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Explain them fully, because most parents don't.

If theres options to help numb the spot or aanxiety meds they can get for a future appointment, get them that.

Don't be rude or curt, its scary there and sharp needles hurt.

And please for the love of god make sure you're actually sticking the right spot with the right sized needle so you don't cause more pain than it'll already be.

This week, the Associated Press reported rather matter of factly that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes.”

Any Palestinians remaining in northern Gaza – a large area including Gaza City – “would be considered combatants – meaning military regulations would allow troops to kill them – and denied food, water, medicine and fuel.”

But that intensified genocide-by-starvation plan is already well underway. On Saturday, the United Nations World Food Programme said that no food aid has entered northern Gaza since 1 October.

“People have run out of ways to cope, food systems have collapsed, and the risk of famine is real,” Antoine Renard, WFP country director for Palestine, said.

In reality, Palestinians in northern Gaza, particularly children, have been starving to death for months as the direct result of Israel’s declared policy of cutting off all life-sustaining supplies to the territory.

Yet while Israel is open about its intentions, it could not carry out this mass-murder by starvation without the aid and support of the United States – which still purports to be working towards getting more aid into Gaza.

Following the news brief from Nora Barrows-Friedman, we’ll speak about the situation with Laila Al-Arian.

An Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, Laila is executive producer of Al Jazeera’s flagship documentary series Fault Lines. A recent episode, “Starving Gaza,” documents how the United States government has been knowingly covering up for Israel as it deliberately starves Palestinians to death. You can watch it here: • How Israel’s man-made ...

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's day 376 livestream. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by EI contributor Abubaker Abed live from the Gaza Strip, and award winning journalist Laila Al-Arian. You can watch the entire broadcast here:

Hi Michael,

I would work through a few different things to see what level of note taking and time commitment works best for you to get the results you’re happy with. Back in medical school I tried things like making notes from the explanations and reading around the topic etc.

But I value doing other things with my time than just studying for work-related exams given how much of my time is already spent being AT work lol. So here’s my slacker version of active recall:

I just do question banks.

This helped me pass both MRCS Part A and Part B first time despite Part B being an OSCE exam.

If I keep getting something wrong, I will narrow down the question filters to answer all of the ones on that specific topic/ category. I rarely make notes other than to write down quick aide memoires or to write out a particular fact I think is VERY important. Otherwise I’ll just re-do the questions I got wrong and re-read the explanations.

For Part B I found that an added layer to this was to read the explanation and then explain it back to myself from memory until I could essentially teach it to myself without looking at the question/ answer, working out blocks in my understanding as I sat there talking it through to myself.

I don’t make a lot of notes because I never re-read them so I just repeat questions I got wrong or flagged ones I only guessed by accident in the banks. I don’t have the patience to make my own questions but I can see how they would be very helpful.

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