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Srijna Nandivada, MD
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Srijna Nandivada, MD
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General Academic Internist at UT Southwestern RedBird ❤️🕊️ #ReducingHealthDisparities (tweets my own)
Dallas, TX Katılım Temmuz 2013
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Palestinian corpses used in Israeli medical training through US university programs
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An essay from The Baffler details how Israel has systematically seized Palestinian bodies from cemeteries across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and within Israel itself, citing security or DNA verification. Historical policies dating back to the British Mandate evolved into a system where remains are stored in morgues or unnamed “cemeteries of numbers,” and organs—including hearts, lungs, livers, and skin—have been harvested for medical research and surgical training.
Former Israeli military and forensic officials, including Meira Weiss, report that Israel’s skin bank, established in 1986 and run jointly by the Israeli military medical corps and Ministry of Health, is the largest in the world. These programs train medics in trauma and burn care using Palestinian organs, sometimes from prisoners who were alive or recently deceased.
The Baffler further highlights international connections to Israeli military medical training. In October 2025, the US Navy, through a partnership with the University of Southern California (USC) medical school, provided cadavers for Israeli surgical exercises in Los Angeles. These programs, active since at least 2013, involve simulated trauma scenarios with perfused cadaver vessels. When Israel returned hundreds of Palestinian corpses as part of a so-called ceasefire with Hamas, families had to identify dismembered and decayed bodies themselves because forensic materials were withheld. These practices reflect a systematic exploitation of Palestinian bodies for both state security and medical training, leaving families still deprived of proper burial rights.

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Talking to independent physicians, it's obvious that the big insurance carriers are doing to them, what their PBMs are doing to independent pharmacies.
They deny, underpay, slow pay, clawback, and create administrative mazes, knowing their victims don't have the time or resources to fight.
Why ? By putting financial pressures on physicians and pharmacies, it makes them more likely to sell their businesses to them , close their doors, or refer the business to their captive pharmacy or provider. All benefitting the biggest insurance companies
We need to ditch the concept of "claims" and make every delivery of medications or care as a billable event that must, by law, be paid on a timely basis , with interest charges for any delays. If the physician or pharmacy doesn't deliver , the carrier has plenty of legal options already. As does the patient.
This is not an efficient market. This is the big guy abusing the little guy. It needs to change to better the care we get in this country
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South Dallas organization provides meals, groceries to those in need. Here’s what to know dallasnews.com/news/inspired/…
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@OneLuckyGirl_28 Love and peace. Security and stability. A kind and loving husband who respects me
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@arireddy Yes, I want equal outcomes. I want the guy who no one believes has a chance of sitting at the same table as you to sit there.
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@SNandivadaMD Also, your statement doesn’t fit the picture, you are arguing for equity by giving boxes to achieve equal outcomes, not equality. Giving more to the disenfranchised based on identity is fundamentally incompatible with equality.
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@arireddy The game has been rigged from the beginning, purposely. And those who benefit are very aware of that. So admitting that and then evening out the playing field would build that very trust you seek. Depends on whose trust you’re looking for and why, I suppose.
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@SNandivadaMD Equality: everyone plays by the same rules.
Equity: the referee rigs the game until the score looks right.
Which one builds trust?
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