Candida Fink

Be careful in your generalizations. I'm 63. Had 100k debt from med school. (About$275000 in today’s dollars) Cigarettes were bad. We had cath labs & bypass. We docs in our 60s were in med school & residency in the 80s/90s not the 50s. Some of our lengthy experience is actually pretty valuable

This is not normal in a country with advanced levels of health care. This is death by legislative fiat. It’s never been about the “babies” - it’s always been about controlling women, and letting them die is just collateral damage.

So preventing cancer- (colonoscopy) or finding it way --mammograms- is too "woke"? This is absolutely unhinged. Damn the food dyes but power on colon cancer. ????

This is serious. Very serious.

so kids with injuries or serious illness are lazy & bad? And infecting others is good? We are living in the Upside Down

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Thanks for making this available to read

ICE agents are thug scum.

a nightmare collision of stigma, anti-acience, corporate greed, ableism and just plain cruelty. Disgraceful. These are all humans. Suffering humans, made to seem inhuman. But they're all somebody's child, sibling, friend, parent. Many have served this country It enrages me & breaks my heart

Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people Trump’s executive order could increase hospitalization of homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders.

Gift 🎁 link.

As a former Conservator, I've had sig. experience w/ community & state mental health units/hospitals. They don't provide the care you might think they do, & w/ massive Medicaid cuts coming, they'll be able to do less, not more. The main question I think a lot...

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The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people

It’s the same playbook- 100%.

The price of private health insurance then the co-pays, co-insurance, & deductible are already massive”taxes” on the middle class. A public system would cost less and be more equitable.

Study of over a million kids shows aluminum in vaccines have no link to autism or anything else.

@drneilstone.bsky.social

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Atlanta journalist fights deportation from Ice jail despite dropped charges: ‘I’m seeing what absolute power can do’ A Salvadorian reporter with an audience of millions, Mario Guevara was arrested while livestreaming a protest against Trump in June – and is still struggling for freedom

“Today, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, he’s the only reporter in the United States sleeping in a prison cell for doing his job”

The ‘free speech’ ‘anti cancel culture!’ party did this. Hypocrites. All of them.

Article excerpt: Workers improperly handled vials and stoppers meant for sterile medications and, in some cases, failed to disinfect manufacturing areas and equipment, according to the report. One FDA inspector saw a worker put on a sterile gown and then brush up against a waste bin and use their hands to push down the overflowing trash. Investigators also saw liquid dripping through ceiling cracks and the growth of what appeared to be fungus and mold in a storage area for samples used for testing.

FDA inspectors have uncovered new and dangerous breakdowns in drugmaking at an Indian factory owned by Sun Pharma that produces generic medications for American consumers.

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It’s mind boggling really. How is it hurting them or anyone else?

And so hypocritical for a population so focused on rejecting “mainstream” medicine.

Programs that make it easier for working class kids to attend college are also illegally woke because *it is well recognized that race and ethnicity are inseparable from socioeconomic status* Starting to get a real vibe about this whole *merit* thing... www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Cost of Obamacare expected to soar as subsidies expire and insurers hike premiums People who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could see increases of more than 75% each month, one expert said.

Another thing Trump is actively making more expensive: our health insurance premiums.

This is depraved

Just so entitled - their opinion matters more than your autonomy and decision making. Come on people

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

I’m about to lose my health insurance.

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So who cares about "traditional" RCT data - fuck that- let's go with vibes. The only explanations for a person with any science/medical background to say this are 1)dementia 2)lying to gain power & control 3) sociopathy and cruelty. I suppose all 3 seem likely

The author of this “bonkers” article, John Tierney argued for herd immunity via mass infection of unvaccinated youth in fall of 2020.

That’s all he should be known for. Nothing else about him matters.

My latest for @accountabilityji.bsky.social

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Wtf?

Today Tuesday, July 15, 6:30 PM Eastern, 5:30 PM Central

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

"Big carrot cake" will not stand for this I guarantee you

Took an Uber to the train station this morning. Cab driver was pleasan but on a tear about contrails, aluminum, the government & "chemicals." I gently said "probably just the bad chemicals"but he was undeterred. "No all chemicals are poison to the body". 🤨. Not enough ☕️ yet for this conversation

The best way to prevent chronic disease and reduce the burden of chronic diseases is with preventive medicine. This also includes things like mammograms & colonoscopies (just to name 2) that not only prevent cancer but also make cancer far more treatable when it occurs. Eating organic food does not.