Nazia

Former:ChiefofHepatology @DCVAMC AssociateProfessorofMedicine @USD @GWSMHS @USUHealthsci @medstarWHC @HowardU LIVER MetaphysicsEthicsPoetryPoliticsSufismLit

[Nazia @drnazia007]

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal.
Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian.

[Nazia @drnazia007]

Hark ye yet again—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

[Nazia @drnazia007]

If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?…

Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

[AASLD @AASLDtweets]

AASLD, in collaboration with @NASPGHAN and @AST_info, has released two Practice Guidelines that provide evidence-based recommendations for pediatric liver transplantation evaluation and post-transplant management that address emerging challenges and improve outcomes for children throughout the #livertransplant journey.

View the Practice Guidelines in @HEP_Journal and @LTxJournal: https://t.co/s0sphfBzxp

[Nazia @drnazia007]

@nntaleb Correct.

[Fred Björn @Jawnmard1]

Do not say: “Love’s people have gone,
the city of affection is empty!”
The world is full of the sunlight of Shams-i Tabrīz.
Where is its seeker?

[Nazia @drnazia007]

If all the trees on earth were pens and the oceans were ink..... ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌۭ

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The European Central Bank raised interest rates, the first major central bank to act to slow inflation set off by the war in Iran. https://t.co/zG0q9jhstk

[Nazia @drnazia007]

@freemonotheist @YouTube Great interview Paul @freemonotheist ! I just re-read Joram’s @JoramvKlaveren book -Apostate !

[Nazia @drnazia007]

‘Dargah ḍēḍ' tal trāway sar
Yā Nabī rahmatüch nazrā kar’
Kalam : Wahab Khaar.
https://t.co/iXYUp8X3Gd via @YouTube

[Nazia @drnazia007]

@nntaleb I can proudly say that I was onto these ‘ Four Horsemen of New Atheism’ astroturfed grifters . No form no substance pure BS!
@nntaleb

[Nazia @drnazia007]

@Nero https://t.co/CVMWyJ2Bd1

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

@John_OwensJR "American" is a legal status. New Yorker is vibes. They aren't New Yorkers.

[Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal) @LTxJournal]

Material economic hardships are associated with second-year hospitalizations after pediatric liver transplantation: Results from the SOCIAL-Tx study

https://t.co/fyHnXpG7kn

[Nazia @drnazia007]

@Jawnmard1 رَقَّتْ عَيْنِيَ شَوْقاًوَلِطَيْبَةَ ذَرَفَتْ عِشْقاًفَأَتَيْتُ إِلَى حَبِيبِيفَاهْدَأْ يَا قَلْبُ وَرِفْقاًصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد

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[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

This morning I’m reading “alarmingly low US distillate stocks” ~7MM bbls above operationally challenging levels, and Mercuria head of freight saying 10% of global ships could be forced to stop NEXT MONTH due to fuel shortages. This is how we go from oil pricing deficits to pricing shortages.

[Fred Björn @Jawnmard1]

The world consists of three days: the day that has passed, taking all that was in it, never to return; the day you are in now, which you must take advantage of; and the day which offers no security since you could die in it.
(1/)

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

There is a strange development in which academics of international politics are expected to publicly condemn adversarial countries before they are allowed to participate in public discourse. The complexity of international politics is reduced to a moral question of good versus evil, and academics must make moral declarations before even discussing facts, history, strategy, and interpretations. Academics should explain why states behave as they do; they are not moral validators.

What value does it bring to an analysis if the analyst "condemns" one side? After Russia invaded Ukraine, the former Norwegian foreign minister actually argued that "this is not the time to understand, but to condemn". This ridiculous position is pushed on academics. However, understanding is not endorsement, explanation is not advocacy, and ignorance is not strength. I argue it is in Russia's security interest to push NATO away from its borders, it is in Iran's interest to control the Strait of Hormuz, and it is in China's interest to create a new international economic architecture. This is not advocacy, nor is it a normative position about how the world should work; rather, it is a recognition of how the world actually works.

An academic should examine interests, capabilities, and strategic calculations that produce such policies—not participate in ritualised declarations of virtue that contribute absolutely nothing. Furthermore, moralism and condemnation often lead to a lack of understanding and increased conflict. When the conclusion is always that the good guys are confronting the bad guys, then the solution is always "peace through strength", "weapons are the path to peace", and defeating the latest reincarnation of Hitler. If you want war, condemn the other side as pure evil. If you want peace, the first step is to understand the other side.

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[Fred Björn @Jawnmard1]

The Sufis warn against collecting information without acting on it or internalizing it, for someone who fails to act upon knowledge is, in truth, an ignoramus. Knowledge is meaningful only when it leads to practice (amal) and the transformation of the heart.

[Nazia @drnazia007]

@nntaleb Woah is that Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine Vol. 1 & 2 ? Cool.

[Nazia @drnazia007]

@ZaidJilani What would fast walking have achieved other than more Slavic deaths ? It’s a travesty that you haven’t understood the underpinning of the Ukraine Russia conflict. Typical beltway bro.