Derek Benham

General Surgeon, USN, by way of Mizzou Med and NMCSD surgery. SCC fellow @WashUSurgery ‘27

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

She went to Cincinnati v Nebraska with him. This is nothing

[cal shiesty ⚾️❤️ @calebevans88]

You know she truly loves him if she's willing to watch Cleveland sports with him

[TARPS OFF AT BUSCH @SFAClubBsbl]

JUST WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTED!!!
SHIRTS ARE OUT NOW
FUNDRAISER 100% TO SFA CLUB BASEBALL

#tarpsoff #gobirds

https://t.co/JP3WV7NEIA

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@BDHerzinger The Smedley Butler O club is still worth visiting

[Quinn @QuinnSTLCards]

Fans at Busch in the 200 level in RF who are there for the unlimited hot dogs seeing fans in the 200 level in LF in the tarps off section

[Jake Wood @woodbat28]

My interpretation is that the Hall is designed to tell the story of baseball and highlight its most impactful performers. I put the line right around 2005 for steroid guys. After it was tested and punishable. Thats why id asterisk guys like Bonds, Clemens, McGwire, Sosa, etc. But, I think the Hall is incomplete without the inclusion of some of the players who truly saved the industry of baseball in the late 90's early 2000's.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@McCainJack I’ve been on LHAs with good and bad leadership. Readiness seemed to be related to the leadership effectiveness of the triad vs who was an aviator vs SWO.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

You don’t need to consult psych to determine capacity

[Dr. AK 🇮🇳 @docakx]

Hit me with a harsh medical fact.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@McCainJack @AULaw24 “I think we still need someone to crank in the kitchens.”

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@11B2P_4_lyfe @hotscots_app “I haven’t lived this experience, but I’m underestimating what they experience because I want to make my experience more important.”

You don’t understand sea service. That’s fine. Stop undermining others service. Their service doesn’t lessen yours.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

You don’t know what river city is.

You don’t know what man overboard means

She has 5 sea service ribbons. She’s spent her time away from family. Had deployments extended.

Just because someone in another branch served in different ways, doesn’t devalue their service, or yours

[Voödoo 6 von Inyanga @6Voodoo]

I want her family to know what its like when her one call home gets cut off because the FOB went into blackout

I want her to know what mortars sound like

I want her taking a turn so some Army major doesnt get divorced on his third deployment.

I just want her there with us

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@McCainJack People are showing that they don’t understand the purpose or necessity of the navy compared to the ground forces.

Destroyer SWOs are a breed unlike any other in the US military. Army infantry would lose their mind in a 5th fleet DDG deployment.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@jackretcher2372 @OldGnarlyGoat That’s exactly who he was referring to you oaf

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

I bet they’re close to busting out the MREs

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

Images of food being served to sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli, published by USA Today.

Supplies "are going to get really low" and "morale is going to be at an all-time low," one sailor messaged his mother: https://t.co/di0KUEohvI

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@McCainJack I feel like 23 has had the best patches of all the squadrons I deployed with

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

Same can be said for combat casualty ready military surgeons.

[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

@mahesh_shenai Unfortunately, you can’t just keep neurosurgeons on the shelf in a freeze-dried state and just rehydrate them when there’s an emergency, and then freeze-dry them again afterwards so you don’t have to feed them any elective work.

As others have said, there’s no real answer.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

It’s nice to know you have job security

[@levelsio @levelsio]

OpenAI's new image model GPT-Image-2 has leaked

It seems to have extremely good world knowledge and great text rendering

Possibly better than Nano Banana Pro

It's on @arena under code names:
- maskingtape-alpha
- gaffertape-alpha
- packingtape-alpha

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

People who say this must never go to tower grove, Shaw, CWE, Forest Park, etc. We have an amazing city with diverse neighborhoods with a lot of free things and family centered things. Just because downtown isn’t the center focus doesn’t mean the city is dead

[Carter Gold @Carters_Gold]

Sadly fair for our once great city.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

@Asst_to_the_RM Charlie Gitto’s is by far the best.

[Emily Brockway @ebrockwayink]

The heart of the VA “disability” debate isn’t policy, it’s the word itself. Disability is a term loaded with misunderstanding and stigma.

Uninformed veterans and civilians negatively react to the idea of compensation for someone who appears physically “able.” That reaction is conditioned by decades of Hollywood cultural imagery that includes disfigurement, prosthetics, and World War I–style shell shock. In that frame disability is limited to something visible and severe.

But that’s not what the VA system is built around. What veterans leave service with are limitations. Some immediate, others latent but predictable based on exposure, wear, and mathematical and science-based risk. These are measurable, actuarial realities. The system isn’t designed for public adjudication based on anecdotes or subjective thresholds of “hurt enough.”

Yet many people implicitly treat VA disability like workers’ compensation, which invites a kind of vigilantism and an eagerness to identify fraud. It mirrors the logic of true crime culture: find the bad actor and expose the scam! In practice, that instinct often targets legitimately suffering veterans, turning them into suspects and criminals rather than beneficiaries.

What’s missing from the conversation is the underlying purpose: the VA Disability program is, functionally, a quality-of-life compensation model. It acknowledges that service imposes lasting costs, not just on the individual, but often on their family and long-term well-being.

But of course the current terminology obscures that reality. “Disability” narrows the public’s understanding to visible impairment, when the system is actually compensating for diminished lifetime capacity and risk exposure. If the goal is clarity and legitimacy in the public mind, the VA should reconsider the term itself. The whole damn thing… its language, framing, and branding.

Because as long as we rely on a misunderstood word, we’ll keep having the wrong debate. And veterans will lose.

[Derek Benham @D_Benham]

“It’s drivable. Be there”

How many thousands of dollars have me and my friends spent on tickets to games?

Win something.

[Nick Berardini @NickBerardini]

Also I don’t want to hear any more from coaches asking more from fans, in football or basketball. Mizzou fans live and die this shit. We don’t need more money or fan support or other external shit. That place was a buzzsaw tonight. Mizzou fans have done enough