From the Washington Post -
Eighteen years of gun violence in U.S. schools, mapped
By Philip Bump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/14/eighteen-years-of-gun-violence-in-u-s-schools-mapped/?utm_term=.215940a36d93
Friday, February 16, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
ENOUGH!
From the Huffington Post -
Kimmel Writer Calls Out GOP In Blistering Replies To ‘Prayers’ After Florida Shooting
Bess Kalb has names and dollar amounts for NRA-linked lawmakers.
By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bess-kalb-nra-tweets_us_5a84ee69e4b0058d5565cbac
Kimmel Writer Calls Out GOP In Blistering Replies To ‘Prayers’ After Florida Shooting
Bess Kalb has names and dollar amounts for NRA-linked lawmakers.
By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bess-kalb-nra-tweets_us_5a84ee69e4b0058d5565cbac
When the Doctor Becomes the Patient
An excerpt from The Atlantic -
A Breast-Cancer Surgeon Returns to Work After Breast Cancer
Liz O’Riordan went from doctor to patient, and back again. Here’s what she learned on the way.
By ED YONG
Doctors face particular challenges when they become patients—challenges that they are rarely prepared for. It is hard to relinquish control and allow others to dictate the treatments that you yourself are used to doling out. It is crushing to know your own prognosis in the starkest terms—a 65 percent chance of surviving for 10 years, in O’Riordan’s case. It is awkward to see your own former patients while you’re being treated: To strike up a chat would break confidentiality.
And it is difficult to be cut off from the same supportive forums and networks that other patients use to share experiences and support; if you let slip that you’re a doctor, you become a source of information, rather than a comrade in illness. After getting her diagnosis, O’Riordan tweeted about it, and began blogging about her experiences. She was contacted privately by several people who said: I’m a doctor, and no one knows I have cancer. She ended up with a secret network of 15 such people. Two of them have since died.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/a-breast-cancer-surgeon-returns-to-work-after-breast-cancer/553199/
A Breast-Cancer Surgeon Returns to Work After Breast Cancer
Liz O’Riordan went from doctor to patient, and back again. Here’s what she learned on the way.
By ED YONG
Doctors face particular challenges when they become patients—challenges that they are rarely prepared for. It is hard to relinquish control and allow others to dictate the treatments that you yourself are used to doling out. It is crushing to know your own prognosis in the starkest terms—a 65 percent chance of surviving for 10 years, in O’Riordan’s case. It is awkward to see your own former patients while you’re being treated: To strike up a chat would break confidentiality.
And it is difficult to be cut off from the same supportive forums and networks that other patients use to share experiences and support; if you let slip that you’re a doctor, you become a source of information, rather than a comrade in illness. After getting her diagnosis, O’Riordan tweeted about it, and began blogging about her experiences. She was contacted privately by several people who said: I’m a doctor, and no one knows I have cancer. She ended up with a secret network of 15 such people. Two of them have since died.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/a-breast-cancer-surgeon-returns-to-work-after-breast-cancer/553199/
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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