Maryssa

Register at: https://www.sabm.org/annual-meeting

I’d like to invite all those interested in 🩸anemia, transfusion, coagulation to join us in Minneapolis Sept 18-20 for the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM) Annual Meeting. As a medium sized med professional society, we rely heavily on annual meeting attendance.

Multiple pictures of Snoopy the cartoon character enjoying summer activities at the beach like surfing, sitting under an umbrella, laying on a beach ball

Summer Snoopy being cute.

That’s it. That’s the post.

It is posts like this that make me lament the fact that work only allows blue or black ink. Think about how more appreciative and fulfilled I'd be doing my job if I had happy pens like this!

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I took a Marriage and Intimate Relationships class. At the time it was interesting and easy but as time went on it really became the most useful class.
Didn't make me an expert on anything but really helped me keep my mindset healthy when dealing with those close to me without falling to extremes.

HowWe Are Failing US Children

Editorial: US life expectancy and health outcomes are declining, especially in children, due to systemic issues like inadequate health care access, socioeconomic disparities, and weak public policies.

https://ja.ma/45Vuxb2

New in #VoxSanguinis: Routine detection of the Asian-type DEL (RHD*DEL1) allele is recommended for individuals of East/Southeast Asian ancestry with weak or partial D phenotypes.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs in Academic Medical Centers—Their Importance and Legality

"Ideologic opposition to DEI and the very acknowledgment that race matters need not and should not interfere with the provision of excellent health care to individuals in need."

Read this JAMA Perspective about DEI programs and academic medical centers.

https://ja.ma/3Id2zgW

If you need some positive news in your life right now

Bald Eagles, Red Woodpeckers and the Hookless Cactus are no longer on the endangered species list.

Digital drawing in dark purple, ochre, and white. A woman’s face with eyes closed floats in outer space surrounded by swirls and planets.

Sickle cell researcher fights back, calling NIH grant termination "racist" and "discriminatory" A researcher at Duke University, speaks out after her NIH grant for sickle cell research was terminated. The $750,000 funding cut, justified by NIH as a move against diversity, equity, and inclusion i...

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why did this make me laugh

I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital.

You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.

You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.

You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.

You want sourced info? Library.

Message displayed : "One less CEO - Many more to go"

Road signs were hacked in Seattle:

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Dude literally hand-wrote a manifesto saying “It was the greed, lack of healthcare, and immense pain that caused us” and corporate media’s really tryna pull a “It was prolly the video games”, huh.

a medieval drawing of a dog standing upright wearing a hood and holding a bottle. beside him is a cat laying in bed wearing what looks like a nightcap. both have distraught expressions on their faces.

doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century

Tesla Cybertrucks are being mistaken for trash dumpsters by raccoons, and they’re getting thrashed as a result. Honest mistake. 🤣

A gingerbread man who is half dissected to reveal his intestines and skeleton beneath.

'Tis the season. This gingerbread man might make you think twice before taking a bite, though!

Photo: Quimmy Shimmy

Screams in medical historian

A skull showing severe pitting in the front. There is also a tag on the skull.

Hello, #Bluesky!

The severe pitting in this skull is the direct result of tertiary syphilis, which was fatal before the discovery of penicillin. In the final stage, the disease attacks a person's skeletal structure. This 19th-century skull is from the Medical Museion in Copenhagen. #histmed

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a “skeptic” of vaccines. He has said there are no safe or effective vaccines. He is a foe of vaccines.

This party has predicated so much of its identity on its supposed eagerness to root out pedophiles in government… and now these Republicans are poised to bury a report into Matt Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor.

The GOP is where any semblance of longstanding principles go to die.

Quote from Greenwire article on Gaetz AG nomination: “Luckily all of our environmental laws are older than 18 years, so Rep. Gaetz shouldn’t have much interest in them,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a frequent litigant in environmental lawsuits.

Wowwww

Absolutely stunning

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, “The Morning Show” 11”x14” oil on cradled gessobord (2023). Painting of the sea meeting the shore as the sun rises over the ocean. #art #bsnm

Day 23. #ArtAdventCalendar

Painted earlier this year for Week 11 in my 52 Weeks of Finding Light Series.

The Morning Show, 11”x14” oil on cradled gessobord (2023).

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A character applying nail polish on the stairs surrounded by ghost cats.

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It is indeed very fucked up. I survived for now but I know I have a lifetime ahead of me trying to explain that any cardiac issues in the future are far more likely to be as a result of chronic anemia rather than my weight 😮‍💨