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~1 in 1,000,000 chance a random mid-1980s Western youth attended a Czechoslovak volunteer work camp. ~1 in 5,000,000 chance a random Brit ever becomes PM. Joint probability for both: ~1 in 5,000,000,000,000. This is like buying 1 ticket each time and winning the Powerball jackpot about 17,000 times in a row.

@jim_the_truth @jabberwock951 Cancer treatment and survival is exceptionally better in the United States. Antibiotic packs? Not expensive in the United States either, not $1, $5 maybe. There is a problem just handing them out because they stop working. Anyway, nobody is stopping you from going to Peru.

Peru is where I have direct experience, but my understanding is that medicine operates similarly in much of Latin America. Peru's medical system is obviously not as full of money as the US's, but it's also not bogged down in gatekeepers and financiers like ours. I got sick there several times (food poisoning, strep) and even had a broken toe. Got X-rays and a diagnosis at a walk-in place for $30 in 20 minutes, no insurance, cash in hand. Antibiotic packs for less than $1. Covid tests for $25. And this is all without comparison shopping. Just went to a place and got it done, and not even in Lima, but a city in the north that's much smaller and poorer. I funded half my mother-in-law's cancer treatments for less than a month worth of insurance premiums here. I've even looked into what my own meds would cost there—because you can do that, as there's a government website that transparently lists the whole inventory of every pharmacy in the country and all their prices. (It's pretty great, for real.) You can probably guess that my meds cost dramatically less there too, and they don't require a prescription. I just go and buy them. Only narcotics really require prescriptions. Everything else is OTC. It eliminates a lot of the middle-man transactions and ensures people can get medicine when they need it without having to travel all over town while sick. There's no reason medical services should cost so much or be so opaque here. It's intentionally inefficient and exploitative.

I'm not gonna lie, it is frustrating when you ask a patient what's wrong and they just give you a diagnosis. Like "I have a chest infection". OK, you're probably right but I need to know your symptoms to see if I agree with that diagnosis. I can't just take your word for it.

@quilssachent @AndrewJSauer There's a big DEI problem. Merit second

@AndrewJSauer Touching. 2 questions: did your surgeon know what you do for work, and did he tell you to try some Advil first? If the answers are yes and no, respectively, you know not of what you speak. (My mom’s a Dr. I don’t hate Drs. Y’all have NOT been sending your best, though)

I do not understand all the doctor-hating that seems to fill so much space online. I say that as a physician, yes. And also as someone who has now been on the other side of the bedrail. Of course, there are bad doctors. No profession is exempt from that. But the worst examples often consume all the attention, and in doing so, they can obscure something deeply true: great doctors bring hope, healing, and restoration into people’s lives every single day. I know that differently now. When I was the patient, lying on the ground with a shattered kneecap, staring at imaging that showed my patella in pieces, watching my knee fill with blood, feeling pain that seemed impossible to control, and fearing I might never walk normally again, I was not thinking about abstractions. I was thinking about disability. About loss. About whether life and physical ability, as I knew them, had just changed forever. Then I met the surgeon who reconstructed my knee. I will never forget Archie Heddings. He showed me the images and explained exactly what he would do. Piece by piece, he walked me through how he would reconstruct what had been broken. Screws. Tape. Sutures. Precision. Skill. Calm. He was quietly confident, never overstated. At one point I just bluntly asked, “Doc, can you fix this?” He looked at me, nodded calmly, and said, “Andrew, this is what I do. I fix broken, smashed stuff every day, all day. I will do my job, and you do your job with PT. You will walk, run, ski, and hike again.” That moment brought tears to my eyes. It also brought hope back into my soul. He booked the OR for the next day. Now, just 14 weeks after surgery, I am back seeing patients. During my last week rounding in the hospital, I climbed 160 flights of stairs. I can flex my knee to 130 degrees. I am not all the way back yet, but I am back in motion, back in purpose, and back in my life as a father and giving back to my patients and the world around me as best as I can. My surgeon is not God. But I will say this without hesitation: through his hands, his judgment, his training, and his care, he changed the trajectory of my life. So, when I hear sweeping contempt for doctors, I think now about moments like this. And it is much more personal. Sometimes the people who speak most dismissively about physicians have simply never had their moment yet, the moment when they are scared, hurting, vulnerable, and utterly dependent on someone with the training and courage to do what almost no one else can do. When that moment comes, they may understand. Doctors can do far more than treat disease or repair injury. Sometimes, they give people their lives back. Tell your doctor you appreciate him or her. A simple genuine thank you will really make a difference.

@DrCorriel @AndrewJSauer @purviparwani Why did we get rid of step 1 scores? That just a hint of the DEI corruption going on

This is very sweet. I love when we see positive messages written about others doing great work. Most of us have been on the other side of the exam room table and been patients. Many of us have also experienced incompetency. The difference sometimes lies in that those of us who have practiced medicine know that the system limits us, and so conveniently makes it seem like it’s the physician’s fault. At the same time, there is, of course, incompetency in Medicine, too. We have so many issues to address, in order to make healthcare a better place to practice in. We’ve sure got a long way to go. But I believe that it starts with autonomy. Pure and simply.

