How TikTok Doctors Are Breaking Barriers

‘TikTok is our way to be accessible and transparent — to connect with people’

Ashley Abramson
Elemental
Published in
7 min readJan 30, 2020

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DDr. Magnolia Printz, a 38-year-old Wisconsin-based anesthesiologist, stumbled across TikTok in late 2019. She’d always liked dancing, and karaoke was a big part of her Filipino culture, but she soon became strategic about using 15-second videos and trending…

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Ashley Abramson
Elemental

Writer-mom hybrid. Health & psychology stories in NYT, WaPo, Allure, Real Simple, & more.