#frontier medicine

[chaoticcloudcommand]

You know you're American when you try to avoid the expense of the doctors by attempting to cure yourself with willpower and the placebo effect.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Map taken from MSF on twitter. They state that Nasser hospital is now out of commission, leaving people in Gaza with increasingly limited options to seek healthcare.

Hospitals are not legitimate targets.

This is a genocide.

[metamatar]

November 11, 2023—Hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment over the past 24 hours. Al-Shifa Hospital complex, the biggest health facility where staff for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.

The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. MSF teams and hundreds of patients are still inside Al-Shifa Hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire, and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff, and patients.

“We are being killed here, please do something," texted one of MSF's nurses from the basement of Al-Shifa Hospital this morning, where he and his family were sheltering from the incessant bombing. “Four or five families are sheltering now in the basement, the shelling is so close, my kids are crying and screaming in fear.”

"The situation in Al-Shifa is truly catastrophic," said Ann Taylor, MSF's Head of Mission in Palestine. "We call on the Israeli government to cease this unrelenting assault on Gaza’s health system. Our staff and patients are inside Al-Shifa Hospital, where the heavy bombing has not stopped since yesterday.” [...]

MSF denounces this death warrant on civilians currently trapped in Al-Shifa Hospital signed by the Israeli military. There needs to be an urgent and unconditional ceasefire between all warring parties; humanitarian aid must be supplied to the entirety of Gaza now.

At Al-Quds Hospital, MSF has lost contact with a surgeon who is working and sheltering there with his family. Other health facilities, including Al Rantisi Hospital, which MSF has also supported in the past, were reportedly surrounded by Israeli tanks.

(emphasis mine)

[khaperai]

Female medical students, Peshawar, early 80s

[flippetyfloppity]

In the wake of all the fun of how the augmentation reveal changes the previous five seasons, I’ve become convinced that “frontier medicine” is just the kind of thoughtless, self-important bullshit Julian Bashir’s Starfleetsona would say rather than a thing he actually believed or set himself up to practice. I know the Doyalist explanation for the way Bashir comes across so differently post-LMH reportedly involves a combo of Siddig’s disdain for the plot twist and just messy seesaw writing for his character (among others), but Watson’s thoughts would lead us back to how, up until now, the carefree arrogant naïveté is part of a longer con, that well-crafted, bright-eyed misdirect.

Because the on-the-ground reality of serving on DS9 is hardly frontier, lmao. That is a fully stocked infirmary. He’s got a whole surgical suite with everything he could possibly need, including keeping bodies in stasis and complex cosmetic surgery to transform people into Klingons. There’s not even any indication Starfleet Medical is going to go do rehabilitative care planetside for the Bajorans. As far as you can tell from the first season, Bashir’s job is mostly to stay on the station. Nobody would say it’s cushy, but it’s also hardly “frontier,” and he would know the specs and responsibilities before going.

The truth of the matter is something about Palis, something about the position her father secured for him, spooked him enough to run. And once we meet Lense, we see there’s no fucking reason the salutatorian of Starfleet Medical would not have been snatched up by any number of prestigious postings, except that Bashir a) wants to be as far away from Earth and his family and Palis’ family as possible, and b) needs to fly under the radar for the rest of his career. What better cover than essentially jury-rigging his own version of the intergalactic Peace Corps? I can picture Julian putting in for the position at Deep Space Nine and dropping the vapid, sanctimonious “frontier medicine” justification to anyone who’d listen. It’s a bonus the phrase yields a hard yikes from anybody in hearing range; the more instantly off-putting it is, the less people are going to take a second look at his motivations. All the better to cover up how he’s scrabbling frantically to get the fuck out of dodge ASAP.

[basingstokemercury]

"How to start off a fanfic where Julian ends up separated from his support network and forced to try and deal with a huge complex situation on his own merits?"

"Of course! He's on his way to a medical conference!"

[palmtreepanicsys]

alright everybody laugh.. the sonic fictive.. gets TOO motion sick to play sonic games sometimes.

har dee dar okay actually i need help i want to unlock characters in sonic speed simulator but omg the MOTION SICKNESS IS REALLY BAD GUYS..

-Zephyr ⭕️

[intensebread]

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it launches on march 25 and all proceeds go to doctors without borders !!!

[cuddleswinchester]

I’m glad we are all in agreement post canon Julian works at a Cardassian hospital

[mazeppafanart]

Being a dad is hard >3<

[dungeonofthedragon]

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[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

This is a genocide happening before our eyes and our government is complicit.

[xtruss]

[fauvester]

theres literally no trope that makes me go as ravenous nutlost as human au garashir where garaks a lonely bitter middle aged foreigner who falls in love with an overzealous broke medical student via some kind of Situation

[solitariussanctumartarchitecture]

For the first time since the 11th century BCE, scientists have unwrapped – virtually, using CT scans – the mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I (r. 1525 to 1504 BCE), the only royal mummy to remain unopened in modern times. They show that the pharaoh was around 35 years old, 169cm tall, circumcized, and in good physical health when he died, apparently from natural causes.

This was a fascinating read and it emphasises how modern technology can really help in the field of archaeology. I read the original paper published, which goes into more detail. The link is within the article if you wish to give it a read.