Master Meriadoc M.D.
@mastermeriadoc.bsky.social
IM Physician| Blood + bone marrow donor| Michigander | MICCA member| my religion is science and logic | Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ He/him
“You’ll never feel right unless you’re doing what you can to stop them.”
“You’ll never feel right unless you’re doing what you can to stop them.”
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I know there’s a lot of really horrible stuff happening right now so I wanted to make a post highlighting a way some of you may be able to make a positive impact. I have been a frequent blood donor for several years and I have had the honor of donating bone marrow twice.
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This list includes Rhianna Gunn-Wright, who wrote this amazing essay a few months back alongside @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social --->>>
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November 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This list includes Rhianna Gunn-Wright, who wrote this amazing essay a few months back alongside @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social --->>>
hammerandhope.org/article/clim...
hammerandhope.org/article/clim...
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H-1B visa–sponsored physicians are twice as prevalent in rural counties and nearly 4 times as common in high-poverty areas, highlighting the potential harm of rising visa costs to health care access.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
H-1B visa–sponsored physicians are twice as prevalent in rural counties and nearly 4 times as common in high-poverty areas, highlighting the potential harm of rising visa costs to health care access.
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Im working on installing rooftop solar mow DESPITE missing out on the Biden tax credits. It is SUCH a pain with the permitting and I may still get into a fight with my HOA!!!! It’s ridiculous. It should be so much easier to install solar panels. They just make so much sense now
@heatmap.news is great but in case you aren't a subscriber—which, if you're interested in green power you should be—here is a piece from @billmckibben.bsky.social for us on the same subject: www.motherjones.com/environment/...
October 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Im working on installing rooftop solar mow DESPITE missing out on the Biden tax credits. It is SUCH a pain with the permitting and I may still get into a fight with my HOA!!!! It’s ridiculous. It should be so much easier to install solar panels. They just make so much sense now
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Someone you love could go into cardiac arrest, and you might be the one who needs to save their life. Nearly 70% of cardiac arrests happen outside of the hospital. Protect the hearts of those you care about by learning CPR. Find a class near you: http://redcross.org/take-a-class.
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Someone you love could go into cardiac arrest, and you might be the one who needs to save their life. Nearly 70% of cardiac arrests happen outside of the hospital. Protect the hearts of those you care about by learning CPR. Find a class near you: http://redcross.org/take-a-class.
Again another Onion article that is NOT an Onion article…
Area Family Putting A Little Money Away To One Day Blow On Single Health Scare https://theonion.com/area-family-putting-a-little-money-away-to-one-day-blow-1819575678/
October 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Again another Onion article that is NOT an Onion article…
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Acting fast with CPR and an AED can be the difference between life and death. October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, and we’re putting your lifesaving knowledge to the test. Answer the question in the comments below and come back tomorrow to see if you got the right answer.
October 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Acting fast with CPR and an AED can be the difference between life and death. October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, and we’re putting your lifesaving knowledge to the test. Answer the question in the comments below and come back tomorrow to see if you got the right answer.
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When 13.6 million Americans lose their Medicaid and can only go to the emergency room because they have no other options to access healthcare, who’s paying for it? The American taxpayer.
Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."
October 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
When 13.6 million Americans lose their Medicaid and can only go to the emergency room because they have no other options to access healthcare, who’s paying for it? The American taxpayer.
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Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.
Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."
October 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.
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Fun fact: Even if federal money *was* being spent on Medicaid coverage for undocumented immigrants (it isn’t), the money wouldn’t be “going to illegal aliens.”
It would be going to *healthcare providers*…ie, hospitals, doctors, etc.
Medicaid enrollees don’t receive the money.
It would be going to *healthcare providers*…ie, hospitals, doctors, etc.
Medicaid enrollees don’t receive the money.
REPORTER: US law already prohibits giving healthcare to illegal immigrants
LEAVITT: Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to illegal aliens?
LEAVITT: Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to illegal aliens?
October 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Fun fact: Even if federal money *was* being spent on Medicaid coverage for undocumented immigrants (it isn’t), the money wouldn’t be “going to illegal aliens.”
It would be going to *healthcare providers*…ie, hospitals, doctors, etc.
Medicaid enrollees don’t receive the money.
It would be going to *healthcare providers*…ie, hospitals, doctors, etc.
Medicaid enrollees don’t receive the money.
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Hey JD Vance.👋 You need to understand something. Physicians are never going to refuse emergency care to someone in an Emergency Department. No matter what you say behind that big boy podium.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hey JD Vance.👋 You need to understand something. Physicians are never going to refuse emergency care to someone in an Emergency Department. No matter what you say behind that big boy podium.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
We’re not like you.
We wake up every day to help people.
