#collapse of the healthcare system

[sodalite-lite]

why the FUCK are we letting business people running the fucking hospitals

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

[awkward-teabag]

Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

[yamameta-inc]

Excess deaths from disease in those aged 18-44 through to September of 2023.

Reminder that RSV, flu, strep, and other illnesses are going to be more and more common as Covid weakens our immune systems--and as people stubbornly refuse to take basic precautionary measures for infectious diseases in general due to the politicization of Covid.

[devilatelier]

one day when the horrors release me i'll be back again

[yanqings]

besties with chronic illnesses…. this shit sucks so bad fr </3

gonna vent so I’m just gonna add a read more

I’m kinda talking lightly abt it, almost jokingly, but I really have not been well the last few months and my health keeps getting worse. I’ve been in pain without relief every single day since mid December, and no medication helps. I was supposed to catch up on my research during the break because I also fell behind on that during the semester because of both my physical disability and also my neurodivergence. Existence is so currently unbearable and this year is gonna be my most stressful one in terms of academics: I have to write my thesis, i have to do my independent research, have to go conduct more research over the summer, and apply to grad school. I can barely gather the strength, both physically and emotionally, to get out of my bed and I’m still expected to do all this? All of my heard work through the years just down the fucking drain because my body went to shit? Studying and working as it is is already hard enough when being nd, but living with pain 24/7 on top of that? I don’t know what to do, I just want to sleep for 5 years. It’s all so fucking unbearable

[hap-less]

Just in case you were thinking of being indulgent or self destructive this holiday season, ICUs across Canada are at 200% capacity.

[livsspecialinterests]

just so you all know, we're in the situation in the UK where the government are literally lying about doctors' pay and our union's position on current strike action.

it's been incredibly frustrating, and on my professional twitter i've been spending a lot of time doing my bit in trying to correct the disinformation (from literal government bodies, state run media, and the civil service!).

all this to say i really appreciate having my silly little nonsense tumblr and my silly little fics and i really really appreciate the people who take the time to read and comment on them.

it means an awful lot

[jextra]

Don’t go to medical school kids it’s not worth it

[dogpantry]

healthcare workers now have the highest rate of suicide among the general population following covid-19. things i coulda told y’all anecdotally

[rebellum]

Who assigns doctors to people. Who the hell thought "yeah this person lives here. So I'll assign them an obgyn that will take them about 3 hours to reach by public transit, or cost $80 if they choose to take a taxi or uber". Like it's not like I live in the middle of nowhere there MUST be a closer person. I've gotten ONE pap smear my entire life (I'm 25) and that was when I was like 22 and they assigned me to this place where I haven't gone back.

[news4dzhozhar]

[medicinemane]

Final thought, the cut off for any welfare program at minimum needs to be 150% of the poverty line (ie, the poverty like is $10 the cut off should be no lower than $15)

Cause the poverty line, one assumes, is the bare minimum we're saying everyone should be at, and surely welfare programs are supposed to be meant to help people below that

If you cut it off right at the line, then people aren't going to be able to get out of poverty, because any time they get close they're suddenly going to be on the hook for like $1000 or more between the various welfare they might be on, and honestly only a fool would push past that if pushing past it means falling back down again

150% at least means that they've got a chance that maybe now they're picking up the slack of all the stuff they're losing

[sayruq]

Three days ago, the Israeli military dropped flyers ordering displaced people and residents of Rafah to leave. In the orders where people were told to move out of Rafah, the military said it was “about to operate with force against the terror organisations in the area”. A UN estimate says there are 1.2 million people sheltering in dire conditions in Rafah, Gaza's southern city. The "full-blown famine" that has taken hold in the north of Gaza has spread to the south, Cindy McCain, the head of the World Food Programme, confirmed over the weekend. There are roughly 200 Palestinians that are being forcibly displaced from Rafah every hour, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Wednesday. During an online press briefing, medical doctors and humanitarian aid workers reporting from the ground in Gaza spoke about the impossible feat of moving people from Rafah, as people are ridden by famine plus a collapsed transportation and healthcare system. "There are children and elderly that are so starved that they can barely walk. These people cannot just relocate to another area, to so-called 'safe zones'. It is not possible," Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy from Save the Children, said. Several aid workers have expressed that there is no "safe" area in the Gaza Strip for people to relocate to. "The concept of safe zones is a lie," Helena Marchal, from Medecins du Monde, said. Aid workers also reiterated the difficulty of getting aid both into Gaza and then distributing it. Both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom crossings, through which most aid reached the besieged Strip, have closed since Sunday evening. Roads across Gaza are largely destroyed or blocked by people sheltering, contributing to the difficulty of movement of both goods and people. Only a very limited number of routes, especially between the north and south, are available for humanitarian use, Jeremy Konyndyk, from Refugees International, explained. Another issue is overcrowding. "In Deir al-Balah and the Mawasi area on the outskirts of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, there is barely any space. There are tents everywhere, on the beach, on the sidewalks, the streets, the graveyards, the courtyards of the hospitals, in the courtyards of the schools," Ghada Alhaddad, from Oxfam International, said. Saieh explained that it took her team six weeks and four failed attempts to move a couple of hundred food parcels from Rafah to the north of Gaza. "One litre of fuel cost $40 yesterday," according to Ranchal. Fuel enters through the Rafah crossing. If the fuel is cut off, the aid operation collapses," Konyndyk said.

[drnic1]

The Silicon Valley Banking Fiasco

When the Titanic Goes Down, All Ships Sink This week I am talking to Julien Pham, MD, Managing Partner of Third Culture Capital, an immigrant-founded, physician-led, seed-stage VC firm focused on emerging health tech and techbio companies that are revolutionizing modern care delivery while optimizing and reshaping the experience of care for both patients and providers. Julien and I share a…

[palms-upturned]

The UN estimates that the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel from 2008-2023 was 6,407 people.

According to Al Jazeera, the death toll over the past 18 days is now 6,546 people. Children make up nearly half that number.

The healthcare system is basically nonexistent without fuel to power the generators. There is almost no drinking water left. The death toll is only going to keep skyrocketing. There are no words.