Explore the latest in surgical science and innovation—read the abstracts from the @facs.org Clinical Congress. #ACSCC25
A window into the future of surgery, from groundbreaking research to practice-changing insights.
📚:https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/toc/2025/11001
Are you at #ACSCC25? JAMA Surgery is now on Bluesky! 🦋
Stay connected for timely research, expert commentary, and updates on issues pertinent to surgery, from quality improvement to clinical ethics and beyond.
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"All these questions now factor into the decision of whether to recommend surgery to a patient with acute #appendicitis."
Read this Invited Commentary by Lawrence Lee, MD, PhD, and Liane Feldman, MD.
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At #ACSCC25? Consider this article from @jamasurgery.com:
Percutaneous cholecystostomy should serve as a bridge to interval cholecystectomy in patients with contraindications to immediate surgery, specifically those with sepsis and acute cholecystitis.
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Israeli attacks on Gaza maternity wards and IVF clinic ‘genocidal acts’, says UN
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Please support this film that won the academy award for best documentary. This is what ethnic cleansing of Palestinians looks like. Available for viewing only at your local art house cinema.
The chaos isn’t accidental—it’s meant to exhaust and divide us. But we’re stronger than that. Stay informed, stay engaged, and don’t let the noise drown out what really matters. Change happens when we refuse to look away.
Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.
Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.
We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
Arrest of Palestinian student activist raises alarm about free speech – US politics live
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
this friday
The People’s Union is forming! The 24 Hour Economic Blackout is February 28th
Visit: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
“…This could be a golden era of resistance in terms of alternatives, if we choose to seize them, if we come out of our fear, if we come out of our shock, there is gonna be a tremendous amount of experimentation, because there’s gonna be millions of people…”
- Kali Akuno, Organizer
An entire professional medical society has committed to bluesky. That’s amazing!
Does anyone know how to watch the Oscar-nominated “No Other Land” here in the US?
Hi love!!! Welcome to the bright side!
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
The resistance is happening. It's all around us.
Let us celebrate and share the big acts because it helps us to understand that small gestures also matter.
There are only two sides now.
Those who are complicit in evil and those who resist.
America 2025:
"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
So I'm standing in the grocery store parking lot and it's freaking cold.
A very classy old woman sees me and walks the entire distance across the lot.
"You give that man shit," she says.
Then walks away.
That's Canada.
The criminal might buy off porn stars.
He will never force Canada to bend.
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Doctors Against Genocide - Live from Gaza - Emergency Livestream happening now 12p EST - can be viewed on Youtube at www.youtube.com/live/7IMyj-g...
A year ago, Israel murdered a poet, scholar, and activist for the human rights of Palestinians. Now, a new book ensures his message will live on.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/refaat-...
🎉 In the final Executive Director's Update of 2024, Dr. Turner reflects on the year's standout activities and successes, including Clinical Congress, the ACS-developed Age Friendly Hospital Measure, and the Surgical Adhesion Improvement Project Summit.
Read more on the advancements we made in 2024.
Dear Friends and colleagues ,
You're invited to a webinar: Meeting with Dr. Khaled Al-Serr: A Palestinian Surgeon From Gaza Who Survived 6 months In Sde Teiman Detention Camp and Ofer Prison On Sunday, December 8th at 5:00 PM Amman Time / 8:00 AM CST Chicago Time. Join us tomorrow!
