Congrats Christa! That said, your book is about so much MORE than abuse: institutional cover ups, how to fight them, how to find hope, how to overcome a dysfunctional family, how resiliency and persistence can overcome. . . .

One of Trump's lawyers, D. John Sauer, helped an accused predator priest & sued his accuser
bishop-accountability.org/news555/2015_0…

If I could still laugh, I would laugh at this

Is there research on institutional betrayal in religious organizations? What about criminal justice systems? Does moral injury have anything to do with institutional betrayal? What can be done about institutional betrayal in health care?
institutionalcourage.org/the-courage-br…

Important history, #MedTwitter -- there were also funeral directors like me who stepped up and helped nurse our dying friends, and handled HIV/AIDS deaths w/o bias when few would. But these Utah docs are heroes!
them.us/story/quiet-he…

A lovely tribute to Terry Anderson—and journalism—by Robert J. Rosenthal, who was a correspondent for the The Philadelphia Inquirer working from Beirut at the time: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

On this #EarthDay , please watch this beautiful piece by Ben Tracy on CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 about environmental photographer James Balog.
His brilliant photographs are part of the Library of Congress collection. 🌎

You’ve got to see this. The man who wrote the 1864 Arizona law banning abortion without exceptions for rape or incest, was a kidnapper and a rapist. He wrote the law to force his victims to bear his children.

Anyone defending this law, is defending that!

Nearly 50 years ago, an Austrian doctor at a Baltimore hospital began a quiet crusade for justice. Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker asked rape survivors if he could collect evidence of the crime. He placed the matter into slides, froze them, and kept them as evidence...1/4

We’re live! MedPage Today & I are starting a new series on ethical failures in medicine: The Hypocritical Oath

The culture of #InstitutionalBetrayal & retaliation is real. Let’s change it

#MedTwitter Resa E Lewiss MD Benita Alexander
Lana Lawrence

Link: medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…

Youngkin’s Veto of Bill That “protects a provider’s medical license against unwarranted claims and attacks for providing legal healthcare services is a disgrace” (Sen. Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy: “WE are on the right side of history on this issue.') bluevirginia.us/2024/04/youngk…

The “crazy girl” trope is not only misogynistic, it’s demeaning to patients with #mentalhealth concerns

When anyone sets a boundary that you don’t like & you demean them with inappropriate MH terminology, you are the problem
#MedTwitter #DARVO

kevinmd.com/2024/04/the-ab…

Opinion | A Physician Guide to Supporting Sexual Assault Survivors medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…

“I said no pictures” 😂

#OnThisDay in 1960, students, many of them from Fisk University, began sit-ins in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. In the months that followed, more than 150 were arrested.

Rather than pay fines, the students served their time in jail. When a mayor’s committee suggested separate

I wrote about E Jean Carroll’s victory and the convergence of #MeToo , the Adult Survivors Act, and a brave survivor.

Columbia Univ Press E. Jean Carroll

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We were about $6,999,999 short on funding for a Super Bowl ad with this same message, but maybe if everyone shares it, we will reach the same number of people?

Retweet and follow Navy Yard Nats to WIN a official MLB 2019 World Series ball signed by 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 or
𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙣.

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Reply with a pet photo to DOUBLE your chances.
#SuperBowl

Thank you, Governor Hochul for expanding the legal definition of rape in New York!!

Governor Kathy Hochul

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…