Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

One of the ways we know Tr*mp is an abuser is his refusal to take no for an answer. Having already lost to E Jean Carroll twice, he’s now weaponizing the DoJ to go after her for supposedly perjuring herself when asked how her legal team was getting paid. A judge already looked into this!

This is an incredible piece of art (before anyone gets upset about her using AI to do surgery, she has a music degree!)

Elno, the man responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths so far, thinks he can lecture us about morality. We are not angry enough!

Worked on this today—it’s called a half spatchcock, tho my lower foot should get to the pole. My body says that’s for another day! #pd

Managed to put two little shapes together, and I don’t think I messed up my shoulder doing it! #pd

Tw: SA I don’t know what it will take for judges to value women’s and girls’ safety and lives as much as they do the future potential of men and boys. In what world should boys who gang rape girls, record it, and post it on social media receive no time in prison? In Nicholas Rowland’s world, ig

This is the video I saw earlier, btw. Hard to watch. It’s the same move except the grip on the upper hand is the elbow, which I tend to think is more secure than the hand (may differ for each person—that’s just how I feel)

Saw a video of somebody face planting (multiple facial fractures) from a move similar to this earlier today so yeah, I was feeling a bit anxious! (Nothing fancy—just trying to rehab still) #pd

Is Bezos lying to himself, or does he think we are fools who won’t catch on? Everyone’s talking about the clip where he says drinking his taxes won’t help. But what about the one where he says Amazon, which exploits workers, is a bigger contribution to society than he can make with philanthropy?

Handstands are coming along more easily than pole. Wanted to switch to the other side stag but this was it for today. #handstands

Recorded this before it was confirmed that the settlement with the DoJ allowing Tr*mp to give $1.8 billion of our money to criminals includes a clause exempting Tr*mp and his family from IRS audits. That seems totally fine, right, because they’re definitely not scammers, right?

We are paying for the government’s blatant racism. The DoJ is wasting vast amounts of taxpayer dollars “investigating” reverse discrimination in medical schools, all over a very small differential on MCAT scores and GPA, which are obviously not the sole determinants of applicant success.

Probably against physical therapist advice (and my shoulder mount is pathetic at this point) but I thought this would be ok to try. It’s been almost a year since my injury #pd

I am currently obsessed with chrome on top of cat eye. It’s very holographic/opalescent/cool vibes

Made a video of my thoughts on the RFK Jr/Cleveland Clinic/heart surgery debacle. Good news is I don’t think he brought roadkill into the OR, but I still have A LOT of questions!!

Even in the middle of an outbreak of a lethal virus, a woman’s symptoms are still dismissed as anxiety. I hear so many stories like this, and the least we can do as physicians is listen—and do better.

What the US did to this family is pure evil.

People are asking how many mistakes is too many. I’m not aware of a specific cut-off, but if we took away privileges from every surgeon who has complications there would be no surgeons left (to be clear, I’m talking about typical complications—not removing a person’s liver instead of their spleen)

Making it harder for people to vote—and for their votes to count—is peak loser behavior. Republicans should be embarrassed they have to go to such lengths to win.

This is, by far, the best take I’ve seen on Mel Robbins’s* “let them” theory *putting aside the fact that she stole the idea from Cassie Phillips

This surgeon’s past history includes: -common bile duct injury -missed anastomotic leak (pt died) -pancreatic tissue removal instead of adrenalectomy Staff avoided going to the ED when he was on call. But I don’t see how any of this adds up to removing a liver instead of a spleen

Multiple people asked if the surgeon removed the liver to sell it. For multiple reasons, I am confident that’s not what was going on. Another common question was regarding the staff and why they didn’t stop him. Here are my thoughts as a board-certified general surgeon.

The president told children Iranians are “sick” and “lunatics” who are a threat to their lives. This is the same type of propaganda the Islamic Republic of Iran uses to turn Iranians against the US. So Tr*mp is doing exactly the same thing as the people he supposedly despises.

