Lorena Patterson

International Business Specialist. Ideas shared are personal.

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@fgagnon5 @FoodProfessor Congratulations! And thank you for your posts :)

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Afghanistan’s education minister has announced that women are permanently banned from schools.

UN Women has not said a word.

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@PierrePoilievre Wow! That’s incredible! So much hard work to get there!! Congratulations to you and the family.

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

This is a great reminder that sometimes all it takes to make a difference is a new perspective. Lovely read.

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

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Back in 1952, a baby was born at a hospital in New York. The room went dead silent. The infant was blue, limp, and silent. Panic began to settle over the medical staff, and for a terrifying moment, it looked like they might give up. Then, a steady, calm voice cut through the tension.
«Let's score the baby,» the woman commanded.
That woman was Dr. Virginia Apgar. That single, simple instruction changed the course of modern medicine forever.
Virginia Apgar's path wasn't easy. She originally wanted to be a surgeon, but in the 1940s, the doors to operating rooms were firmly shut against women. She was told plainly that no hospital would hire a woman as a surgeon. Many people would have quit right there, but Apgar simply shifted her focus. She moved into the field of anesthesiology. It was a career pivot that would eventually save millions of lives.
While working in the maternity ward at Columbia-Presbyterian, Apgar watched something that broke her heart. She saw newborn babies dying within minutes of birth because doctors didn't have a standardized way to check if they were healthy or in distress. It was all guesswork. There was no system, no set of rules, and no shared language among the staff.

One morning in 1952, Apgar decided to solve the problem herself. She sat down with a piece of paper and a pen. She developed a simple, five-point test to evaluate a newborn's health based on heart rate, respiration, muscle tone, reflexes, and skin color.
She called it the "Apgar Score."
The medical community didn't just accept it; they embraced it. Within a decade, nearly every hospital in the United States had adopted her method. Because doctors finally had a universal language to assess a newborn's health, they knew exactly when to intervene. The infant mortality rate plummeted. Infants who might have been left for dead in the past were suddenly being resuscitated and kept alive.
Virginia Apgar didn't stop with that one test. She went on to get a degree in Public Health and worked tirelessly with the March of Dimes, becoming a global advocate for mothers and their children. She spent her life breaking barriers, not by shouting, but by being the most capable person in the room.

Because doctors finally had a universal language to assess a newborn's health, they knew exactly when to intervene. The infant mortality rate plummeted—studies have estimated that the implementation of standardized neonatal assessments contributed to a significant decline in neonatal deaths, with some regions seeing mortality rates for high-risk infants drop by as much as 40 to 50 percent in the years following its adoption.
Infants who might have been left for dead in the past were suddenly being resuscitated and kept alive.
When people asked her how she managed to thrive in a world that didn't want her there, she would offer a small, knowing smile. She once explained her resilience by saying:
«Women are like tea bags—you never know how strong they are until they're in hot water.»
Dr. Virginia Apgar passed away in 1974, but her work remains invisible yet essential. Every two seconds, somewhere on this planet, a baby takes its first breath. In that moment, a doctor or a nurse silently calculates a score.
That number is a tribute to a woman who refused to give up—not on the babies, and certainly not on herself.

vision, and a refusal to back down can rewrite the future. She taught us that your circumstances don't define your impact; your actions do.
Most people will never know the name of the woman behind the score they receive at birth. But every life she helped save is living proof that you don't need fame to be a hero—you just need to leave the world better than you found it 🙏♥️🙏

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@SatireSquadHQ Isn’t this Satire? As in, a joke?

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@MacLeodLisa @gghamari @OttawaPolice @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada Stay safe , Goldie. 🙏

[Jacob King @JacobKinge]

JUST IN: China is rapidly DUMPING U.S. Treasuries and stockpiling gold.

NEW data shows China’s U.S. Treasury holdings have fallen to about $680B, an 18-year low, while gold reserves have surged to record levels near 74 million ounces.

Something big is happening.

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@TheFlatEartherr Enzyme

[🇲🇽POVMEXICO @POVMexico]

Just beyond the rooftops of Mexico City, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl rise over one of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas, where more than 21 million people live in the shadow of two 5,000-meter volcanoes.

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@MetabolicFactor Cinnamon

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@MarcNixon24 @BonnieMeikle1 Can we all grow up and become adults please? The world is shifting beneath our feet and this is where people are focusing their energy?

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This is such a great video. Mamdani voters hear from a socialist survivor from Venezuela.

This is how you change minds.

[Daniel Lacalle @dlacalle]

Mensaje desde #Venezuela para los falsos moralistas, la izquierda caviar y los indignaditos de salón desde la comodidad del capitalismo.

Impecable.

#VenezuelaLibreDelDictador
#MaduroNarcoDictador

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Why, in God's name, has the BBC been told to ignore this ?

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@FoodProfessor Couldn’t agree more. This sort of thing further erodes what’s left of our trade agreements and reinforces Canada’s image as a place that is unsafe for investors.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

This is the cost of dairy supply management.

Same decade. Same product.

Two price systems.

One moves with markets.

One sends Canadians the bill.

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@JayCampbell333 @HealtyWealty247 Aging

[Lorena Patterson @LorenaP48722130]

@kevinolearytv If Canadians wish to refrain from purchasing U.S. products that is their prerogative, but the Government should not be making that choice for them. Governments are short lived, trading relationships are not. These kinds of actions by governments provoke rather than resolve.

[J. L. Martín Nogales @jlmartinnogales]

Está es la mejor interpretación del Ave María de Schubert. Ella es Aida Garifullina. ¡Feliz Navidad!