Holding another person in distress, embracing is traditional way of calming or stabilising. There are many ways to use it. /2
A mother can revive a dead newborn by holding it. She can maintain stable temperature, breathing and heartbeat in children all ages. But particularly infants. /3
You can stabilise trauma victims by lying down next to them at the site of their accident and alining your body next to theirs to reduce their pain and agitation. Must be careful if suspect spine trauma motto dislodge. /4
You can help keep the dying at peace by climbing into bed next to them and holding them. /5
When people receive sudden bad news, you can hold them in a prolonged and sustained embrace until you feel them get relieved of the initial reaction whatever it may be./6
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Two ways to make a diagnosis: one more in line with the traditional role of the physician, the other adapted to modern healthcare demands—are at odds with one another /1 alertandoriented.com/whats-a-diagno…
When you learn how concepts such as diagnosis or a definition of disease change over time, you understand how people may manipulate you and your reality. Then you can agree or deny what is done to you. /2
For example, to collect payment from an insurance physician codes your condition as chronic pain because what you feel or experience meets criteria of a chronic pain. /3
After a day of thinking I concluded that my perspective was shaped by my family, place (USSR) and time. By the time I was a teenager my worldview on medicine was cemented. /1
Personal experience with medicine was a major factor. How my family dealt with health and illness. I was born with a heart defect and was a very sickly child with an impressive medical record and three hospitalizations including a TB hospital. /2
The summer I got accepted into the university I dodged my fourth hospitalization on suspicion of diphtheria. In no uncertain terms with a raging fever of 103F (over 39C) I told my mother that if admitted, I would crawl home naked if needed. /3
A toad can die of light! Death is the common right of toads and men. Why swagger then? /1
A parasite of humans that extinguished us altogether, would quickly be laid to rest in human graves. The race between predator and prey remains exquisitely neck and neck. /2
We and our vermin all blossomed together out of the same humid soil...Five million years is a long partnership. /3
An example of confining argument within boundaries of meaninglessness. Life in this context reminds me of Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”. A soul was a count measure of serfs (slaves). /1
Dead souls were serfs that died but were still counter in property registers. The use of life in coronavirus population medicine serves a similar purpose. Nobody cares about individual people and their death and meaning of death in context of their stage in life. /2
The primary purpose is manipulation of statistical entities. Years of life lost. Lives lost. Death excess. Hypothetical theoreticals. /3
If you think there is an objective way to describe reality, health or illness, listen to these 3 part series to see that all of our reality is constructed with ideas wrapped in words. They change over time and space. /1
While listening think who has the ability or power to define what health or illness is. Who constructs knowledge? Whose knowledge matters?
Recently I moved from using the word health in my tweets because the word got corrupted. I opt for well(ness). /2
Important underpinnings of the scientific method as it emerged in the 17th century had to do with Judeo-Christian idea of one god thus one truth existed; reality is objective and logical; people have ability to accurately perceive reality; all reality can be explained. /3