Alex de Castro-Abeger, MD, MBA
@AdeCastroMDMBA
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Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus specialist. Husband. Dodger owner (not the team, my labradoodle). Tweets are my own
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2018
RT @sean_berkowitz: How does your #ophthalmology program prepare you for practice management? Check out @JonoSiktberg @AdeCastroMDMBA work….
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RT @aao_ophth: BREAKING: In a major victory for patient safety, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has VETOED dangerous #optometric #surgery legi….
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Scope creep is affecting our patients in a lot of different ways. What we know, it doesn’t increase access, doesn’t decrease costs, and is not necessary. Please urge @GavinNewsom to veto this bill.
BREAKING: The California Legislature late Wednesday passed a dangerous optometric surgery bill, #AB2236. Here’s how you can contact @GavinNewsom to urge him to veto this needless risk to patients. #surgerybysurgeons #protectpatients
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Just registered for #AAO meeting in Chicago this fall! Excited for @macularstar YO program as well as #peds sub-day.
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RT @drrupawong: There are days at work that are hard. Battling for prior authorizations. Explaining to an insurance company why strabismu….
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RT @macularstar: #whyIgive #whyIadvocate .I give to protect patients & my ability to care for them. Congress & state legislatures create po….
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RT @mariastunkelMD: 1. Consider stopping routine 6 month follow up for low risk ROP infants .2. Okay to skip patch testing for ET; does not….
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RT @drrupawong: 1. Under correct ET in aphakes.2. Consider taking obliques for large angle sensory XT.3. The prevalence of PHOMS and need t….
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Anyone else really excited for #aapos2022? Can’t wait! See y’all in Scottsdale. @straighteyesVEI @alittleumf @aapos4kids.
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RT @jpetercampbell: OCT is not just for macular disease anymore. 105 degrees non-contact for pediatric retinal imaging. @jian_yifan @Yali….
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RT @MacularSociety: It's Charles Bonnet Awareness Day. Up to half of all people with macular degeneration are thought to experience visual….
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RT @RaviGoelMD: My guest column in the Star-Ledger: Eye doctor: Aetna is delaying and denying sight-restoring surgery for thousands | Opini….
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The physician says Congress and the public should urge insurers to stop making care decisions it is clearly unqualified to make.
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RT @macularstar: @VUMCEye is excited to host these outstanding Uveitis experts FRIDAY 9/17/21 at 8a CST #ophthotwitter & students learn ab….
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RT @JeromeAdamsMD: 96% of the people in this country who graduated from medical school looked at the data on vaccines, and made the same ch….
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Wow. Take some time to watch and listen. Thank you to “The Dan’s” and Chapman’s for your courage. ECMO is pretty universal now and it started with one patient.
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RT @SarahKSilverman: Vote NO on this motherfucking RECALL. The ballot’s in your mailbox. Vote No. that’s all. Then send her in. If Republic….
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RT @JRubinBlogger: incredibly compelling: It wasn't "pulling the rug out" from Afghans or hit to morale of the army that led to collapse. T….
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August 15, 2021I’ve been silent for a while. I’ve been silent about Afghanistan for longer. But too many things are going unsaid. I won’t try to evoke the emotions, somehow both swirling and yet...
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