Did your hospitals #AntiRacism pledge include efforts to help #SickleCellWarriors?. If not, you've got more work to do!.💪🏿💪🏾💪🏼. @PTMcGann & I outlined some steps to get you started. #PHOdocs #hematopoieticjustice #SickleCellAwarenessMonth #MedTwitter.

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Does anyone out there have any recommendations on a good course for the mandatory 8 hour DEA training? . Ideally a course that will help me to take better care of people in pain #meded #chronicpain #sicklecell.

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Wasn't there an Executive Order on Day 1 to restore freedom of speech and end government censorship?. "Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society".

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3rd principle: Ujima, we take care of our own. Grateful that our amazing community of leaders has decided to raise money and collect coats for our #sicklecellwarriors this year! 🙏🏽.

I just set up my Blue Sky account. Hoping to recreate the supportive and educational community of #sicklecell advocates, nerdy academics, blue dots prepared to care for our world, and anyone willing to share pet photos. Same username, find me!💙.

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The above photo is old. Thanks to input from our patients & excellent leadership from @JPCincyOnc and Dr. Ware, oncology and hematology now have their own staffing and units with art and photography that is representative, diverse, and welcoming to all (more on that another day).

This story is especially important for #PHOdocs and pediatric hematology/oncology divisions in September, which is for some reason both #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth & #SickleCellAwarenessMonth

"You are just as important as everyone else here, and we have enough people to take care of you and to take care of them. Some situations may be more time-sensitive, but no one is more important than you or anyone else".

It's not a competition of which diseases are worse, but I want these options for her and other #sicklecellwarriors as well. I sat back down.

That many will go on Make-a-Wish trips and that school will understand when they miss class? That doctors and nurses will believe those patients and parents when they say something is wrong. And that they'll promptly and lovingly tend to their pain.

My heart sank. Do I tell her that #sicklecelldisease is just as hard? That its more painful? Still life-threatening? And life-long. Do I tell her that thanks to incredible advances, most children w cancer will be cured? That almost all will have access to life-saving treatments?.

As I was leaving she thanked me for spending time with her & said . "I know you have *more important* patients to see". I turned back to her. There was no sass or sarcasm. Her big brown eyes were full of empathy for the toddlers running around the unit w thinning hair from chemo.

A different type of hand-on-the-door doctor story:. Recently a #sicklecellwarrior was admitted for pain. She was new to me & when I checked on her in the afternoon we talked about school, friends, tik tok. Not medicine. A few moments of calm during a busy week as a new attending.