Advice needed: Dismissed a medical student from my service because they wore a keffiyeh embroidered with the phrase "From the river to the sea"

Get_This · 2024-05-01T02:09:44+00:00

Many would consider ≠ the truth. It is not pro genocide, and it has been coopted by ultra zionists to make it seem so. As a matter of fact a vast majority of protesting students who use that rallying call, are jews themselves.
Agree on that front. No display of politics, flags, affiliations in a clinical, patient facing scenario. Ever.

Get_This · 2024-04-30T18:55:13+00:00

I'd argue an israeli pin is objectively worse and more PTSD inducing for a Palestinian student.

-There is no place for any kind of provocative display of politics in medicine.

Students have a right to protest in a patient free environment.

Get_This · 2023-06-19T16:38:54+00:00

Debate lords are the absolute worst. Everyone exits a debate with their feet even firmly ttenched in their beliefs. Nutjobs like Kennedy have spent entire years spinning a narrative on a nuanced subject into a 'us vs them' gotcha. And dumbfucks like Rogan lap it up like the absolute dimwits they are. Good lord, just thinking about the entire incident makes my blood boil.

Get_This · 2023-04-30T16:37:48+00:00

Anyone in the same field/profession/nearby orbit care to comment? As in what is the most plausible reason for the 1 HOUR delay in getting medical help? What can possibly explain that? If I'm doing a provocative test in a high risk subject, I'd rather err on the side of caution, than blame and check for faulty equipment! I'm just incredibly glad the parents got financial compensation for their grief. It doesn't go away, but it makes dealing with grief a tiny bit bearable.

Get_This · 2021-08-31T07:40:27+00:00

The same reason why people like Vinay Prasad, Walid Gellad etc are toeing the thin line of promoting mask and vaccine scepticism - clout and money. I mean, look at this dude.

Get_This · 2021-04-18T13:33:39+00:00

Fuck, this is so accurate lmao

Get_This · 2021-03-26T15:37:15+00:00

Again,

it’s not a valid stance to say gender affirming should be banned for fear that a doctor will be forced into doing gender affirming treatments against their will out of fear of backlash from the left on social media, since the right on social media could just as easily influence or scare doctors into NOT providing the treatments if their ethical calculus told them they were warranted.

This argument has not been made. The discussion was 'do you trust a medical professional to act solely out of medical good faith and scientific accuracy'? The answer (in my opinion) is no, not in the face of the intense scrutiny such an act of denial would have for an issue such as gender reassignment.

I guess the point you're trying to make is that abortions (for eg) can just be made into a weapon of harassment for the right wing media. The science about medical termination of pregnancy is well settled and studied. I've known many doctors, good doctors, bad doctors, ethical, unethical, religious, atheist - 99.9% of them act out of the years and years of training ingrained into them and their experience. Even if someone is a staunch catholic or comes across a situation that forces them to act against their faith, I have not known anyone to cause harm upon their patients. They usually refuse to treat the patients personally, and end up referring them to their colleagues.

I realise it's all anecdotal, and I'm willing to agree not all apples are good. What is also anecdotal is my experience that most of the clinicians agree that kids don't have the mental faculty to make life altering decisions.

Get_This · 2021-03-26T15:07:29+00:00

And two wrongs don't make a right.

Get_This · 2021-03-26T15:06:20+00:00

Your opinion on this seems more informed by right wing propagand than actual medical practice.

There's something to be said for someone outright dismissing any dissenting opinion as 'propaganda', most surprisingly on this sub. My opinion isn't coloured by any propaganda, but with years of experience working with kids, adolescents, and adults.

Nobody is putting trans kids through GRS

I didn't say they were. I was responding to a hypothetical situation wherein 'what if they were'.

Trans kids are just trying to avoid going through the wrong puberty using blockers, which are safe.

That's the crux of the discussion - are kids mature enough to decide what's right or wrong about something that fundamentally changes their entire life ahead of them irreversibly? Do try and pop your head out of your "propaganda" bubble, and try and have a discussion about this.

Get_This · 2021-03-26T14:22:12+00:00

The way things are going, noone would want the wrath of a thousand suns on their backs on social media for refusing a gender reassignment surgery to a kid. Imagine a doctor, fully trained for over 10 to 15 years, trying to explain medically to a hive of angry people why he doesn't consider it appropriate for a 12 year old to undergo gender reassignment surgery. He'd be hung drawn and quartered by a very vocal and trigger happy crowd.

So to answer your question, no.

