Pediatrician, proud uncle, community advocate, builder, runner, biker, gardener, lover of poetry and nature

Joined March 2012
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Bronx kids bear the burden of underinvestment in medicaid services more than anyone else. Its more than lack of ICU care. How can we do better? @AOC @RitchieTorres @KathyHochul @althea4theBX @Salamancajr80
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Can we talk more about all of the systems failing children? Lack of ICU care is just the tip of the iceberg. Insurance companies are denying necessary home services, creating barriers to obtaining durable medical equipment and using formulary changes to slow access to meds
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This comes on top of ancillary services like speech, OT and PT evaporating from schools and early intervention. Children, especially the most vulnerable children, are filling the pandemic budget gaps all over. @cabanam @SuzettePediMD @broder_md
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AAP CEO Mark del Monte: “You cannot value children if you do not value their doctors.” We need to change the financial model for children’s healthcare. @NYSAAPCH3 @NYSAAPCH2 @NY1AAP #AAPLeads
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I would like to see @nytimes publish a "medical gaslighting" article focused on what insurances do to both patients and healthcare providers. That's some mega full press pinnacle of gaslighting shit there.
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Let's make this the City Council that bans solitary confinement in New York City once and for all. #HALTsolitary
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$2350 rent is not affordable housing.
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I really need folks to understand that the work teachers have done over the past 2 1/2 yrs is nothing short of extraordinary. I've seen teachers whose own lives have been upended by grief, illness, & instability continue to show up for their students in countless, remarkable ways
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Riley Williams, accused of stealing Pelosi's laptop, was given permission to leave house arrest to attend a Renaissance fair. As a public defender, I represented a teenager who wasn't given permission to leave jail to go to his dad's funeral. Two. Systems. Of. Justice.
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Let’s be clear: the word “woke” is just another word for Black. When people are talking about “wokeness”, they are talking about Black equality, Black dignity, and Black liberation. That is what they hate. They are anti-Black. It has always been about white supremacy and power.
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A Black professor who studies housing discrimination had his house appraised: $472,000. He then did a “whitewashing experiment,” removing indications of Blackness, and had a white colleague — another professor — stand in. The appraisal? $750,000. nyti.ms/3pCHmR7
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What 5MB of data looked like in 1966.
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Join @CMSalamancaJr and myself for our back to school giveaway, in partnership with Latino Pastoral Action Center Inc. !
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NYC Evictions Have Increased Every Month This Year citylimits.org/2022/07/26/ny… via @DavidFBrand

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Will the first significant decrease in the number of families living in NYC shelters be undone by evictions? Health requires stable housing. How do we keep families of all incomes stably housed in New York City? @althea4theBX @LuisSepulvedaNY @NYCMayor @KathyHochul @JoinJoyner
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'Do You Agree... That Babies Are Racist?': Ted Cruz Questions Jackson Ab... youtu.be/aV6P9TVletU via @YouTube Too bad Ted Cruz didn’t spend more time reading kid’s books back in 2018. Maybe he wouldn’t have used as much time defending the alleged rapist he put onto the court.
As developers roll into the Bronx, we have to stand united in demanding that projects improve quality of life for Bronxites. Let’s keep the Harlem River for bikers, joggers and pedestrians. @Nycmayor @RitchieTorres @NYCSpeakerCoJo @elisacresponyc @LatchmiGopal @NYjohnsanchez
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LiPetri, Lalor, Lawrence voted No
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