Liza Lockwood
@DrLizaMD
ER MD, Medical multitasker, mythbuster and storyteller, former @StLouisBlues MD, One Health @Bayer4Crops, Medical Tox, Boy Mom. Tweets are my own.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” The Sri Lanka disaster started with an ill-advised ban on agricultural chemicals in a bid to go “all organic” last year. The conventional wisdom was that this was better for human and planetary health. 1/
Sri Lanka’s sudden economic collapse has broken its healthcare system. Sonia Sarkar reports on how the country might claw back years of progress, lost in months: bmj.com/content/377/bm… @sonia_26
I remember as a medical student, a certain EMR was being launched in a hospital in which I was rotating. The EMR roll-out team was hosting a session with the doctors, explaining how the latest update added just a few clicks here and made things just a few seconds slower there.…
It started with one click but then 2 more get added per iteration so at the end of the day one ends with gigaclick power plans.
Dr. Rifai’s @muhamadalyrifai new #1 bestseller book is now available to the public and discusses the Dr. Rajendra Bothra prosecution extensively.
*Doctor Not Guilty* is a powerful memoir exposing the unjust criminalization of physicians' medical decisions, highlighting one doctor's harrowing journey to defend truth, integrity, and compassionate care against prosecutorial overreach. doctorsonsocialmedia.com/book-doctor-no…
One does not simply become a master of karate. First, you must accidentally walk into a spider web.
One does not simply become a master of karate. First, you must accidentally walk into a spider web.
Let me be clear: I support USAID, global health & humanitarian aid. I am also a proponent for telling the truth. @TheLancet - you need to check your numbers👇🏽 Did USAID really save 90 million lives? Not unless it raised the dead. reason.com/2025/07/24/did…
The healthcare system is not becoming more sophisticated. Doctor labor is being leveraged worse. Doctors are stuck clicking through meaningless alerts and having to slog through slow logins to change the location of a CT scan because nurses can't edit orders, apparently.
Growth in admin can mean waste. Or it can mean that the system is becoming more sophisticated, and the most valuable labor (doctors) is being better leveraged.
We fear invisible chemicals. But we ignore the ones we can see. The ones that actually harm us every single day. Let’s talk about the visible poisons we breathe, burn, and touch… and why no one seems to care. 🧵1/
Fascinating…
The communist leader Pol Pot grew up relatively well-off and was introduced to Marxism and socialism while studying in France. But in a 1977 interview, he claimed he was born into a poor peasant family. You see this kind of thing a lot with affluent socialists today—cosplaying…
Pure talent! Pure joy ! Music to lift the soul ! 👏
RIP Chuck Mangione. Your music always made everyone “Feels So Good”. His legend will live on through his extraordinary talent and music…
Remember Just because you feel strongly about a topic doesn't make you right
Over 7 billion...yes BILLION doses of Covid mRNA vaccines have been given So you can hardly keep calling it experimental. And based on anti vaxxer propaganda about how dangerous it is, we should have seen most of the world's population wiped out by now. Didn't happen.
Please read this👇🏽 The Covid Vaccine-Pregnancy Flip Flop - by Paul Offit pauloffit.substack.com/p/the-covid-va…
That's it I've heard it all They're claiming that the Covid SWABS for testing cause cancer! There are too many whackos on this planet My work here is done
Anti-vaccine.
What's a modern trend that people will regret in 10 years
A comprehensive list of everything “chemical-free.”
Name one thing that is chemical free.
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Spectacular thread about one of my favorite artists!👇🏽
Before manga and psychedelia, Alphonse Mucha imagined a world in bloom. On his birthday, let’s honor his vision of art. 🧵 👇