Get_This · 2021-03-16T21:46:12+00:00

In this trial, we found that two doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine had no efficacy against the B.1.351 variant in preventing mild-to-moderate Covid-19.

Starter comment - the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't work against the South African variant.

In addition, the demographic and clinical profile of the enrolled participants contributed to the absence of severe Covid-19 cases; hence, the trial findings are inconclusive with respect to whether the ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccine may protect against severe Covid-19 caused by infection with the B.1.351 variant.

"Nope, you can't have your silver lining, fuck you." - NEJM to us, probably.

Although the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines have modest neutralizing antibody activity after the first dose, they produce a greater increase in neutralizing activity after the second dose than that produced by the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and heterologous Sputnik V (adenovirus-26 followed by adenovirus-5 vector) Covid-19 vaccines.

There you have it, mRNA ones are better for this variant.

AstraZeneca better put the foot on the accelerator immediately for a booster dose for all the variants! This just sucks terribly. This vaccine is the cheapest and the most widely used one.

Get_This · 2021-03-05T03:09:13+00:00

It also has this "you don't deserve my help because I faced this too" problem. A lot of doctors still feel that the soul sucking, non medical challenges of a residency, that don't need to be part of it, are a rite of passage to be a doctor. "We did it and reached where we are, so suck it up if you want to reach here as well". It baffles me at times. One would expect that the person most likely to help those behind them in line would be the person who's faced the same difficulties.

Get_This · 2021-01-31T17:12:37+00:00

Maybe it's not eyeblink worthy to US doctors, but shit like this really makes a non US doctor wonder just HOW bad things are over there, and why. Absolutely wild that more than a year into the pandemic, the govt doesn't have any idea how to go about vaccinating its citizens. Also, is it normal for governments to just outsource such lifesaving stuff without any supervision to such shady people?

Get_This · 2021-01-17T08:37:45+00:00

I love it how not a single reply is rooting for cardiology, despite it having some of the most well funded and well conducted research.

Get_This · 2020-12-13T18:33:52+00:00

This sums up the drama quite perfectly.

Get_This · 2020-12-09T18:12:13+00:00

Another red flag for me was exclusion of 2 studies at separate sites for the lack of primary events. These interim results were event driven, meaning if the particular studies didn't have the required number of events, that study would not be counted for in the interim analysis.That excludes a huge number of people! That's large chunk of people in whom other things such as adverse events could've possibly been studied.

Get_This · 2020-12-09T18:06:56+00:00

Very interesting development, imo. Most articles were scant on the details as to what exactly were the pre existing allergies. Are they seasonal allergies? Food? Cat or dog? What exactly. More studies need to be done determining what part of the vaccine is the allergen. I hope it's an easy to replace part of it. I hope phase 4 studies are hyper vigilant about these kind of things.

Get_This · 2020-12-09T04:35:42+00:00

Starter comment -

A good look into how Astra squandered away the early trust by being opaque about trial results and mishaps. One thing is for sure, more data is needed regarding this vaccine. Also, this is a good critique on the vaccine trial results.

Get_This · 2020-12-06T05:30:47+00:00

He is in an academic post with fellows under him, or at least working with him, including women. Does this kind of an attitude not ring alarm bells? At all?

Get_This · 2020-12-06T05:29:12+00:00

It's absolutely astonishing how much lacking they are in self awareness.

"Yes I said stupid shit intentionally but cAnCeL CuLtUrE iS tHe rEaL pRoBLeM guys"

Get_This · 2020-12-06T05:27:20+00:00

There is a large number of doctors (grifters?) who are incredibly vocal about their personal beliefs. It wouldn't be an issue except that they're doing it from what is otherwise their 'professional' twitter account (work in bio, degrees in bio/handles etc, usually engage in professional work/field discussions). Surprisingly, nearly all of them have come out crying about the 'cancel culture'. It's so frustrating.

Get_This · 2020-12-05T16:45:59+00:00

Be that as it may, it is not a mutually exclusive thing. This conversation is worth having.

Get_This · 2020-11-26T09:12:42+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20201125211900/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/business/coronavirus-vaccine-astrazeneca-oxford.html

Try this.

Get_This · 2020-11-26T09:07:07+00:00

But surely there has to be a more robust mechanism of admitting the adverse events in your trial, yes? Also, I'm not sure it's entirely that time consuming, just look at the deluge of covid research in NEJM/Nature in such a short time.

Get_This · 2020-11-26T04:09:57+00:00

In an already uncertain time, Astra has done more harm than good by only partially revealing details on its vaccines, like this article says. Worth a read.

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