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Protocols for Common Injuries from Police Weapons

https://anarchist.nexus/c/anarchism/p/608894/protocols-for-common-injuries-from-police-weapons

Protocols for Common Injuries from Police Weapons

https://anarchist.nexus/c/anarchism/p/608894/protocols-for-common-injuries-from-police-weapons

Protocols for Common Injuries from Police Weapons

https://anarchist.nexus/c/anarchism/p/608894/protocols-for-common-injuries-from-police-weapons

IPPNW zu "Militarisierung im Gesundheitswesen"

"Pazifistische Grundhaltung verbietet die Militarisierung", so Dr. Maitra von der IPPNW

Die „Internationale Ärzteorganisation für die Verhütung des Atomkriegs“, besser bekannt als IPPNW, hat schon letztes Jahr eine Kampagne gegen die Militarisierung des Gesundheitswesens gestartet mit einer „Erklärung für ein ziviles Gesundheitswesen“, die Beschäftigte im Gesundheitsbereich dazu aufruft, keine kriegsvorbereitenden Maßnahmen zu unterstützen.

Diese Debatte bekommt vor dem Hintergrund des geplanten „Gesundheitssicherstellungsgesetzes“, der sogenannten Zeitenwende und der Frage nach ethischen Grundsätzen neuer Aktualität.

Gerade vergangene Woche fand am Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg eine großangelegte Übung statt. Bundeswehr und Hilfsorganisationen übten den Ernstfall und testeten, wie Versorgung und Hilfe im Fall eines Kriegs an der Ostflanke der NATO funktionieren würden.

Für @RDL sprach ich vor diesem Hintergrund mit Dr. Robin Maitra von der IPPNW.

https://rdl.de/Dr_Robin_Maitra_IPPNW_Militarisierung_Gesundheitswesen_09_M%C3%A4rz_2026_RDL

#ippnw #militarismus #militarisierung #gesundheit #gesundheitssystem #nato #krieg #medic #medicquadriga2026 #politik #montag #deutschland #europa #atomkrieg #pafizismus #Pazifist #flughafen #ber #FlughafenBER #FlughafenBerlinBrandenburg #ostflanke #armee #bundeswehr #kriege #kriegsdienst #zivilgesellschaft

Here's a classic: if paramedics had to try medications before giving them to patients.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_eA-fy_za9E

#EMT #Medic #Comedy #Funny

Here's a classic: if paramedics had to try medications before giving them to patients.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_eA-fy_za9E

#EMT #Medic #Comedy #Funny

Here's a classic: if paramedics had to try medications before giving them to patients.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_eA-fy_za9E

#EMT #Medic #Comedy #Funny

Here's a classic: if paramedics had to try medications before giving them to patients.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_eA-fy_za9E

#EMT #Medic #Comedy #Funny

Here's a classic: if paramedics had to try medications before giving them to patients.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_eA-fy_za9E

#EMT #Medic #Comedy #Funny

https://www.europesays.com/ro/90676/ Un medic explică ce se întâmplă cu creierul și corpul după 30 de zile fără alcool. Care este cea mai mare surpriză #alcool #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CeleMaiPopulareSubiecte #corp #creier #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #Internațional #LatestNews #LatestNews #medic #News #renuntare #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #Știri #Titluri #TopStories #TopStories #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

🧵1/2 #StandWithUkraine️ 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

🗣️Back in November 2025, after returning from my 6th humanitarian volunteer trip to Ukraine, I sent a few packages from the United States—each one packed with genuine, life-saving CAT 7 🩸tourniquets and American flags, a symbol of our solidarity.

➡️ This week, I received a video from the Kharkiv region. A Ukrainian defender holds a few of these tourniquets and offers his thanks.

#Ukraine #Boston #Kyiv #Kharkiv #Medic #Emt #Volunteer #SlavaUkraini

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#webdesign #HTML5 #CSS3 #template #plugins #themes #WordPress #onepage #medical #responsive #retina #website #clinic #health #medic #clinical

qui veut rejoindre le groupe de travail #openstreetmap sur les établissements médicaux?

https://forum.openstreetmap.fr/t/groupe-de-travail-etablissements-medicaux/36732?u=tykayn

poke @noustoutesorg @ICM #APHP #medic #médecine #docteur #hopitaux #servicesPublics #désertsMédicaux #cartographie #mapping

#Study claims the #way #you #grew #up may shape how your #brain handles #risk

#medic #medical

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-grew-brain.html

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Especially for an industry that needs minimal, medical practices, dentists, doctors, surgeons, hospitals, health clinics, pediatrics, psychiatrist, psychiatry, stomatology, chiropractor, veterinary clinics, and other medical-related practices 🏥👨‍⚕️🚑🔬
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Healer: Using a mix of ancient medicine, new era herbal remedies, common sense, prayers, and the healing magic of whatever culture this individual came from, this valued member of a society will make a great addition to any adventure team.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0994923791

#healer #medic #doctor #nurse #mousegirl #medicalcare #postapocalyptic #mutantepoch #tme #outlandsystem #outlandarts #mutated #twoheads #deviant #wounded

Our Heroes 🇺🇲 on D-Day
We are commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day by honoring "Opa" Helmut Dean. A child waves flags in her grandfather's honor, who served as a medic in the army.
"Let's be worthy of their sacrifice"
jrb
Find me here: https://rafaelsalazar.com/featured/honor-opa-helmut-dean-on-memorial-day-2024-rafael-salazar.html

#memorial #usa #mastoart #mastoartist #flipboard #flipboard_user_group #fediart #fediverse #buyintoart #ayearforart #DDay #heroes #80th #Army #Medic #WWIIAmericanHeroes #WII #Veterans #MemorialDay #MilitaryFamilyMonth #VeteransDay

The single worst #medical job I ever had involved no hands-on patient care at all.

Now, I experienced some very bad days as a #military #medic, and more as a #civilian #EMT. I worked on #ambulances, in #emergency #departments, and in safety net #clinics. I saw suffering on a scale I had never even imagined before. Of course I did my best to relieve that suffering—both because it was my job, and because I’m a decent human being—but a lot of the time I just couldn’t, and neither could anyone else. I celebrated my successes and mourned my failures. The memory of the former sustains me to this day, but the accumulation of the latter did lasting damage to the inside of my head. Practically anyone who’s ever been in the biz can say the same.

But all the #gunshots and car #crashes and #overdoses and #child #abuse cases and long, steady descents into the grave, over the course of years, didn’t burn me out like two months in a #cardiology practice.

You may wonder why. Okay, cardiology patients are generally pretty sick: you don’t get assigned a #cardiologist, rather than having your primary care provider take care of it, unless your #heart’s in bad shape. Even so, could it really be worse than all the above? After all, cardiology offices tend to be clean, well-lit, organized places. Patients have appointments. Fairly routine care, and if there’s really bad news, it’s the #physicians who have to give it—which is not the situation in #emergency #medicine, let me tell you.

Well, it did, and here’s the reason. Like I said, I wasn’t taking care of patients directly. My interaction with them was brief, in exam rooms after they’d already been checked in and seen by their providers, and I never touched them. It was all paperwork.

My job was to be their advocate with the #insurance companies. I did most of my work in an office, with a comfy chair and a phone and a coffee cup close at hand. The job was actually supposed to be an #RN position, but I impressed them enough at the interview to get it, and I got paid more for it than any other medical job I had before or since.

I read their #charts and #prescriptions, studied insurance claims, and—now we come to the crux of it—looked over the reasons those claims were denied. Sometimes very elaborate reasons, with lengthy justifications. Other times the feedback from the insurance companies was basically just “NO.”

And then I called those companies, and worked my way up through the phone tree until I got someone on the line with some actual decision-making authority, and explained to them in great detail why they should approve a particular medication or procedure that would keep our patients from dying.

I succeeded … maybe a quarter of the time? Probably less. Occasionally the failures weren’t complete: I couldn’t get them to approve whatever the cardiologist had recommended, but I could at least squeeze something out of them. Something that would keep our patients, the people entrusting us with their lives, going for a little while longer. Some sliver of hope for the patients and their families. Some human connection that reminded the people on the other end of the line that their job wasn’t actually to condemn people to death, at least not on paper.

Usually not. But often enough to keep me there for a little while. The nightmares stayed under control as long as I had a bottle waiting for me when I got home. Now that I think about it, that may have been when my drinking problem got serious, although it would take several more years to fully manifest. Good thing it wasn’t a #hepatology practice, I guess.

A friend’s post dredged this memory up. I was going to leave it as a comment there, but I didn’t want to make it all about me. They have enough of their own problems. Just know, if you’re fighting this particular war right now, I’m with you.

Oh yeah, also? #Vote. Specifically, if you can’t vote for someone who will make it better, at least vote for someone who won’t make it worse. Because it can always get worse.

Medpak im Einsatz

#comedy #fun #outdoor #snow #medic #sanitäter #outdoors #outdoorfun #firstaid #firstresponse #erstehilfe

Here's a pretty interesting webinar on the topic of triage.

The UK's NHS and NARU have developed a new Ten Second Triage (TST) protocol, with the goal of reducing deaths in mass casualty events.

TST simplifies the triage process and is applicable for every responder, regardless of the level of medical training.

