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Kristen Stuppy, MD, FAAP
@pediatricskc.medsky.social
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Pediatrician, COVID cautious, passionate about ADHD and mental health. Mom of young adults & sugar gliders. she/her/hers
Fellow peds, check out PedSky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xitpfrpmistljpssx3i6csfd/feed/PedSky
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Apparently when respectable groups start questioning government websites, there’s a need to promote government sites as reliable. This is propaganda at its best.
Screen shot of the White House’s Facebook page with an image that says Fake News Exposed. The intro encourages those who are tired of fake news to get the facts on the White House site, but there are a lot of laughs and comments not shown that accuse the account of sharing fake news.
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#NoKings Overland Park, Kansas
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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This is a very limited list. There are so many great pedsky accounts.

I love the feeds feature to discover new people. Use a medsky.social handle and add a label to your bio. Pin fav feeds. Use labels to help others find you and change to medsky.social handle if you’re in a medical field. #Pedsky
Screenshot of Pediatric’s list by medsky.social. A curation of Bluesky users with the pediatrics label. Screenshot of pediatrics a medsky feed curated from posts using pedsky as a keyword.
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I've yet to meet a pediatrician who pockets big money from pharma. All those dollars we're supposed to be getting, yet we're consistently among the lowest paid physician specialty. This year we're at the bottom again. How does that work?

from www.medscape.com/slideshow/20... (free login needed)
Screen shot from Medscape's 2025 physician compensation survey. Top (all in thousands of dollars) orthopedics 564, plastic surgery 544, radiology 526, cardiology 520, gastroenterology 513, with several more and then pediatrics 265 at the bottom, with public health and preventative medicine just above it at 260.
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Kennedy is throwing a fit because a large well designed study contradicts him.

What would it take to help him see the errors of his ways?

Sadly I don’t think he’ll learn. We need him removed from office.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Screen reads The study, opens new tab, which was funded by the Danish government and published in July in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed nationwide registry data for more than 1.2 million children over more than two decades. It did not find evidence that exposure to aluminum in vaccines had caused an increased risk for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders. The work is by far the best available evidence on the question of the safety of aluminum in vaccines, said Adam Finn, a childhood vaccination expert in the UK and pediatrician at the University of Bristol, who was not involved in the study.
August 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Reposting - I have a setting making alt text required, but for some reason it posted without the alt text.
Screen shot of an AAP and healthychildren dot org post. Pediatricians don't do this work for money or fame. We are not selling supplements, building brands, or profiting off your fear. And we don't get rich providing vaccines. In fact, we'd make more money treating sick kids, but we'd rather prevent illness in the first place.
July 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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It's really hard as a pediatrician to deny giving a flu vaccine because we're out of stock of VFC flu knowing that it's a young infant's first flu season and we have plenty of flu vaccine for those with other insurance plans. Attached is an old pic from one of my fav ped FB pages. They did get some.
screen shot of a facebook page called Dr Kim's Kids dated September 20, 2020. There is an image of available flu vaccines. Medicaid, CHIP, or uninsured 0 flu vaccines for ages 6 months and up. 100 flumist. Private insurance 375 flu vaccines for 6 months and up and 120 flumist. The words above the image read the VFC Flumist came in. Flumist is the nasal spray flu vaccine for most children older than 2 years of age and younger than 50. Now if the state would only deliver the injectable flu shots for babies we'd be set! Please call for a quick visit to get your vaccines. We have enough for parents this year.
July 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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screen shot of the word list to include in posts to be put in the pedsky feed. pediatrics, child health, pediatrician pedsky, hashtag pedsky, PedSky (with capital P and S) and paedsky
June 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Yes! One of my best buys ever!
Roborock in charging station with dirty and clean water tanks
June 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I fear that stopping COVID vaccination is the gateway to stopping all vaccinations.

It won't end well, even if only this one type of vaccine is banned.

