The resident and fellow physicians at @PennMedicine are unionizing!! UPenn housestaff would the first residents in Pennsylvania to unionize. We are determined to not only improve patient care at UPenn, but to set standards for what residency and equity in healthcare should be.

@MHayes_MD @WrayCharles @AnneSongMD @releiter

😔 Hospital visitor restrictions reduced caregivers' contact with the medical team, causing caregivers & patients emotional distress. Facilitating communication may benefit caregivers who cannot be present. doi.org/10.1002/jhm.12924 @anny_fenton #VisualAbstract: @ToledanesGian

While a true pleasure to write this with friends @vitaincerta and @AnneSongMD …I really wish it didn’t need to be written in the first place.

I invite my fellow researchers to reflect a bit on why they might consider someone with a lived experience of a health condition researching it more biased than someone without. A short 🧵 1/9

Time again to revisit hospital "visitation" (family presence) policies. @washingtonpost @angelahaupt recently ran a piece providing tips for how to manage as a family member when you're not allowed in washingtonpost.com/wellness/… Clinicians and health system leaders should do more 🧵

Thank you, @releiter, for yet another incredibly thoughtful and important piece: "when we set societal expectations for a good death, we claim a command over nature that we don’t always have."

“Rather than being concerned hope is so fragile it can be lost or so powerful it can overwhelm, remember hope is protective, if not necessary, for managing serious illness.” So grateful to write with ⁦@SchenkerYael⁩ ⁦@rabob⁩! #hapc #pedpc jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…