The suicide rate among physicians is the highest among any profession, and more than double that of the general population.
Nearly every doctor graduates from residency with some degree of PTSD, and no one wants to talk about it.
Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas.
I am approaching this with anthropological precision.
Here are a few observations.
These fights are hard, and they can feel hopeless. But remember that hope isn't given to us—it's created by us.
So we can’t give in, we can’t back down. That's what they want.
Tonight I urge you to dig a little deeper, to stay in the fight. Because our democracy depends on it.