This image from the article is fantastic! Just the type of stuff we need to promote to the general public to help them learn real risks.
An infographic of the effects of measles vs MMR vaccine. Per 10 thousand people who contract measles, 10-30 child deaths, 2000 hospitalized, 1000 child ear infections with potential for permanent hearing loss, 500 children get pneumonia - the most common cause of death, 10 cases of childhood encephalitis, more than 3 cases of blood clotting, 1 out of 5 unvaccinated people who contract measles are hospitalized, 1 out of 20 children who contract measles get pneumonia, 1 out of 10 children who contract measles get ear infections with potential for hearing loss. Effects per 10 thousand people who get the MMR vaccine: 3 out of 10 thousand experience fever related seizures, 0.04 cases of abnormal blood clotting. 0.035 allergic reactions. Zero known risk of autism from MMR vaccine.
May 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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When we visited Rome, my favorite restaurant was staffed by
servers of various abilities. The food was fantastic and our server was so pleasant and eager to please. www.eticofood.it
Picture of a table setting showing a menu with QR codes to mission, menu, and B corp, along with social media links to eticofood dot i t
May 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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If you're not doing these recommended hours of physical activity, you meet the new high risk criteria for COVID vaccination. Talk to your doctor about Z72.3. cdn.who.int/media/images...
Every move counts infographic from the world health organization. From left to right: in red an image of someone sitting with a warning sign and stating limit sedentary time. arrow to replace with some physical activity with a green adult and child walking, then in stairstep fashion to the right a green person walking up stairs, with the words any is better than none. The stairs turn to yellow images of people exercising with the words 150 minutes per week (pregnant and postpartum women), 150 to 300 minutes per week (adults and older adults), and 60 minutes per day (children and adolescents). The stairs move to a blue person doing pushups and it says on at least 2 days a week muscle strengthening activities (adults) and a blue person doing tai chi with the words on at least 3 days a week multicomponent activities for balance and strength (older adults). The highest step is green people exercising with the words more than 300 minutes per week (everyone who can).
May 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Screenshot: Z72.3 ICD-10 code Z72. 3 for Lack of physical exercise is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Factors influencing health status and contact with health services .
May 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The end of the school year isn’t just about grades — it’s a chance to ask teachers how your child is doing beneath the surface.

Every summer at well visits I meet kids who struggle to focus on our conversation and stay in control of their body, but parents are not aware of any problems at school.
What to ask your child's teacher to help unmask hidden struggles is the title in white against a purple background. Yellow graphic outlines of a brain with a cogwheel, a lightbulb, a pencil, and a paper airplane overly small images of a handout. There are two Q R codes, one labeled find on Substack, the other Find on Beehiiv.
April 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I had to jump on the trend. Want to make your own? Enter the prompt shared below into ChatGPT with a photo of yourself. My first attempt's face was too much like a real face so I edited to clarify "Use the attached photo as a reference for the face but make it look like a plastic action figure." 1/3
An AI-generated image of an action figure in packaging. The label reads pediatrician and there is a figure of a grey-haired woman wearing a turquoise shirt with colorful hearts, pink scrubs and rainbow clogs holding a stethoscope. Accessories include a stethoscope, otoscope, and computer.
April 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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More from Lenexa this morning.
#HandsOff #HandsOffJohnsonCountyKansas All 4 sides of this street corner had protesters but I only walked down 1 of the 4 -you can see the other side of the street a bit. I haven't heard how many there were
April 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Lot's of positive energy today at my local #HandsOff event. My favorite bumper sticker of the day is pictured, reading "Anti-Elon Tesla Owner". There were many great signs!
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Collage of 4 pictures. The top left is of a blue tesla, with an arrow to a smaller zoomed up view of it, showing a bumper sticker that reads Anti-elon tesla owner. The bottom two pictures are of protesters, with a variety of signs, reading hands off democracy, hate has no home here, unelected billionaire, unchecked power, unacceptable. Other signs are not readable. There's a hashtag Hands Off, Lenexa Kansas, Saturdays at 11 am.
April 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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From: www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/h... ~
"Pertussis cases in Louisiana are rising just weeks after the state Department of Health said it was ending vaccine promotion through events like health fairs. 1/7
The image presents a comparison of two news articles, with the left side titled "HOW IT STARTED" and the right side titled "HOW IT'S GOING". - *Left Article* - Title: Louisiana Department of Health officially ends all vaccine promotion, events - Author: Rosemary Westwood - Publication Date: February 14, 2025 - *Right Article* - Title: Louisiana Surgeon General shares vaccine info after 2 babies die from whooping cough - Author: Rosemary Westwood - Publication Date: March 28, 2025
April 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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You had to post this.

