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Mike Certo MD MA MM

@mikecertomd.bsky.social

Pediatric palliative care, critical care, and bioethics in Chicago. Husband and dad. Reader. Music & Narrative Medicine. Drinker of many coffees. All opinions are my own, not my employers’.

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Mike Certo MD MA MM@mikecertomd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Increasing preventable morbidity and mortality: the hallmark of RFK, MAHA, and their enablers. The role of vitamin K in preventing devastating bleeding in infants won the Nobel prize in the 1940s - it’s difficult to argue for a more “settled” and demonstrably safe intervention. Shameful.

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

propublica.org

Alex Abdo@alexabdo.bsky.social · last yr.

Chief Justice Roberts (2007): “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Justice Kavanaugh (2025): ethnicity “can be a 'relevant factor' when considered along with other salient factors” in immigration stops.

Quoting from Justice Roberts in a recent decision
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last yr.

Another example of our cruelty. “China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.”

Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar

While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

nytimes.com

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · last yr.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · 2y ago

the rich and powerful want to destroy biomedical science, like they wanted to destroy climate science, and before that tobacco science and before that asbestos science -- because science and universities are an independent source of truth that can reduce the power and money of oligarchs.

Esther M Johnston, MD MPH FAAFP@esthermjohnston.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety. Silence is not an option." #MedSky 🧪 🩺📊 🛟🩺 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?

This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

jamanetwork.com

Mike Certo MD MA MM@mikecertomd.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing.” American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine

Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

thelancet.com