We WON our challenge to Pennsylvania's ban on Medicaid coverage of abortion!

Let’s not forget doctors and hospitals: AI is here to stay. Heck, maybe it saves lives??? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Trump admin moves Title X family planning program away from contraception, towards conception New guidance, and the promise of a new rule, are expected to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood starting in 2027.

BREAKING: The White House today proposed eliminating the Title X family planning program.

A few hours later, the health dept quietly released guidance that would shift the focus of the program millions of low-income people rely on away from contraception and toward "family formation."

please, i beg you, do not give AI companies access to your personal medical information.

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

I’ve seen a lot of people, including doctors, sharing this story and saying, “well, c-sections do save lives.” and it’s driving me fucking nuts because that is so not the point.

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

Having opinions about birth rates should be so embarrassing.

Exclusive: Researchers trick a bot that prescribes meds — Axios Security researchers used relatively simple jailbreaking techniques to trick the AI system powering Utah's new prescription refill bot.

“AI red-teaming firm Mindgard said it manipulated health tech startup Doctronic's system into tripling an OxyContin dose, mislabeling methamphetamine, and spreading false vaccine claims.”

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#medsky #fmsky

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

Oh, yeah? Would a dying empire do THIS?!

Relevant to this soft-glam fascist's comments today, there's a bill in Florida to ban prescribing birth control to minors—or even giving teens information about it—without parental consent. It's called HB 173
The attacks on contraception are, and have been, in motion

More People Are Having Abortions At Home. Here's Who They Call When They Have Nowhere Else To Turn. Since Roe v. Wade fell, many callers are filled with concern: “If I go to the emergency room, will they call the police?”

I spoke with Dr. April Lockley, medical director of the Miscarriage and Abortion hotline, who has fielded questions from hundreds of people managing their abortions at home.

Since Roe v. Wade fell, many callers are filled with concern: “If I go to the emergency room, will they call the police?”

Doctors are asking for permission? That’s nice to hear, in a way. (I don’t use AI but it’s not standard practice to ask for permission in some places I’ve worked…) Totally agree about the power differential, though.

Oh, I misunderstood. That’s good at least! The one thing I don’t miss about Epic is the chat function…

Especially when my response 99% of the time is either, “Please make an appointment so we can discuss this further” or “I’d be happy to discuss this at your next appointment.” 😱

Some arguments from the abortion debate over when life starts seem strikingly relevant: why should the appearance of a few familiar traits that offer the potential of personhood in the future permit this thing to displace certainly-people right now?

we’re also living through intense anti-science backlash. as a primary doc, i have patients requesting tests that don’t even exist outside of research labs, that have zero evidence to support their clinical usefulness - but chatgpt told them this test is the one “they” don’t want you to know about.

Oh, I 1000% agree about OB care! That should absolutely be the top priority, given how many rural areas are absolute maternity deserts.

I’m not EM, but I think it’s an equity issue. APPs have vastly different training and experience levels vary. For low acuity care, it may be appropriate but you can never predict when high acuity cases will arise. Rural hospitals should be funded so they can recruit and retain physicians.

I fully believe that AI will be used against doctors and patients. Doctors will be expected to use “time saved” to work longer hours. Staff (RNs, MAs, pharm techs) will be laid off. And patients will suffer from AI errors and data privacy issues. Not to mention the environmental costs…

Totally agree. Doctors, especially in primary care, are overwhelmed. We’re being pushed by our employers to see more and more patients in less and less time with ever-increasing demand for documentation and insurance-related paperwork. But AI sure as hell isn’t the fix for that.

But now there’s a decent chance your doctor is using ambient AI to document your medical chart and consulting AI when they’re unsure of your diagnosis… Trust me, medicine is as deeply uncritical of AI as any techbro.

that article was physically painful to read.

We had no way of anticipating how the car would revolutionize the landscape. With it came highways, streets, drunk driving, day trips to the sea, road rage, etc etc. We weren't intentional in how we adopted the car nor how we adopted the EMR. What culture do we intend to create with AI? 10/10

I’m excited to share "Anatomy of a Decision," a new resource that uses the "Narrative Laboratory" of Grey’s Anatomy to teach rigorous Medical Ethics. 🩺📖

Bioethics doesn't have to be sterile. We’re taking the drama of Grey Sloan Memorial and putting it under the philosophical microscope to explore:

agreed!! Zionist propaganda has no place in a movement that claims to be rooted in repro justice.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Celluloid Jesus (representations of Jesus in film)
2. Shakespeare’s Sexual Politics
3. Dostoevsky
4. Anthropology of Fertility and Reproduction
5. Beginning Dutch

this sounds so cool!

Sorry, but I just don’t believe that creating more medical schools will solve the crisis of primary care. We have to actually address why this job is unsustainable for many practicing docs and unattractive to students and trainees. #fmsky