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  1. Every doctor in large practice finds himself, every now and then, obliged to deceive his patients.
    -- Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WilkieCollins #Deception #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

  2. Every doctor in large practice finds himself, every now and then, obliged to deceive his patients.
    -- Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WilkieCollins #Deception #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

  3. Nothing is more estimable than a physician who -- having studied nature from his youth -- knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
    -- Voltaire

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

  4. Nothing is more estimable than a physician who -- having studied nature from his youth -- knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
    -- Voltaire

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

  5. Nothing is more estimable than a physician who -- having studied nature from his youth -- knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
    -- Voltaire

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

  6. Nothing is more estimable than a physician who -- having studied nature from his youth -- knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
    -- Voltaire

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

  7. Nothing is more estimable than a physician who -- having studied nature from his youth -- knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
    -- Voltaire

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

  8. ‘American Doctor’ Review: An Unflinching Chronicle of Three Courageous US #Physicians Who Volunteered in Gaza
    Director Poh Si Teng followed a trio of doctors who performed surgeries while the war raged on, risking their lives to save others.
    hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

    from #HollywoodReporter
    Jan 23, 2026

    It’s hard to make a #documentary about the war in #Gaza that does not feel overtly political. And yet director Poh Si Teng’s unflinching new exposé, American #Doctor, is first and foremost a #humanitarian story — one in which #medicine and moral decency take precedence over partisanship.

    [...] By its very existence — and in what it reveals about the IDF’s killing, maiming and wounding of #Palestinian civilians over the past few years — the film is a condemnation both of #Netanyahu’s far-right #war machine and the #US government’s steadfast support of it.

    #SanctionIsrael
    #StopStarvingGaza
    #FreePalestine
    #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
    #news #politics #film #cinema

  9. When a white coat meets public spotlight
    "Over past 3 decades, #Thailand encouraged #private #healthcare expansion.. When #hospitals become #publicly #traded commercial commodities, a powerful logic follows: revenue growth, market share.. Under such conditions, it's unrealistic to expect indiv #physicians alone to bear te burden of restraint.. healthcare can't be treated exactly like any oth listed industry w/o consequences. Public trust in #medicine is a national asset"
    bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

