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RAF jet carrying Defence Secretary John Healey has GPS signal jammed near Russian border
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“How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public”
by Peter Oborne in The Byline Times on Substack
@uk_politics
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews“A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how political journalism and power really works in Westminster”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/how-anonymous-quotes-are-used-by
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #AnonymousQuotes #Journalism #Deception #ManufacturingConsent #Peck #TheTimes #Spin #Conspiracy
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“How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public”
by Peter Oborne in The Byline Times on Substack
@uk_politics
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews“A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how political journalism and power really works in Westminster”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/how-anonymous-quotes-are-used-by
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #AnonymousQuotes #Journalism #Deception #ManufacturingConsent #Peck #TheTimes #Spin #Conspiracy
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More guns, less butter. 😡
#TheTimes reports that #Starmer will add £18 billion to the military budget. https://archive.is/SiKxA
Millions of ppl struggle to pay rent, fuel & food. Transport is crap. NHS waiting liats are huge. Labour is deeply unpopular. Starmer faces a serious leadership challenge and a crucial by election is on a knife edge. Bbut he wants to splash out on war toys.
Is Starmer actively trying to drive the #LabourParty over the cliff? Has he ever seen this 1953 cartoon?
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More guns, less butter. 😡
#TheTimes reports that #Starmer will add £18 billion to the military budget. https://archive.is/SiKxA
Millions of ppl struggle to pay rent, fuel & food. Transport is crap. NHS waiting liats are huge. Labour is deeply unpopular. Starmer faces a serious leadership challenge and a crucial by election is on a knife edge. Bbut he wants to splash out on war toys.
Is Starmer actively trying to drive the #LabourParty over the cliff? Has he ever seen this 1953 cartoon?
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Donald Trump's wild 24 hours as he 'plots' using $1.7bn tax fund to pay January 6 rioters
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/trump-slush-fund-china-bbc-37162978
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Donald Trump's wild 24 hours as he 'plots' using $1.7bn tax fund to pay January 6 rioters
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/trump-slush-fund-china-bbc-37162978
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US President Johnson said 1st rule of politics was learn how to count. Seems that #WesStreeting can't count. 😅
#Streeting plotted for 6 months. But by Weds evening only ~40 of 300 #LabourParty backbenchers would commit. See #TheTimes https://archive.is/IarpF
He might make the 81 from ministers, but that many resignations would be a huge crisis. So he bottled it.
But he'd already burnt his bridges with #Starmer. Now his cred is blown, & his savage resignation letter has shocked.
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US President Johnson said 1st rule of politics was learn how to count. Seems that #WesStreeting can't count. 😅
#Streeting plotted for 6 months. But by Weds evening only ~40 of 300 #LabourParty backbenchers would commit. See #TheTimes https://archive.is/IarpF
He might make the 81 from ministers, but that many resignations would be a huge crisis. So he bottled it.
But he'd already burnt his bridges with #Starmer. Now his cred is blown, & his savage resignation letter has shocked.
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Gardeners expert says ‘buy these two plant types from nurseries now’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1751025/gardeners-expert-says-buy-these-two-plant-types-from-nurseries-now-2/ #garden #gardening #nurseries #Periods #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #TheTimes
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Gardeners expert says ‘buy these two plant types from nurseries now’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1751025/gardeners-expert-says-buy-these-two-plant-types-from-nurseries-now-2/ #garden #gardening #nurseries #Periods #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #TheTimes
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Gardeners expert says ‘buy these two plant types from nurseries now’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1750875/gardeners-expert-says-buy-these-two-plant-types-from-nurseries-now/ #garden #gardening #nurseries #Periods #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #TheTimes
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Gardeners expert says ‘buy these two plant types from nurseries now’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1750875/gardeners-expert-says-buy-these-two-plant-types-from-nurseries-now/ #garden #gardening #nurseries #Periods #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #TheTimes
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🔥 ■ En Reino Unido les vale un párrafo para explicar así quién es Isabel Díaz Ayuso ■ Comparan el modelo de Madrid con el de Cataluña.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/en-reino-unido-les-vale-parrafo-explicar-asi-isabel-diaz-ayuso-f202605.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
🔥 ■ En Reino Unido les vale un párrafo para explicar así quién es Isabel Díaz Ayuso ■ Comparan el modelo de Madrid con el de Cataluña.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/en-reino-unido-les-vale-parrafo-explicar-asi-isabel-diaz-ayuso-f202605.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
It appears that anti-Semitism is fine by the same right-wing press that hounded Corbyn as long as the target is the 'wrong kind of Jew' and he's a Green.
