Esra Amber, MD, PhD
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Esra Amber, MD, PhD
@esraamber.bsky.social
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Psychiatrist. North north 🇺🇸. Penchant for disliking politically oriented professional brains. Views are my own, that i can disown 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Go #BlueSky! X is everone's ex now
More on our comparisons of physicians on X vs BlueSky - our panel of ~1,000 docs on both platforms posted 23% less on X in November relative to October. They posted 845% MORE on @bsky.app. Sign up for more updates! bit.ly/hcpbluesky #MedSky #PharmaSky #ASH24 MORE TO COME!
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Reposting for the Monday crowd 👇🏽
Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience

A Review of “Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That” by Nicole C. Rust ( @nicolecrust.bsky.social )

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rewriting-...
Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience
A Review of “Elusive Cures” by Nicole C. Rust
www.psychiatrymargins.com
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Autistic People are NOT a burden on the country (or the world) we are also NOT a problem to be solved.
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Given Joanna Moncrieff’s appearance on the FDA panel today, folks may be interesting in my prior analysis of her anti-medication playbook and her strategy of attacking medical psychiatry

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/anatomy-of...
Anatomy of Moncrieff's Anti-Medication Playbook
A 3-step strategy of attacking medical psychiatry
www.psychiatrymargins.com
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A huge part of diagnostic bloat in psychiatry—and downstream patient attachment to diagnoses as identities that reveal supposed explanations of themselves—is simply the product of a reimbursement system that incentivizes multiplying diagnoses to enhance billable “complexity.”
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Lelia Gibson-Green was diagnosed with stage 4 blood cancer. Years of chemotherapy and other forms of treatment helped her recover, but her immune system was compromised.

She now needs an IV immunoglobulin treatment every four weeks for rest of her life. Medicaid covers costs of about $40,000/round
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The Republican campaign to destroy all our non-military national security tools - on display last night - underscores their dangerous misunderstanding of the world.

China and Russia spend billions on things like information warfare and economic coercion - as Trump disarms.
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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.

Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.

I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
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To any woman who needs to hear this:
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PASS IT ON folks.
#Obgynsky #Medsky
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Get abortion and miscarriage care, wherever you are.
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This is absolutely terrible news.

With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.

h/t @merz.bsky.social
Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
www.reuters.com
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Reposted by Esra Amber, MD, PhD
Worth being aware, if you aren't already, of the 100-mile border zone loophole that allows that federal government to stop and interrogate anyone, without probable cause.

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...