Alan Plotzker, MD

Alan Plotzker, MD

@alanplotzker.bsky.social

Neurologist, pun enthusiast, die-hard Eagles fan. Husband of @mcknightwrites.bsky.social Opinions are my own Philly area native now in Pittsburgh #MedSky

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I can’t have been the only neurologist watching the Collins/Jackson debate and trying to diagnose her tremor, right? Vocal tremor and prominence of the hand tremor when gesturing makes me lean toward ET

We really need better ways of determining what’s a UTI vs colonization in patients who can’t sense/report urinary symptoms. We know from people who CAN report symptoms that things like suprapubic tenderness, fever, and leukocytosis have terrible sensitivity

Just had a completely unhinged Airbnb experience. We were meeting up with my sister to celebrate the 1st birthdays of our babies (they’re 17 days apart), and she had booked an Airbnb months in advance. She had messaged them in advance asking if they had two pack-and-plays because we had two infants…

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was on a plane, and my wife and I had already dropped our stuff off at the place. When my wife finally got to talk to the guy, he said that they had never said they had two pack-and-plays (despite my sister having shown him screenshots of them saying exactly that), and he said that they canceled…

the reservation because she was “disrespectful,” and “wasn’t a good fit.” They basically stranded us with two infants in a place where it is extremely hard to find somewhere to stay with no notice. Just utterly deranged behavior.

Just had a completely unhinged Airbnb experience. We were meeting up with my sister to celebrate the 1st birthdays of our babies (they’re 17 days apart), and she had booked an Airbnb months in advance. She had messaged them in advance asking if they had two pack-and-plays because we had two infants…

and they said that they did. She sent a message the day before to confirm, and they said that they only had one pack and play. My sister asked if they could cover the cost of an extra one, and the dude responded by CANCELING THE RESERVATION 1.5 HOURS BEFORE CHECK-IN. At that point, my sister…

It’s gross and a sign of how much SCOTUS has been degraded that FOUR justices think that the 14th amendment doesn’t guarantee birthright citizenship (Kavanaugh agreed with the ruling but thinks it can be removed by statute)

I dunno, I feel like if you’re going to have a big race, you should either 1) not block off the city’s biggest hospital, or 2) be able to tell people how to get around your course to said major hospital

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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Wife reading a submission for her writing group: some writers are just trying way too hard to come up with penis metaphors. “his war hammer at my gate” Me: True, if you’re gonna go in that direction, battering ram is right there.

Does anyone have a scorecard for how many times ICE/CBP have claimed someone rammed/tried to ram them? Seems like a whole lot at this point, and I don’t think a single one has been an actual attempt to ram them It’s like their second favorite bullshit charge after “obstruction” (annoying them)

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This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

This is so heartbreaking And our government is trying to paint him as some crazed assassin. This would be wrong to happen to anyone, but it hits harder that it’s a HCW that by all accounts was a genuinely good person

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The dots on an absolutely absurd play that the Rams had no business surrendering. And yet, they did. Caleb Williams gets his answer prayered.

Holy shit, Trump admin is literally asking Penn for lists of Jews there because something something antisemitism This is like two steps away from “let’s have all the Jews wear yellow stars so we can better protect them from antisemitism” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comUPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights