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Esther Choo

Esther Choo

@choo.bsky.social

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Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Writer | Health Services Research | Public Health

Preserving a modicum of peace where I can. If engagement is not respectful, I will block.

Esther Choo is an emergency physician and professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. She is a popular science communicator who has used social media to talk about racism and sexism in healthcare. She was the president of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine and is a member of the American Association of Women Emergency Physicians. She was a co-founder and a board member of Time's Up. On February 26, 2021, Choo was named in a lawsuit against OHSU alleging that Choo failed to take action when she was made aware of an alleged sexual assault involving Dr. Jason Campbell, who became popular on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic. .. more

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Sep 1

From nine former CDC directors, who collectively worked at the agency for more than 100 years:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Read every word.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 7h

👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 7h

Oof haven’t but will look for it now

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 7h

One of the surgeons at our hospital will drop a bullet into the pink plastic basin and say “plink!” just to satisfy the requirement.

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 9h

Every time!!

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

TO BE CONTINUED….

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

Someone in one of my book clubs mentioned that fiction generally has little understanding of where veins run / blood samples are drawn and this is 100% true

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

Timing between a wound, wound infection, and sepsis. That is an arc, my friend. Hemorrhage is a better mechanism for a quick exit.

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

“Blown pupils” from excitement. This may be an acceptable colloquial use for dilated pupil. But for us it indicates very very severe brain injury. Throws me for a loop every time.

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

The notion that the bullet MUST come out of the body or else [something BAD]. This must be leftover from when bullets were made of lead? I’m not sure but generally no one is pressed to go fetch them.

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

Good! It’s deflating to write a thread of all super obvious things :)

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

Any iteration of “the bone was fractured but not broken.”

Aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Fracture = break

$Cleveland Clinic image of different types of fractures.$

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10h

Prone used when contextually, they mean supine. (Prone is a relatively odd position for an awake person who is hanging out, chatting, being alluring, etc.)

Kind of creepy Wiki image of supine (facing up) and prone (facing down) positions

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 11h

Things In Fiction Hard to Read As a Person In Healthcare:

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll quote Tatiana Schlossberg in rebuke: “I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over.”

Onion headline: “White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby”

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Esther K. Choo, Robert C. Richards , and 7 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Esther K. Choo, Robert C. Richards, John Marston, Michael D. McDonald, Michael Jones‐Correa, Aviel Roshwald, Jeannette Sutton, Sylvia Perry, David Darmofal

Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 2d

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 6d

Part of the piggy thing is the assumption that the worst insult he could give a woman is to insult her physical appearance and appeal to him. To him, that’s her potential value and he can’t fathom that it diminishes him, not her.

Reposted by Esther K. Choo, Gerald Friedman, José Antonio Noguera , and 1 more Esther K. Choo, Gerald Friedman, José Antonio Noguera, Henrik Skaug Sætra

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Esther K. Choo, David S. Cohen

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16d

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16d

An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.

Reposted by Esther K. Choo

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16d

An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Esther K. Choo, Michael Zimmer , and 4 more Steve Peers, Esther K. Choo, Michael Zimmer, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Patrick Stokes, Pádua Fernandes, David Darmofal

Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 16d

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Reposted by Esther K. Choo

JAMA Network Open @jamanetworkopen.com · 16d

Among pregnant women, 79% of homicides involved a firearm, and state-level firearm ownership estimates remained associated with homicide rates even after adjusting for sociodemographic factors. ja.ma/3WJSUma

Two graphs compare homicide rates to firearm ownership. Graph A, 'All-cause homicide', shows an increasing homicide rate with higher firearm ownership. Graph B, 'Firearm homicide', shows a similar trend, emphasizing firearm-related homicides.

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 18d

This is a still from SNL, which spoofed the scene today in its cold open

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 18d

SNL tonight lol

Reposted by Smith

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 19d

I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.

An elderly man has had a syncope event and everyone else in the room rushed over to help. The president stands facing the camera without apparent curiosity or empathy about the event.

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 19d

You just know these quiet heroes at the Oregon Department of Human Services hustled to get the payments out the door knowing families depend on them

Oregon DHS worked quickly to get SNAP payments out through its EBT vendor to make funds available as soon as the court order to fully fund the program went through

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 20d

“an economy that works great for those at the very top and leaves everyone else hanging on by their fingernails” www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/rese...

UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need

This past year has been indelibly shaped by concentrated wealth and power. The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion weal

www.oxfamamerica.org

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 21d

Important study

Children & adolescents are "far more likely to experience rare but serious heart & inflammatory conditions after a COVID-19 infection than after being vaccinated–and the risks after infection lasted much longer"

Next post has link to study itself

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www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

COVID-19 infection poses higher, longer heart risks to children than vaccination

A comprehensive analysis of English health records finds higher risk of rare heart complications in children and adolescents who caught COVID-19 compared to those who received an mRNA-based COVID vacc...

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 22d

“We take oaths to the Constitution, not to KINGS”

Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 22d

Governors have never mattered more - @mikiesherrill.bsky.social