Kara Gavin
Science/medical writer & media relations for University of Michigan (Michigan Medicine/Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation) focusing on #primarycare, #mentalhealth, aging & #healthpolicy Mom, wife, baker, French horn player, AAAS Fellow, J! bronze
- This post would be perfect in modern English. Somehow having it in middle English makes it even better....
- I'm running a session for health care researchers on writing op-eds and commentaries today at @umich.edu and just added a slide citing this...
- This week on the @statnews.com First Opinion Newsletter, I wrote about how my submission inbox is like a buffet and sometimes there's way more good food than I can eat: www.statnews.com/signup/first...
- 1. Pay for your news if you can. It costs money to produce. Donations to nonprofit news sites & broadcasters count too. 2. Share news from sources you trust, so good information travels. If you can share a gift link so those who can’t afford a subscription can access it, great. 3. See steps 1 & 2.
- New poll data out today from @umich.edu shows that 42% of Americans over 50 haven't gotten either an updated flu or COVID shot recently. The leading reason why? They didn't think they needed it. The poll, conducted in recent weeks, shows a need for better awareness: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...
- Argh I always get the hashtag wrong. It’s #histmed
- Watching #tcmparty and a bit of #medhistory came up that I wasn’t aware of - a short movie about the first ovarian cyst operation on a living patient in the US, in 1809 in Kentucky: www.facs.org/for-medical-...
- Watching #tcmparty and a bit of #medhistory came up that I wasn’t aware of - a short movie about the first ovarian cyst operation on a living patient in the US, in 1809 in Kentucky: www.facs.org/for-medical-...
- Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Rodents plucked from burrows are no basis for accurate seasonal weather forecasts. Skin tone and accent are no basis for deprivation of civil rights.
- (For those wondering about that first line: it’s a quote from a Monty Python movie about King Arthur, who became king after the Lady of the Lake gave him Excalibur…)
- The truth is marching on.
- US-Canada partnership in space…
- The Artemis II astronauts could fly farther into space than any humans ever before. cbsn.ws/3Zchr4A
