Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Feels like the democrats telling a democratic senator to tell the democrats to tell Congress that someone needs to resign is the perfect example of how we don’t have a real opposition party 000
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I want to live in a world where a million mentions of a pedophile offends people way more than some music in Spanish 010
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This is an Anti-Zionist Pro-Palestine Anti-ICE Pro-immigrant Pro-LGBTQ+ Pro-women Pro-choice Account 000
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Paulo Freire wrote, ‘it is in the interest of the oppressor to weaken the oppressed’. And it is our imperative to counteract that weakening. To counteract recrudescent hegemony, we need science that serves human liberation. Read my editorial in BMJ Global Health here ↓ gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...gh.bmj.comThe academy, a battleground for justice: a call for prioritarian scholarshipKnowledge, like any cultural product, is never produced in a vacuum. 142
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 23/03/2025My introductory editorial for BMJ Global Health is out (link at the bottom of this thread): Among our priorities: → The notion that global health is about health that happens ‘over there’ must end. 181
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Since you all seemed to like the 4:30-on-a-Sunday-morning posts: I’ve been a doctor for 24 years, and I’ve worked in global health for 17 of those. Here are five things I’ve learned, in view of *gestures broadly* this last week Don’t hate me for number 4 ↓ 37218
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Since İCĘ can now raid hospitals… Any lawyers in the crowd have a good resource for what healthcare providers are required to do during a raid? What remains protected health information, and what are we obligated to disclose about our patients? Asking for a friend 36310
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Today's a hard one. For so many of us (brown, Black, LGBTQIA+, trans, poly, disabled, women, undocumented, incarcerated, you name it...) today is rough. Today marks the consummation of an unholy union between religion and political power. 5 thoughts, from growing up in the Evangelical church. ↓ 4539
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Since you all seemed to like last week’s 4:30-on-a-Sunday-morning Medthreads post… I’ve been a doctor for 24 years. Here are three more things we don’t care about (and two things we absolutely DO care about) when you come to the ER Trust me on number 4… ↓ 14814
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 14/01/2025STOP using pro-con lists to make big decisions! They're keeping you trapped Let me tell you a story ↓ 130
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I can now confidently say I have too many books 0140
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Since you all appreciated last week’s 4:30am-on-a-Sunday thread, here are 5 other things I’ve learned from being a doctor for the last 23 years. Don’t jump down my throat for number 2 #medsky ↓ 1277
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Insomnia made me do it. Ask me anything, anonymously ngl.link/markshrime2ngl.link@markshrime: send me anonymous messages!@markshrime: send me anonymous messages! 040
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Went to see Hamilton for the first time this year. This happened. The entire time. 171
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I’ve been a doctor for 23 years. Here are 5 things I’ve learned along the way. Don’t judge me for number three ↓ 1134
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 07/12/2023What is truth? New post here 👇🏼 medium.com/p/39facc1c7035medium.com“What is Truth?”The hollowed-out theology of the Great Transaction 020
Mark Shrime, MD, PhD @markshrime.bsky.social · 03/12/2023If you could say something to the people of Gaza right now, what would it be? 170