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Amy Cho MD MBA

@amychomd.bsky.social
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Emergency physician, dipl ABOM, mom of four, encourager and advocate. Formerly a business consultant and software product manager. Interests in health policy and economics, ethics, quality improvement and wellness. #GoBlue! #MedSky

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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
You, of course, know about all the people Vinay actively blocks from public debate and his lack of maturity and professionalism. Also his many conflicts of interest including his funding from AV, insurance companies, etc. Don’t have to pay for drugs or treatments if approval blocked.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Besides his temperament. Which makes him uniquely unqualified for this position… He never runs the RCTs and seems like he only critiques the ones that don’t align with what his funders want. Like covering a drug or treatment. Which is why he will have incredible power at CBER.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Was this because “resilient” is on the forbidden list of DEI words?
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. should apologize to parents for his inaction during this measles epidemic.
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Another Child Dies from Measles
RFK Jr. plans to attend the funeral. He should apologize to the parents for his actions during a measles epidemic that likely involves thousands of children.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Yes! This is your power. This is your responsibility. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Please introduce legislation to limit the power of the POTUS to enact tariffs like this. Let every Senator and Rep vote on it so we can know who is putting country above party and patronage.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Congress needs to take back power to constrain the executive. Senator Paul is correct - he shouldn’t have the power to unilaterally enact an enormous biggest tax increase. He is using this to consolidate authoritarian power and will reward tax relief to the most obsequious industries and countries.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Everyone should care about this. ED boarding leads to increased mortality & morbidity. ER docs know, unfortunately, how dangerous this is. We need to: 1. Measure and track this metric 2. Invest to solve the root causes* *the bottlenecks on throughput usually aren’t in the ER #WeAreAllPatients
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 25/03/2025
Seems like Pete Hegseth thinks Pete Hegseth should resign.
Post by @MattGertz stating “Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things  they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Do Democrats care more about their own campaign funds or stopping an authoritarian takeover? I keep getting asked to donate to candidates and party but I’m not seeing ads to convince people to call their legislators about this guy. Where is all the marketing/influencing that know could be effective?
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Is Congress going to investigate this @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @morrison4mn.bsky.social? There is NO excuse for this. The convenience of the administration officials is not more important than the safety of our troops or national security.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Please also make sure that ads for homeopathic, vitamin and supplement industry are banned too. Especially since these substances which purport to be medicinal but somehow better aren’t subjected to any rigorous testing for safety or efficacy.
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Heath Mayo @heathmayo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is open grift and corruption from the President of the United States. And if you can’t admit that it’s a problem, you’re in the grip of a cult. Every time he does this, he degrades our entire country. It’s also sad. Many Americans who trust him will lose their savings.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are all patients. We are not fraud or waste.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I think most of us want to move on and not think about those times again. But I think it is worthwhile to document the history - the uncertainty, the lack of preparedness, the overload of health systems, the difficult decisions that had to be made without the benefit of the knowledge we have now.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
There was clearly an asymmetry of information about what was happening in the hospitals. It’s always difficult to share stories out of respect for patients and HIPAA requirements. But I really think people need to hear the stories about what happened at hospitals across the country and world.
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Andy Pasternak @tubadrew.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Running a small independent family medicine office, it was incredibly stressful worrying about the health of my patients and my staff as well as trying to stay afloat financially
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
So incredibly stressful. Given no PPE and no tests for a long time, clinics couldn’t open so no work for so many physicians. I’m emergency medicine and everyone assumed my group was fine, but our patient visits dropped immediately and we all took pay cuts. I took a voluntary furlough.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I have been seeing and hearing a lot of revisionist history about the pandemic from laptop-class types lately. Any physicians and healthcare workers interested in a project to document what actually happened on the front lines? #MedSky #EMedSky
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 09/03/2025
Rural hospitals are a lifeline for millions of Americans, but proposed Medicaid reductions put them at risk. When hospitals struggle, entire communities suffer—maternity care and emergency services shouldn’t be on the chopping block. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Time to call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on another anti-vaxxer ideologue. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov
Post by Dr Scott Gottlieb refuting the testimony of Dave Weldon, Trump pick for CDC, that “vaccines expose kids to toxic levels of mercury and may cause autism.”
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Diane Swonk @dianeswonk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of many things that bothered me in the February employment report: Employment in restaurants contracted for second month in a row - fears of deportations are real and ICE raids having chilling effect on service sector employment.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It’s just so irritating to hear all these libertarian free speech hawks squawking about conspiracy and censorship. He wasn’t censored. Not a conspiracy. He was criticized. Harshly because he is an ideologue and put forth a plan that was not just unethical but was just plain wrong. Total ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ .
