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Bob Lee MD MS

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Critical care physician + palliative care researcher at the University of Washington & Harborview Medical Center. Passionate about improving communication, leveraging informatics for research, and being a dad. DEN➡️PIT➡️IAD➡️DEN➡️SFO➡️SEA. He/him. Views=mine.

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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"To this day, we sometimes pick up an IV pump and notice that its print is particularly faded, the buttons a little worn and finicky. We check its date of manufacture, and we see that we had used it during COVID..." We were there, RFK. We were there. www.facebook.com/share/p/18xr...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The unparalleled and beauteous genius of ICD-10 diagnosis codes ... #iykyk #MedSky #DataEntryIsNotWhyIBecameADoctor
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"USAID wasn’t charity—it was infrastructure for American influence and a bulwark against instability. China & Russia watch this abdication with satisfaction. As we withdraw, they advance—not with better humanitarian programs, but with authoritarian development models."
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By the People
Abraham Lincoln once implored our nation not to allow a “government of the people, by the people, for the people … to perish from this Earth.” We rightly focus on “of the people”—Lincoln’s defense of ...
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Wow, Stanford Medicine. Just wow. Most medical schools would hang their heads silently if their alum-turned-unabashed-quack (an MD Without Residency who stands for anti-vax + raw milk) were considered for Surgeon General. Stanford? "We love her!! We're so proud!" med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Statement from Stanford School of Medicine on Alum Casey Means
Casey Means, MD, has been nominated to serve as the United States surgeon general.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...
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Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I thought to myself, surely this was a troll and she didn't actually post this... oh, but she did.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
She's THIS close to getting it.
Screenshot of an X.com post by Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) criticizing Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance, calling it ironic he danced on an electrical post given Puerto Rico’s power grid issues, and accusing him of choosing “degeneracy” instead of highlighting the crisis. Below are two photos from the performance showing Bad Bunny and dancers dressed in white on elevated structures with pyrotechnics.
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Dear world, Have you ever had to apologize for some sh*t that a despised distant family member did that was offensive, embarrassing, or even evil? We are truly sorry that our fellow citizens have inflicted this piece of sh*t upon the globe. We hate him too. Signed, Most, but not enough, of us
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Manifestly UNETHICAL experimentation on INFANTS born in an impoverished country with known high burden of Hepatitis B, funded by a RFK/Trump-compromised CDC on INFANTS. This is wholly unethical pseudoscience being conducted to score political points. 1/
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
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How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Thank you for this reporting @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Dr. Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, echoed that sentiment. “I declined because A.C.I.P. seems to have shifted its mission away from science and evidence-based medicine,” he said in a message, referring to the vaccine committee. “I’m always happy to discuss the science of vaccines with individuals or groups who are committed to truth and genuine intellectual inquiry.”

A majority of the public may be inclined to agree. If the C.D.C. and the American Medical Association were to offer conflicting advice, according to a survey released on Monday by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, more than twice as many Americans would trust the medical organization over the nation’s premier public health agency.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
You're the dipshit liver doctor who voted to confirm the dipshit. You owe America an apology, but even then, no apology will ever be enough. #medsky
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity
an image of Katie Wilson standing in a button-up shirt and slacks riding the bus in the morning while holding on onto a rail
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"I got a call from the general counsel at the F.B.I. about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/11/2025
@TheRickWilson : "The Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, “We killed Obamacare at last!”" open.substack.com/pub/therickwilson…
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Schumer and the Hateful Eight Betray America
A new low for the Democratic Senate
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems. My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
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'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Whyyyyy do web sites prohibit copy-paste for account numbers??! That's literally the *best* place to use copy-paste!!!
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
*chuckle* ... clever tactic
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken.  How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2025
Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Sad, how someone who denigrates African nations as “shithole countries” is running the country 100% like an actual shitty dictator—filling public health offices with loyal charlatans, and making policy based on dangerous medical misinformation. Goodbye, global US leadership. We are the shithole.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.
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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Our statement: bit.ly/45LeJHi
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/09/2025
It feels like the door to an entire era of American cinema has been finally and irrevocably closed. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
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Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Read this from @jamellebouie.net (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.savehhs.org
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I just tried to pay for McDonald’s with my parking badge. How’s your day going?
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
SC for President?
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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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Joel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My patients live at the margins of society. They don’t have much. Just getting to dialysis three times a week is a big ask. Taking from them to fund tax breaks for the rich is just cruel. I want to be outraged but I just feel like crying.
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National Kidney Foundation @kidney.org · 01/07/2025
The so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that passed the Senate today is a giant leap backward for people living with kidney disease. NKF urges Congress to reject these harmful provisions. www.kidney.org/press-room/b...
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Big Beautiful Bill is Downright Ugly for Kidney Patients
Tune in for the latest research and perspectives on kidney health from NKF.
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Trump’s bill forces patients with dialysis-dependent kidney disease to pay $450/month … to stay alive. (Medical note: Dialysis isn’t ‘optional’ for those who need it.) Evil.
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Michelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Holy cow. A $35 copay for every dialysis treatment??? “New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
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Bob Lee MD MS @bobleemd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
My favorite remote office.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This was a slide from an intensivist's talk that displayed the difference between "English" & "palliative care" speak. I am fully supported of palliative care principles (as you know), but I admittedly chuckle. There is a reason why the name "intensivist", in many ways, describe us so well. #medsky
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
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