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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️

@aarmstrong.bsky.social

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Advocate for kind & careful healthcare with The Patient Revolution. Emma🙎🏻‍♀️ & Minnie's🐕‍🦺 mom, Bear's🐕‍🦺 Grammi, Mark's wife. Lawyer, nature lover, dog rescuer. Caregiver & complex chronic health condition patient.

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Nov 20

Please watch this video by my friend, @vmontori.bsky.social of Mayo Clinic, the founder of The Patient Revolution, & consider learning more about our efforts to improve healthcare FOR ALL. We need your support and would welcome any amount you can give. 🙂 #patientrevolution

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Supporting The Patient Revolution and the movement for care

YouTube video by The Patient Revolution

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · May 30

Join our revolution! @patientrevolution.org

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Lou Arthur @kerryontop.bsky.social · May 22

Make a fuss. Be disruptive. Do whatever you need to do to get the care you need

Advocate for yourself, and when you have the health to do so, advocate for comprehensive healthcare coverage for all

Whenever possible, be the voice which so many people lack <3

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · May 22

When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy.

They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation.

When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit 🧵

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Stephanie Flynn @stephanieflynn.bsky.social · May 22

To give you a sense of how pervasive this problem is - my ER missed my STROKE this week! The arteries to my brain are so narrowed, and they discharged me with no treatment. If I get my BP checked lying flat it feels like im being strangled to death.

ER totally missed it.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · May 22

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · May 20

This is why we need a patient revolution. Healthcare is sick and we all need to demand reform. We need more caring and slower care. Please support @patientrevolution.org and its efforts to reform industrialized healthcare.

Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social · May 20

A new study confirms what so many already know: being dismissed by doctors can be as traumatic as illness itself.
Patients report four kinds of harm: shame, lost trust, delayed diagnosis, avoiding care.

This is what I tried to name in The Invisible Kingdom: www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/h...

Did you leave the doctor feeling worse? How to recognize, respond to medical gaslighting

A Rutgers study found that dismissing patient symptoms causes lasting harm, including shame and avoidance of care.

www.mycentraljersey.com

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Víctor M Montori MD @vmontori.bsky.social · Feb 27

Corruption in healthcare. This is why we revolt.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Feb 27

"The Times analysis also found that skipping patients is exacerbating disparities in health care. When lists are ignored, transplants disproportionately go to white and Asian patients and college graduates."

Read about our post-racial, class-free medical system. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored

The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.

www.nytimes.com

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Víctor M Montori MD @vmontori.bsky.social · Feb 14

Caregivers unite! Against cruelty and the cruel exclusion of any persons from care. Fear bites your tongue until you learn that you have no voice. Caregivers speak up for your patients! Let’s find our collective courage and stand up for care.

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The Patient Revolution @patientrevolution.org · May 5

Join us for a dynamic and empowering conversation on the urgent need for careful and kind care—especially as AI’s growing influence reshapes healthcare. Virtual & Free. Limited spots, reserve yours today! www.patientrevolution.org/townhall

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · May 9

There are things every one of us can do in our daily lives to help ensure free and fair elections — and, in doing so, limit Trump’s power. Some actions are small — so small that you might dismiss them as unimportant. Don’t. Every important journey begins with a single step.

We Have More Power Than Trump Wants Us To Believe — Here's What You Can Do

From Marc | Here is a list of what each of us can do to stand up for democracy and defend our elections.

www.democracydocket.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Apr 19

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

The CFPB Has Been Gutted

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

www.wired.com

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Apr 14

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...

‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in E.R.s (Gift Article)

From the “chairs” to the hallway medicine, the show’s depiction of an emergency medicine system that is beyond capacity rings true for medical experts.

www.nytimes.com

Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Apr 14

Until we are all aware of this crisis, nothing will change. Pay attention and speak up. Industrialized healthcare does not lead to careful and kind care (which are both needed to have any meaningful healthcare). Consider following @patientrevolution.org to learn more and get involved.

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Apr 14

Every part of the healthcare system is stretched and at or near crisis level, but the ER departments are in serious crisis. THE PITT and this article show how hard it is on the healthcare professionals--WHICH HAS A DIRECT IMPACT ON PATIENTS TOO.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · Apr 5

My favorite sign (for obvious reasons) from today's "Hands Off!" protest n Charlottesville. Over 2,000 people showed up. Darn good for a small metro area. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽, to @indivisiblecville.bsky.social for organizing the event. BTW, the protester's father is a retired history professor. Clearly a good man.

The photo shows a protester holding up a sign that reads, "Some of you slept through history class and it shows." The protester's face cannot be seen.

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KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · Mar 13

Those same people should also be given adequate monetary compensation, whether they return or not.

KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · Mar 13

Federal judge orders agencies to rehire workers, calls process a "sham".

www.axios.com/2025/03/13/d...

Federal judge orders agencies to bring back fired probationary workers

More than 30,000 were fired across the federal government.

www.axios.com

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · Mar 13

NEW: Calling the firings a “sham,” a federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to rehire tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules

U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office.

www.politico.com

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Mar 2

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Mar 1

You might be interested in joining us at @patientrevolution.org

My daughter went through hell the last two years. Hope u r ok now.

Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Feb 25

Healthcare in its current form cannot accommodate this often enough and thousands suffer because of it. We need more advocacy for SLOWER, KINDER healthcare! Please check out @patientrevolution.org to learn more!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 22

Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power. (2/2)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 22

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 24

The divide in politics today is between unreality and reality. Those who seek to rule the world blur human experience and smudge memory, making cooperation and friendship laughable and unthinkable.
Ukraine resists an unreality war.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-realit...

The Reality of Ukraine

A larger meaning of the largest contemporary war

snyder.substack.com

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Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Feb 20

Alison Armstrong 🌎🕊️ @aarmstrong.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is what healthcare needs more of. We need a #patientrevolution @patientrevolution.org

"One More Thing" open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...

"One More Thing"

and I do have time for it

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