I *think* I did my quarter's worth of questions, but tried to log in to see... and get this error message.

Thanks for ruining my day -- now I'll worry whether or not I've done my questions all day. 😆
Screen shot of a server error message when trying to log into the MOCA peds site.
March 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The final mission in TEACH Me ADHD is officially wrapped up! Over the past 8 weeks Jr. & Sr. Detectives uncovered the secrets of ADHD, battled ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts), practiced calming their glitter jars (aka emotions), tackled executive functions, and created their own ADHD care plans!
A purple background with confetti. Training Mission 8 Detectives celebrated all they have learned in the last 8 weeks. TEACH Me ADHD logo. A picture of a woman holding an ADHD Care Plan worksheet.
March 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Can you find Bluey on it? It teaches some great things that Fox News watchers probably need to learn.

From meda.foundation/bluey-a-hear...
Screen shot reads: A Psychological Analysis of ‘Bluey’ a Heartwarming Show for Kids and Parents Alike Shubha Noyonika September 7, 2024 Parenting Advice, Psychology Bluey, the beloved Australian children's show, offers more than just entertainment—it serves as an invaluable tool for fostering emotional intelligence and family bonding. Through the playful adventures of Bluey and her family, children learn crucial life skills like empathy, problem-solving, and understanding emotions. Parents and caregivers are given a model of gentle parenting, showing the power of patience, open communication, and playful interaction. The show's relatable scenarios provide rich opportunities for discussions about common childhood challenges, while also encouraging imaginative play. Whether it's handling tantrums, sibling rivalry, or simply exploring the joy of everyday life, Bluey creates a heartwarming space for learning and connection for all ages.
March 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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My family wanted to know why I chose this as my Netflix image.
Screenshot with the title Who's watching? Kristen has a picture of a purple unicorn with blue hair, Da Papa has Mr Miyagi from Karate Kid, Joe has a monkey, and The Favorite Child is a mean looking toddler with her hair in a ponytail on the top of her head.
March 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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🔎🚀 The TEACH Me ADHD Team is on a Mission! 🚀🔎

Our Jr. Detectives just completed Mission 7, where they tackled pesky ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) and learned powerful strategies to stay positive, build confidence, and reframe negative thoughts!
A picture of a woman holding a worksheet to challenge automatic negative thoughts is in the center, with Mission 7 complete and a detective shadow and footprints showing on the left. A cartoon ant holding a sign reading "what's the evidence that the ANT is true? What's the evidence against it?" At the bottom it reads challenging ants automatic negative thoughts.
March 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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As a fellow physician, I’m appalled by Sen. Marshall’s recent comments supporting Trump on transgender issues. As an OB-GYN, he should know better. His words ignore established science and prioritize politics over medical facts. MedSky 🧵
Screen shot reading: Senator Marshall Pens Op-Ed in Support of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act As a doctor who has delivered over 5,000 babies, I can say with full confidence that boys are boys and girls are girls. This basic biological statement should not be radical, and it is sad that we are even having this debate. 80% of American agree with President Trump’s view that biological boys should not compete in girls’ sports. That’s why I was proud to cosponsor my good friend Coach Tommy Tuberville’s Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, legislation that would preserve Title IX protections for female athletes. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly every single Senate Democrat voted against it this week. Thankfully, President Trump has taken up the mantle on this issue by signing an executive order last month protecting women’s and girls’ sports. I was honored to be a part of that historic moment and attend the ceremony as he signed the critical order. However, executive orders can easily be undone by future presidents. Congress must act to make this permanent and ensure women and girls are protected from the Left’s radical gender ideology. This week, I penned an op-ed in The Daily Caller highlighting the importance of protecting women’s and girls’ sports and calling out Senate Democrats for voting against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports. Daily Caller Opinion section.
March 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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It's all vile, but I did watch the video twice to verify this. As someone who is opposed to cross dressers and trans people, he really should have fixed this before posting it. 😆
A screen shot of Trump's imagined Trump Gaza video. It shows two women with beards and mustaches dancing on the beach in bikini tops and traditional skirts.
February 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM