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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C

@lbsmithmd.bsky.social
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Hematopathologist and Clinical Ethicist at University of Michigan. #medsky #pathsky. Owned by therapy #pug Lyle.

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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter #dogsofsky #pugs
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Lyle at gym #dogsofsky
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
#tbt Lyle
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I’m sorry but aren’t simulated phishing emails the opposite of wellness? They still cause a nanosecond of anxiety.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Lyle with umich students at exam study event #dogsofsky
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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 15/04/2025
The CDC released a new study on a continued apparent increase in autism prevalence. RFK Jr's press release says the rise isn't "solely attributed to the expansion of diagnoses," seemingly contradicting the conclusion of the study's authors that it's better detection.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Lyle met an enormous friend today #pugs #dogsofskye
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Every moderate who told me to calm down in 2016 owes me a thousand dollars.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I really liked the Pitt until they refused to honor a patient’s know. advance directive because of legal pressure from family after doc pretended it was DPOA’s choice. Don’t do that in real life. #ethics
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just in case you were wondering, fish sauce is a secret weapon on hamburgers. Smash burger with pimento cheese and avocado here.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There is literally no upside to this administration. None whatsoever.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
So my workplace just deleted 20 years of my saved emails accidentally. How’s your day going?
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Matt Warner 🩸 @bloodhealth.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This issue isn’t going away. AABB statement on non-medically indicated directed donations available in link.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
this week's cover is on point ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social
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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
RIP Tom L. Beauchamp III — one of the giants of bioethics | dailynous.com/2025/02/22/t...
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Tom Beauchamp III (1939-2025) - Daily Nous
Tom L. Beauchamp III, professor emeritus of philosophy at Georgetown University and one of the most influential philosophers of bioethics, has died. Professor Beauchamp was well-known for his work on ...
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Highy reconmend. Added poblano pepper. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024... #doctorswhocook
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I recommend this because it is a unique look at the impact of Trumpism on sympathetic people and families. No one is the enemy. www.thisamericanlife.org/854/ten-thin...
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Ten Things I Don't Want To Hate About You - This American Life
Zach Mack and his dad try to mend a rift between them in a very unusual way.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Glad they fired all the workers and halted grants so they could spend more on lawyers and ads
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Bullies never win. I’m with her.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I hate to be alarmist but this might be the end of academic medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/02/2025
Breaking News: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s crackdown on diversity programs, saying it violated freedom of speech protections.
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The judge’s ruling temporarily halts any stoppage on federal diversity initiatives.
Judge Adam B. Abelson wrote that orders by President Trump targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs violated freedom of speech protections.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Beautiful Leelanau county MI
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
www.the-scientist.com/federal-cour...
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Federal Court Extends Block on NIH Funding Cuts
NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced immense backlash from researchers. A federal judge ruled to extend the halt to cuts until a final decision is made.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If you are interested in this fascinating topic, our scientific session #CAP25 will cover microbiology and climate change with fabulous speakers including Dr. Bobbi Pritt #pathsky #microbiology
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Tom Giordano, MD, PhD @tomgiordano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Let me know when the civil war starts
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/a...
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Their Pleas for Help to Escape the Nazis Went Unanswered.
A new book focuses on the desperate letters written by many Jews seeking refuge in the Netherlands but who were denied entry after it closed its border in 1938.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/02/2025
Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right AfD.
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German chancellor slams Vance's call for Europe to be inclusive of far-right parties
Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right A...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/02/2025
Seven former top Manhattan federal prosecutors, including several who served under Republican presidents, issued a statement Friday praising Danielle Sassoon’s decision to resign rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor.
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Seven Former Manhattan U.S. Attorneys Voice Their Support for Danielle Sassoon
The former prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate Danielle Sassoon. She resigned rather than drop a case she supported.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Fun times judging A2 ethics bowl for highschool kids in the state of Michigan #ethics
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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
GOOD MORNING! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! 💖
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Between the Bove/Sassoon/Adams contretemps and Attorney General Bondi’s preposterous letters to Apple and Google, Thursday was about as bad a day for the Department of Justice’s credibility as we’ve seen in generations. Me, via “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...
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124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)
Two very different episodes on Thursday provide growing evidence of a Department of Justice that is showing less respect, by the day, for the rule of law.
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
RFK Jr is HHS Secretary. People who are supposed to represent US decided our lives are expendable. Read my promise to stand up for science & facts—and what YOU can do to fight against disinformation ⬇️ Science isn’t going anywhere. Neither am I. news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-is-...
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RFK Jr. is HHS Secretary: Science, brace yourself.
My promise to stand up for science and health—and how you can join in the fight against disinformation that harms all of us.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
When this little girl’s brother died, she decided bunnies were his spirit animal. Our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social sent her family this—it has the song she & her parents wrote for him, with his heart rhythm as the drums in the background. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Pug heaven #dogsofsky #westminster
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If you voted for Trump and now you’re disappointed based on his very predictable actions, I want to tell you that I have NO sympathy for you.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 10/02/2025
Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
He couldn't even get Paoletta's e-mail address correct.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Just to say the quiet part out loud, the point of having unelected judges in a democracy is so that *whether* acts of state are “legitimate” can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them. Vermeule knows this, of course. So does Vance.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Dark Age 2.0. RFK Jr.’s nomination clears a major hurdle as key GOP senator assents www.statnews.com/2025/02/04/r... via @statnews
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RFK Jr.’s nomination clears a major hurdle as key GOP senator assents
Controversial nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services clears Senate Finance Committee on party line vote.
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Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Senator Bill Cassidy for all his bluster about being a physician & the importance of vaccines just voted in favor of #RFKJr as HHS Secretary. I am appalled that he claims to be in this profession after voting to put the American public, our patients, in harm's way. So much for #DoNoHarm? #BlockRFKJr
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In 1900, 30.4% of all deaths in the US occurred among children under 5. Today, 0.75% of deaths in the US are among kids under 5. That’s because of science: vaccines, combating acute illnesses, & preventive health interventions. But RFK Jr & MAHA oppose things that improve health. 1/
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Jonathan Laxton, MD, FRCPC @drjonl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I see STI guidelines have been removed by the CDC - here are the Canadian guidelines. Our resistance patterns are often similar but we do get resistant organisms later than the US: www.canada.ca/en/public-he... #Medsky
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Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections - Canada.ca
Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections
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Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C @lbsmithmd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Buy your gas guzzling GM truck today because it will cost $10K more (approximately) on Feb 4. #tariffsarestupid
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank you, Canada!
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