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Personally, I don't use but I gotta ask b/as long time SA Counselor & Clinical Neuropsychologist,
What ARE these people so on re weed about? Theres NOTHING abt weed comes anywhere close to t/individual, 1/

relational, marital familial, societal and physical and mental health damage done by alcohol (ism) daily. PERIOD FULL STOP

& Research that was so long denied has found a plethora of bennies.

That's not to say no abuse occurs or is possible, (however, [stick with me here] 2/

I see a variety of WS groups currently abusing [t/great American symbol of home family & motherhood] MILK these days...
Hey, if it's a substance/any substance or something transduced or processes by your chemical brain [neurochemistry baby] use misuse, abuse addiction & 3/

deadly addiction is a thing, A BIG THING including "thought addiction," [we MH profs call this obsession] which seems a likely group DX for folks on the right who are virtually obsessed with weed as if it were Hitler, meanwhile they're tryna convince themselves he had a 4/

rational national plan on repeat. But I digress).
Bottom line: Cannabis Use/Abuse Disorder is far less (note t/word LESS) common, far less damaging both in t/short- & long-term & pop #s for Cannibis Use/Abuse are no where near those of alcoholics & the resulting death maiming 5/

[THREAD] In our last thread, we talked about the physical symptoms of mental health. Let's focus this one on the psychological symptoms, mainly intrusive and racing thoughts. Why do they happen? What are the solutions for them?

While physical symptoms can be very hard to deal with, psychological ones are not easy. Intrusive thoughts are some of the most troubling to deal with. It is important to note that every single person on this planet gets intrusive thoughts. No exceptions!

Why do they seem to impact some more than others? That's because in someone who does not have anxiety, they will simply overlook these thoughts. They know they are thoughts that they won't act on. However, in someone who is suffering from anxiety, those thoughts will stick.

That's because the intrusive thought(s) will induce a lot of anxiety, and the more emotion we attach to a thought, the more likely it is to be saved in our memory and come back often. Therefore, a thought that should have left right away stays for a long time.

The reason why intrusive thoughts are scary to begin with is because they are often of sexual, violent, and dark thoughts. Therefore, we get scared that we may lose control and act on these thoughts or turn into a bad person. However, the fact that they are scary means a lot.

ON FAITH PART 8: HEALTH AND WEALTH

Begins now 👇

#Illuminare

1. The Bible says to visit the house of mourning if you want cogitative wisdom. Ecclesiastes 7:2-4. The house of mourning is not necessarily a funeral parlor. A hospital qualifies as house of mourning. #Illuminare

2. You become sober when you visit a hospital. It’s the opposite of a house of mirth – a night club or beer parlor. What is alarming is the continual supply of patients. The flow just never stops. #Illuminare

3. There is a political dimension to disease. Disease has an ideological posture. By nature, it is an oppressor. The oppression is so powerful there’s collegiate resignation by the afflicted. They simply bow powerless. Sickness is hell bent on subjugating the human soul.

4. The affliction of a disease like cancer induces unimaginable terror. The Bible acknowledges the political ideology of disease. It also identifies the personage behind the oppression. We’re told Jesus went about doing good and healing all that were OPPRESSED - #Illuminare

A physician colleague's insurance will not cover her anti-nausea medicine (Zofran/ondansetron) for her CHEMO. It is $280.40 cash for 30 pills at Walgreen's. I logged into a physician/hospital medical supply company and can buy 30 pills for $3.30. That's an 8500% markup. 1/

It is easy to be angry at the insurance company bc Zofran is a well-known therapy for chemo-induced nausea and it should absolutely be covered. However, I'm sure Walgreen's buys in bulk and gets it for even less than $3.30. Add in labor, plastic bottle and charge $25. 2/

Retail pharmacies make an absolute killing, especially on cash-pay patients. Some pharmacies will offer a cash discount. However, in some states, pharmacists are not allowed to tell patients if the cash price is lower than their insurance co-pay. This is absolutely criminal. 3/

Medicaid negotiates with drug companies. For example, if you had asthma prior to 2016, Medicaid would cover brand-name Xopenex inhalers but not generic albuterol. So, we would have to write prescriptions for an expensive drug the patient didn't need so it would be free. 4/

How are emergency room physicians supposed to remember what drugs are on Medicaid's formulary, let alone all of private insurance? But how frustrating to be a patient and take in a prescription your doctor thinks you need only to find out it isn't affordable. 5/

Really trying to find the words I want to say in the letters I’m going to write to the ED and the GI clinic for 1. Minimizing my symptoms, asking me in a condescending way if I have tried icy hot. 2. Not treating my pain appropriately and making me feel like a drug seeker.

3. Brushing me off numerous times and not taking me seriously. And 4. Legitimately making me question myself and making me believe it was all in my head.
I cannot put into words how this experience had been.

The ONLY reason I was able to get a HIDA and get a confirmed diagnosis of biliary dysfunction was because I was working with a surgeon on ICU and I had an attack. I was double over in pain, pale, shaking, and diaphoretic when he sat down next to me

And started to do an assessment. He opened my chart reviewed everything and within 5 minutes was concerned about my gallbladder and ordered a HIDA through his clinic. If it was not for that encounter with him (which was all by chance) who knows where I would be.