Hi hospitalist here! This makes me fucking sick to my stomach. How dare he blame the systemic problems with the US healthcare system on immigrants. It is a lie that is made worse by the fact that this administration has actively been attacking and destroying the American healthcare system themselves
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Hi hospitalist here! This makes me fucking sick to my stomach. How dare he blame the systemic problems with the US healthcare system on immigrants. It is a lie that is made worse by the fact that this administration has actively been attacking and destroying the American healthcare system themselves
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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This, and, let’s change our political economy(ies) so that the heat pumps and all the other big climate solutions are affordable, accessible, & desirable.
It’s about power, folks. 70% of Americans say they support more ambitious climate policy & action. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
It’s about power, folks. 70% of Americans say they support more ambitious climate policy & action. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This, and, let’s change our political economy(ies) so that the heat pumps and all the other big climate solutions are affordable, accessible, & desirable.
It’s about power, folks. 70% of Americans say they support more ambitious climate policy & action. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
It’s about power, folks. 70% of Americans say they support more ambitious climate policy & action. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
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Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)
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China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands
In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.
www.reuters.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)
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The Trump administration is moving aggressively to privatize the VA — arbitrarily laying off employees, lowering the quality of, and limiting access to, health care that veterans receive.
Unacceptable. We must stand with veterans and oppose all efforts to privatize the VA.
Unacceptable. We must stand with veterans and oppose all efforts to privatize the VA.
September 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Trump administration is moving aggressively to privatize the VA — arbitrarily laying off employees, lowering the quality of, and limiting access to, health care that veterans receive.
Unacceptable. We must stand with veterans and oppose all efforts to privatize the VA.
Unacceptable. We must stand with veterans and oppose all efforts to privatize the VA.
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💬 Viewpoint: Safeguarding pathways for non-US international medical graduates (IMGs) is essential to addressing physician shortages and ensuring health care access in underserved regions.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
💬 Viewpoint: Safeguarding pathways for non-US international medical graduates (IMGs) is essential to addressing physician shortages and ensuring health care access in underserved regions.
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These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
September 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
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Indeed, untreated fever in pregnancy is linked to miscarriage, birth defects, and preterm birth. Unmanaged pain in pregnancy is linked to high blood pressure, anxiety, and depression which are all bad for both mom and baby.
So yes, “toughing it out” and avoiding meds in pregnancy is dangerous.
So yes, “toughing it out” and avoiding meds in pregnancy is dangerous.
I’m only now watching longer clips of Trump’s autism disinfo presser and… it’s crazier than I realized? He was unable even to say “acetaminophen” or come up with the word “rubella”; cited his feelings as the basis for changes; and said pregs women should “tough it out,” which is actually dangerous
September 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Indeed, untreated fever in pregnancy is linked to miscarriage, birth defects, and preterm birth. Unmanaged pain in pregnancy is linked to high blood pressure, anxiety, and depression which are all bad for both mom and baby.
So yes, “toughing it out” and avoiding meds in pregnancy is dangerous.
So yes, “toughing it out” and avoiding meds in pregnancy is dangerous.
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One thing that would address the chronic disease epidemic would be not getting COVID 5 or 10 times
Sen. Roger Marshall on what he wants to ask RFK Jr: "How do we build up our own immunity, so when we do get viruses like covid - and we've probably each had had covid 5 or 10 times, we're developing natural immunity - but what can we do to address the chronic disease epidemic?"
September 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One thing that would address the chronic disease epidemic would be not getting COVID 5 or 10 times
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Celebrating the fifth anniversary of installing solar panels on our church. We produce as much power as is used in 5 homes each year, save money, and provide clean power at a discount to a non-profit partner through community solar. So much winning!
September 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of installing solar panels on our church. We produce as much power as is used in 5 homes each year, save money, and provide clean power at a discount to a non-profit partner through community solar. So much winning!
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We need the government to clearly state that the doctors are the exempt from this rule. Every year, several thousands of new H1B are required for physicians, particularly for those working for rural areas.
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We need the government to clearly state that the doctors are the exempt from this rule. Every year, several thousands of new H1B are required for physicians, particularly for those working for rural areas.
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New Trump EO increases fee from $1,000 to $100,000 per year for H1B visas?? Aimed at tech companies hiring cheaper trained people.
However, this is going to be extremely disruptive to residency training programs and hospitals. Hope someone clues him in.
However, this is going to be extremely disruptive to residency training programs and hospitals. Hope someone clues him in.
September 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
New Trump EO increases fee from $1,000 to $100,000 per year for H1B visas?? Aimed at tech companies hiring cheaper trained people.
However, this is going to be extremely disruptive to residency training programs and hospitals. Hope someone clues him in.
However, this is going to be extremely disruptive to residency training programs and hospitals. Hope someone clues him in.
If anyone is super interested in this, highly recommend this book which I read last year. Make sure to check it out from your local library!!! www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1...
September 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If anyone is super interested in this, highly recommend this book which I read last year. Make sure to check it out from your local library!!! www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1...