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It appears that anti-Semitism is fine by the same right-wing press that hounded Corbyn as long as the target is the 'wrong kind of Jew' and he's a Green.
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A blatantly antisemitic caricature of #ZackPolanski in #TheTimes cartoon about the aftermath of the #GoldersGreen attacks.
But it's England. So the Jewish guy who opposes genocide and queries police violence is:
1/ depicted as a blatantly antisemitic stereotype;
2/ falsely portrayed as the perpetrator of a violent kick, rather than the critic of violence;
3/ denounced as an antisemite.h/t Owen Jones
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A blatantly antisemitic caricature of #ZackPolanski in #TheTimes cartoon about the aftermath of the #GoldersGreen attacks.
But it's England. So the Jewish guy who opposes genocide and queries police violence is:
1/ depicted as a blatantly antisemitic stereotype;
2/ falsely portrayed as the perpetrator of a violent kick, rather than the critic of violence;
3/ denounced as an antisemite.h/t Owen Jones
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Headlines to be interpreted
From ’The Times’ (no I haven’t bothered reading it) and it begs many questions. Including
- why does the head of the Polis think he/she can make the moon disappear?
- is it accomplished by closing the curtains or a wee bit more sophisticated?
- is the threat to make the moon disapear a negotiating tactic?The mind boggles. Oh well better have another coffee before we go out for the morning run.
#Headlines #Interpretation #TheTimes #CopyEditing #sloppy #Literacvy
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Headlines to be interpreted
From ’The Times’ (no I haven’t bothered reading it) and it begs many questions. Including
- why does the head of the Polis think he/she can make the moon disappear?
- is it accomplished by closing the curtains or a wee bit more sophisticated?
- is the threat to make the moon disapear a negotiating tactic?The mind boggles. Oh well better have another coffee before we go out for the morning run.
#Headlines #Interpretation #TheTimes #CopyEditing #sloppy #Literacvy
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It's #PolanskiPileOn day in the #UKmedIa. Special bonus prize to #TheTimes for putting 'sorry' in #ScareQuotes!
Tomorrow, in all papers on all pages, and in every TV news ahow:
1/ Polanski's Wicked Plan To Build Houses And Cut Energy Bills Proves That He is An Evil Monster
2/ How To Keep Your Child Safe From Polanski
3/ People Who Oppose Genocide Scare Me
4/ The Loon Who Thinks That Kicks In The Head Are Not Great -
It's #PolanskiPileOn day in the #UKmedIa. Special bonus prize to #TheTimes for putting 'sorry' in #ScareQuotes!