  10. Top ten posts in January 2026 library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/01/t #19thCentury #20thCentury #abjectFear #acrossTheWorld #adept #ageOld #alchemicalTradition #alchemists #Alchemy #aleisterCrowley #ancient #ancientEgyptian #AndréBreton #angel #antiquity #anyAndEvery #apparitions #Arkansas #artists #Astrology #auguries #auspiciousTimes #awakening #backwoods #beautyTreatments #beliefs #BernardRoger #bestPosts #bestTen #biographicalSketches #blackArts #butcheringHogs #cannotBear #ceremonies #chaosMagicians #charged #charms #ChineseCulture #ChineseSociety #ChristianKabbalah #clairvoyants #codes #collaborations #compendium #concentration #concoctions #conjurefolk #consciousnessAlteringTechniques #courtshipJinxes #Craft #creativeFire #cures #curiosity #customs #declaring #deepestBeliefs #degree #democracy #divination #diviningRods #doTheirOwnWills #doodlebuggers #dummySuppers #eachCitizen #eachStar #economists #education #Egyptian #elements #eliphasLevi #enclave #esotericPhilosophy #esoterica #EugèneCanseliet #EuropeanSurrealism #everyBreath #everyMan #everyWoman #everyWord #evilEye #exorcism #fertileSource #findWater #fingerCrossing #fit #folklore #folkloristicMaterial #fortuneTellers #free #Freedom #freemasonry #Fulcanelli #function #galaxy #genius #ghostlyVisitations #ghosts #goddesses #gods #goomerDoctors #grannyWomen #greatLodge #greaterMysteries #greaterSecret #Greek #HenryTWilliams #herbs #hermeticism #hiddenHistories #hiddenPractices #hierarchy #higherEvolution #hillfolk #hillpeople #historicalSketches #history #HolyRollers #horrors #humanLife #humanity #ignorance #imagine #impossible #incantation #initiation #initiatoryDimension #innovation #inquiry #insisting #intuition #itsNature #JDBuck #January2026 #JeanThéophileDesaguliers #JewishKabbalah #JonEGraham #kabbalah #languageOfTheBirds #latentFaculties #legends #liberLegis #LiberSamekh #Lodge #lodgeHistories #lodgeSymbolism #lovePotions #luckyCharms #maatMagicians #magic #magicalChange #magicalOrder #magicalPractitioners #magicalRealm #magicians #magick #makes #man #MarcusKatz #markingBabies #masonicSymbolism #Masonry #mediums #Missouri #modernOccultRevival #monthlyRitual #mountainMidwives #muchMischief #myLaw #mysteries #mysteryTraditions #mysticMasonry #mysticalExercises #mysticalLore #mysticalRealm #naturally #nature #neophytes #NewComment #objected #observances #obsessed #occultKnowledge #occultPhilosophy #occultism #occultists #oddPractices #oldAttitudes #oldTime #omens #onTheContrary #operativeAlchemy #origin #origins #ourLaw #outsiders #Ozark #PatrickLepetit #people #personalities #philosophers #physicians #plantingCrops #poets #popularSuperstition #powerDoctors #primaryDocuments #principalObjections #proper #psychicalLife #purpose #quaintIdeas #rareDocuments #reduces #religion #remedies #RenéAlleau #resistance #result #rites #ritual #ritualVerses #rituals #salvadorDali #sayings #Scholars #scholarship #school #science #secretBook #secretDoctrine #secretLanguage #secretRituals #secretSocieties #secretTeaching #seers #sensoryDeprivation #septenaryNature #sigilMagick #signs #socialDuty #Society #soothsayers #sorcery #soul #soulOfTheAdept #spells #spiritualLife #spiritualPower #SpiritualSun #spiritualTransformation #spiritualism #Star #stories #students #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #sun #superficial #superstition #superstitions #Surrealism #surrealistMovement #surrealistSymbology #surrealists #Symbols #tableTurning #taoism #taoistMystics #tarot #teaches #TheBookOfTheLaw #thelema #thelemites #ThomasCleary #ThomasVaughan #tiphereth #topPosts #topTen #tradition #traditions #twelve #universalLanguage #VanceRandolph #vastBulk #veilsItself #Victorian #view #visualization #weatherSigns #wisdom #wishMaking #witchWigglers #Witchcraft #witches #wordGames #Work #workingHypothesis #workingTools #yarbDoctor #year #zodiacalForces #zodiacalRituals
  11. #3Goodthings (Global Brain Health Institute @ #UCSF)

    1. Bruce Miller, UCSF #neurologist, & I read from our memoir, took ?s from #GBHI fellows, & signed copies.

    2. Met w/#GBHI fellows, all focused on brain health. Heard about extraordinary work training primary care #physicians in #Ghana to recognize #MCI; more efficient #MCI screening in #Uganda; connect #psychiatrists & neurologists in #Guatemala.

    3. Talked w/the GBHI fellows about science & the #humanities. Better together!

  12. A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.... This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.
    -- W. H. Auden

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WHAuden #HumanBeings #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

  13. But the #Trump admin has said it wants more #veterans to seek treatment outside the government system. Political appointees at #VA & their allies have also said they favor a leaner #healthcare workforce because they think #physicians & other #health care providers could be more productive, said one former appointee who is close to the Trump team.

    #Republicans #military #Veterans #VeteransAffairs #service #ServiceMembers #medical #betrayal #USpol #law

  14. Doctors are men who prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing.
    -- Voltaire

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Medicine #Physicians

    #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

  15. Canadian Physicians say Bill 26 and Bill 2 are Undermining Healthcare in Canada.

    November 24, 2025 The results below are from Physician Pulse, a joint initiative of Abacus Data and the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #Bill2 #Bill26 #CA #Canada #CanadianMedicalAssociation #Health #Patientimpact #Physicians #quebec
    newsbeep.com/ca/305507/

  16. #Doctors from abroad make up nearly ¼ of the #physician work force in the #US. They provide much of the staffing in rural & underserved areas of the country, & many fill positions in important areas of #medicine that are often shunned by US trained #physicians, like #PrimaryCare, #psychiatry & #pediatrics.

