Quynh P. Nguyen, MD, PhD (she/her) 🏳️🌈
@quynhtissential
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Peds PGY1 UCSD/Rady’s | Immunology, infectious diseases, women's soccer, public health | "Sometimes you don't have to tell your story. Time will." - CP3
San Diego, CA
Joined July 2013
"..a mentor is someone who has more imagination about you than you have about yourself." In other words, a mentor is someone who sees your true potential and helps you find a way to get there, even when you think you can't do it. https://t.co/U4Bi1eekAE
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Having benefited from excellent mentors over the course of her career, a physician concludes that a true mentor is someone who has more imagination about you than you have about yourself.
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“I've witnessed something that I feel is extremely bad, not just for the United States, but for all of us in the world.” Scientists around the world expressed disappointment and alarm as Republican Donald Trump has secured a second term
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Nature - Trump’s decisive defeat of Kamala Harris spurs fears about the future of the United States among researchers.
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"only when it's dark enough can you see the stars. america, let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant billion of stars." EXACTLY KAMALA🥺
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It’s a hard day to get out of bed for. Then I remembered I’m a proud immigrant serving immigrant communities! I need my patients to know that no matter who threatens to rip away their rights, I have their back. In my line of work, there is no show downs, only showing up. 🩵
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California just voted to keep slavery so relax
As with Trump's last term, California will lead the liberal resistance
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If I unfriend you for voting for Trump, it’s personal. Take it personally.
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My viewpoint from the field of pediatrics in the wake of the election results. As pediatricians, politics & policy touch everything we do. I see the impact firsthand every day: - The teen with immunodeficiency who listens to politicians demonize vaccines—even though these
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Removing slavery was on the ballot in California. It literally had no opposition campaign at all, and it still lost.
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“This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves.” —Vice President Kamala Harris
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Nobody hates immigrants more than an immigrant that just got their legal status.
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So I'm supposed to go to work and do my job tomorrow as if half the country didn't just vote to give me less rights than men?????
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Tough day to be a physician in America. Tough day to be a scientist in America. Tough day to be a woman in America.
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Today, we must pick ourselves up and keep working for change. No matter how heartbroken and soul-crushed we are. Because that’s what strength is—moving forward in the face of adversity. Moving forward when it doesn’t seem possible.
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Not looking great friends
California voters have approved a measure that undoes progressive crime reform and are on track to: -reject a minimum wage increase -reject a measure to outlaw forced prison labor -reject a measure that allows more rent control https://t.co/Z6oULJtZ8i
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Breaking: ✅ The Associated Press called Proposition 35 after results showed it jumped to a sizable lead. Doctors who serve California’s poorest residents will get paid more, in some cases, for the first time in two decades.
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Proposition 35 on the 2024 California election ballot would redistribute money from a tax on health insurance plans. The revenue would go to Medi-Cal.
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✅ Breaking: California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36 on Tuesday, capping a chaotic 10 months of bargaining and wrangling at the state Capitol where Democratic leaders unsuccessfully sought to preserve a decade of criminal justice reform. https://t.co/I7TmKmqhqe
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Jon Stewart on election night: "We're all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world to the place that we prefer it to be." #DailyShow
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