Stunning stats: Before "2007, people in the US never purchased more than 7M guns in a single year. By the time Barack Obama left office, the US was purchasing almost 17M guns a year." In 2020 US consumers "bought almost 23M guns in a single year." propublica.org/article/ryan-b…

Your homework for #Juneteenth2023 is to read this post by Dr. Robert Ray about racism he encountered during his year as chief resident. rrayjr.blog/2023/06/15/rac…

Didn’t find any news of Modi visit on ⁦The New York Times⁩ front page but found this scathing opinion piece arguing that Modi “has delivered prosperity and national pride to some, and authoritarianism and repression of many others that should disturb us all." nytimes.com/2023/06/22/opi…

ESPN Knowing what to do in case of an emergency saves lives. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart malfunctions & stops beating unexpectedly. Call 911 & push hard & fast in the center of the chest until help arrives.

Photos of civilians evacuated with privately-owned inflatables in the linked article. We're all potential environmental refugees, it's just not evenly distributed yet.

“CPR has become an expectation rather than an exception, a treatment meant for a few but applied to all,” Sunita_Puri writes. nyer.cm/BvIzvRZ

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where

Extraordinary attempt to break the world record for CPR training in Hyderabad today, over 2200 candidates. It’s a glorious way to start an EM Conference. Hats off to the Society for Emergency Medicine in India SEMI #EMCON

Bleach does not kill common superbug, study finds bbc.in/47OeLwl

I grow tired of hearing about “grit” and “resilience.” Terms that have been co-opted by institutions looking to transform systemic failures into individual problems.

Unpopular opinion: As far as POCUS in Critical Care is concerned, here in United States, we lag at least 5 yrs behind our colleagues in other parts of the world (Europe, Australia, NZ, Canada). The lag time has decreased w efforts from people like P Mayo, J Díaz-Gómez, S Koenig

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How the farmers protest in India is linked to the climate crisis. Or why climate politics is to be found everywhere and in things that would appear, on the face of it, unrelated to climate change. scroll.in/article/106382…

Talking predation in healthcare with Emily Peck @SlateMoney //slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2024/03/private-equity-looks-to-profit-from-your-healthcare

Bystander CPR makes all the difference.

The moment Leopold Sedar Senghor heard that Thomas Sankara had changed the name of his country from Haute Volta to Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 , and the people who live there will be called Burkinabes, he sent a letter to him saying Mr President, this appellation does not correspond to

ICU (Central Venous/Arterial) Line Secrets - Part 1: An ICU where the patients have no central lines & are not connected to ventilators is not a real ICU. This may be a controversial statement but in my humble opinion not far from truth

150k killed in Sudan war over last 9 months. 500k killed in Syria in recent years. Yet no protests; scant coverage. Surely every civilian killed in the regional wars - Syrian Israeli Palestinian Sudanese Lebanese - should count equally. Yet clearly for many they dont count