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@GottaLaff yeahhh I was thinking about that last night 🤬

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@GottaLaff yeahhh I was thinking about that last night 🤬

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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic I think that being an obsessive reader of speculative fiction since childhood, I also saw that there were possibilities for better (for lack of a more articulate word) ways of living as individuals and in communities. So even though I felt broken compared to what my family or my boyfriends/husbands wanted me to be, I also had a larger vision and deeply hidden yet strong belief that they were really really wrong.

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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic I think that being an obsessive reader of speculative fiction since childhood, I also saw that there were possibilities for better (for lack of a more articulate word) ways of living as individuals and in communities. So even though I felt broken compared to what my family or my boyfriends/husbands wanted me to be, I also had a larger vision and deeply hidden yet strong belief that they were really really wrong.

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5/5 #healthcare rant

What I do know is that I don’t trust the healthcare system in the US. I don’t trust many of the individual practitioners that I’ve encountered, for the most part, because they don’t seem to have the capacity for holistic and critical thinking about my health and the health of the people I know.

They are just trying to hold on and trying to keep us afloat. I don’t think anyone knows how to get safely to shore any longer.

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5/5 #healthcare rant

What I do know is that I don’t trust the healthcare system in the US. I don’t trust many of the individual practitioners that I’ve encountered, for the most part, because they don’t seem to have the capacity for holistic and critical thinking about my health and the health of the people I know.

They are just trying to hold on and trying to keep us afloat. I don’t think anyone knows how to get safely to shore any longer.

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4/? #healthcare rant

Why did it take four years for my dentist to find two practitioners to work with him while he got ready to retire?

Why can’t my optometrist find anyone to work with him and eventually take over his practice?

Why are so many health practitioners walking away from the field?

I don’t really have any answers. I don’t want to play the blame game against individuals who choose their own well-being over their previous or potential patients.

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4/? #healthcare rant

Why did it take four years for my dentist to find two practitioners to work with him while he got ready to retire?

Why can’t my optometrist find anyone to work with him and eventually take over his practice?

Why are so many health practitioners walking away from the field?

I don’t really have any answers. I don’t want to play the blame game against individuals who choose their own well-being over their previous or potential patients.

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3/? #healthcare rant

It’s not just medical doctors /primary care physicians. It’s dentists, optometrists, veterinarians, psychiatrists and psychologist.

Those of us who are lucky are forced to be our healthcare coordinators, trying to use legitimate sources to research information.

Those who aren’t lucky are at best neglected and at worst dying.

Last night, lying awake worrying about what I was going to find out today, I tried to think a little more deeply about these issues.

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3/? #healthcare rant

It’s not just medical doctors /primary care physicians. It’s dentists, optometrists, veterinarians, psychiatrists and psychologist.

Those of us who are lucky are forced to be our healthcare coordinators, trying to use legitimate sources to research information.

Those who aren’t lucky are at best neglected and at worst dying.

Last night, lying awake worrying about what I was going to find out today, I tried to think a little more deeply about these issues.

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2/? #healthcare rant

She was so competent! She was so clear and sure. She answered every question easily with great explanations.

I have not had that experience with any of the healthcare providers I’ve gone to over the past four years.

I live in a relatively wealthy community in a relatively wealthy state and there are no medical doctors taking new patients.

Everyone here is seeing Nurse Practitioners who are so overworked and overwhelmed that their exhaustion is always apparent.

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2/? #healthcare rant

She was so competent! She was so clear and sure. She answered every question easily with great explanations.

I have not had that experience with any of the healthcare providers I’ve gone to over the past four years.

I live in a relatively wealthy community in a relatively wealthy state and there are no medical doctors taking new patients.

Everyone here is seeing Nurse Practitioners who are so overworked and overwhelmed that their exhaustion is always apparent.

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1/? US #healthcare rant

I thought I was going in for an evaluation today for the infection on my arm.

It’s been more than four months of primary care practitioners saying 🤷🏻‍♀️ gosh it’s a mystery here are some more antibiotics.

They finally sent me to a surgeon who took one look, knew exactly what it was and what to do, and did a small procedure to remove an infected cyst.

I go back next week to see how well it’s healed and find out the result of the culture.

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1/? US #healthcare rant

I thought I was going in for an evaluation today for the infection on my arm.

It’s been more than four months of primary care practitioners saying 🤷🏻‍♀️ gosh it’s a mystery here are some more antibiotics.

They finally sent me to a surgeon who took one look, knew exactly what it was and what to do, and did a small procedure to remove an infected cyst.

I go back next week to see how well it’s healed and find out the result of the culture.

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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic I guess I must have thought that everyone went through the ongoing evaluation and reevaluation of how we fit into the larger culture and into our own lives and how close we can get to satisfying our own souls.

Being late diagnosed in my 60s help me to see my life very differently, of course.

But, I thought that people who didn’t do this constant examination were the weird ones, the somehow incomplete ones.

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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic I guess I must have thought that everyone went through the ongoing evaluation and reevaluation of how we fit into the larger culture and into our own lives and how close we can get to satisfying our own souls.

Being late diagnosed in my 60s help me to see my life very differently, of course.

But, I thought that people who didn’t do this constant examination were the weird ones, the somehow incomplete ones.

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@anneapplebaum Jeffrey Goldberg, the American who volunteered for the IDF to torture Palestinian prisoners.

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@anneapplebaum Jeffrey Goldberg, the American who volunteered for the IDF to torture Palestinian prisoners.

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@sleepy62 @GottaLaff I have tried, and I absolutely cannot comprehend them, but I do believe they exist which isn’t the case for too many of us.

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@sleepy62 @GottaLaff I have tried, and I absolutely cannot comprehend them, but I do believe they exist which isn’t the case for too many of us.

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Not surprising and quite troubling
#privacy https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1 13356559123367265

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Not surprising and quite troubling
#privacy https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1 13356559123367265

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@WilliamKretschmer it would be great if you would provide alt text and source/artist for the images you post.

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@WilliamKretschmer it would be great if you would provide alt text and source/artist for the images you post.

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@pathfinder @Susan60 @allenstenhaus @spika @actuallyautisic It’s like y’all are my family 😁

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@pathfinder @Susan60 @allenstenhaus @spika @actuallyautisic It’s like y’all are my family 😁

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“Thousands of bottles of the antidepressant duloxetine, which is sold under the brand name #Cymbalta, have been recalled due to the presence of a toxic chemical, according to a notice from the Food and Drug Administration.”

EDIT: **do not** abruptly stop if you are taking this medication - talk with your medical provider first! More info in article.

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#recall
https://www. cbsnews.com/news/duloxetine-re call-2024-name-brand-cymbalta-fda-chemical/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=631709312

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“Thousands of bottles of the antidepressant duloxetine, which is sold under the brand name #Cymbalta, have been recalled due to the presence of a toxic chemical, according to a notice from the Food and Drug Administration.”

EDIT: **do not** abruptly stop if you are taking this medication - talk with your medical provider first! More info in article.

@GottaLaff
#recall
https://www. cbsnews.com/news/duloxetine-re call-2024-name-brand-cymbalta-fda-chemical/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=631709312

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@arosbottom This is so precious 🙂

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@arosbottom This is so precious 🙂

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@CoachMark best guess is part heeler, part pointer, and all rez dog (literally found her as a puppy wandering in the high desert of New Mexico at a rest stop between Navajo and Zuni nations).

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@CoachMark best guess is part heeler, part pointer, and all rez dog (literally found her as a puppy wandering in the high desert of New Mexico at a rest stop between Navajo and Zuni nations).