Most MD/DOs students prob wouldn’t do research if residencies weren’t so fixated on making research and pubs synonymous to being a competitive applicant. If we wanted to do research we would’ve done an MD/PhD.
Child deaths in wars:
Iraq: 3,100 in 14 years
Syria: 12,000 in 11 years
Yemen: 3,700 in 7 years
Ukraine: 520 in 21 months
Palestine: ~15,000 in 5 months.
Does the world condemn the killing of children or is it complicated when it is Middle Eastern children?
DON'T LOOK AWAY. DON'T YOU DARE LOOK AWAY.
Amina Ghanem, 13 years old, says. 'We were sleeping and we heard the sound of tanks when they came and walked over the caravan in which I, my father, and my brothers lived. The tank squeezed us inside the tin all night until the morning
I am tired of trying to prove to the world that Palestinians are humans too. They are blowing up entire residential blocks killing countless women and children.
The world needs to see what Israel did to children in Gaza on New Year's Day. Don't stop talking about Gaza
When the Notre Dame burned down, people from all over the world flocked to donate money to have it repaired. Now, when a mosque, older than most nations is destroyed by an army carrying out genocide, many are now silent.
BREAKING: Israel is now heavily bombing Syria, Gaza and South Lebanon.
Only Israel can bomb 3 different countries in a single day while screaming ‘victim’ at the same time.
every few years when Israel maims Gaza to “dismantle Hamas,” the rest of the world is rightfully outraged. but I wish people paid the same attention to the West Bank. even Israelis know their conduct there is indefensible to western audiences, so they just don’t talk about it
We can’t get universal health care, can’t cancel student loans, can’t provide clean water, housing or better public transportation, but The Pentagon can misplace $3.8 trillion. Not for the first time either. Stimulus checks caused inflation but not this? Funny how that works.
Pro tip:
Costco is often the cheapest place to get prescriptions on GoodRx. If you have a patient that needs it to buy scripts, tell them they can go to Costco. They don’t need a membership to use the pharmacy, it’s illegal to have a membership service to a pharmacy.
A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea.
In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.