Yamaan Saadeh

Neurosurgery. Peripheral Nerve and Complex Spine

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

It's not radical to believe everybody in the richest, most powerful country in the world should have healthcare.

It's not radical to believe we shouldn't send our money abroad to bomb people when we need money for our schools here.

It's not radical to believe corporations shouldn't be able to buy politicians.

[A. Basit Khan, MD @abkhan_md]

Proud to contribute to our study on pediatric penetrating brain injury in Gaza. A look at the devastating toll of conflict on children, and the resilience of surgeons caring for them amid resource limitations. https://t.co/UtQu5JbSxA @DrMohAsfa @JoakimStray @andreassen_geir

[Yamaan Saadeh @yamaans]

Heartbreaking but important work

[A. Basit Khan, MD @abkhan_md]

Proud to contribute to our study on pediatric penetrating brain injury in Gaza. A look at the devastating toll of conflict on children, and the resilience of surgeons caring for them amid resource limitations. https://t.co/UtQu5JbSxA @DrMohAsfa @JoakimStray @andreassen_geir

[Yamaan Saadeh @yamaans]

What a great professor. Doing right by his students

[safia aidid @safiyaaaay]

you know who isn't apologizing for the commencement speech? Derek Peterson 👏🏾

[Yamaan Saadeh @yamaans]

@joebradford This is a beautiful compilation, thank you

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Today, I sat by the sea.
The wind moved in gusts. The water was gray. I had come seeking silence, but it was already there, settled like dust over everything.

Two girls passed. Barefoot. Their dresses were torn at the edges. No one stared at them. No one needed to. They were part of the scenery now, like broken stone, like rusted metal.

Each carried a small, worn purse on her shoulder. In better times, such a thing would have meant joy, a gift for Eid, a sign that a child had been seen, that she mattered. Here, it was a gesture preserved out of habit. A remnant of something that no longer existed.

That is Gaza.
Not the bombings, not the rubble, but this: a girl walking barefoot with a handbag she cannot fill.

Eid has arrived. We smile because it is expected. We say “Eid Mubarak” the way one might say “It will pass.” There is no celebration. There is only continuity.

The air stinks of metal. Since yesterday, the bombings have not ceased. Families die without fanfare. The names disappear. The houses collapse. We dig through concrete with our hands. The bodies are warm for only a moment.

Hospitals are full of the dead. The living are told to wait.

Bread is precious. Water is bitter. Aid comes late, and too little. There are no tears left in this place, only calculations. What time to run. Where to hide. Whom to carry if it comes again.

And from abroad, they speak. They wear suits. They sit in leather chairs. They call us a sacrifice. They say we are brave. That our death has meaning.

It does not.

A girl in rags is not a sacrifice.
She is a child.
She is hungry.
She is walking.

Cursed is the word that dignifies her suffering. Cursed is the sentence written on her behalf.

We are not symbols. We are not metaphors.
We are not strong, we have endured because there was no choice.
We are not hopeful, we are alive because the body clings to life.
And when it cannot cling, it falls. Quietly.

Somewhere in this city, a mother is heating water for tea she does not have.
A child waits.
A plane passes.
We do not look up anymore.

I sat by the sea.
It did not speak.

#GazaGenocide‌

[Kashif Chaudhry @KashifMD]

This is truly commendable by the American Academy of Pediatrics —the first medical society I know to publicly stand for the children of Gaza amidst Israel’s genocide.

RT to show your appreciation for @AmerAcadPeds. May this courageous act spark a wave of compassion and justice, inspiring societies like @American_Heart & @ACCinTouch to find the humanity and courage to do the same.

Silence is complicity. ✊ #GazaGenocide

[Tom Perkins @PomTerkins]

New: 6 U-M regents donated to AG Nessel's campaign, one chaired her campaign, she hired one to take the state's opioid cases, she has personal relationships w several, and she got sig $ from local pro-Israel folks, raising conflict of interest q's https://t.co/n9jX79GCiN

[Abdullah H. Hammoud @AHammoudMI]

“They (Palestinian Americans) have heard their names mentioned fleetingly by a handful of speakers but have not been granted the right to speak their names themselves.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the DNC Convention

Read every word. Twice. Then share.

https://t.co/BMkOtdeckY

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Honestly @macklemore’s “Hind’s Hall” is the most Rage Against The Machine song since Rage Against The Machine.

[Yamaan Saadeh @yamaans]

Important feedback from the UM Community

@UMich @SantaJOno

[Basit Zafar @basit_ak_zafar]

Today, we are releasing a subset of the findings from the (unofficial) 2024 U-M Community Survey on Anti-Palestinian Bias and Islamophobia. Full report here: https://t.co/QGYIhPa9ME

A🧵on the survey, some highlights, and what the findings mean
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[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Today's NY Times front page.

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

This past month, Palestinian medics have risked their lives & safety to treat Gaza’s wounded. Despite indiscriminate & endless bombardment by Israeli forces, our colleagues have kept working.

They can’t go on like this.

No one in Gaza can.

We need an immediate ceasefire.

https://t.co/EU7MbzdzXJ

[Yamaan Saadeh @yamaans]

So sorry Justin 😔

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

I was really worried about this. 😔 With great sadness, I have now confirmed that several of my relatives (including Viola and Yara pictured here) were killed at Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, where they had been sheltering, when part of the complex was destroyed as the result of an Israeli airstrike. Give rest, O Lord, to their souls, and may their memories be eternal.

The Palestinian Christian community has endured so much. Our family is hurting badly. May God watch over all Christians in Gaza—and all Israelis and Palestinians who are suffering, whatever their religion or creed.

[Joseph Linzey, MD, MS @joseph_linzey]

Feel very grateful that at @umichneuro we have @hoaumich to fight for our rights as residents. Hoping @umichmedicine will do it's part to work with the union for fair pay!

[Joseph Linzey, MD, MS @joseph_linzey]

Hundreds of residents showed up today with @hoaumich to demonstrate that we deserve a livable wage! Grateful to be a part of a #ResidentUnion fighting @umichmedicine for Resident Rights!

#HOA #Solidarity #TheRealMichiganDifference

[Nicholas Szerlip @nickszerlip]

Michigan neurosurgery residents at the spine section meeting. Kuntz Scholar Award winners ⁦@joseph_linzey⁩ and ⁦@MarkZaki24⁩ with Michigan faculty alumnus and moderator Mark Oppenlander.⁦@umichneuro⁩. over half our residents have abstracts here.Represent GO BLUE

[Yamaan Saadeh @yamaans]

@ElswickClay @docclift Whoa that is interesting. I wonder if it was hemorrhagic synovial cyst of either L5-S1 or SI joint. Seen a couple hemorrhagic ones before

[Yamaan Saadeh @yamaans]

@ElswickClay @MGalganoMD @AJGrossbach @AliBaajMD @NaderDahdaleh That's an interesting scan. It looks like R SI joint widened on the axial image, maybe an SI joint synovial cyst like mentioned above. Agree with contrasted scan. CT may be useful too. Think exploration for S1 decompression and foraminotomy would be reasonable. Maybe SI fusion