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And now everyone's pushing their way onto the Tumblr lifeboat

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There should be one for before and after residency. and med school. and from the start of the pandemic to now. Ooof. 

“Doctors are Human”

Photographs of physicians before and after 24 hours of duty, by Leticia Ruiz.

Something to look forward to. And yet with work hour restrictions in effect, we’ve still had it better than our predecessors. It’s still by no means easy, though.

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My hospital sent out an email yesterday saying they were giving all staff a $1000 bonus this year because everyone’s morale is so low (thanks COVID). We literally never get bonuses, and anytime there’s any sort of incentive or pay raise the doctors “don’t qualify” for it. So my partners and I were dancing in the hallways with excitement over this. One coworker who has really struggled with finances this year cried because she could now afford Christmas presents for her kids.

And then they sent a second email.

It said “please disregard the last email.”

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how can i help?

here you can find donation links, petitions, how to educate yourself, etc.

if you can afford to donate: official george floyd memorial fund here minnesota freedom fund here stephen lawrence charitable trust here the NAACP legal defense fund here black lives matter here

petitions you can sign: justice for george floyd here, here & here get the officers charged here reclaim the block — minneapolis here justice for breonna taylor here, here & here justice for ahmaud arbery here, here & here pass the georgia hate crime bill here **if you are international and aren’t able to sign, here are some zip codes to use: 90015 — los angeles, california  10001 — new york city, new york  75001 — dallas, texas 

text or call: text “JUSTICE” 688366 text “FLOYD” to 55156

get in contact with the district attorney and minneapolis mayor. leave a message demanding that 4 officers including derek chauvin (badge #1087) and tou thao (badge #7162) be arrested for the murder of george floyd.  minneapolis mayor’s office, jacob frey: (612) 673-2100 minneapolis district attorney, mike freeman: (612) 348-5550 OR citizeninfo@hennepin.us minneapolis PD emails: police@minneapolismn.gov minneapolis311@minneapolismn.gov policereview@minneapolismn.gov you can find the email template here

breonna taylor was murdered in her sleep by policemen (jonathan mattingly, brett hankison and myles cosgrove) who raided the wrong house and shot her 8 times. call the louisville mayor’s office and police department to demand that the police be fired and charged. louisville mayor’s office, greg fischer: (502) 574-2003 louisville metro police department: (502) 574-7111

undercover cop, jacob pedersen of the st. paul PD was seen smashing windows as the catalyst to many of the riots that occurred in minneapolis. email the st. paul PD and report his actions. st. paul PD email: policeinfo@ci.stpaul.mn.us proof of smashing windows here proof it was pedersen here

want to learn more? i strongly recommend the book “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by reni eddo-lodge. you can find an extract here.

list of resources: black lives matter google doc here black lives matter carrd here elle osili-wood on twitter here

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A few months ago: The U.S. has the best medicine, doctors, and hospitals in the world! No one has better health care than us! If we socialize health insurance our medical system will suck like everyone else’s! Thanks to good old capitalist competition we have only the best and brightest scientists!

Today: The doctors and scientists got it wrong! We way overreacted to COVID-19! Fauci doesn’t know what he’s talking about! The hospitals didn’t need as many ventilators as they said they did! Why should we listen to our medical professionals when COVID-19 is a sham! Those epidemiologists who want to keep the country closed are anti-freedom!

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I'm putting this out there because I am getting very tired of some things I see on my timeline. This is not about your political views, I simply do not care about them. Stop making this a platform. Stop comparing this to flu. We had flu this year too, worse than most years with more deaths worldwide than the last 10. Its not like ebola, spread by body fluids, difficult to catch with an incredibly high death rate. This is like common cold with flu and SARS mixed (it is the same virus as SARS but spreads much easier) and a higher death rate than flu. You want to go outside? Great, do some gardening, play in the yard, don't go somewhere with a bunch of people, thats the problem. Stop complaining businesses are closed that aren't needed, and that you are home with family. Im not. Im in the hospital, trying to help people with my colleagues and mentors. We saw a 31 year old, younger than me with no history, go from fine the day before coming to the hospital and die in a week despite everything. So just stop. Its tired, its old. We don't want to hear it. We want support, that doesn't mean call us heroes, it means do what's best for the community, stop being selfish.

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I cannot wait for Martin Luther King Day, when liberals and conservatives all over the country unite to ignore MLK’s clear insistence that racism and economic inequality are inextricably linked and must be addressed and fought together.

Moshik Temkin (via azspot)

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All of this. The anger and blame of some journalists and economists is misplaced. 

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"Unimpeded access to banks and financial institutions doesn't make you wealthy any more than unfettered access to hospitals or healthcare makes you healthy."

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Roses are red,  Violets are blue.  Don’t be an idiot,  Vaccinate your kids.

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Greg Kelly’s grandson, Caden, scampers to the tree-shaded creek behind his grandfather’s house to catch crawdads, as Kelly shuffles along, trying to keep up. Kelly’s small day pack holds an oxygen tank with a clear tube clipped to his nose. He has chairs spaced out on the short route so he can stop every few minutes, sit down and catch his breath, until he has enough wind and strength to start out again for the creek.

“I just pray that the Lord give me as much time as I can with him,” Kelly said, his eyes welling with tears. “He just lightens my life. I want to be as fun with him as I can. And do as much as I can with him.”

Caden is 9 years old, and even at his age he knows what happened to his paw-paw at the Harlan County, Ky., coal mines where Kelly labored as a roof bolter for 31 years.

“That coal mine made your lungs dirty, didn’t it?’” Kelly recalled Caden asking. “Yeah it did. … And I can’t breathe and I have to have my backpack to breathe,” Kelly told him.

It’s a familiar tale across Appalachia. Two hours north and east, beyond twisting mountain roads, Danny Smith revved up a lawn mower. He wore jeans, a T-shirt and a white face mask stretching from eyes to chin, and he pushed only about 15 feet before he suddenly shut off the mower, bent to his knees and started hacking uncontrollably.

“Oh God,” he gasped, as he spit up a crusty black substance with gray streaks, and then stared at the dead lung tissue staining the grass. Still coughing and breathing hard, Smith settled into a chair on his porch and clipped an oxygen tube to his nose.

A multiyear investigation by NPR and the PBS program Frontline found that Smith and Kelly are part of a tragic and recently discovered outbreak of the advanced stage of black lung disease, known as complicated black lung or progressive massive fibrosis.

A federal monitoring program reported just 99 cases of advanced black lung disease nationwide from 2011-2016. But NPR identified more than 2,000 coal miners suffering from the disease in the same time frame, and in just five Appalachian states.

And now, an NPR/Frontline analysis of federal regulatory data — decades of information recorded by dust-collection monitors placed where coal miners work — has revealed a tragic failure to recognize and respond to clear signs of danger.

For decades, government regulators had evidence of excessive and toxic mine dust exposures, the kind that can cause PMF, as they were happening. They knew that miners like Kelly and Smith were likely to become sick and die. They were urged to take specific and direct action to stop it. But they didn’t.

An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It

Photos: Rich-Joseph Facun for NPR

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To all my female-identifying colleagues.

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read the full comic here!

i made a comic about being too tired to make comics