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@DocBorelli @EricTopol @JAMA_current Tell me you have a conflict of interest without telling me you have a conflict of interest

Then there's the gentleman enrolled in an annual executive health screening at a well-known academic center for 3 years who came in for whole body MRI. We diagnosed a surgical ascending aortic aneurysm (6 cm), which was repaired urgently. He credits us with saving his life. Good thing he dismissed warnings about "anxiety" and "false positives" and went ahead with the whole body MRI procedure. We have many stories like these and not a single false positive biopsy.

At @JAMA_current today, 2 radiologists publish what should be the consent form for a total body MRI in healthy people Note: "no major medical society recommends whole-body MRI screening in the general population because it is unproven, and the harms likely outweigh the benefits." jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

@DavidADaoud With further support by the IDF/US, Lebanon can disarm Hezbollah.

@DavidADaoud an accurate description of “Iranian occupation.” Time and time again a small subset of populations “link their fate”to objectively detrimental policies (eg Brexit, Trump), but that negate the current efforts at peace and normalization with Israel. That’s the solution -

I would like FM Saar to explain one thing: Notwithstanding Hezbollah's ideological link/loyalty to Iran, how does Hezbollah constitute an "Iranian occupation of Lebanon" if 1) Hezbollah's members, from the Secretary-General down to the lowliest fighter, are all Lebanese citizens and 2) Hezbollah's political weight in Lebanon -- and the difficulty in disarming the group -- derives from the support and votes of Lebanese citizens? Given this, what's the solution to the problem of Hezbollah -- not just theoretically, but practically? I'm honestly at a loss. But proper categorization of the problem is necessary, because it doesn't help the Israelis or the United States to enter these negotiations engaging in self-deception: Hezbollah isn't a manifestation of an Iranian occupation of Lebanon; it's a manifestation of the willingness of a subset of Lebanese citizens -- an estimated 30% -- to link their fate to a group that seeks to pull Lebanon into the Iranian orbit and, ultimately, reorder Lebanon along the Iranian model. The ability of that 30% to set the tone for the country also isn't a symptom of "Iranian occupation," but of Lebanon's dysfunctional sectarian power-sharing structuring, which provided fertile ground for the rise of sectarian militias long before the Islamic Revolution or Hezbollah's coalescence.

@DavidADaoud I’d love to read your opinions on whether Lebanon should be included in the ceasefire. Personally I don’t think so. Lebanon’s sovereignty and accountability as a state is already questionable, and linking Lebanon to a ceasefire with Iran deepens that.

Amazing how many Western powers have accepted Iran’s position, and how quickly.

@Seggipriv @tmorello Before y’allqueda

Texas before the islamic revolution

@DavidADaoud Pessimistic KING 👑 Care to explain?

No.

@DrSonuBhaskar @DavidADaoud is this accounting mostly true or a fabrication?