The one year anniversary of the death of Virginia Giuffre, is a reminder that we need to keep talking about the Epstein files. There are way too many physicians in the Epstein files. Here’s the story of Jess Ting putting 35 stitches into a young woman’s forehead—on a dining table.

I can’t at all do this on my dominant (injured) side, but this is still progress! #pd

Stephen A Smith sexually harassed Chiney Ogwumike on air, and when Coach Jackie made a video about it, Shaq (yes, Shaquille O’Neal) wrote a rude and condescending comment on Jackie’s video. As a sexual harassment researcher who studied French and grew up watching Shaq, I had to weigh in.

I’ve been trying to be a good patient, but we’re now 11 months out from my stinking injury and enough is enough! This is what I’m telling my shoulder. And I had a big snafu with my back in the interim which didn’t help. Anyway, here are some V switches from today. #handstands

If your first instinct when hearing about violence against women is to say “not all men,” this one’s for you

Hegseth, the same guy who banned abortion services at the VA, thinks asking the military to get flu vaccines violates their autonomy but forcing them to carry a pregnancy and risk dying does not. And he thinks that’s common sense!

The website where Dominique Pelicot recruited dozens of men to rape his wife has been resurrected. How are the men who consider themselves to be good guys discussing this, the “rape academy,” the Telegram channels, etc with the boys and men in their lives? Or are you? Genuine question.

Apple and Google push apps that facilitate digital sexual violence, even though the apps violate Apple and Google’s policies. These apps have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times with over $120M in revenue. So much for protecting women and children.

RFK Jr thinks Black maternal mortality is “DEI” and doesn’t think we need to do anything about it even though Black pregnant people are 3-4 more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than are white people. That’s our head of HEALTH and HUMAN services.

The president’s aides don’t trust him. Why should we?

Have you seen the ones that do yoga? There are so many talented dogs out there! Secret is one of the best to have ever done it, RIP 💔

My favorite version of this Bridgerton dance trend. This dog is a natural!

Making fun of patients is not funny. Objectifying patients is not funny. People who do this have poor judgment that very likely seeps into all their decision-making 🚩🚩🚩

Collien Fernandes, whose husband created sexual deepfakes of her for ten years and sent them to her colleagues, had to cancel her appearance at a rally in Hamburg due to death threats. This is why women don’t report.

Someone was sending hundreds of men, including Collien Fernandes’s colleagues, sexual deepfakes of her for 10 years. After she filed a lawsuit against unnamed perpetrators, her husband admitted he had been behind it all, saying he was aroused by humiliating her. We are not angry enough.

A new Miami Herald investigation published yesterday reveals multiple bags of shredded documents were dumped by the prison in the days following Epstein’s death. Add this to the long list of suspicious activity at the prison around that time, none of which has been properly investigated.

Harvey Weinstein thinks we should feel sorry for him, that he should be treated more kindly because of his contributions to society. Do I feel bad he spends 23 h a day in a cell after everything he did? No f*cking way. And you shouldn’t either.

A reminder, in case you need one, that women are incredible athletes. Part 8.

The swift response to the investigation into Chavez suggests if they wanted to, they would. But not only is the president’s name not being removed from places, he is being put ON the Kennedy Center, a $1 coin, banners hanging on government buildings, etc. I can’t qwhite put my finger on why that is…

Did y’all catch the SNL MAHAspital skit last weekend? We talked about it this week on The Present Illness. They resuscitate a patient with a red LED mask, prescribe protein STAT, make sure everyone has raw milk, etc. Here are some entertaining clips, if you need something to laugh at

Bluesky wouldn’t let me upload it all in one video (even though it’s <2:30), so here’s the rest

An ode to Tehran, via Al Jazeera and Yara Elmjouie 😭😭😭 So many of us are unable to return to Iran because of the current regime. May this be the last year we have to celebrate Norouz under their oppression.