The decision established that minors at open-air sites were in #legal custody of the DHS & thus must receive #safe#shelter, even if they had not yet been formally processed.
The outdoor areas where migrants have been waiting lack #shelter, #food & #sanitation, which has given way to an array of #PublicHealth concerns for the most vulnerable. Unaccompanied #children & young #families sometimes arrive in poor #health, acc/to #aid workers & #medical volunteers at the sites, suffering from #traumatic injuries or chronic health conditions that require #medications that have long since run out.
Woke up to a request from my long term disability company to fill out an incredibly invasive questionnaire and basically sign over my rights to personal privacy.
Canada needs to look at the overreach of these companies. They prey on the disabled.
I’ve been receiving benefits for 3+ years and I think this is my last straw. I’m not filling that out. I’ll lose half my monthly income.
I guess I’ll need help filling the gaps somehow… ugh.
The #UnitedStates has allowed >40k #refugees into the country in the first 5 months of the fiscal yr after they passed a rigorous, often yearslong, #screening process that includes #security & #medical#vetting & interviews w/ American officers overseas.
Medicare forced to expand forms to fit 10-digit bills—a penny shy of $100M
the real story is the last sentence.
"...found that Americans pay nearly three times more for prescription drugs than people in 33 other wealthy countries.
" #medical#medicare
Getting another molar pulled on Wednesday. I'll need dentures this year & need #MutualAid help to pay for them - no medical coverage for dentures. I have only few molars left.
My #medical#fundraiser update -
$730 raised of $4,205 goal • 14 donations total.
It is due to one amazingly kind & generous person - who donated $3000 towards my #medical#dentures#fundraiser tonight.
I'm so incredibly grateful & completely shocked at the same time. I'm not used to getting any huge donation. This will really help lower my financial anxieties & related depression.
I don't have enough words to express how very grateful I feel, right now. I want to create new art for kind donor💗❤️💗
I am getting another molar extracted on Wednesday. I will need dentures this year & need #MutualAid help to pay for them. I don't have medical coverage for dentures.
My #medical#fundraiser update -
$730 raised of $4,205 goal • 14 donations total.
Please keep boosting(please also share on other socials if you have those) to try & help me, if you're unable to donate any funds: https://gofund.me/ccdeb731
Thanks to everyone who can help me with paying for a set of #dentures 🙏❤️🦷🤲
I was paralyzed by polio as a toddler & live with post-polio aka #PPS, now.
[#Children are still suffering from #polio today, but the #disease is much rarer than it once was. In this short article, I want to show how far the world has come in our battle against polio, and I want to show that we today have the opportunity to #EndPolio once and for all. This — the #GlobalEradication of polio — would surely rank among #humanity’s greatest achievements. ]
Avoid getting 'solar retinopathy' during the upcoming #solareclipse. Some advise from the Canadian Ophthalmological Society (eye doctors with MDs). And what solar retinopathy is.
Interesting, some empirical research on how GPT4 /ChatGPT performs in summarizing. Still the low rate of errors can be unacceptable in some contexts. As noted "Life-critical medical decisions should remain based on full, critical, and thoughtful evaluation of the full text of research articles in context with clinical guidelines.". https://www.annfammed.org/content/22/2/113 #AI#ChatGPT#GPT4#summary#medical
Today, I'm taking Mom to doctor for follow up & she may or may not have to get more blood work done - depending on how appointment goes. Working in afternoon.
Still zero new donations & my #Medical#fundraiser to be able to get #dentures is stuck at $280. Need close to $4,000 more. Please boost/share on your socials.
Need dentures asap for medical reasons related to my osteoporosis. Have only coverage & funds to cover all extractions I need. I need dentures to be able to eat. I'm now begging for financial help needed because BC govt won't help me get dentures. I'm disabled & unable to work FT now. I don't know what to do.
Are there any #medical#scientists or #researchers or #neurologists doing any current studies on human #brain & #memory retention - specifically on maximum capacities of human brain memory storage & if there's a limit to how much we can store in our brains?
Like, if we build up many new memories, do we reach a point where some past memories are removed from our memory storage or is there no maximum limits to human memory storage?
These are things I wonder about & don't know enough about.
I think that it's absolutely horrifying that the average person can't purchase and stock antivenom, antibiotics, steroids, epinephrine, insulin, or IV saline fluids.
The very act of saying this is radical. gasp! But we can't be trusted with such things! The lay person would give out antibiotics with abandon, fail to properly place an IV, give epinephrine when it isn't indicated! People would die!
This is what we've been taught, and it's bullshit. It doesn't take twelve years of medical school to identify anaphylaxis, especially in someone you know. Most people are concerned enough about the side effects of antibiotics to reserve them for when they're really necessary (and the average household is NOT the cause of widespread antibiotic resistant organisms: industrial livestock and our own medical establishment are). It doesn't take more than a week to learn how to properly place an IV. It doesn't take a genius to administer antivenom if someone is bit by a snake.
But you know what this access would do? Save people. From death, from severe disability, from tens of thousands of dollars of medical bills that make them wish they'd just died in the first place.
These skills could be taught to 8th graders in school. It isn't complicated. First aid, wilderness medicine, and basic life support training needs to go beyond "call for help when you identify x, y, and z". Medical care, especially emergency medical care, should be a basic human right, and by this I mean we should have the right to administer it to ourselves and our community without barriers.
Reserve the hospital for true surgical emergencies. I don't want to take out my child's appendix, for example, without an OR and anesthetics. But there is an extremely wide range of mild to moderate ailments and even real emergencies that could be treated better and more immediately IN PLACE if the average person had access to the right equipment and the most basic accessible training that could easily be passed on to other community members.