seeker the closest clinics to them, offers information on parental consent laws for minors seeking abortion, and points toward abortion funds that can help pay for care.
Teens Seeking Abortions Face Huge Challenges. This Website Is Here to Help
Teen Vogue talked to the founder of "INeedAnA" about the specific hardships teens face.
www.teenvogue.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The website shows a seeker the closest clinics to them, offers information on parental consent laws for minors seeking abortion, and points toward abortion funds that can help pay for care.
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
January 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
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Reposted by Joanne Thambuswamy (she/her)
I’m so overstimulated I’ve stopped understanding what people are saying to me.
January 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I’m so overstimulated I’ve stopped understanding what people are saying to me.
Tangible actions are my favorite kind
BREAKING: Trump has revoked a rule prohibiting ICE from arresting undocumented immigrants at or near "sensitive locations," like schools, places of worship, hospitals, & shelters."
We need to act
I list 7 tangible actions you can take to help protect immigrants: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
We need to act
I list 7 tangible actions you can take to help protect immigrants: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Tangible actions are my favorite kind
Stay warm, friends: www.king5.com/article/news...
Here's where you can find warming centers in western WA amid sub-freezing low temps
Pierce and King counties are offering emergency cold weather shelter through the middle of this week.
www.king5.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Stay warm, friends: www.king5.com/article/news...
The physicians who recommended vaccines do so based on scientific evidence and a concern about you and the community. I can't believe I have to say this, but we don't get paid by pharma
January 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The physicians who recommended vaccines do so based on scientific evidence and a concern about you and the community. I can't believe I have to say this, but we don't get paid by pharma
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We can be courageous today. I’ll be finishing a book for young readers and a book for adults that are coming out this year. Do you today, with courage for us. Courage is the fuel of resistance, the building block of a new world. 2/2
January 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We can be courageous today. I’ll be finishing a book for young readers and a book for adults that are coming out this year. Do you today, with courage for us. Courage is the fuel of resistance, the building block of a new world. 2/2
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Today we inaugurate our courage as power hopes to inaugurate our cowardice. Courage is not the absence of danger but the strength to do what’s right in the face of it, as has been said. We can begin amassing the strength to be antiracist in dangerously racist times. 1/2
January 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Today we inaugurate our courage as power hopes to inaugurate our cowardice. Courage is not the absence of danger but the strength to do what’s right in the face of it, as has been said. We can begin amassing the strength to be antiracist in dangerously racist times. 1/2
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ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.
January 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.
There's a big difference between a cancer you die from and a cancer you die with. Taking the word out of the term can help people understand the difference
“We have this mentality in this country that being aggressive surgically and fighting the cancer is the best thing, but a lot of the time it’s not” @drlauraesserman.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There's a big difference between a cancer you die from and a cancer you die with. Taking the word out of the term can help people understand the difference
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“We have this mentality in this country that being aggressive surgically and fighting the cancer is the best thing, but a lot of the time it’s not” @drlauraesserman.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
This Medical News article discusses the ongoing debate about whether the word #cancer should be dropped from the names of indolent tumors of the prostate and breast.
#MedSky #OncSky
#MedSky #OncSky
Will Renaming Some Cancers as Noncancers Hurt or Help?
This Medical News article discusses the ongoing debate about whether the word cancer should be dropped from the names of indolent tumors of the prostate and breast.
jamanetwork.com
January 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“We have this mentality in this country that being aggressive surgically and fighting the cancer is the best thing, but a lot of the time it’s not” @drlauraesserman.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
This is absolutely horrifying. The number of times and ways this could have been avoided shattered my brain: www.huffpost.com/entry/peaceh...
Patient's Life Support Cut After Hospital Allegedly Consulted With Wrong Family
David Wells, 69, died in the hospital in 2021, and it wasn't until a local news story two years later that Wells' son learned of the mix-up.
www.huffpost.com
January 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is absolutely horrifying. The number of times and ways this could have been avoided shattered my brain: www.huffpost.com/entry/peaceh...
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As the H5N1 outbreak intensifies, the US should continue investing in pandemic response like wastewater monitoring, vaccine manufacturing and distribution, rapid test development and other pressing needs to curtail the outbreak, experts say. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Biden administration allocates $306m in its final days for bird flu response
‘Critical’ funding comes as H5N1 outbreak intensifies and will go toward developing a response to the virus
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As the H5N1 outbreak intensifies, the US should continue investing in pandemic response like wastewater monitoring, vaccine manufacturing and distribution, rapid test development and other pressing needs to curtail the outbreak, experts say. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Oh hell no. I will not tolerate any such disrespect in my medical practice or my life.
“Alex Schultz, the company’s chief marketing officer and highest-ranking gay executive, suggested in an internal post that people seeing their queer friends and family members abused on Facebook and Instagram could lead to increased support for LGBTQ rights.” www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
www.platformer.news
January 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Oh hell no. I will not tolerate any such disrespect in my medical practice or my life.
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@rosemarymosco.com: "When we begin to care about creatures that most people think are lowly, we become better people. We weave ourselves more tightly into the tapestry of the world around us, and we arm ourselves for the fight to save the world."
January 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@rosemarymosco.com: "When we begin to care about creatures that most people think are lowly, we become better people. We weave ourselves more tightly into the tapestry of the world around us, and we arm ourselves for the fight to save the world."
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Sorry y'all, I'm ethically required to occasionally be a bummer: youtu.be/26-G2sHU5-g?...
*WARNING* Stop Buying Home Genetic Tests!
YouTube video by Doctor Mike
youtu.be
December 23, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Sorry y'all, I'm ethically required to occasionally be a bummer: youtu.be/26-G2sHU5-g?...
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WE ARE STILL IN THIS.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.
Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉
Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.
Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉
Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 AM
WE ARE STILL IN THIS.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.
Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉
Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.
Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉
Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.
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Just simply wow 💫😲💫😲💫😲💫
Millions of galaxies using real data from the DESI telescope (Dark Enegy Spectroscopy) mapping entire superclusters of the observable Universe.
Millions of galaxies using real data from the DESI telescope (Dark Enegy Spectroscopy) mapping entire superclusters of the observable Universe.
December 15, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Just simply wow 💫😲💫😲💫😲💫
Millions of galaxies using real data from the DESI telescope (Dark Enegy Spectroscopy) mapping entire superclusters of the observable Universe.
Millions of galaxies using real data from the DESI telescope (Dark Enegy Spectroscopy) mapping entire superclusters of the observable Universe.
Tis the season but shop wisely: www.9news.com/article/mone...
www.9news.com
December 15, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Tis the season but shop wisely: www.9news.com/article/mone...
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi was a hero of her time and ours.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...
She Revolutionized Medicine. Why Isn’t She a Household Name?
Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi was a hero of her time and ours.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...