Refaat Alareer was killed by @Israel today.
In his recent interview in October,
"There is no way out of Gaza. What should we do... drown? Commit mass suicide? Is this what Israel wants? And we're not going to do that.. I am an academic, Probably the toughest thing I have at home is an Expo Marker. But if the Israelis invade us, If they barge at us, open door to door to massacre us, I am going to use that Marker, Throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I will be able to do. And this is the feeling of everybody in Palestine. We are helpless and we have nothing to lose"
🔥 this just in
Patient could not afford SGLT2i that I prescribed for HF.
Understandable and common challenge.
Patient called insurance.
Insurance directed patient to glimepiride which would cost $5
Patient wants Rx for glimepiride.
This now requires 30 minutes of additional education.
Exhibit A for how US healthcare system is FUBAR
And yet the insurance company will accept no responsibility or liability for providing medical advice (erroneous) to their enrolled patient who they won’t let me (the patient’s doctor) manage in accordance with guidelines.
This is death by a thousand papercuts of #moralinjury
This is my dear friend, Nakita.
Nakita and I were medical school classmates and both interns in New York City. Nakita tragically took her own life on May 26.
She is such a beautiful soul. She was so fun to be around. She was intelligent, charismatic, and confident. (1/x)
I’m an emergency medicine doctor. When you come to my ER, I will take care of you even if your beliefs are different than mine. My job is to take care of patients.
If you would deny a patient care because they have different beliefs than you, then you should not be in medicine
I kept her from injuring herself. And I got her sugar (icing from the cafeteria) and an ambulance. She woke up before the ambulance. Now I can’t imagine…what if someone instead of seeing it as a medical emergency, felt threatened and put her in a chokehold and killed her?
In the same year, Banting, Collip, and Best decided to sell the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1. Banting famously went on to say, "Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."
In the early 1920s, Fredrick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available to successfully treat diabetes. Both Banting and Macleod earned Nobel Prizes for their work in 1923.