    #Trump #immigration #law #H1B #visas
    nytimes.com/2025/09/26/health/

  17. **They don't mention that many kids who got #covid (then #LongCovid) ended up at this clinic! Expect more #failures from #BCPublicHealth when they have #eugenist #BonnieHenry calling the #PublicHealthSafety shots. I'm not surprised with this news at all.**

    #Pediatric unit closing, #physicians say they are overwhelmed by demand.

    A memo from the #pediatricians to their non-ER physician colleagues said that the Urgent Pediatric Assessment Clinic will close on Sept. 1.

    The memo advises that patients requiring urgent pediatric consultation — within 24 hours — should be sent to Victoria General’s emergency department, where they can be assessed by an ER doctor with a subsequent on-call pediatric referral as needed.

    For patients needing semi-urgent pediatric consultation — within four weeks — the pediatrician on call at Victoria General can assist with the referral and triaging.

    timescolonist.com/local-news/p

    #BCpoli #ChildrensHealth #CovidIsNotOver #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CDNpoli #FailureToProtect #ChildrensRights #PatientRights #Medical #Health #FireBonnieHenry #VictoriaGeneralHospital #WearAMask #MaskUpSaveLives

  18. #Tennessee's 2025 #Medical #Ethics Defense Act allows #physicians to deny care to #patients whose lifestyles they disagree with.

    How's that working out? 😒

    "Last Thursday, a 35-year-old woman shared her story: she was denied #PrenatalCare by her physician because they objected to the fact that she wasn’t married, nor did she plan to be. She’d been with her partner for 15 years and they have a 13-year-old child."

    #Pregnant #Mother Denied Care for Being #Unmarried
    nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20

    #IAmDB

  19. US #veterans agency orders #scientists not to #publish in journals w/out #clearance. Senior officials at VA ordered all #VA #physicians, scientists not publish in medical journals or speak w public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of #Trump. The edict, laid down in emails by VA asst sec for public, intergovernmental affairs, came hours after New England Journal of Medicine published perspective co-authored by 2 pulmonologists who work for VA in TX theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

  20. Asrar led a team of #NASA and European Space Agency #ESA experts that included NASA’s Dana Bolles, an #engineer working with NASA for 30 years. Bolles is a #DisabilityAmbassador in space and Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths ,#STEM, and was part of the first crew of #DisabledProfessionals that flew in zero-gravity under #MissionAstroAccess (an organization that promotes #disability in STEM and space). The other co-author is Dr. Thu Jennifer Ngo-Anh from the European Space Agency (ESA), who has served as Team Leader for ESA’s Human and #Robotic Exploration, responsible for coordinating ground-based and space-based science activities.

    Asrar is also a national mentor for #Equity, #Diversity, #Inclusion, and #Accessibility #EDIA in primary care through an initiative under the Equity in #Health Systems Lab and College of Family #Physicians of #Canada

    voiceonline.com/toronto-univer

    #PeopleWithDisabilities #Science #Canadian

  21. 5 neuro data readouts to watch in the second half of 2024 — GSK moves to new HQ in return to central London — AbbVie led the way in paying doctors to pitch its drugs last year —bit.ly/w28kSd #clinicaltrials #neurology #gsk #london #abbvie #physicians #physicianpayments #pharma #pharmanews #biotech #biopharma #biotechnology #cafepharma

  22. #Optum / #UnitedHealth picking up more #physicians in fire sales — this time the one created by Steward's #privateequity, sale-leaseback, etc troubles

    Note that because Mass. has healthcare transaction review, this one has the be approved by the state

    statnews.com/2024/03/26/stewar

    #health #healthcare #steward #medicine #hospital #doctors #antitrust #medmastodon

  23. “What would your course of action be if you saw a healthy, #able-bodied individual get out of a vehicle that they just parked in a #handicapped #parking space?”

    “A number of people close to me have invisible #disabilities. They look healthy and able-bodied, but they’re really not. Their conditions are just as real and disabling as those of anyone who needs a #cane, a #walker, or a #wheelchair to get around. And their #physicians agree, which is why they’re authorized to park in handicapped spaces. Unless you have the appropriate #medical training and have conducted a thorough examination, you have no grounds to dispute this.