I got lucky because I am a nurse and I was working with a surgeon who listened to me and decided to bypass all the BS and get me in for a scan that my PCP and 2 ED docs didn’t want to order. I could not imagine what would have happened if I didn’t talk to him about it.

So with all of our new followers, it seems sensible to tell you a little bit about who we are and what we do! EveryDoctor is a membership collective of doctors and medical students which is supportive of doctors and who believe in the NHS and what it does for all of us.

We have just over 1650 members, and we also run The Political Mess on Facebook, the largest private doctors' group of its kind, so that we can draw from as wide a pool as possible, with some small caveats.

We're an explicitly inclusive organisation, with a firm anti-racist, anti-bigotry platform which we seek to protect. We want to be a place where groups who're more vulnerable or marginalised for a range of reasons are able to speak up, so we hear their voices too.

When the pandemic began, our petition of 45000 voices called on the Health Secretary to deliver masks, goggles, gowns and gloves to every NHS worker, not just frontline staff. Because of our persistence, NHS England changed its guidance on eye protection and procedures like CPR.

As the cases worsened, we stepped up our efforts. We ran 17 parliamentary briefings with MPs to give them the facts about the crisis. 104 cross-party MPs from every nation backed the #ProtectNHSworkers campaign. More details at:

Q: Why do we use a stethoscope?
A: For many reasons, and here’s one of them that I will argue is undervalued. And is still at the heart (hint hint) of some ongoing research…

First described by Potain in 1880, the gallop rhythm refers to the presence and cadence of abnormal diastolic cardiac sounds, namely S3 and S4.

In 1989, Stevenson and Perloff described the previously unestablished relationship between physical exam signs, increased ventricular filling pressures, and decreased cardiac output in chronic HF patients. Stevenson et al. JAMA. 1989.

An excellent point is made in this paper: “While the relationship between physical signs and hemodynamic profile has a firm basis for acute congestive heart failure, the chronic state is characterized by a host of compensatory mechanisms that may cause disparities, …”

“…such as the absence of rales and peripheral edema despite symptomatic elevation of ventricular filling pressures.”

This cohort had quite the notable med regimen: digoxin (84%), furosemide (84%), vasodilators (56%), and milrinone (4%); 39/50 were being evaluated for transplant

Good morning, early birds! The Oklahoma State Department of Health is considering privatizing at least the management of its new public health lab and the state's new pandemic center.

A letter to agency employees Tuesday from Commissioner of Health Dr. Lance Frye said, "This consideration will include the potential privatization of some functions, programs, services, units and/or divisions of the agency,"

A statement Wednesday by OSDH Deputy Commissioner Travis Kirkpatrick indicated the agency did not intend to privatize the lab as a whole and instead said it was considering a management agreement with Prairie One, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the OSU Research Foundation.

"This agreement, which has not been finalized, would allow OSDH to focus on and strengthen public health priorities to better serve Oklahomans and leverage public resources to maximize our capabilities," Kirkpatrick said.

"'Privatize' is broadly defined under state statute - it means to enter into a contract for the performance of a duty or function that is currently being performed by a state employee," he added.

Okay, I just found out the very name of the learning disorder that resonates with my condition

That’s me alright, shit

I had always known that there was something wrong with me, something I had had a hard time putting a name on. Apparently, I have auditory processing disorder. That is me to the bone. The bane of my existance

I had always been this child who can’t sit still in the classroom, listening to lecturers drone on. During my high school, I read comic books as I tried to listen to the classes. I was and am disorganized, it isn’t a surprise that I got into troubles with authority figure a lot

Even during my university year, I don’t listen at classes, I prefer to study by myself rather than processing the verbal information which I have a hard time processing as instantly as others. I am not a good listeners either in class setting or outside of it. And it shows

There are two issues with the English variant, as it is now referred. One issue is "what it could do" and the other issue is "what it could represent". They are both important and we know just enough to make hyphoteses that can drive to experiments. I'll try and explain 1/

Let's start with the latter: what does it represent? Mutations happen all the time and variants have been recorded in the thousands. The website below shows several 1000s different variants recorded in different countries. Why is this SO special?

The most special aspect of this variant is that the number of changes it shows is a large disconnect from its parental line as if this lineage made a big sudden jump rather than the usual slow progress to which we are used. 3/

There are a few (certainly not many) scenarios that are compatible with this jump and one of them is the one in which the virus has tried to escape its way out from an organism that had a static and relatively weak immune response.

4/

Such an organism is an immunosuppressed patient who tries to fight the infection with injections of donated plasma from a recovered patient. Someone who cannot produce antibodies and can be helped with plasmapheresis from a donor who could. 5/

Thread on #AyurvedicSurgeons

I have been quiet on this issue because I have read history of medicine in India & written about it in my published articles. You can check them out on my blog

Ayurveda got stoned by the British during the period they ruled India. Let us agree that+

Let us also agree that the tradition of Guru Shishya Parampare was lost during this period in Ayurveda.

