Dr. Rhodes

18.8K posts

Dr. Rhodes

Dr. Rhodes

@MeanderingRhode

Doctor. Traveler. Thinker. MPH student. she/her 🦓🦐🦀🏥🌈🔥💉♿⚜🇺🇸🧶🧵 EDS. Service dog handler 🐩 #DocsWithDisabilities #DisabledDocs

United States Joined Ocak 2016
3.2K Following1.4K Followers
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@loonlake55 You did not fight the court battles. The previous generations did.
English
1
0
0
12
heretical lakeloon
heretical lakeloon@loonlake55·
@MeanderingRhode First Boomer born in 1946 and we were the first to integrate helping the social change become normalized.
English
1
0
1
28
heretical lakeloon
heretical lakeloon@loonlake55·
Last week, my post about Boomer life drew some ire from young people who feel we "destroyed the world and their future." (But lots of fellow Boomers liked it!) So for the young people. Here's a peek at life before the late 70s. The life you DON'T have because of us. 🔹Women were often stuck in secondary roles (you could be a nurse but not a doctor). 🔹Employers could deny a woman a job because “she might get pregnant,” and many had to quit when they did get pregnant. 🔹Birth control was restricted or illegal in many places under the Comstock Law. 🔹A husband couldn’t be arrested for beating his wife; it was a “civil matter.” Marital rape wasn’t even a crime. 🔹Women often needed a male relative to co-sign for a bank account or credit card. 🔹Black Americans in the South lived under Jim Crow. Even after it was outlawed, change was slow. 🔹Gay people could not be openly gay or get married. 🔹Information was scarce. You had to access a big library or buy expensive books. No pulling info up on your phone. 🔹Acquiring skills meant finding someone willing to teach you in person. No YouTube or no AI. 🔹Drive by a river and you’d see pipes dumping bright orange or green factory waste straight into the water. Some toxic landfills were so bad, nothing has ever grown there again. 🔹Heart attack? Often a death sentence. No stents. No pacemakers. 🔹Young men could be drafted and sent to war against their will, then come home to a country that called them baby killers and spit on them. Here's the thing. Every generation gets handed problems. We addressed these. Now it’s your turn to fix the ones you’re facing. Sincerely, Your Retired and Tired Boomer Grandma
English
191
426
2.2K
45.6K
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@loonlake55 Desegregation happened when Boomers were children.
English
1
0
0
39
heretical lakeloon
heretical lakeloon@loonlake55·
Boomer's got rid of this. You're welcome.
heretical lakeloon tweet mediaheretical lakeloon tweet mediaheretical lakeloon tweet media
English
3
1
106
3.2K
Glen O'Humeral
Glen O'Humeral@HumeralO·
Dermatologists be like: “palpable pruritic purpuric patches of papules and pustules parading partially past the platysmal plane alongside prominent plaques of pedal petechiae”
English
47
830
5.4K
130.3K
Madhava Setty
Madhava Setty@Madhava_Setty·
Wow. You know what? You’re absolutely right. You’re clearly more intelligent than I am. I don’t know what I was thinking. Thank you for setting me straight on all of these matters including my overinflated confidence in my understanding and training. I hope that I can model your approach to research and more importantly to how interact with others. You set an example for the rest of us. Well done, doctor!
English
1
0
0
7
Maryam
Maryam@hell_line0·
Cancer surgeon here. No, sugar doesn’t feed cancer. Stop telling people with cancer and especially woman with breast cancer to avoid sugar, salt, or carbs when you have no idea what they can tolerate and you are NOT their oncologist.
English
444
361
3.4K
189.2K
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@RossBinkley @mikjcal Yes, Ross, I already realized that you don't understand why it's called a living document. You don't need to keep proving it. I also don't need an engineer's approval of my work.
English
0
0
0
6
Ross Binkley
Ross Binkley@RossBinkley·
@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 LOL "It doesn't matter what the people who actually wrote the law intended it to mean." Well, you don't sound like a great doctor either, but I'm at least glad that you're not a lawyer.
English
1
0
0
8
Mick
Mick@mikjcal·
I’m actually really surprised to learn that for the United States that bangs on so much about Christianity that Good Friday and Easter Monday are not federally mandated public holidays for the whole country 🤔 Here in Australia the whole country gets a 4 day long weekend, and those who have to work get paid penalty rates for it.
English
332
375
5.1K
153K
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@KalmiaLatifolia @mikjcal @belle379 I think that people should get to choose their holidays, religious or not. I think that labor laws should be revised altogether to include mandatory PTO of the individual employee's choosing.
English
0
0
2
7
Peter Kramer, Ph. D.
Peter Kramer, Ph. D.@KalmiaLatifolia·
I think people should get floating holidays. Everyone gets the same number of religious holidays, and they choose which holidays are their state/federal holidays. (Christmas, New Year, Eid, Passover, etc.) It's nice in the Philippines, Christian and Muslim holidays are on the official calendar. People get a lot of days off.
English
1
0
0
11
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@londo402 @mikjcal @belle379 Columbus Day doesn't exist anymore. Indigenous People's Day was initiated by a grassroots movement of South Dakota tribes in the late 70's, became official in California in the 1990's, and spread to the whole country. Joe Biden official changed the federal holiday 5 years ago.
English
0
0
0
8
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@Madhava_Setty @hell_line0 3/ ...instead of directing your invective at the men who disagree with you. So you're wrong twice, and I've learned over nearly 50 years of life that I don't owe anything to pompous, self-aggrandizing pieces of shit like yourself, because your insecurity isn't my problem. 😂
English
1
0
0
7
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@Madhava_Setty @hell_line0 You're not important to me, and you don't become important via ego-driven harassment. Making demands on my time is indeed harassment, AND you chose to do it to a woman whom you assumed was younger and less-experinced on purpose, 2/
English
1
0
0
5
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@RyanLThomas1 @mikjcal @belle379 2/2 ...it shouldn't necessarily be the Triduum, because most people don't care to participate in Bronze Age rituals. It should be holidays of choice.
English
0
0
0
5
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@RyanLThomas1 @mikjcal @belle379 1. The government is performative when you get Republicans in, but nearly half if citizens are religiously unaffiliated with even more non-practicing. Most of us think the obsession is idiotic. 2. We should also have better labor laws than mandate paid leave for everyone, 1/2
English
1
0
0
7
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@RossBinkley @mikjcal @belle379 It doesn't matter what the Founders wanted, except that they wrote it as a living document ON PURPOSE. Jefferson spoke about this, and it's on his Memorial. Is your next unsolicited essay going to tell me how to practice medicine next? Engineers often do, and it's always wrong.
English
1
0
0
10
Ross Binkley
Ross Binkley@RossBinkley·
@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 Granted, far more recent court decisions (mostly in the last 50-70 years) have placed far more restrictions on government endorsements of religion than were ever actually intended by the First Amendment (or were practiced for its first ~200 years.)
English
1
0
0
9
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@RossBinkley @mikjcal @belle379 They were forced to add the entire Bill of rights to even het the Constitution ratified by the states. Jefferson, dirty, raping slaver that he was, was correct that people wanted a lot of protections for the government.
English
1
0
0
7
Ross Binkley
Ross Binkley@RossBinkley·
@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 While Jefferson felt there should be a stronger separation of church and state, that view was not widely held by the people who crafted or ratified the 1st Amendment. They didn't want a national state religion or religious requirements to hold office, but that was it.
English
1
0
0
8
Dr. Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes@MeanderingRhode·
@RossBinkley @mikjcal @belle379 1. They specifically wrote the Bill of Rights after they realized that the Constitution was very unpopular as-is. 2. A lot of people are very much against any type of prayer at any government event. 3. Why is it so often an engineer trying to mansplain to a smarter woman?
English
1
0
0
11
Ross Binkley
Ross Binkley@RossBinkley·
@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 Nearly all of the people who actually signed the Constitution (except a few deists) routinely endorsed religion as part of official duties. There have been prayers in Congress since the very beginning and the Constitution's preamble explicitly acknowledges the Creator (i.e. God.)
English
1
0
0
12
Ross Binkley
Ross Binkley@RossBinkley·
@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 The Establishment Clause says that the U.S. federal government (not the state governments) cannot establish a state religion, not that it can't endorse a religion. Several of the states actually had state religions early on. The 14th did extend that ban to states, though.
English
1
0
0
25