    “So if your course of action is to challenge them, shout at them, threaten them, or demand that they prove to your satisfaction that they’re “really” disabled … my healthy, able-bodied course of action will be to introduce you to what #disability feels like, up close and personal. That process won’t be fun for you, but you’ll have a much greater understanding afterward, for whatever remains of your miserable life.”

    Usually I try really hard to avoid being Internet Tough Guy, but there are times it’s the only possible response. Speak the language your audience understands.

  24. “What would your course of action be if you saw a healthy, #able-bodied individual get out of a vehicle that they just parked in a #handicapped #parking space?”

    “A number of people close to me have invisible #disabilities. They look healthy and able-bodied, but they’re really not. Their conditions are just as real and disabling as those of anyone who needs a #cane, a #walker, or a #wheelchair to get around. And their #physicians agree, which is why they’re authorized to park in handicapped spaces. Unless you have the appropriate #medical training and have conducted a thorough examination, you have no grounds to dispute this.

    “So if your course of action is to challenge them, shout at them, threaten them, or demand that they prove to your satisfaction that they’re “really” disabled … my healthy, able-bodied course of action will be to introduce you to what #disability feels like, up close and personal. That process won’t be fun for you, but you’ll have a much greater understanding afterward, for whatever remains of your miserable life.”

    Usually I try really hard to avoid being Internet Tough Guy, but there are times it’s the only possible response. Speak the language your audience understands.

  25. 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.

  26. #Physicians #publichealth experts have pointed 2 1 #culprit x & again when asked why #Americans #live #shorterlives than peers in nations w similar resources, especially people felled by #chronicdiseases in prime of life: #stress. #cardiologist, #endocrinologist, #obesity specialist #healtheconomist social #epidemiologists all said versions of same thing: Striving 2 get ahead in an unequal society contributes 2 people in US aging quicker, becoming sicker, dying younger. wapo.st/46zEIzq

  27. #Physicians #publichealth experts have pointed 2 1 #culprit x & again when asked why #Americans #live #shorterlives than peers in nations w similar resources, especially people felled by #chronicdiseases in prime of life: #stress. #cardiologist, #endocrinologist, #obesity specialist #healtheconomist social #epidemiologists all said versions of same thing: Striving 2 get ahead in an unequal society contributes 2 people in US aging quicker, becoming sicker, dying younger. wapo.st/46zEIzq

  28. #Academics & #government #scientists say the campaign also is successfully throttling the years-long effort to #study #online #falsehoods, which grew after #Russian attempts to #interfere in the 2016 #election caught both #SocialMedia sites & politicians unawares.
    
Interviews w/ >2 dozen professors, government officials, #physicians, #nonprofits & #research funders… describe an escalating campaign emerging as #online #propaganda is rising.

  29. The National Institutes of #Health (#NIH) froze a $150 million program intended to advance the #communication of #medical #information, citing #regulatory & #legal threats. #Physicians told The Post that they had planned to use the grants to fund projects on noncontroversial topics such as #nutritional guidelines & not just “politically charged” issues such as #vaccinations that have been the focus of the #conservative allegations.

  30. Dobbs v. Jackson, One Year Later | Perspectives on History

    #Dobbs has become a bellwether for other, related efforts to contract civil liberties, efforts that stem from #movements #contemptuous of the #rights of millions of Americans, especially #women, #LGBTQ+ people, and people of #color.

    historians.org/research-and-pu

    The activism of the past can help us to understand how we might respond in the present.

    Learning about resistance in the past—often through the histories of race and gender—offers insights for navigating contemporary attacks on speech, thought, and identity.

    When abortion was criminalized, thousands of #physicians risked their careers—and prison time—to offer women safety and dignity as they sought to end pregnancies.

    #Young #Jewish #immigrants working in dangerous #garment factories, themselves vulnerable to charges of incitement and disloyalty, nevertheless challenged suffragists to articulate a vision of citizenship that recognized the value of women’s labor.

    #Black #women throughout the South, well aware that they were unlikely to receive justice through the courts, nevertheless pursued charges against white men who terrorized them throughout the 20th century.

    #Historians’ work of identifying brave resisters and the conditions that make inequality possible continues.