Webinar:
https://1637a2a7-3283-4a15-b008-f17a9ef05554.webinarninja.com/app/webinars/webinar/10071945/replay?tok_reg=e54c5c60-adae-48d7-86e4-47c578b3b80c-86380948

Supporting clinical guidelines documentation on the NHS website:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/clinical-guidelines-for-major-incidents-and-mass-casualty-events/

#medmastodon #tccc #tecc #medicine #medic

Land mines! They're going to be a big problem for many years in #Ukraine.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3730540-tractor-driver-injured-in-mine-blast-in-kherson-region.html

Building local medical teams and networks specifically trained to deal with such injuries is part of the answer. This book contains useful guidelines, hard won from previous conflicts:

https://www.nkt-traume.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Save-Lives-Save-Limbs-Internet-2.compressed.pdf

#trauma #emergency #medmastodon #tecc #medicine #medic #training

Ever thought you needed a Black Flag Medical patch or pin? Well now you can have one, thanks to @blackmosquito

https://black-mosquito.org/de/black-flag-medical-klett-patch.html

https://black-mosquito.org/de/black-flag-medical-button.html

They're not very expensive and money raised goes towards our medical aid work. Please buy generously!

#medic #medical #Ukraine #tecc #tccc #paramedic #solidarity #mutualaid

@autonomysolidarity Widespread #emergency #medical , #trauma and first responder training for everyone attending social movement events must be implemented. The #police will not change their tactics and the people need to be in a position to help themselves.

#EMT #medic #medicine #tecc

Did you know that #hypothermia can adversely affect blood clotting? This is why it is very important to keep acute #trauma patients warm.

We'll post links to informative content wherever we find it, and in this case that happens to be #linkedin

The First Clot Is The Best Clot by Safeguard Medical.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-clot-best-safeguard-medical/

#tranexamicacid #lacticacid #fibrinogen #ATC #acidaemia #mortality #medic #emergency

For once, an #AI issue where I *can* speak with a certain amount of authority.

I've been hearing "expert systems outperform human #diagnostics, so pretty soon human #physicians will be obsolete" for a few years now. It's closely akin to "#airliners fly themselves these days, so what do we need #pilots for?" In both cases, people are paying attention to the best-case scenario with no understanding of the *enormous* number of how many and various the worse cases really are.

This is complicated by the fact that in most of #medicine (although not necessarily #emergency medicine, the author's specialty) and in nearly all of air travel, the best case is also the normal case. Most of the time, whatever is wrong with you can be diagnosed and treated. Almost all the time, when you get on a plane, you'll walk off at the other end of the trip as healthy as when you boarded. It's reasonable to expect those outcomes.

Not-best and not-normal cases add up really fast.

Without any false modesty whatsoever: as a #medic, I learned a truly impressive degree of clinical judgement. From the first moment I saw a patient, I had a pretty good idea of #diagnosis, #treatment, and #prognosis. (Sadly, if my initial call was "this one's not going to make it," I was almost always right. The exceptions kept me going.) I learned from the best—one of my mentors had learned *his* trade in rural Guatemala, where resources were terribly sparse and human judgement was the only line between life and death. He held back death for decades, and it came for him far too early. Gene Gibbs, RIP.

I can't code that. Neither can anyone else, and if they tell you they can, they're lying.

As a #researcher, I've done a fair amount of work in #clinical #decision #support (#CDS). The idea is simple, and valid: no human, or team of humans, can remember everything they need to know. There's simply too much knowledge for the brain to hold and recall on demand. Subtle relationships exist between disparate types of data that *nobody* knows, until we tease out the numbers. We're doing this, right now. It is saving lives and relieving suffering, right now.

The key word there is "support." Humans still absolutely, positively, 100% need to be in the loop.

Maybe that will change, someday. I'm not saying it's impossible, for two reasons. First, any time anyone says "computers will never be able to ___" they're usually proven wrong. Second, I don't want to limit my and my colleagues' imaginations. We need to stay focused, but it is a *good thing* for our reach to slightly exceed our grasp. That's how #science happens!

Just not this day, and not for many days to come. Right now, we need to keep muddling along. There's not much more human than that.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90863983/chatgpt-medical-diagnosis-emergency-room

Today is the third anniversary of the first confirmed #Covid-19 case in the US. As good a day as any to write a long and rambly essay about the current state of the nineteenth crow. I’m going to begin and end on a personal note, with some #science in the middle.

Almost my entire adult life has been dedicated to keeping people alive. I became a #medic for a number of reasons, but most directly because a friend was murdered: if there was any way I could keep another close circle of young, healthy people with a reasonable expectation of living for decades more from having to gather to mourn one of their own, I would.

