Dr Tracey Harrington 💙educator & lifelong learner

Liliam Altuntas: “I did not choose as a child to be a prostitute and then as an adult I had no other opportunities and then I was in a foreign country and since I was a putanna I had to continue even if it was not what I dreamed of being… It is easy to say, ‘This body is mine and I do what I want and prostitution is a job.’ Only that body is not yours at some point because when the client pays for those minutes, ‘your body’ is the client’s and he will do what he wants… The sex workers that call for prostitution to be considered a job are mostly middle-class women who prostitute themselves for a new dress, a fashionable phone and to make a good impression on a walk downtown on a sunny day… And the men who are in favour of legalization are like ill-educated children who do not want to lose their ‘toys.’ I say this because a real prostitute – a woman who was coerced into it or entered because of the precarious conditions of extreme poverty, or because it’s the only way she knows how to survive after being deceived into believing the Pretty Woman fairy tale – knows that this is not a job. What we want is the opportunity and the right to get up with dignity when we fall and not to eat the crumbs of the pigs! Prostitution is like a scar and a black mark that gets under your skin and never leaves you even after you leave prostitution. Prostitution is the most ancient and ignored SLAVERY in the world.” See link in next tweet to read more.

Michelle Obama: “Let's be very clear. Strong men don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. Real strength lifts others up. Real power brings people together.”

We have a stalking epidemic. See the graph in this article which, remarkably, fails to mention this is an overwhelmingly male-on-female problem. Guys need to learn goodbye means goodbye.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not solving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

In 1977, Viktor Frankl revealed how some people survive unimaginable suffering & others don’t. It’ll change how you see pain. His ideas: - You always have one last freedom - Despair = suffering without meaning - Why purpose keeps people alive 15 lessons on meaning & suffering:

We could also just start prescribing estrogen therapy in menopause for osteoporosis prevention because that's actually one of its FDA approved indications.

💬 Perspective: As #AI increasingly guides diagnosis, documentation, and patient management, physicians’ roles are changing, prompting questions about sustaining empathy, accountability, and trust in algorithmic care. ja.ma/4soiuun

Before the age of antibiotics, 50% of people who got pneumonia died

You can’t achieve better global health without addressing obesity. Prevention alone isn’t enough. We need treatment, care, and stronger health systems. #WorldHealthDay #HealthSystems #Obesity

A team of researchers at University College Dublin's Body Lab are recruiting participants for an important study on the menopause transition. This research explores how women experience their bodies and emotions during perimenopause and postmenopause.

At school, I learnt that maternal mortality rates were a reliable indicator of a country’s level of socioeconomic development & the effectiveness of their health system. It is truly shocking that the UK’s maternity deaths have increased by 50% over the past decade. 😥

More than 1,600 days have passed, and Afghan women and girls are still denied their fundamental right to education. Let Afghan girls learn. Support them. Stand with them. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #WomenFreedom #UN

#SexIndustryArticles "Choking during sex is trending" www-emma-de.translate.goog/artikel/gewalt… "Ms. Freitag, as a therapist, you specialize in trauma and porn addiction. Why? Because pornography is now one of the biggest risk factors for sexual violence. Furthermore, pornography has fundamentally changed relationships between men and women. Sexual violence has always existed, but pornography in the hands of children and young people has become a global accelerant. And this is true in every social class. For example, even in good, empathetic families, it's not uncommon for a brother to reenact pornographic content with his sister. Children often see their first pornography as soon as they have their own smartphone. Don't children find this repulsive? According to a recent study by the North Rhine-Westphalia State Media Authority, more than a third of children and teenagers say they want to try out the content from pornography in real life. The boys surveyed said this significantly more often (43 percent) than the girls (27 percent). And more than half of both boys and girls are inspired by the content for sexting, i.e., sending intimate content. Pornography portrays women's bodies as commodities. Boys learn to perceive girls as sexual objects, and girls learn to be that object. Is it any wonder, then, that more and more girls want to become OnlyFans creators, i.e., camgirls, and boys want to become OnlyFans managers, i.e., digital pimps? The normalization of pornography is the core problem today. What does this normalization look like? Many young people have internalized a pornographic mindset. They believe that sex is masturbation with interchangeable objects, serving only their own gratification. Where sex no longer has anything to do with intimacy and experiencing a loved one, it's no wonder that sex is supposed to happen the way it's portrayed in porn. Studies show that almost half of boys and girls consider violence during sex normal. Boys even believe that girls like to be hit and choked. Pornography has dehumanized the understanding of sexuality. What do the women you treat say? Many young women suffer under this pressure to conform. They're familiar with many pornographic practices because they've seen them in porn themselves. Nobody wants to be "prudish" or get dumped because of it. Friends tell each other: That's just how it is. You have to accept it. Pornographic practices have infiltrated normal relationships. One persistent, dangerous trend is choking. Even 13 percent of teenage girls experience this in relationships. Among female college students in the US, it's as high as 58 percent. My patients were terrified because their boyfriends suddenly choked them during sex. In older relationships, men are less likely to act out brutal pornographic fantasies on their wives. They're more likely to do it with prostitutes. A husband's porn addiction is also increasingly becoming a problem for women."

"Being unreflectively busy can be a compulsion. But what if being perpetually busy isn’t just a symptom of being under pressure but one of its principal causes?" John Launer's latest column bmj.com/content/393/bm…

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🆕 The World Obesity #Atlas2026 is available! The evidence is clear. 🏛️Stronger policies work. 📊 Better monitoring matters. 🩺 Integrated care saves lives. 👉 Download the Atlas: data.worldobesity.org/publications/?… #WorldObesityDay ⭕ #Atlas2026

"The good old days before vaccines"

The UK is experiencing regular outbreaks and sustained transmission of measles. Reducing barriers to vaccination and education are key to restoring the UK's measles-free status bmj.com/content/393/bm…

“Hear Our Voices, Let Me Go to School” Afghan girls, despite danger and no hope, are still protesting and writing on walls. For them, school is dignity, independence, and a future. They know the risks. Still, they speak. Where is the UN and the international community?!!!

Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter