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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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@WalshFreedom
Joe Walsh
2 months
Trump is the absolute worst of us. You’d never work for him. You’d never do business with him. You’d never be friends with him. You’d never trust your wife with him. You’d never trust your 14yr old daughter with him. Yet you voted for him. That says more about you than him.
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@GovKathyHochul
Governor Kathy Hochul
2 months
My mother's childhood was torn apart by domestic violence. I've held survivors' hands as they relived their darkest moments. For the President to treat that trauma like a joke is despicable.
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
2 months
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"
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@mmelgar09
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 https://t.co/9drEJFZAME
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@drfixus
Michelle Fiscus MD,FAAP 🌻💉❤️🌈
4 years
You can’t smoke at work. Your second hand smoke is a threat to the health of others. Now do “COVID” #GetVaccinatedAndBoosted #MaskUp
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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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@mmelgar09
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 https://t.co/HLqZdTd3IG. 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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iHealth is making personal healthcare management easier for everyone! Improve your health by tracking your vitals data: blood pressure, blood glucose, blood oxygen & pulse rate, and more. Remote...
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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: https://t.co/3vRukdJJEk
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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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@mmelgar09
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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@HislopMD
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
4 years
“What about the long term effects of vaccines??!?” Viruses that cause new problems years after infection: - chicken pox - hepatitis B - hepatitis C - HIV - HPV - EBV - CMV - HHV8 - HTLV1 Vaccines that cause new problems years after administration: None. 🤨
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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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@mmelgar09
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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@mmelgar09
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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@pediatricskc
Kristen Stuppy, MD, FAAP
4 years
Please use precautions, even if you're young and healthy.
@jeremyfaust
Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)
4 years
Some of my colleagues in medicine and public health denied this could be happening to young adults. I truly believe it is because they do not work in diverse areas, or in practice environments that treats all comers. So we made this to wake them up. https://t.co/W7hhsyn4CG
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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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tennesseelookout.com
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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