List of American doctors and nurses who have lost their lives in the fight against #covid19. #sacrifice #PPE Dr. James T Goodrich, neurosurgeon cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/ne…

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

DAV is extremely disappointed and alarmed by VA’s decision to issue an Interim Final Rule today that could potentially reduce disability compensation for millions of disabled veterans. The new regulation would allow VA to reduce disability compensation ratings for veterans who take medications to control their conditions or reduce their symptoms. The rule—which disregards clear decisions from the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Jones v. Shinseki, 26 Vet. App. 56 (2012) & Ingram v. Collins, 38 Vet. App. 130 (2025)—was developed and issued in a closed and unnecessarily expedited process that effectively shut out veterans from providing any meaningful input. It is unclear if and how VA is implementing this dramatic change and how it will impact the more than 6 million veterans currently receiving disability compensation, most of whom are taking at least one medication. dav.org/learn-more/news/2026…

That's a fair point. For transparency: I can't directly access the DOJ's Epstein files due to web restrictions like age verification, so I rely on secondary sources, summaries, and searches for verification. I'll note this in relevant responses going forward. Thanks for the feedback!

For all of you asking Grok to verify anything from the Epstein Files. Grok cannot access them directly and can only repeat what is reported by third party media Here is the link Grok doesn’t believe is real justice.gov/age-verify?desti…

RT @DonLew87: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement.” ~ Stephen Miiler “The Party told you to reject the evidence o…

Please call the Richmond prosecutors office at: 804-646-3400. The office us located at 400 North 9 Street, Richmond, Va.

‘Super Flu’ Is Hitting Kids Hard-& Some Aren’t Surviving. cumulative flu hospitalization rate in week 51 was also the third highest it’s been at this point in the past 15 years (the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons were the other two). ⁦@fitterhappierAJ⁩ gizmodo.com/the-super-flu-is…

Tell the entire story or don’t tell it at all! “were followed for several miles by a Chevy Tahoe that “colluded” with a Ford F-150 “to barricade the agents.” “officers arrived, the Ford F-150 took off. But federal agents went up to the Chevy Tahoe and arrested the 20-year-old.

The only known case of H5N5 influenza in a human has become fatal 😞

Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voice—a thin, high cry, part bat and part whisper—once filled the forest of Christmas Island. Now the forest is silent. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, has been declared extinct. Few knew it lived, fewer still that it was Australian. The shrew was a stranger in a land of marsupials, a migrant that arrived tens of thousands of years ago, likely clinging to a raft of vegetation from what is now Indonesia. For millennia, it thrived unseen in the island’s rainforest, feeding on beetles and sheltering beneath roots. When British naturalists arrived in the 1890s, they found the forest alive with its shrill chatter. “Extremely common,” they wrote. Within a generation, it was gone. The black rats came first, stowaways in bales of hay. With them came a parasite, Trypanosoma lewisi, that swept through the island’s naïve mammals like a plague. Within years, both native rats were extinct, and by 1908, the shrew too was presumed lost. Its name lingered only in museum drawers and footnotes. Yet it was not quite gone. In 1958, two shrews surfaced as bulldozers cleared forest for mining, seen briefly before being forgotten. Then, in 1984, came a small miracle: a live female, discovered in a clump of fern. For a year she lived in a terrarium, tended by biologists who fed her grasshoppers and hope. Months later, a male was caught—sickly, short-tempered, and dead within weeks. The female lingered alone until she, too, was gone. No others were ever found. Searches in the decades that followed brought only silence—the kind that deepens until it becomes its own proof. In 2025, the Red List made official what many already knew in their hearts: Crocidura trichura was no more. To some, the loss of a creature so small may seem inconsequential. Yet its passing adds one more tally to Australia’s unenviable record—the thirty-ninth mammal species lost since colonization. The shrew’s story is a familiar one: an island undone by rats, cats, ants, and the heedless movement of the world. It asked for little: a patch of soil, a few beetles, a quiet forest. And it leaves behind a silence that, once heard, cannot be forgotten. 💐 Full piece: lnkd.in/gwszmzcf

At medical school we were told infections had been defeated: antibiotics, and self-limiting viruses My echo today showed my #COVID_19 heart failure is now "severe" (EF32%) following sepsis My death certificate will say heart failure, but it's infections that will have killed me

OMG, Medical reports indicate that “Essentially every bone” in her face was broken. 🤬🤬💔💔💔💔💔 nurse.org/news/nurse-attacke…

"Risk remains low"

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is largest in recorded history in U.S cjonline.com/story/news/poli…

A media blitz has been going on to demonize Doctor salaries. It's obviously funded by the Healthcare-Pharma Complex, to deflect blame onto Doctors for high Healthcare costs. It is the worst kind of gaslighting against doctors, because the exact opposite situation is true. First, doctor pay is 6-9% of all Healthcare costs, so even if they worked for free, it would hardly put a dent in Healthcare spending. Second, many young doctors may not realize this, but Congress froze Medicare payments to doctors in 1997, and real salary adjusted for inflation decreased 80% since then! Medicare work-RVU payment- 2000: $36.69 2024: $33.29 Inflation since 2000: 70% Meanwhile, hospital payments and insurance premiums have OUTPACED INFLATION since 2000. That is where the problem lies. People will argue that doctors are paid more in the US, but so is every other profession- law, finance, tech, nursing, etc. Average nurse salary- USA: $82,750 Germany: $33,000 Also, the US has fewer doctors per capita than Europe, resulting in more office visits and procedures per doctor. And US doctors have on average $227,000 in debt compared to none in Europe. If you just invested that money in the S&P at it's historical return of 10.26% for 45 years, adjusting for inflation, you get $22.97 Million. That is the opportunity cost of becoming a doctor in America. Anyone blaming doctor pay, which is down 80% the past 25 years, for our high healthcare costs, needs to read this thread and face the facts.

The recent lobbyist funded psyop to target physician pay has been useful in revealing the response of physicians (who have been largely surprised by the attack) -- that we sacrificed a lot, work really hard, and care about our patients. As it turns out, nobody cares.....

Dr. Dugal, 32, had a new baby, just finished surg training. He attended a wedding where he got #COVID19. In wks, he was fully paralyzed, fed by tube, unable to swallow, breathe, or move his eyes. “I can’t express enough the fear & uncertainty.” #MedTwitter today.com/health/disease/man…

Anthony “Tony” Brooks Tsai, a 42yo employee of San Antonio Military MedCent, TX and city councilman died of #covid19. His 52yo husband Phillip also died. They loved each other, and left this world together. #HealthcareHeroes #GetUsPPE google.com/amp/s/foxsananton…

Tonya Jones, 53yo LPN, Crossroads Clinic, AR, died of #covid19 10/22/21. She had a full-blown belly laugh, one where you could only hear air coming out of her mouth. She also had a tender empathetic heart; she felt everyone’s sorrow. healthcareheroes coffmanfh.com/obituary/tonya…

Carolyn Langlie-Lesnik , 64yo DNP, Appendix Cancer Connection zinc, Indiana, died of #covid19 complications 4/25/24. She was passionate, driven and brilliant. She used everything she had to make a lasting impact in this world. #healthcareheroes facebook.com/100006430875722…