🧵 Ever wondered how Hezbollah rose to dominate Lebanon 🇱🇧, built a vast criminal empire, and how Israel is now systematically dismantling its terror infrastructure? This thread 🧵 dives deep into the history to deliver clear, factual insights into the past and the ongoing conflicts shaping the region. Beirut was once considered the Paris of the Middle East. Lebanon had a thriving Christian population and a vibrant, cosmopolitan society. That slowly changed as Hezbollah gradually altered the demography through its rise, alliances, and growing influence in Shia areas. Hezbollah (“Party of God”) was founded in 1982 during Lebanon’s brutal 15-year civil war and Israel’s invasion to push out PLO fighters. The Islamic Republic of Iran's Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) provided funding, training, and ideology, turning a loose Shia militia into Iran’s key proxy. It quickly gained fame for guerrilla attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Israel’s unilateral withdrawal in 2000 was spun as a Hezbollah “victory,” skyrocketing its popularity. The 2006 war with Israel further cemented its image as the only group to “defeat” Israel militarily. Hezbollah became a state within a state. It built vast social networks - schools, clinics, and welfare - in Shia areas, winning genuine grassroots support. Exempted from the 1989 Taif Accords disarmament as the “resistance,” it entered politics in 1992, joined cabinets from 2005, and won veto power. By the 2010s–2020s, its armed wing dwarfed Lebanon’s army, controlling southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut while rearming in violation of UN Resolution 1701. Hezbollah’s criminal empire turned it into a transnational terror group. It ran massive drug-trafficking networks: cocaine from Latin America through cartels and the Tri-Border Area, hashish and captagon from the Bekaa Valley and Syria, plus money laundering, arms smuggling, and human/sex trafficking rings that exploited Syrian refugees. These operations generated hundreds of millions annually, funding its military wing across five continents. This criminal stranglehold, combined with political veto power, Syrian war entanglement, and Iranian alignment, brought Lebanon to a complete halt. Once a regional banking and tourism hub, the country collapsed into hyperinflation, bank runs, over 80% poverty, mass emigration, and total infrastructure breakdown by 2019. Hezbollah also has a long history of terror operations targeting Jews and Christians. It carried out the 1992 Israeli embassy bombing and the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, killing over 100 civilians, mostly Jewish. In Lebanon it clashed violently with Christian communities during the civil war, using assassinations and attacks that deepened sectarian divisions. Hezbollah was deeply implicated in the October 7, 2023 attacks, coordinating with Hamas, publicly praising the massacre, and immediately opening a second front with thousands of rockets that killed Israeli civilians and displaced entire northern communities.

@DavidADaoud 79% of the Lebanese people believe only the LAF should have weapons. And 86% do not want a war with Israel (themedialine.org/by-region/new-…) news.gallup.com/poll/699071/le…

I'd love to see Lebanese weigh in on this and simultaneously note their thoughts about Israel.

@DavidADaoud x.com/joyce_karam/st…

@nntaleb Eh, two wrongs don’t make a right. Both Iranian and American actions can be bad

This imbecile is a Bloomberg journalist.

@YounisJoseph @HoosierWalter You’re ok and EMRs are indeed dinosaurs

@MiJamAhmad @HoosierWalter Stick has more personality than me

I scored over a 517 on my MCAT, with perfect scores on my sciences (132/132, 132/132) and had a 3.93 GPA with 2 years of research and lots of leadership positions. Got only 4 interviews and got off a waitlist in May, barely made it.

@BigDon_8888 @YounisJoseph No your retarded

@MiJamAhmad @YounisJoseph You’re retarded

@asdasdd3q @YounisJoseph Good movie

@MiJamAhmad @YounisJoseph you are a retarded parasite

@BadFaithComment @YounisJoseph Ur mom has a low IQ

@MiJamAhmad @YounisJoseph Dime a dozen? Nope. Low IQ detected.

@janemarie2009 @YounisJoseph 4,689 test takers get a 95th percentile MCAT score. Probably all gunning for the same schools with a class size ~100. It’s not special at the top. LOL

@MiJamAhmad @YounisJoseph Dime a dozen. Lol. It's a 95th percentile score. Higher than a top school like UCLA's average score too.

@HoosierWalter @YounisJoseph I’m going for personality of a stick

@YounisJoseph Stop it. I got into multiple DO programs with a 503. You either have the personality of a stick or only applied to only the most “elite” schools

@GulagMember0515 @deestiv Lmao get em But unfortunately something tells me they’re not here for evidence

@deestiv 6. Placenta previa risk goes up. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12… 7. Risk of stillbirth goes up. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC56… academic.oup.com/humrep/article…

I would love to have a serious and nuanced conversation about the age 35, 'advanced maternal age', and what that really means but this app is absolutely not the place for it unfortunately.

@mongoosenewyork @BrentAWilliams2 NYU made their medical school tuition free. After that change, fewer people chose primary care. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… statnews.com/2024/04/22/fre…

Look, if you want to double the pay of the primary care jobs and specialties that American medical graduates don't choose, then fork it over, I'm all for it. But unless you are willing to do that, you aren't going to convince American medical graduates to work in these fields and in areas of the country where Medicaid penetration is 75% of the patients. IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.