Tomorrow, in all papers on all pages, and in every TV news ahow:
1/ Polanski's Wicked Plan To Build Houses And Cut Energy Bills Proves That He is An Evil Monster
2/ How To Keep Your Child Safe From Polanski
3/ People Who Oppose Genocide Scare Me
4/ The Loon Who Thinks That Kicks In The Head Are Not Great -
🔥 ■ 'The Times' hace balance de lo que ha hecho Pedro Sánchez hasta ahora y le otorgan un apodo que va a dar que hablar ■ Lo que añaden sobre Feijóo a algunos escocerá.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/the-times-define-hecho-sanchez-apodo-feijoo-recalcan-le-gustara-f202604.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD#virales #albertonunezfeijoo #pedrosanchez #thetimes #ataquecontrairan
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🔥 ■ 'The Times' hace balance de lo que ha hecho Pedro Sánchez hasta ahora y le otorgan un apodo que va a dar que hablar ■ Lo que añaden sobre Feijóo a algunos escocerá.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/the-times-define-hecho-sanchez-apodo-feijoo-recalcan-le-gustara-f202604.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD#virales #albertonunezfeijoo #pedrosanchez #thetimes #ataquecontrairan
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#ETER9 is back and more powerful than ever before. Give it a try here: www.eter9.com #AI #counterparts #niners #agents #immortality #eternity #BBC #CBS #ZDNET #Forbes #TheTimes #CNN #Wired #TheGuardian #Reuters #IndiaToday #DailyMail #ElPais #TheTelegraph #BusinessDay #Springer #Nature #TheSun
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#ETER9 is back and more powerful than ever before. Give it a try here: www.eter9.com #AI #counterparts #niners #agents #immortality #BBC #CBS #ZDNET #Forbes #TheTimes #CNN #Wired #TheGuardian #Reuters #IndiaToday #DailyMail #RTP #ElPais #SIC #TheTelegraph #Sapo #BusinessDay #Springer #Nature #TheSun
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@ETER9 is back and more powerful than ever before.
Give it a try here: www.eter9.com (The Living Cyberspace)
#ETER9 #AI #counterparts #counterpart #niners #niner #agents #agent #digital #immortality #eternity #BBC #CBS #ZDNET #Forbes #TheTimes #CNN #Wired #TheGuardian #Reuters #IndiaToday #DailyMail #Observador #Exame #RTP #ElPais #SIC #TheTelegraph #Sapo #BusinessDay #Springer #Nature #TheSun -
@ETER9 is back and more powerful than ever before.
Give it a try here: www.eter9.com (The Living Cyberspace)
#ETER9 #AI #counterparts #counterpart #niners #niner #agents #agent #digital #immortality #eternity #BBC #CBS #ZDNET #Forbes #TheTimes #CNN #Wired #TheGuardian #Reuters #IndiaToday #DailyMail #Observador #Exame #RTP #ElPais #SIC #TheTelegraph #Sapo #BusinessDay #Springer #Nature #TheSun -
From #AnnafromUkraine @[email protected]
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#PUTIN’S NEXT MOVE: RUSSIA PROVOCATION STRIKE #NARVA #GOTLAND Vlog 1382: War in #Ukraine
#Sweden does not rule out that #Russia could in the near future seize one of the #islands in the #BalticSea — and test how #NATO would respond to a provocation, says the Swedish armed forces chief, #MichaelClaesson, in an interview with #TheTimes.
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From #AnnafromUkraine @[email protected]
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#PUTIN’S NEXT MOVE: RUSSIA PROVOCATION STRIKE #NARVA #GOTLAND Vlog 1382: War in #Ukraine
#Sweden does not rule out that #Russia could in the near future seize one of the #islands in the #BalticSea — and test how #NATO would respond to a provocation, says the Swedish armed forces chief, #MichaelClaesson, in an interview with #TheTimes.
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For ducks sake. And this is a headline from what was one meant to be a paper of ’record’. Who is writing these headlines, AI or ‘vested’ interests? Or do ‘journalists’ exist any more?
#TheTimes #Predictions #SelfFulfilling #VestedInterests #War #AI #TheTimes
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For ducks sake. And this is a headline from what was one meant to be a paper of ’record’. Who is writing these headlines, AI or ‘vested’ interests? Or do ‘journalists’ exist any more?
#TheTimes #Predictions #SelfFulfilling #VestedInterests #War #AI #TheTimes
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Year of the Rat author wins Sunday Times prize for nail-biting year inside the far-right
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/year-rat-author-wins-sunday-36900603
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Year of the Rat author wins Sunday Times prize for nail-biting year inside the far-right
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/year-rat-author-wins-sunday-36900603
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🔥 ■ En Reino Unido ya han visto la nueva de Torrente y han sacado una conclusión a la que muchos no han llegado en España ■ A veces las cosas se ven más claras desde más lejos.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/en-reino-unido-han-visto-nueva-torrente-han-sacado-conclusion-han-llegado-espana-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
🔥 ■ En Reino Unido ya han visto la nueva de Torrente y han sacado una conclusión a la que muchos no han llegado en España ■ A veces las cosas se ven más claras desde más lejos.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/en-reino-unido-han-visto-nueva-torrente-han-sacado-conclusion-han-llegado-espana-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
🎯 ■ Uno de los medios más leídos de Reino Unido define así lo que dijo Felipe VI de la Conquista de América ■ 'The Times' usa una palabra que lo dice todo.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/uno-medios-mas-leidos-reino-unido-define-asi-dijo-felipe-vi-conquista-america-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
🎯 ■ Uno de los medios más leídos de Reino Unido define así lo que dijo Felipe VI de la Conquista de América ■ 'The Times' usa una palabra que lo dice todo.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/uno-medios-mas-leidos-reino-unido-define-asi-dijo-felipe-vi-conquista-america-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
🔥 ■ Una periodista británica va a un mitin de Vox en un pueblo de Palencia y saca una conclusión muy clara tras lo que ha visto ■ Extrae varias enseñanzas de ese acto.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/una-periodista-britanica-mitin-vox-pueblo-palencia-saca-conclusion-clara-visto-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD#eleccionescastillayleon #virales #vox #santiagoabascal #thetimes
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🔥 ■ Una periodista británica va a un mitin de Vox en un pueblo de Palencia y saca una conclusión muy clara tras lo que ha visto ■ Extrae varias enseñanzas de ese acto.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/una-periodista-britanica-mitin-vox-pueblo-palencia-saca-conclusion-clara-visto-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD#eleccionescastillayleon #virales #vox #santiagoabascal #thetimes
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clowns forever on parade
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🎯 ■ En Reino Unido hacen una lista con los lugares más bonitos de España y se cuelan estas cuatro ciudades ■ Para tomar nota para tus próximas escapadas.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/en-reino-unido-lista-lugares-mas-bonitos-espana-cuelan-cuatro-capitales-provincia-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD#santiagodecompostela #granada #toledo #thetimes #virales #turismo #sansebastian
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🎯 ■ En Reino Unido hacen una lista con los lugares más bonitos de España y se cuelan estas cuatro ciudades ■ Para tomar nota para tus próximas escapadas.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/en-reino-unido-lista-lugares-mas-bonitos-espana-cuelan-cuatro-capitales-provincia-f202603.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD#santiagodecompostela #granada #toledo #thetimes #virales #turismo #sansebastian
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'China's Nostradamus' who foresaw Iran war issues chilling prediction
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Loose Women's Kaye Adams podcast 'dropped by charity' after BBC behaviour claims
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Loose Women's Kaye Adams podcast 'dropped by charity' after BBC behaviour claims
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Illegal war on Iran wins applause from leading Brussels media outlet
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Illegal war on Iran wins applause from leading Brussels media outlet
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Recent Readings–Another Severe Case, per The Times; Guardian’s Take on “Brain Retraining”; Boston Globe’s Long COVID Tale
By David Tuller, DrPH
Times coverage of another severe patient
On February 15th, The Times covered the case of yet another patient with severe illness. The article, by health editor Eleanor Hayward, bore the headline “My body can take no more, says ME patient starving in hospital.” The subhead: “Campaigners say the suffering of Savannah Victora-May, 23, highlights NHS inaction over recommendations that it set up specialist services for severe cases.”
Victoria-May has been at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in southeast London for close to a year. The case has drawn the attention of Action for ME and other patient advocates. In December of 2024, a coroner in Exeter published what is called a “report to prevent future deaths” after an inquest into the case of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, a severe ME patient.
Boothby O’Neill, 27, died in 2021 of malnutrition after three hospital stays failed to halt her deterioration. The report to prevent future deaths included an appeal for specialist ME/CFS services.
Per The Times: “Victora-May is unable to eat or drink and is in severe pain, drifting in and out of consciousness. She has lost 30kg since her admission in March and has eaten nothing since January 18…Speaking from hospital via a friend, Victora-May described the pain as ‘like being lowered into a bath of acid and the acid rating gets turned up more and more every half hour.’”
