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Lisa H. Merck MD MPH

@fiddlehead

Emergency Medicine physician, clinical trialist, mom.

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NEW: Florida caught fudging immigration data Florida’s latest dashboard exposed a chilling pattern: citizens caught in ICE operations, data quietly deleted, and a government once again manipulating the truth to fit its narrative.

Florida’s latest attempt at a data dashboard reveals a familiar, yet chilling pattern: citizens caught in ICE operations, data quietly deleted, and a government once again manipulating the truth to fit its narrative.

open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...

22.10.2025 13:55 👍 55 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 3
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Check out this crowd shot we got in Portland.

What a hellhole, amirite?

18.10.2025 23:45 👍 3911 🔁 911 💬 81 📌 39
Sign held by alien #1:
We come in peace (for now) 

Sign held by alien ##2
We Stand with Frog

Sign held by alien #1: We come in peace (for now) Sign held by alien ##2 We Stand with Frog

18.10.2025 23:51 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Infographic with the headline: “Only 25% of countries include neurological disorders in Universal Health Coverage packages.” Below, orange boxes read “Critical services are often out of reach in low- and middle-income countries such as:”. Five yellow folders with red exclamation marks illustrate missing services labeled: “Paediatric neurology,” “Stroke units,” “Rehabilitation,” “Palliative care,” and “Neurointensive care units.”

Infographic with the headline: “Only 25% of countries include neurological disorders in Universal Health Coverage packages.” Below, orange boxes read “Critical services are often out of reach in low- and middle-income countries such as:”. Five yellow folders with red exclamation marks illustrate missing services labeled: “Paediatric neurology,” “Stroke units,” “Rehabilitation,” “Palliative care,” and “Neurointensive care units.”

Only 25% of countries include neurological disorders in universal health coverage packages.

Critical services are often out of reach in low- & middle-income countries, incl.:
📂 Stroke units & neurointensive care units
📂 Paediatric neurology
📂 Rehabilitation
📂 Palliative care

🔗 bit.ly/4oj81yH

18.10.2025 09:25 👍 74 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 0
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We recognize Persons Day in Canada is October 18
It marks the day in 1929 when the historic decision to include women in the legal definition of “persons”.
#PersonsDay #WomenArePersons #EqualityInAction #WomenInPolitics #CanadianHistory #GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #NSFM

18.10.2025 04:00 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Print in black and white featuring a view looking slightly down on two cups and saucers with teaspoons on a surfsce

Print in black and white featuring a view looking slightly down on two cups and saucers with teaspoons on a surfsce

'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt

10.08.2025 04:56 👍 1270 🔁 169 💬 0 📌 11
 The tip of a screwworm fly larvae

The tip of a screwworm fly larvae

Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/texas-prepares-for-war-as-invasion-of-flesh-eating-flies-appears-imminent/

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

09.08.2025 04:10 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 9
Remembering Officer David Rose | FOX 5 News
Remembering Officer David Rose | FOX 5 News YouTube video by FOX 5 Atlanta

Our hearts are broken for David Rose’s wife, 2 kids and his baby on the way. He was only 33 and died protecting CDC and ATL.

We don’t have words to do justice to his sacrifice right now. We are looking for ways to support the family. 💔

09.08.2025 04:13 👍 1259 🔁 283 💬 46 📌 28
Large sculpture in an outdoor setting of a round teapot created with lace-like metal patterns

Large sculpture in an outdoor setting of a round teapot created with lace-like metal patterns

Pavillin de Thé, 2012 by Lisbon based artist Joana Vasconcelos #womensart

09.08.2025 05:28 👍 675 🔁 100 💬 0 📌 4

Ok, #medsky #lawsky #policysky, so if this is the data, then what do we need to do to make this better?
#meded #obgyn #healthpolicy #publichealth 🧪

01.08.2025 10:43 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,

Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,

Your fan, Mar🐫

18.07.2025 19:26 👍 59864 🔁 9413 💬 1192 📌 430
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Staircases look so cool in black and white.
#ColorADay #BWFri

18.07.2025 17:12 👍 59 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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CamDam shoos an orangespotted filefish up up and away #orangespottedfilefish #filefish #damselfish #camdam #territorial #shoo #scram #getouttahere #upupandaway #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Images in quoted post contain body bags. That's the reality of the pandemic that people like to conveniently forget. Healthcare workers coming home exhausted and afraid they'd infect their family, leaving the field because of the mounting trauma and stress, fighting for supplies we take for granted.

12.06.2025 03:34 👍 101 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
Painting featuring a Black woman, head and shoulders, floating under turquoise water with eyes closed smiling and with bubbles coming out of her nose

Painting featuring a Black woman, head and shoulders, floating under turquoise water with eyes closed smiling and with bubbles coming out of her nose

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

08.06.2025 14:41 👍 784 🔁 98 💬 0 📌 7
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As vezes eu acho que eles gostam um pouco da gente.

Sometimes, I believe they really like us here!

#Birds #Aves #birdphotography #photography

08.06.2025 02:00 👍 82 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Southern stingray (minus a tail barb) glides through Coral City unbothered, moisturized, and it’s in own lane #southernstingray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #stingraycity #unbothered #moisturized #inmylane #glide #smoothoperator #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

08.06.2025 13:20 👍 3126 🔁 316 💬 31 📌 12
Painting of red pink and whiteflowers in a grassy meadow

Painting of red pink and whiteflowers in a grassy meadow

US painter Maria Oakey Dewing,
A Bed of Poppies, (c.1909) #WomensArt

08.06.2025 10:46 👍 2327 🔁 248 💬 0 📌 11
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Peony

#BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant #peony
#photography #photographersUnited #photographersofbluesky #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #spring #pnw #pnwphotographer #fullbloom #closeup #phonePhotography #mobilephotography

07.06.2025 22:44 👍 134 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 1
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

08.06.2025 04:40 👍 54303 🔁 15691 💬 693 📌 1031

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

08.06.2025 04:55 👍 28568 🔁 7284 💬 415 📌 218
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We love a goofy, bucktoothed, and smiling parrotfish in Coral City 😁🏳️‍⚧️🦜🐟 #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #bucktooth #goofy #smile #protogynoushermaphrodite #supermale #terminalphase #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

06.06.2025 17:52 👍 7373 🔁 804 💬 116 📌 62
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12 miles south of Pritchett, CO looking west (337 MT)

06.06.2025 21:37 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

It's crazy America needs nothing from Canada yet I'm being bombarded with ads to visit Florida and Tennessee and Maine.

Even if i wasn't boycotting America wholesale i'd never spend a dollar in any of those places.

I saw your voting records.

06.06.2025 15:45 👍 452 🔁 39 💬 34 📌 1
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Scientists worry about possible publishing ban HHS secretary Kennedy says the US might launch alternatives to leading medical journals

RFK Jr. says NIH scientists may be banned from publishing in JAMA, NEJM & The Lancet — calling them “corrupt.” Plans floated to launch govt-run journals instead.

Virologist Angie Rasmussen : “This is part of a larger effort to really undermine science in the US.” cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

07.06.2025 09:46 👍 450 🔁 180 💬 59 📌 25