Genocide or not, I’m still finishing medicine. No damn plan B

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

A doctor kidnapped from a besieged hospital, tortured and held without charge for over 500 days, would surely be called a HOSTAGE. Unless he’s Palestinian.

#BREAKING: President Trump signed a proclamation to allow commercial fishing in three marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean, home to wildlife found nowhere else on the planet. This puts some of our most irreplaceable ocean ecosystems at risk for short-term gain.

A decade-long project to bring water and energy into public control will lie at the heart of Andy Burnham’s agenda should he become prime minister, according to sources close to the Greater Manchester mayor. Exc from @kiranstacey theguardian.com/politics/202…

NHS MANAGERS HID 100,000 PATIENT SCANS IN CAR BOOTS One hundred thousand patients. One hundred thousand people went to hospital, trusted the NHS with their bodies, had X-rays and scans taken, and were never told what those scans showed. Some of those images showed cancer. Some showed serious illness that needed urgent treatment. The films sat in corridors and store rooms, rotting and unchecked, for years. Nobody looked at them. Nobody picked up the phone. Nobody told a single patient. This happened. At the Royal London Hospital. In the heart of London. In the 21st century. When health inspectors were due to arrive and see the chaos for themselves, managers locked the backlog in a storeroom so it would stay hidden. Consultants physically stuffed patient X-ray films into their car boots to keep them out of sight during official visits. The inspection came and went. The tick boxes were filled in. The patients stayed in the dark. Dr Otto Chan was a consultant radiologist at the hospital. A decorated, respected, senior doctor with 23 years of service. He found this scandal and he refused to stay quiet. He reported the hidden scans. He flagged that junior doctors were being pushed to perform procedures they had never been trained for, unsupervised, on real patients. He went to the British Medical Association. He went to the medical press. He did every single thing the system tells you to do. Barts and The London NHS Trust @NHSBartsHealth responded by sacking him for gross misconduct in June 2006. At the employment tribunal, the Trust did not apologise. They did not express concern for the 100,000 patients left in the dark. They told the judge that Dr Chan was not a whistleblower at all. He was a troublemaker running a campaign to damage the organisation. His concerns were pure fantasy. That was the official position of an NHS Trust about a man who found 100,000 unread patient scans hidden in a car boot. Half of those scans were never reviewed by a specialist. Ever. Those patients, and their GPs, will go to their graves not knowing what was on those films. Nobody was prosecuted. Nobody was struck off. The people who hid the evidence kept their jobs. The doctor who found it lost his. SOURCES: @guardian @NHSBartsHealth @EastLondonLines