The Canary, a scrappy muckraking publication, has also covered the situation. A petition has been posted on change.org. According to the UK’s ME Association, Tessa Hunt, a member of parliament, mentioned the case in recent public comments regarding the lack of specialist services.
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Non-triumphalist story about “brain retraining” for ME/CFS in Guardian
Stories about so-called “brain retraining” programs for chronic illness are often triumphalist narratives about full recovery after a few sessions of whatever—the Lightning Process or the Gupta Program or this or that. This week, The Guardian published something a bit different on ME/CFS and these mind-body approaches. The author, Hermione Hoby, is a British journalist who now lives in Boulder, Colorado, and she paints a more nuanced, thought-provoking account of her experience.
The headline: “My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic.’” Subhead: “I suffered with my mystery illness for decades before gaining a diagnosis. Could retraining my brain be the answer?” (In the end, the answer was no, although it appeared to Hopy to have helped for a while.)
The writing is lovely—wry and elegant, moving but not maudlin, ironic and self-aware. Hoby keenly describes her discontent with clinical encounters:
“The experience went like this: a doctor would glance at the blood test results in his or her (but usually his) hands and tell me I was fine. They’d tend to avoid my eyes as they said this. My test results were indeed fine, and so were my vitals, more or less (lowish blood pressure), but the situation clearly was not. One doctor told me to eat vegetables. When I managed to mumble that I did eat vegetables, this doctor slightly smirked as she said: “Yeah, but do you really?””
After many years, Hoby received an ME/CFS diagnosis. Her illness followed a fluctuating pattern—long periods of apparently full recovery followed by serious relapses lasting weeks or months, for no discernible reason. Boulder is a leading center of “woo-woo”—Hoby’s word, although I concur about Boulder—and she ended up seeing a brain-retraining practitioner.
His strategy included watching “messianically positive video testimonials” in which “men and women avowed the miraculous effects of brain retraining”–and it seemed to work. Hoby improved dramatically. As she writes:
“There followed a period of quasi-religious mania. I was cured! (!!!) I began referring to my ME/CFS in the past tense and applying the principles of brain retraining to other areas of my life. Finding myself running further and faster, and writing with more ease, I felt superheroic. My husband, delighted to see me well, also became a little wary around me, as if I might take the mind-over-matter credo to the point of attempting to walk through walls.”
Then she crashed again—forcing her to reassess her views and navigate complicated feelings about the whole matter. Definitely worth a read.
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Boston Globe offers in-depth look at life with Long COVID
The Boston Globe has published a detailed and heartbreaking story a detailed and heartbreaking account about Samantha Crausman, a young Massachusetts woman who has suffered with prolonged symptoms since a 2022 bout of COVID-19. The headline: “A doctor watches his 28-year-old daughter suffer from long COVID. He clings fiercely to hope.”
The article, by long-time health reporter Felice Freyer, doesn’t break a lot of new ground. However, it offers an in-depth look at multiple aspects of living with Long COVID, especially the ME/CFS subtype. Freyer covers the skepticism of medical professionals toward patients, the extreme measures families pursue to protect loved ones from further infection, the desperate search for any and every possible treatment, the sense of living in perpetual limbo.
Rob Crausman, Samantha’s father, is a lung specialist and has practiced medicine for decades. He has been dismayed at how the medical field has mishandled the illness that has so disrupted his daughter’s life. Per the Globe:
“He never imagined his profession could so completely fail his own child at her time of greatest need.“‘I’m profoundly disappointed,’ he said.
“To this day, he gets well-meaning advice from physician friends who show surprising ignorance about his daughter’s condition.
“‘If I have one more person tell me that she just needs to do yoga, I will lose my mind,’ he said.”
(View the original post at virology.ws)
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Sarah Ferguson's school report emerges – and it speaks volumes
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Gardeners’ World presenter names nine plants that will cover garden gaps https://www.allforgardening.com/1610775/gardeners-world-presenter-names-nine-plants-that-will-cover-garden-gaps/ #garden #gardening #TheTimes