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@rx-to-read.bsky.social
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medpeds faculty; former eis; primary care and inpt; community medicine.

❤️reading, public health, health equity, social justice, MedEd, activism, outdoors, cats, my kids

Always sleep deprived d/t books, over caffeinated, and filled w existential dread
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Been busy, hiding from reality. Actually also just a lot going on. But i had to at the behest of the kiddos, that my cats broke into the churro and each chewed open a packet.

Previously they have knocked over their dental treats, but this is a whole new level.
Somewhat blurry photo of tabby cat and black cat in extreme satisfaction at having obtained churro treats that were not given. Evidence: pink churro strips with many teeth marks and cats licking the floor.
January 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Cats sitting innocently on the bed last night after the black one mutilated my finger during a game of “lets attempt
to make the bed with a cat inside it” and I had to give up so I didn't bleed to death.

He has some kind of 6th sense for clean sheets.
Black cat and tabby sitting on partly made bed with blue sheets after the black cat got too enthusiastic during a game of harass the human while making the bed
December 21, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Cats playing hide and seek today (the tabby is inside the box)… couldn’t catch the tabby jumping out into her sibling’s face unfortunately. #catsofbluesky
Black cat with yellow collar standing on his back legs, peering inside a cardboard box (in which our little tabby is hiding and waiting to jump out and pounce on his face). There are some stairs and a broom and some other household detruis in the background
December 12, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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Read to my kid’s class today! “Seven Golden Rings: a Tale of Music and Math” by Ranjani LaRoca @rajanilarocca.bsky.social
(A writer and a doctor! My dream!)
Kids loved it. This is literally one of my younger kid’s favorite books!

#medsky
#booksky
💙📚

#mp4l
December 11, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17
(Sorry, long pause… busy life, weird dread about finishing the list 🤷‍♀️)

#booksky

💙📚

#books

#bookchallenge
Cover: House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
December 9, 2024 at 11:55 PM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of Edith Hamilton’s “mythology”
December 2, 2024 at 1:03 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15

#booksky

💙📚

#books

#bookchallenge
The cover of “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet A Washington
December 1, 2024 at 1:15 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
#medsky
The cover of “Middlesex” by Jeffery Eugenides
November 26, 2024 at 1:56 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of “The Ten Thousand Doors of January” by Alix E Harrow
November 25, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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What is this place? It seems like it would make a good bed for me! Get rid of all these other things, thank you?

Throw back to when Star could fit in the lid drawer! #caturday #catsofbluesky
Small black kitten with yellow eyes standing on storage lids in a yellow drawer, crouching under the roof of the drawer The kitten from the first picture has now laid down on the lids and has a paw hanging out of the drawer.
November 23, 2024 at 4:15 PM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of “Life After Life” by Kate Atkinson
November 23, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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My cats deviously tried to prevent me from brushing my teeth and getting ready for bed by sitting on me and purring (well one anyway; the other just stared at me). But I persisted. Score 1 for me! Nevermind the overall tally… 🤣
Two cats, a tabby not quite a kitten anymore and a pretty big black cat, sit snuggled on a blue sleeping bag on top of a black conforter with white stars on a wooden bed.
November 21, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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This is how i would prefer to spend my day tomorrow. I do not feel ready to face the world.

Star agrees I can stay home if I pay with belly rubs. I think this should count as a valid work excuse!
Black cat curled on the back of a blue couch, partially supported by a red cushion, next to a sunny window, with his tummy turned toward the sky and viewer, waiting for belly rubs. His eyes are closed and he may be asleep
November 21, 2024 at 3:57 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of “The Circle” by Dave Eggers
November 21, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
November 20, 2024 at 2:31 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson. The front says “the world-famous bestseller about our ravaged environment and the man-made pollution that is imperiling all life on earth”
November 19, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Pediatricians can prescribe fluoride to help keep kids’ teeth! Many of us already do. And we apply fluoride dental varnish for high risk kids while we encourage them to seek dental care.

To read more: www.aapd.org/media/Polici...
Table of fluoride dosage by age and drinking water fluoridation.
November 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Plant murderers looking innocent.

Shortly after this a crash alerted me to their experimentation with removing my plants from their pots by pushing them off the table…

#catsky (ive just decided this is the hashtag im using)
Black cat with yellow collar and tabby kitten sitting together in the window next to the plant they are shortly about to push off the table and shatter.
November 18, 2024 at 12:37 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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My cat says, “this house is for me, right? Please move all these hard humanoid things. They are disturbing my palace”.

It’s Star’s world and we are just living in it… #catsky
Moderate sized black cat with yellow collar sits majestically in the second floor of a doll house while barbies are strewn across the bottom floor looking rather disheveled. A basket of toy dinos sits in the foreground. Cat looks like he thinks he rules the place.
November 17, 2024 at 3:53 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of “How Green Was My Valley” by Richard Llewellyn. Photo of miners walking to work.
November 16, 2024 at 11:39 PM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The Cover of “Night” by Elie Wiesel
November 16, 2024 at 2:43 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
November 15, 2024 at 1:39 AM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of the Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
rx-to-read.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3
#booksky
💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
The cover of Nickel and Dimed; on Not Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
November 13, 2024 at 1:24 AM