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Michael Melgar, MD

@mmelgar09

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Physician, Enthusiastic anti-pseudoscience warrior, photographer, DIYer, Tweets are my own and not meant as personal medical advice. #VaccinesSaveLives

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Michael Melgar, MD
1 year
Nothing highlights the self serving narcissistic nature of Trump like the incredibly selfless and courageous act taken today by the lifelong public servant that is our current president.
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Michael Melgar, MD
3 years
Maybe those of us in the medical field should start refusing to send prescriptions to Walgreens when there are other options nearby. I have a moral objection to them not dong their job. #walgreens #contraception #reproductiverights.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
RT @drfixus: You can’t smoke at work. Your second hand smoke is a threat to the health of others. Now do “COVID”.#GetVaccinatedAndBoosted….
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
Physicians and Employers please stop ordering/requesting confirmatory PCR tests on people who have +rapid antigen tests. False + on Ag tests are less than 2%. A follow up PCR is a awful waste of limited resources and Healthcare workers time. #CovidTesting #PCRtest #Antigen.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
I am surprised and disappointed that so many docs that otherwise seem to support EBM are arguing against the CDC 5 day isolation guidance with arguments that distill down to “I don’t like it” “in my opinion” “Ive seen…”. What happened to your commitment to EBM?.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
Please stop doing COVID antibody tests. I’ve seen a number of patients who had antibody tests done elsewhere and then made incorrect assumptions about immune status. There is no evidence that this is a useful approach and it may leave people unprotected.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
Think twice about ordering home tests from They wont provide a delivery date, their emails bounce back as undeliverable, no one answers the phone and their voice mail is full. Ordered tests last week and can't get any info about my order. #RapidTests.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
Awesome video.
@JohnsHopkinsSPH
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4 years
"This is my body, I have to defend it!" 🏠. Reminder: Being vaccinated and boosted is your best line of defense against severe illness from COVID-19. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest info:
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
They really have to move the O away from the P in the keyboard. I have an awful lot of patients with well or poorly controlled BO.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
RT @Caulimovirus: “I’ll use my body’s natural immune system!” is such a funny reason to reject vaccines. Of all the endless varieties of mi….
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
One of my wife’s patients wont get vaccinated and said that quarters stick to the coworkers in her office who got vaccinated and not to the rest. Its a preprint of course but I think the quality of this study is questionable. #COVID19Vic #COVIDVaccination .#VaccinesWork.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
RT @HislopMD: “What about the long term effects of vaccines??!?”. Viruses that cause new problems years after infection:. - chicken pox.- h….
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
Every person who gets COVID replicates billions of copies of the virus and will be incubating many new mutations. Its a #’s game. Every infected person is the potential parent of the next variant of concern that keeps this thing going. #vaccineswork #CovidVaccine #covidvariant.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
BREAKING: A patient of mine who had plantar warts for 30 yrs that were resistant to all treatment saw them spontaneously resolve 2 wks after his second COVID vaccine. If you value you warts don’t get vaccinated. VAERS report pending. #vaccineswork.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
Social Media, Mass Media, and Algorithms need to stop giving megaphones to the Extremists and make the Moderate Majority the loudest voice in the room. That's how democracies are supposed to work. Tune out the noise. #Democracy #SocialMedia
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
RT @pediatricskc: Please use precautions, even if you're young and healthy.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
When lawyers are telling doctors how to practice medicine we’re all in danger. Republican lawmaker demands medical board end policy disciplining doctors for COVID misinformation – Tennessee Lookout
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Tennessee GOP Rep. John Ragan has demanded a state medical board remove a statement from its website that warns doctors about misinformation,
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
If you run around the streets with an assault rifle you really have no right to claim self defense when you shoot someone who tries to take it away.
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Michael Melgar, MD
4 years
This company is marketing their test directly to employers and consumers without any outcome studies as if nothing could possibly go wrong. This is hubris and greed.#corporategreed #grail #ebm.
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