@ElectionCenter_ @DHSgov Retard

@DHSgov Fact check: the suspect got his green card in 2017 under the Trump administration.

A devastating loss for our department. Our prayers are with the family, friends and loved ones of Lauren Bullis.

Bill Maher: “I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000. They've burned 18,000 churches. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this?”

@Ace_Javier64 @michel_viot Pope isn't speaking from authority.

@michel_viot Le pape a raison. Vance n'a aucune autorité sur lui. Que Vance prie, obéisse ou se taise. Et, pour information du vice-président, c'est Dieu qui nous a transmis la doctrine de la guerre juste par l'intermédiaire de saint Augustin.

Pour que les choses soient claires : comme pretre catholique il est de mon devoir de dire au vice-président Vance,dont je connais les qualités qu’il n’a pas le droit comme catholique de donner ordre au Pape de se taire, ni d’invoquer les questions de moralité., avec des sous entendus désagréables. Comme vice-président, il peut bien évidemment invoquer la notion de guerre juste sans qu’il soit nécessaire de médire sur la moralité de l’Eglise. Je ne rajouterai plus rien sur cette question.

@Chau25006803 @michel_viot Are you?

@michel_viot Vance n’est pas un vrai catholique !

@michel_viot Nothing more on the matter would have worked fine one tweet ago.

@Pontifex You live in LA LA Land. We live in reality. Didn't be a political tool. No money for Peter's Pence! No money for USCCB. No money for the bishops.

Let us reject the logic of violence and war, and embrace peace founded on love and justice—an unarmed peace, not based on fear, threats or weapons. This peace is disarming, because it is capable of resolving conflicts, opening hearts, and generating trust, empathy, and hope. I strongly reiterate: The world thirsts for #Peace! Enough of war and all the pain it causes through death, destruction, and exile! #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

@Wefactcheckedit @TomSteyer Communists run out of other people's money

@TomSteyer these corporations should pay a 75% profit tax now that would be fair and eliminate all taxes nationwide outside these new tax plans only the rich should pay any kind of tax.

Billionaires like me and big corporations need to pay more in taxes, because too many Californians are struggling to get by.

@TomSteyer Lead the way and donate your money now

@SenWarren Better idea. End income tax

Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS? I have a bill to get that done.

@More_Plato @Joopiter15 @nypost @VoiceOfPersiaX WTFAU

@Joopiter15 @nypost @VoiceOfPersiaX No. They got caught committing a crime that caused death. Now they pay. x.com/ForgottenHero7…

Iran to execute the first woman over widespread anti-regime demonstrations trib.al/RVsULLu

@Joopiter15 @nypost @VoiceOfPersiaX Sánchez, Starmer & the Pope are complicit. They cry for Iran while 1,000 more face the gallows & tens of thousands are slaughtered. Sánchez grandstands to hide his domestic failures, protecting a regime that butchers its own. Their silence is a death sentence. Open your eyes.

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds bbc.in/4t7PuIp

Today in Nigeria: Imam offering 1 million Maira to behead Christian Pastors. Pope Leo in Africa yesterday: “We should perhaps be a little less fearful of Islam.” “…whoever carries out this job (of beheading the pastor), I swear to Allah I’ll give him one million naira. We have nothing to lose even if after beheading this pastor, the Arewa plunges into chaos, we have nothing to lose…”

@Lena178159 @CatholicSOTC Sarah should be Pope.

@CatholicSOTC Nope. I will listen to cardinal Sarah on this one. Not the commie Pope doing Obama's binding.

Pope Leo: "We should perhaps be a little less fearful of Islam." lifesitenews.com/news/pope-leo-…

@WassonWatch @CatholicSOTC Very embarrassing. Multiple Marxist Popes now The Vatican has been conquered.

@CatholicSOTC Ya'll should be embarrassed by this.

Among the top LSAT scorers (170 or above), 82.5% are White, 15.6% are Asian, 1.6% are Hispanic, and 0.3% are Black. Approximately 80% of all U.S. Attorneys are White. Of Biden’s 200 federal judges, 37% were White, 42% mix of Hispanic and black, and 14% Asian. It’s blatantly obvious what Democrats intentionally forced here.

@Athi1942 @elonmusk Today is about correct

@elonmusk White empowerment would make sense if white people were once oppressed in South Africa dont you think?

The South African laws are literally super racist, plain and simple. It’s not complicated: imagine if the law was called “White Empowerment”, instead of “Black Empowerment”! People would have a seizure 😂 South Africa now has more anti-White laws than Apartheid had anti-Black laws. Think about that for a second … The current South African government has objectively implemented Apartheid 2.0. Shame on them.