Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Newsflash! A surprising principle in being a person and being a doctor overlaps: don’t be a jerk. It’s so simple! Try it! 🤣 Blaming others (patients, staff, anyone but ourselves) has become a norm. Join me to reject it together (by subscribing 😅)! open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...open.substack.comDon't Be A Jerk.Yup. That's the title. 1252
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 07/12/2024THIS is how I feel about medical insurance’s cost-cutting strategies and their dictation of patient outcomes: they put profit margins above people, costing what truly matters—dignity and lives. For anyone who’s seen the consequences, it’s impossible to forget. open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...open.substack.comHow To Save A Lifehint: it's NOT by following the rules 1315
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Not to brag but I had a 100-year-old great-great-grandmother in my clinic who taught me some killer Salsa moves. It was basically like being blessed by the Pop himself. 💃✨ 0260
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 27/11/2024“I must sound so ungrateful,” a father said. Where patients usually say “thank you," he said: help me understand why no one listens to us? The “ungrateful” patient taught me: Patients don’t owe us gratitude. We owe them the truth. And the willingness to listen. drzedzha.substack.com/p/the-ungrat...drzedzha.substack.comThe "Ungrateful" Patientfor whom I am grateful 4609
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 25/11/2024People: “What do you ladies think?” Us ladies: 6390
Reposted by Zed Zha, MD, FAAFPLaura Baker PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC @lauranp.medsky.social · 24/11/2024Throwing it out there- if any psychiatric NP in Rochester NY area has 3600 hours and is looking for a job feel free to contact me. #medsky #psychsky #jobs 064
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024My mom told me to put my books down and get out more, so I backpacked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and stayed outside for four days… to read in peace. She’s right! Fresh air really enhances the plot twists—highly recommend getting out and reading! 🤣 4563
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024To make a teenage patient less nervous during a biopsy I sang APT.. She giggled the whole time and then said: “Your singing hurt more than the needle.” My patients are savages and I love them. 🤣🤣 0410
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I, for one, am tired of the news headlines that boil down to “He denies raping a woman.” 😴 Wake me up when there is a story where he: Admits his fault, Apologizes for his behavior, Accepts accountability, and Amends his wrong by becoming the biggest feminist. Until then, spare me. Thank you. 3321
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Got a new sticker and wonder where I should put it during salary negotiations. Maybe my forehead? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 6754
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024“Eczema is preventing my baby from…being a baby!” A mother said. It’s true! If a kid can’t sleep/eat/laugh because they scratch all day, they aren’t free to just be a kid! I’m gonna write letters to insurance companies that read: how about you approve the meds so our children can just be children?!😡 1263
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I trekked 45 miles over 2600 ft, climbed ladders on cliffs, crossed waters: all for the stunning waterfalls in the Grand Canyon. The people of Havasupai, thank you for letting me to your home. Your land is a masterpiece of nature. I’m humbled to have walked its trails and stood in awe of its beauty. 4372
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 17/11/2024“I don’t feel qualified to tell people to ‘manage your stress,’” I said in my lecture. “Adulting is hard. And I’m not an expert on adulting.”🤣 While people laughed, I hope the point is clear: it’s not helpful to tell patients to be “less stressed.” It is helpful, however, to treat their diseases. 0322
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 17/11/20247 years ago, I sat in the auditorium as a resident, learning Dermoscopy for the first time in the AAFP skin course. In the past few days, I joined my mentors as a faculty/speaker for the same course. I’m full of gratitude. I know I’ve got a long way to go. But I will also take the small wins. 🥹🩵 0170
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I’m a feminist patient advocate. Why? A cardiologist (a man) refused to clear my patient for hysterectomy, because, I quote: “Half the world have uteruses. Get used to it.” Until this stops, I will remain a feminist patient advocate. And you WILL hear from me. open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...open.substack.comI Pledge to Trust Women3 uterus owners wept in my clinic, one of them was me 27414
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Have you ever fought so hard for a patient to get the treatment they needed and they finally GET BETTER and you just literally can’t help yourself but celebrate and hug and cry and then hug again? Yeah. That happened to me. Excuse me when I go cry some more. 😭🥹🩵😭😭 3251
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024January 6 was a hard day to get out of bed for. Then I remembered I’m a proud immigrant serving immigrant communities! I need my patients to know that no matter who threatens to rip away their rights, I have their back. In my line of work, there are no show downs, only showing up. 🩵 3361
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Dear medical insurance companies: don’t mess with my patients! Because their doctor can FIGHT. 😡😡🥹🥹 open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...open.substack.comHow To Save A Lifehint: it's NOT by following the rules 1252
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 15/11/2024My name is Zed. I am a proud immigrant serving an immigrant community. I am a feminist patient advocate. I am a woman. I am an ally. And I am a physician. Even when the world turns upside down, there must be 50 Ways I've Got You. 50 Ways I've Got You. open.substack.com/pub/drzedzha...open.substack.com50 Ways I've Got Youa pledge to my patients 10604
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 05/10/2023A lobstah walks into a ramen bah…aaand becomes my din din. 🥶😍 2120
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 05/10/2023Attended the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative lecture by Loretta Lynch, the 1st Black woman to serve as US Attorney General, introduced by Pro. Claudine Gay, the 1st Black president of Harvard University. The message was clear: Never Lose Infinite Hope. INFINITE HOPE. ❤️ 071
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 27/09/2023My brain eats two of these boxes for food each day. Please clap. 190
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Here is a Moshi Moshi photo you didn’t know you needed. Good night! 2231
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 25/09/2023In a research fellowship for my book on medical rape culture. The Harvard Countway library archivists took out the Dickinson-Belskie vulva models for me to examine the white male authorship in the history of medical education. Let’s just say I’m in…clitoral heaven. 😅👀 160
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 24/09/2023Note: "The patient is noncompliant with insulin." Reality: The patient is staying at a shelter. She has no control over her food. Insurance won't pay for more insulin for it's too soon for a refill. Her current insulin supply is at her abuser's, from where she just escaped. Stop labeling patients. 0233
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @drzedzha.bsky.social · 23/09/2023Hello from Moshi Moshi and I. 🫶 (My first post here. I’m weirdly nervous lol.) 9544
