Breast reductions are often medically indicated and covered under insurance. Consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon can help women understand the medical indications and benefits of the procedure. #breastreduction https://t.co/BESzxvFQbW via @NYTimes
Six Things I See in My ‘Strongest’ 80-Year-Old Patients
I am 63 now, and after three decades as an orthopedic surgeon, I have examined thousands of people in their eighties. Some arrive frail and afraid, others walk in straighter and more confident than patients half their age.
They’re still skiing, still gardening, still picking up grandchildren without a second thought. The gap between those two groups is not luck, and it is rarely genetics alone. The same patterns keep showing up in those who are thriving.
Here is what they have in common. The most important reasons are lower down in the list…
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Elders in my Arab village in Israel told me the richest Palestinians sold their land and left first. 80 years later, their grandkids now claim to be displaced victims.
I am so allergic to victim mindset. It boils my blood. ~15 million displaced Hindus and Muslims in India-Pakistan around the SAME year. No one is trying to be a victim there. It's time to move on.
"You only get to be a victim once. After that, you’re a volunteer."
My husband bought two KitKats one day.
One was for him and one was for me.
I ate mine immediately because that is what happens when you give me chocolate and expect patience.
He put his in the fridge and then left the next day for a two-week work trip.
That KitKat sat in the fridge the entire time he was gone. Every time I opened the refrigerator, it was there staring at me. I held out for several days because I am a supportive wife and I respect personal property.
But sometime during week two, my self-control gave up.
I ate it.
I fully intended to replace it before he got home, but of course I forgot. So when he returned from his trip, he opened the fridge, looked around for two seconds, and.........
An independent Israel exists because the Jewish people have focused their energy on building a state. An independent Palestine doesn’t exist because the Palestinian people have focused their energy on destroying a state.
'To Jewish families, more than 1000 years of history is bleak evidence that they are right to fear they will once again be on their own.'
@TrevorPTweets reflects on antisemitism in Britain, after a swathe of violence against the Jewish community
https://t.co/ANZKBjl0HG
Doctors take more high-stakes exams than virtually any other profession.
Over 10+ years of this, I became obsessed with one question: which study techniques actually work?
Here's how I learned to study less and score higher
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While there are clearly plastic surgeons with more training and experience in microsurgery, most breast reconstruction revisions don’t require microsurgical experience. And I would hope a plastic surgeon who does not do microsurgery would disclose that in the process of shared decision making with the patient.
That said, it’s unfortunate that insurance networks often don’t have rosters of plastic surgeons with enough experience in complex microsurgery or even difficult revision breast reconstruction. That should be disclosed to patients.
You seem distressed by your and your compatriots inability to actually make any real changes in the world. Have you considered that the entire thesis of “Palestinianism” is false and your promulgation of such a farce has been responsible for the stagnation of millions of people’s ability to enter into productive society and not live with such hate?
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So what’s your take on all those Arab last names of “Palestinian” refugees - like Al-Masri or al-Baghdadi that mean - Egyptian or the Baghdadi. Maybe, perchance, they are just Arabs from other countries colonized over centuries and they have no real ties to Palestine historically at all?