total amateur

Jewish culture is watching PHM and during the part where Rocky gets tangled in the measuring tape thinking “he’s wrapping tefillin.”

(If I could draw better I would 100% draw Jewish Eridian fan art)

For example, John Doe and Joe Schmoe in American English, Chaim Yankel in Yiddish, Ploni Almoni in Judaism.....

And also whether there are different names for when talking about more than one person, such as Berel and Schmerel in Yiddish, Reuven and Shimon in Judaism, etc.

it's not just "that doctor has internalized misogyny" it's that western medicine is, as in so many parts of our culture, deeply authoritarian. the patient is meant to be a passive problem to be solved by the active doctor. there is meant to be a stark harsh line between you and the doctor, where you are pure of any medical knowledge and simply report the raw data & let the doctor interpret it. this is how the system works. it fucks over marginalized groups the most because that's how marginalization works, but even a thin white abled cis man could get fucked over by this shit if he's unlucky.

#but i really do think changing the culture of residency is the key to changing so many problems in medicine

#if you're expected to work to the point and past exhaustion you're going to expect your patients to tough it out

#if you're expected to treat your attending as an unquestionable authority then you're going to expect your patients to treat you that way

#diversity is not going to fix the issue that doctors have to endure legitimate trauma to get their license

#and are also discouraged from getting therapy for that trauma for fear of losing that license which absolutely happens

#the fact that therapy is discouraged and can risk your job rather than MANDATORY for physicians is so backwards

#i know what viewing all those pathology images did to me i can't even imagine what that does to someone working in clinical care

#i think the way doctors behave make more sense if you realize that every single one of them has unprocessed trauma

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

The only thing that will happen is that more innocents will die and Israel will be incentivised to more aggressively eliminate threats. The iron dome is what allows it to have MORE restraint.

I keep thinking about this quote from the Politico article:

that's fine, I even agree, but it's not what's being done.

for example:

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Israel is not being treated like other countries, and not being held to a standard set for other nations, including for the United States itself. instead, it's being held to a much higher, much more exacting and demanding one, and the threats against it are minimized or legitimized as Israel itself becomes seen as a global pariah.

I don't absolve or excuse Netanyahu and his right wing government for their actions and contributions to that, but the problem is...even if he were a dovish prime minister, in the aftermath of 10/7, I believe what we've seen happen in the world would still be the response, no matter what Israel did. we saw this in the reactions beginning on 10/8. because it's not about Bibi, it's far more existential than that. if it weren't, these politicians would support defense apparatus (the Iron Dome isn't even a weapon, it's a shield. it just stops more civilians from being killed), and they wouldn't align themselves with virulent antisemites or support an isolationist's bill that would even negatively impact aid for the people they pretend to care about. the dignity and safety of Palestinians is not their driving motivation.