Melanie Yates, MD

Black women are still not heard in our hospitals. Mercedes Wells was sent home while in active labor. That is unacceptable.

Black women’s pain in childbirth cannot be ignored or dismissed. That’s why I introduced the WELLS Act to hold hospitals accountable and protect Black mothers.

The Director of FBI, everyone.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Roses are red.

Violetes are blue.

Hey, Kristi Noem,

I’m impeaching you.

Please explain to me how rescinding public health funds to democrat-led states amidst multiple infectious disease outbreaks is "pro-life"?

Is "owning the libs" worth the direct harm and death caused by this action to these entire regions? Deadly diseases do not care if you voted red or blue 🦠☠️

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.

As a member of the Medicare for All Caucus, I’ve been fighting to ensure everyone has access to quality and affordable healthcare. My mission will continue in the US Senate. It’s unconscionable that the richest country on the planet does not offer this basic right. Learn more at robinforsenate.com

I am proud everyday, but more than ever over these last few weeks, to have been born and raised in Minnesota. #CourageOverComfort #LoveOverHate #willyoubemyneighbor

Emergency Departments Should be Safe Zones for Patients The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is committed to ensuring that emergency departments remain places where all individuals can safely seek emergency medical care without fear. Patient...

“ @acepnation.bsky.social opposes federal and state initiatives which require physicians and health care facilities to refuse care to undocumented persons or to report suspected undocumented persons to immigration authorities. ERs are required by federal law to provide stabilization to all persons”

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations.
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Remove them. Defund them. Abolish them. Prosecute them.

The CEO of one of the biggest health insurance companies couldn’t answer my question on AI-driven denials.

Health insurance companies should not compound on our healthcare crisis by weaponizing AI to deny Americans essential care.

I don’t know who this Minnesota man is, but he absolutely speaks for me.

“I have treated patients who have harmed others. I have cared for people in police custody, people accused of violent crimes…. None of that alters my obligation.

When someone is bleeding in front of you, your duty is to stop the bleeding.” @josephsakran.bsky.social

That's my boss 💪

The One Big Beautiful Bill: A Looming Crisis for Health Equity and Emergency Medicine Author(s): Yates, Melanie; Yun, Peter

Now more than ever, physicians need to be in the conversation on the impacts that policy and politics have on our patients and crumbling healthcare system. Time to buckle up for the new year, and grateful to write this piece with my friend and colleague: escholarship.org/uc/item/2nn0...

What is this new feeling of hope? Who is she? Haven't seen her in a while

#civicengagement #2025election #democracy

Just your friendly reminder that healthcare does not follow free market principles and people continue to die for profit in the current system.

And this is only going to get worse as uninsured rates skyrocket with the Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidies expirations

#healthpoliy

It is not lost on me that a bunch of weak old men who can't handle one bad comment against them are telling women to "suck it up" and not take the one well-studied safe medication for pain and fever in pregnancy based on non-existent evidence that it causes autism 🙃

#scienceoverpolitics

As Americans we should be able to empathize for the person that has died, even if we vehemently disagreed with them. We also have a lot of reflecting and work to do as a country to end gun and political violence. Today I am heartbroken.

One of the greatest honors as an emergency physician is to be able to care for everyone no matter where they come from or what their beliefs are. One of the greatest heartbreaks is telling families their loved ones have died from gun violence.

HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.

Actions mean more than words.

And the fact that the new COI rules are not being applied to the new hand-picked Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, speaks volumes.

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No fireworks 🎆 just nature 🌿

Taking a break out on the water today so we can fight for our freedoms tomorrow

#courageovercomfort

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

I think this is mother nature's wrath for the senate GOP passing the abhorrent big blasphemous bill

Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care.

Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.

Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

@eggerdc.bsky.social: "If this monstrosity of a bill ever becomes law, it will be interesting to see the unstoppable force of this delusion meet the immovable object of people actually losing their coverage en masse. For the sake of the country, we hope we never get to see it."

Work requirements ➡️ kicking eligible adults off their healthcare due to administrative burden. #ArkansasWorks is an example, where ~18,000 people were kicked off Medicaid inappropriately ➡️ to significant deleterious healthcare effects.

The GOP budget bill will hurt so many to benefit so few