Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
mbrydone.bsky.social
Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
@mbrydone.bsky.social
Breast Radiologist. Living amongst the trees with my husband and cats. Concerned human.

📍Oregon
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
Honestly I expect this kind of vote from your colleague, but I believed you saw more clearly. I’m sorry I didn’t call your office ahead of the vote, that’s on me. But could you tell me how to explain it to my child?
December 19, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Hi @smith.senate.gov. First time caller long time supporter. My 15 year old is trans and I was wondering how you would like me to explain your vote today? Should I tell them - your senators don’t really think you’re human, honey. Or: they think you’re faking it, honey? Which one?
SHAME ON EACH OF YOU

Schumer (D-NY) @schumer.senate.gov
Shaheen (D-NH)
Smith (D-MN) @smith.senate.gov
Tester (D-MT)
Van Hollen (D-MD) @vanhollen.senate.gov
Warner (D-VA) @markwarner.bsky.social
Warnock (D-GA) @warnock.senate.gov
Whitehouse (D-RI) @whitehouse.senate.gov
December 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
In this AJR Expert Panel Review, the current AI tools for breast ultrasound that have been approved or cleared by the FDA and that are intended for lesion classification and/or detection are reviewed.

https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.23.30645
December 11, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
Yeah, this thing where we expect children to outlive their parents is, historically speaking, very recent.
Read this moving and urgently necessary account
Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...
December 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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I think getting a cancer diagnosis is one of the scariest things in the world. It was for me. I can't imagine people thinking that adding worries about coverage being denied on top of that is acceptable. Especially just to make shareholders richer. I just can't fathom it.
December 7, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Anyway I will be going full villain mode on the VA next week (and my Congressman’s district office will be seeing a lot more of me!). For a country that fetishizes the military we sure do treat veterans and their families like shit.
December 7, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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all i'm saying is it would've been nice to have this healthcare policy discussion *before* we gave a trifecta to the party that tried to strip coverage from tens of millions of people last time they were in power
December 7, 2024 at 1:10 AM
This also happened to my husband. I naievely thought that since we paid out of pocket for them, it would count against our “out of pocket maximum” and deductible.

Ha! No. Because they deemed it “not medically necessary,” it didn’t count for anything.

Because being able to walk isn’t necessary?
Remembering when my $1,000 foot orthopedic inserts were denied by UnitedHealthCare because “podiatry prosthetics are not covered in your plan” and I could not walk without them so I appealed and they denied so I had to pay out of pocket (I was making $35,000/year in New York City).
December 7, 2024 at 6:34 AM
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What if there was a search engine that gave you results based on what you asked for?
December 7, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
When the GOP does the previously unthinkable in the next few years and guts funding for Veterans Affairs, don't we say we didn't warn this would happen.
December 6, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
I work very hard to not co-opt the struggles of people I love. What I can say that is that I can tell you that as a parent of a transgender child, I have no sympathy in the world for a single parent who is not enthusiastically supportive of their child's gender expression.
December 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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The idea that each surgical case should take a uniform amount of time is ridiculous and not supported by either the data, or the variability of human bodies and their anatomy.
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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As a surgeon, I have specific goals I want to achieve for each patient, and that takes as long as it takes.
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
Every anti-trans-care argument falls apart when you ask why it doesn't apply to any other medical decision
this is an argument for banning both all plastic surgery and knee replacements
Kavanaugh obsessed over trans people "regretting" their decision to transition and that being a state interest.

Setting aside the fact that the rate of "regret" is very low, it's not the state's job to protect people from regret.

This is an argument for the ultimate nanny-state.
December 4, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
this is an argument for banning both all plastic surgery and knee replacements
Kavanaugh obsessed over trans people "regretting" their decision to transition and that being a state interest.

Setting aside the fact that the rate of "regret" is very low, it's not the state's job to protect people from regret.

This is an argument for the ultimate nanny-state.
December 4, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
In this episode of the AJR Podcast Series on Diagnostic Excellence and Error, @francisdeng.bsky.social and @shailinthomas.bsky.social dive into the complex realities of medicolegal liability for radiology residents.

www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/...
December 2, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
New AJR:

"Medicolegal Insights for Residents: AJR Podcast Series on Diagnostic Excellence and Error, Episode 6"

By Drs @francisdeng.bsky.social & @shailinthomas.bsky.social

ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/...

@ajrradiology.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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This should be said everywhere. Allowing discrimination like this against trans people undermines bedrock principles of constitutional rights across the board.
Jackson gets back to Loving v. Virginia, jokes that she's getting kinda nervous. References that Virginia also cited science to back up its antimiscegenation laws. Outright states that she's concerned about the erosion of bedrock cases of civil rights.
December 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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If your religious beliefs are so fragile that the existence of other people who live differently feels threatening to your way of life, then that’s not a reflection on their values, it’s a reflection on yours.
This is what he came back with after a week with his family and God— destroying other peoples’ families.
December 3, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Reposted by Mickey Brydone-Jack, MD 🏳️‍🌈
Highlights from Removing the Mask v. 2.0 with Carrie Cunningham MD, MPH.

"Depression is insidious, progressive and relentless, but it isn’t a character flaw and says nothing about your competence as a physician. It is physical and heavy. It is chronic, but it is treatable." #RSNA24
December 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Is this thing on? Just two normal gays on a hike 🤭😂
November 21, 2024 at 6:13 PM