So. First as a medic, then a #biotech #programmer, and now a #bioinformatics #researcher, my goal has been quite consistent. Everyone dies—but if we can claw back just a little more time, a few more years or days or hours, that is a victory in the war that never ends. As my fiancee says in another context, a slap in the face of a forgetful future. Only our deeds live after us. There is no greater deed than life itself.

For all that time, I’ve known there was another #plague coming. It was inevitable. One aspect of the medic’s war is the arms race, and pathogens have one hell of an R&D program. We can win skirmishes, and sometimes battles, and occasionally even a campaign. They’ll keep coming back, with mindless determination and terrifying numbers.

What I didn’t know, couldn’t even imagine, was what the primary obstacle to that particular phase of the war would be. I thought the challenges would be technical: spotting the #outbreak, identifying the #pathogen, learning its strengths and weaknesses, developing preventions and treatments, getting #medicine out to where it’s needed most. You know, science stuff.

Those are all challenges with covid, to be sure. But it turns the biggest problem is willful, deliberate, self-imposed, homicidal and suicidal stupidity.

I’ve written at length about my opinions of #antimaskers and #antivaxers, and no doubt I will again. The short version is, they’re traitors to humanity. I’ve given up trying to reason with them. Best to concentrate on what I can control: my own work, the knowledge I gain from others in the field, and the information I provide to people who are willing to listen. Eventually the traitors will benefit too, however little they deserve it.

Okay, on to the facts. The data I’ll be discussing are #US-centric. I live here, it’s my primary area of concern, and it’s what I know the most about. Readers in other countries, please feel free to comment on similarities and differences.

1. There were massive spikes in January 2021 and January 2022: here is a nice visualization. At the peaks, 2022’s spike was more than three times as bad as 2021’s. On the other hand, there were only (only!) about three-quarters as many deaths in 2022. I suspect there are a few things going on here:

   • New Year’s celebrations both years, but especially in 2022, packed a lot of people together in small spaces. This is of course a recipe for mass infection.

   • Prevalence of the omicron strain in 2022, which is generally more infectious but less lethal than other strains.

   • More masks in 2021, preventing infection but doing nothing to reduce severity, compared to much more #vaccination but fewer #masks in 2022.

2. As of September, Republicans were dying of covid almost twice as fast as Democrats, controlling for age. Of course it’s not being a Republican that kills you: it’s not being #vaccinated. Antivax has become an ideological purity test for a substantial portion of the Republican Party, and those who try to both-sides this issue have their heads buried so far in the sand they’re hitting bedrock.

3. New #variants haven’t been much in the news lately. That’s not because #SARS-CoV-2 has stopped mutating. It’s because what we call #omicron has now mutated so much that it now has more genetic diversity than all the others put together. Tracking variants by letter made sense in the early stages of the pandemic, but now we could go through the entire Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, and every other alphabet and still run out. As a practical matter, this means we’ll need at-least-annual #booster shots forever.

4. In June 2022, we passed a little-remarked milestone: total US covid deaths in people under 30 surpassed total US #military deaths in #Afghanistan and #Iraq, in a similar demographic over a much shorter time. Older people are more likely to die of covid, sure. Older people are more likely to die of everything. Youth will not save you.

There is some good news. The January spikes mentioned in item #1 seem so far not to be materializing this year, although we’ll have to wait until the data for the entire month have been sifted to be sure. I doubt people are getting any more careful, but 70-80% of the US population is vaccinated, depending on how you count: maybe that’s enough for a meaningful degree of herd #immunity.

Older #vaccines aren’t as effective against newer strains as newer vaccines tailored to those #strains, but they still help. With any vaccination on board, you’re less likely to get infected, and less likely to die if you do. Keep getting boosters, and your #immune system will build up a kind of library: “oh, this isn’t exactly like anything I’ve seen before, but it looks kind of like this thing I read about, so …”

We can’t make antivaxers go away. They’ll always be there, acting as a reservoir for infection and a breeding ground for new strains. Sure, they’ll die at a much higher rate, but more of them will live, largely thanks to the heroic efforts of the science they reject. What we can do, to a degree, is work around them.

Back to the personal.

I’ve lost a few friends, and I know many people who have lost family, to #antimask / #antivax lunacy. I understand the pain and anger and confusion. Stay strong. Maybe one day before we’re all dead, this will be over and reconciliation will be possible, if we choose to extend such grace. Not today, and not for a long time to come.

Any person, any family, any circle of friends, any gathering, any business, any government … all are more than justified in exiling these traitors forever. When they are those we love, grief is inevitable. But the people we loved are already dead. Our job is to avoid joining them.

Let’s be careful out there.

combien de #fakemed dans votre université de médecine ?
https://www.pseudo-sciences.org/La-porosite-des-universites-aux-pseudo-medecines-un-classement-du-collectif
#science #nofakescience #afis #pseudoscience #medic #médecine #haribo