Friend and advocate. Geriatrician intensivist at Pitt. #PICS researcher. Disciple of the practice of practice. she/her
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Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
1/2 Black women are the backbone of the caring economy. That's why I am asking you to give to the #CareWorks Fund, which supports Women of Color-led orgs in deploying small unrestricted grants to those organizations that provide advocacy, support workforce solutions...
Congratulations @barrett_bowling for an outstanding Thomas and Catherine Yoshikawa Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award Lecture at #AGS2024. Tremendous work on research participation & community participation across the lifespan!
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
The pendulum has swung too far.
Penalizing falls in the hospital has resulted in patients who aren’t allowed to get out of bed.
They get weaker, depressed, constipated, pressure ulcers and ultimately need SNF placement.
Ambulation should be viewed as a key to healing.
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
Moore v. US is a huge deal.
If SCOTUS strikes down the repatriation tax, massive corporations will get billions in tax giveaways.
Here’s the kicker: Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito together hold stock in 19 companies who would get over $30 billion in tax breaks.
Unreal.
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
Moore v. US is a huge deal.
If SCOTUS strikes down the repatriation tax, massive corporations will get billions in tax giveaways.
Here’s the kicker: Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito together hold stock in 19 companies who would get over $30 billion in tax breaks.
Unreal.
Many thanks to Judith Herman for her decades-long commitment to listening and truth-telling. "Truth and Repair" is one of the most important books I will ever have the good fortune to read. All clinicians should internalize these lessons.
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
PEOPLE 👏🏻 LIVING 👏🏻 WITH 👏🏻 DEMENTIA 👏🏻 DESERVE 👏🏻 REHABILITATION 👏🏻
Louder for the people at the back and woe betide anyone heard saying ‘dementia = no rehab potential’.
For those with #dementia, rehabilitation is key to maintaining independence & optimal functioning.
Find out more in the new WHO package of interventions for rehabilitation bit.ly/3t0v9KT
#WorldAlzheimersDay
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
What's in the House GOP's latest funding bills?
-An 80% cut in grants to schools in low-income areas
-Up to 70% cut in the fruit and veggie benefits for the WIC food program
-A $665 million cut to an EPA safe drinking water access program
The cruelty is the point.
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
Critical care professionals - let us know how you’ve engaged with survivors of critical illness by completing this survey! aacn.org/nursing-excell… --> scroll down to "Interacting with ICU Survivors After Critical Illness".
#criticalcare #icunurse #ICUrehab #ICU #gericritcare
@tammyeaton17 & colleagues want to know how ICU professionals interact with survivors after critical illness. Take a 10-minute survey to help out!
aacn.org/nursing-excellence/… --> scroll down to "Interacting with ICU Survivors After Critical Illness".
#intensivecare @AACNme #ICUnurse
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
#Gunviolence is a #publichealth #emergency, says @ERGoddessMD #EPs should promote #gunsafety by educating #patients about gun safes, trigger locks, and storing bullets away from guns. @ResearchAFFIRM @meganranney bit.ly/425nJCj
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
'Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher & sets up nonprofit open-access journal. Maybe the start of a move against huge profit margins in academic publishing... 👇🏽 theguardian.com/science/2023…
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
BREAKING: @GOP PROPOSED CUTS FOR VETERANS BENEFITS ARE OUT: THREAD:
- Cuts 81,000 Veterans Health Administration jobs
- Reduces funding for rural telehealth
- Cuts 6,000 Benefits jobs INCREASING WAIT TIMES FOR HEALTH CARE
- Cuts $565M for clinic construction 1/
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
If guns made us safer, America would be the safest place in the world.
But the opposite is true. Nowhere else do students, concertgoers and bank patrons get slaughtered on a daily basis.
Because as it turns out, it's all the guns that make us so unsafe.
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
It’s morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took six lives in our community, House Republicans only response is to expel us for standing with our constituents to call for gun control.
What’s happening in Tennessee is a clear danger to democracy all across this nation.
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
Congress, it’s time to act quickly and deliver the Assault Weapons Ban to my desk.
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
Right now, students, teachers, and parents across PA are reeling from what we all thought was our worst fear come to life, just days after families in Nashville went through the unimaginable hell of losing their 9-year-old children.
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Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
Disabled people and older adults shouldn’t have to wait weeks, months, years, let alone DECADES for the services that they need. This is why we need to pass the HCBS Access Act, making #HCBS mandatory in #Medicaid and eliminate waiting lists #CareCantWait oklahomawatch.org/2023/03/28…
Leslie Scheunemann, MD MPH retweeted
Rosanne Leipzig MD, PhD
"Its time to reframe the concept of independence in aging: Its not about doign everything yourself. Its about doing the activities you care about through whatever means are helpful" youtu.be/xuJmI63Cfr4