Yep!
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Such a relief!
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Happy Valentine’s Day…
Aww, zoo animals have an app for 
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About damn time.
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Her husband of 45 years supports her, even when 185 children ended up hiding out from the cutters at their family compound in December. “Now it’s five,” he smiles. “The ones we have at home, the rescues we have done, these children who run to her, who don’t want to be cut, I feel what she is doing. It touches me. She has a soft heart. At first, she was doing it alone, but now there are like-minded people,” he says.
Small acts are still important acts.
Any act of kindness is a positive choice for both (or all) people.
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Woo-hoo! 
I might watch the Oscars this year!
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Thanks for posting that grio story. It wasn’t long ago that Antentor Hinton was a grad student here. Glad to see he’s moving up fast and making an impact. 
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OMG!!! SOCIALISM!!! /s
Or just, you know, being a society. I guess your choice?
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Well . . . . I think it’s more of a pushback against having a responsibility to help those kind of people who obviously don’t deserve it. Protestors of that ilk are always OK with societal obligations when they’re getting the help, or their restrictions are placed on others. They’re perfectly fine asking the other to kick in for the common good. “Hey, we need your neighborhood for a stadium, here’s some public housing in exchange.”
It’s only when they’re asked to sacrifice for the common good that it’s an issue.
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When I took MCATs, there was an experimental essay section (no clue if they still do it or not) and this was the writing cue: Respond to The Starfish Thrower
I read the poem, and for a couple minutes I couldn’t write because my eyes were watering too much.
There were complaints about this later, basically saying “that touchy feely stuff has nothing to do with medical school.” Which says a lot about what is wrong with medical school.
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Sometimes, not even that. Union workers who detest unions (or even non-union workers who benefit from the standards unions have fought for); people who hate “Obamacare” but depend upon the Affordable Care Act; etc. If it wasn’t for people who actively agitate against their own self-interest, there would be no Republican (or Conservative, for Canada) Party.
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I’d quibble with this, though. In my (very narrow experience) the folks I’ve met who use Obamacare but hate it, give the rationalization that their taxes support this, so they might as well because they’re paying for it. It’s the freeloaders (ie. “the poors”) who are causing the problem. But, YMMV on that feedback, for sure.
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Because we should have a single payer system that cuts out all the things they hate about Obamacare! Dummies…this is their fault, but, you know, socialism.
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Yer perfect, doc. Stay human.
Bless your big ol’ willing heart. Which btw has everything to do with medicine and healing, no matter those arguments and complaints in medical school.
Would that the world would follow your example more.
Your patients are lucky to have you.
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Hint: they’re the poors. We all are.
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