Creation of Medical Register & Registered Medical Practitioners where traditional medicine doctors including Ayurveda were not registered literally killed Ayurveda practices+

Ayurveda practitioners of 18th & early 19th century had to face lot of problems because of this.

Did you know that Apothecaries & Doctors of Allopathic medicine were the first brown sahibs??

The labourers estates of South India were converted to churchi using their influence

Traditional medicine had to be reigned in to use modern medicine as manna & to convert the unwashed masses where their God had not reached.

I am happy that Traditional medicine is getting its due now. However it should not become Ayurveda vs Allopathy like it is depicted now +

Surgery is a specialised branch of Healthcare. As a hospital administrator I know how difficult it is to ensure that the patient gets the best care.

Do you know that Operation theatres have undergone sea change just in past 20 years. Even the air inside changed every few minutes

Epileptic Seizures: A fatal Brain (neurological) Disorder.

(Thread)

Topics to be discussed are:
• Definition/Overview
• Types of seizures
• Causes
• Symptoms
• Treatment

Thread's gonna be a bit long.

(So starting in the name of Allah from the beginning until the end)

What is a seizure?

A seizure occurs when part(s) of the brain receives a burst of abnormal electrical signals that temporarily interrupts normal electrical brain function.
The brain is the center that controls and regulates all responses in the body. It consists of nerve cells

that communicate with each other through electrical activity.

√What is epilepsy?

Epilepsy is a neurological condition involving the brain that makes people more susceptible to having recurrent, unprovoked seizures. It is one of the most common disorders of the nervous system

and affects people of all ages, races, and ethnic background. Anything that interrupts the normal connections between nerve cells in the brain can cause a seizure. This includes a high fever, low blood sugar, high blood sugar, alcohol or drug withdrawal, or a brain concussion.

I am very late to this #MedicareForAll floor vote debate, but since it is still raging, I’ll join the fray by telling you a little story.

In 2019, after I testified at the first ever #MedicareForAll hearing, I got back to Santa Barbara and realized that my own Democratic congressman was not a cosponsor of the bill! So I did some organizing.

We pulled together a ragtag coalition of some old timer health care activists, the local DSA chapter, some college students, a women’s political club, and a local elected official. We met in my living room three times to scheme.

We scheduled a meeting with our rep, @RepCarbajal. 25 of us crammed into his office even though his staff said there was only room for 8). We talked, he listened. He talked, we listened. He said he supported a strong public option. He promised to send us questions in writing.

We left, disappointed but eager to win his support. We started planning a rally. We gathered petition signatures at the farmers market and the college housing. His staff sent over 15 really detailed and good questions. We asked the National Nurses Union to help us answer them.

Papaya (Carica papaya) is a perennial fruit tree widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates for its nutritive and medicinal values. It is very popular in Kenya where it is grown for both local and export markets.
#MudavadiSpeaks #SundayMotivation #SundayThoughts #kot

male (staminate) – this has male parts and doesn’t produce fruits. Flowers are produced in large numbers in long dropping branches.
The female (pistillate) has female parts only. Flowers are large, situated singly or in clusters near the tree trunk and close to the base of stalk

Hi,just a quick message here about #IDPWD2020 .It's been a tough year for Disabled people, and i wanted to take this thread to reflect on this from my personal https://t.co/M6RAkbs9uh you will see certain organisations providing lip service for exposure...

...here's a reminder to listen to what Disabled people are saying on this day,to get a true perspective on what this day means to Disabled people. When we open up about difficult experiences, it's important that people listen, instead of being ignorant...

In 2020 alone,we have had to contend with Anti-vaxxers,inaccurate portrayals of Disabilities in media,Ableist slurs on both sides of the political spectrum, Parents with Disabled children who believe our views don't matter and during a pandemic, we have been forgotten about...

This highlights to me,that more work needs to be done in order to push for equality and acceptance for the Disabled communities, however Disabled people already share their stories,they already provide educational experiences,non-disabled people have to pull their weight...

...for change to have a chance of happening, so when you see,for example, the British Department of Work and Pensions suggest they support Disabled people, ask them why they are not members of the Disability confident scheme. We must ask these questions to have a chance...

@GloriaSlap
Craig, M. C., et al (2007). Gonadotropin hormone releasing hormone agonists alter prefrontal function during verbal encoding in young women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32(8-10), 1116–1127.

I will link this back to the original thread, but it is better for Clarity and to stop any gaming of Twitter and the creation of any labyrinth where details get lost to be avoided.

This 2007 paper identifies issues with GnRHa usage and Executive Function.

As memory is affected, especially the formation of NEW memories for new information, and the implications that subjects are not able to grasp and utilise new information needed for "Informed Consent", impacts upon Executive Function are evident.

Using Google Scholar as a quick and dirty source, we find that the paper and evidence is cited in at least 51 other papers since 2007.

The breadth of concerns raised is interesting.

The implications of the Contraceptive Pill on brain function and reduced executive function get raised. - A Sexed issue.