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In reality they were harshly criticized for their errors in logic and judgement. They were just wrong. But they met at the Oval Office and had tons of access and backing of the libertarian billionaires. They weren’t censored. Just despised by vast majority of colleagues because they were wrong.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Not to mention that you can’t effectively isolate high risk people who often need to interact with others, especially without interventions like masks, ventilation, etc that they say “infringe on freedom” and “don’t work.” Just stunningly wrong. And cried that they were censored when…
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
There were so many problems with that plan but at the most basic levels he was spectacularly wrong. It would only have if infection created sterilizing immunity and all the “low risk” people getting Covid would then provide the level of needed herd immunity. Neither of those things was true.
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Bhattacharya says we need good data to assuage vaccine hesitancy. Cassidy says we already have it & don't waste time reaffirming the earth is round to convince people who will never believe that to be true.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It’s a relief to see NE Representative Bacon openly break rank and take a principled stance in support of Ukraine and in defense against Russian aggression. We need more Republicans to take principled stances. Kudos to him. We need a big tent to turn this around. x.com/repdonbacon/...
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Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ on X: "WATCH: On @60Minutes, I discussed America's role as the leader of the free world and its status as an indispensable power. If we do not take a stand, no one will be capable of effectively confronting Russia and China. https://t.co/w3wEr06eio" / X
WATCH: On @60Minutes, I discussed America's role as the leader of the free world and its status as an indispensable power. If we do not take a stand, no one will be capable of effectively confronting Russia and China. https://t.co/w3wEr06eio
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I’m so very sorry for your great loss. I will be praying for comfort for you during this time of mourning and beyond.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
You know what would be really cool? A system of government where the whims of the head of state could be constrained by some kind of parliament or legislature, or there were some kinds of “checks” or “balances” that ensured that one person didn’t simply get to dictate how the government worked
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
#ProfilesInSycophancy
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
RFK Jr continues his role as a merchant of doubt grifter
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is awesome! Can’t wait to tell my amazing Third Grader about her special day. ❤️ Thanks @governorwalz.mn.gov
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Thank you! That’s great!
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Laughed so hard I cried. Or maybe I was crying already and it made me laugh. Either way… youtu.be/CUpOMSJ1MdU
youtu.be
Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Maybe the universe’s biggest asshole.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
And not just self-serving speeches or sound bites from politicians. Do some actually PR and marketing. It’s not a smear campaign to show people what is happening to their friends, neighbors and services and to show the corruption and ineptitude. MAKE PEOPLE LOOK. DON’T LET THEM TURN AWAY.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Why are we not seeing a million ads now like in election season showing Musk/Trump/Vance for what they are and what they are doing? Use your campaign money to educate the public and win hearts and minds. The majority don’t know and aren’t MAGA. Help ensure that we actually have elections again.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Happy to see you in these parts!
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Very useful framing for those of us still struggling to believe what is happening. Depressing but helpful.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
They think he is just a showman. He said ridiculous things during his first term as well but didn’t follow through (or the guardrails that were in place prevented it so they didn’t think he would.) He lied about project 2025. I don’t know. People have a way of living in denial.
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Heath Mayo @heathmayo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’m so ashamed for my country right now. We should be so much better than this. Being an American used to mean more than “cutting deals” and berating victims of aggression to feel tough. We are losing what so many patriots before us have built and defended in blood and treasure. Very sad.
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Heath Mayo @heathmayo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you didn’t find today to be an absolute disgrace to the United States, I don’t recognize the country you want us to be.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
There are a lot of people who voted for Trump who aren’t MAGA but just didn’t think he would actually do the things he said. It’s a big group. Focus efforts on that group. And don’t attack or criticize people who voted for T and are speaking up and admitting they regret their choice.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It’s apparently part of RFKs anti-vax plans. His anti-vax “nonprofit” posted this as news a few days prior.
Anti-vax org propaganda article data 2/21/25 that says “ is Kennedy‘s AJJ just preparing to shake up CDC‘s vaccine advisory committee?” the committee was supposed to meet next week, but the meeting has been postponed.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Can our Congress help? Nonpartisan previously scheduled CDC vaccine advisory meeting was cancelled. Per RFKJr anti-vax website it’s to “shake it up”. Can legislators help it take place as scheduled? @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @morrison4mn.bsky.social @repraulruizmd.bsky.social
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I would contribute in any way I am able.
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It may not be official but this committee is non-partisan and should not be delayed with the intention of stacking committee with anti-vaxxers. In these times of “alternative facts” and when ideologies and grifters have co-opted government, we need to do something.
Anti-vax organization news story from 2/21/25 “Is Kennedy’s HHS Preparing to Shake Up CDC’s Vaccine Advisory Committee?”
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Amy Cho MD MBA @amychomd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Dr. Offit, Can the CDC vaccine advisory committee meet as previously scheduled sponsored by a nonprofit or organization? Webcast or broadcast it and discuss what you would have normally regarding seasonal influenza and the other work you were planning to review?
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