Hi, 🤗 I’m Dr. Ashely Alker, an emergency physician and author of 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them. For over a decade, I’ve worked to make public health education engaging and accessible—through media, storytelling, and now my book. 📖📚 I’ve consulted and written for shows on Hulu, Netflix, Disney, and HBO, and founded Meaningful Media, a nonprofit that helps creators craft scientifically accurate stories. 💭🎥 My latest project, 💀 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them 💀, is a darkly funny, practical guide to surviving the most unexpected ways life can end. Pre-order today—it might just save your life. 🫣 #booktok #aboutme #media #publichealth

Readers’ Hit New #Books of the Year (So Far) #Goodreads came out with its best books of the year (so far) and 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them is #10 in new nonfiction!! Thank you so much to everyone who is reading! It took five years to write this book. Thank you for going on this #publichealth journey with me. I hope the book makes you laugh and teaches you something life-saving! I sincerely hope this helps more people find the book, because if enough people read it, someone's life will be saved. I ❤️ @goodreads and its readers goodreads.com/blog/show/3127…

Medical miracles, mysteries, and memoirs: 8 great summer reads about doctors and medicine The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) put out its summer reading list for aspiring physicians and those interested in health sciences. The first book on the list: 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them! Other amazing books include: The Story of the Heart @doctoroxford A Giant Leap @robjwachter Super Agers @erictopol1 Valley of Forgetting @jennieerinsmith All About Tuberculosis @johngreenwritesbooks Persevered @karazivin it Doesn't Have to Hurt @drsanjaygupta Find your 2026 beach read! 📖 😎 @aamctoday Article by Patrick Boyle aamc.org/news/medical-miracl… @Amcas @aamc_pathtomedicine @aaemjournal @aaemrsa @emresidents @aaemjournal @acepnation #premed #premedlife #nurse #publichealth

Coming up June 12 Harvard Club of DC book events Get your tickets: harvard-dc.org/event/99-ways…

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Fun day in Washington DC! I gave a talk on alternative careers and medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. I focused on my work with my nonprofit Meaningful Media, and how to use media for public health education as a physician. I then met with U.S. Congressman Raul Ruiz. He is an emergency medicine physician and is doing amazing things to keep science-based health decision-making a part of our government's health policy. Lastly, I stopped by one of my favorite DC bookstores, Kramer's, to sign 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them. Get your signed copy at Kramer's!

We are now witnessing the dismantling of independent scientific oversight. The President has terminated, without reason, multiple members of the National Science Board, the independent body that guides NSF and advises Congress and the President on U.S. science policy.

The @todayshow article IS OUT! And it could save your life. Check out 6 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them, According to an ER Doctor by @LaVarsovienne today.com/health/womens-heal…

The @TODAYshow article IS OUT! And it could save your life. Check out 6 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them, According to an ER Doctor by @a_pawlowski_ Some things covered strep throat, honey, water, Tylenol, iron supplements, and pregnancy… Want more? Check out 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them! today.com/health/womens-heal…

The hill I will die on - we have to rethink graduate training. “Scientists are trained for a world where data speaks for itself. Where misinformation moves slowly. Where scientific expertise naturally rises above noise. That world is gone.” sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/…

The doctor, who calls herself a "board-certified death escapologist," reveals common health dangers people may not be aware of and two symptoms ER doctors dread. A conversation with @aalkermd today.com/health/womens-heal…

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If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

#3 on Goodreads non-fiction! …and hanging out with #thepitt ❤️ read.macmillan.com/lp/99-way…

99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them is number 12 out of all the 2026 listed nonfiction books on Goodreads! If you haven't checked it out, you should! It could save your life. 😉 read.macmillan.com/lp/99-way…

So excited to announce some of the foreign rights for 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them! Thank you to my amazing agents @larry.weissman and #SaschaAlper! The book will be published in: 🇨🇿 The Czech Republic @Nakladatelstvi_prah 🇹🇼 Taiwan by @cubepressig 🇬🇧 The UK by @hachetteuk, @casselluk 🇹🇭 Thailand by @amarinbooks 🇯🇵 Japan @orangepage_book More to come! ❤️

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Charles Knowles-Why We Drink Too Much (Celadon Books, 2026) Ashely Alker-99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them (St. Martin's Press, 2026) Chris Duffy- Humor Me: How Laughing More... (Doubleday, 2026) Maya Shankar-The Other Side of Change(Riverhead Books, 2026)

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#GWSMHS faculty member Ashely Alker, MD, will be at @PoliticsProse at the Wharf tonight for an event to promote her new book, "99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them!" More information here: bit.ly/4bgBaY9

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