It was a legitimately nonprofit hospital and he probably was overpaid, but at least he was a practicing physician at one point and did seem to give a damn about his staff.

I once worked at a hospital in the ER where the department director was a union-busting bastard, but the CEO was pretty reasonable. After I left, one of the other ER techs went to the CEO about our pay being messed up and got everyone $5-6/hour raises to actual market rate. Also, there were a few weeks when we were really understaffed that the hospital encouraged admin folks to volunteer as “candystripers” in the ER to do stuff like help clean/turn over rooms, and answer patient call lights for water, blankets, etc. And the CEO was down in the ER for a couple hours every evening helping out most of that time period. It was encouraging to see the CEO of the hospital putting on some gloves and helping us with basic stuff like cleaning and stocking.

Let’s rewind to the part where you look at why they are mortal enemies, and realize that the same problem is still happening in the West Bank at the same time as the mass murder in Gaza.

Israel lost 0.014% of its population to the Hamas attack. Gaza has lost about 0.52% of its population to Israel’s rampage and that over 40% of those deaths are children. How is that comparable at all?

Yeah, I worked in pediatric emergency medicine for a while and it’s really not the fault of literal children that they get hurt by these kinds of things.

I plan on working in emergency medicine after med school, and I feel like I’m going to have to get a dummy/burner phone to put TikTok (or its future equivalent) on to keep up with what trends and memes will be coming through the ER.

See, this is why we need to divert over-bloated policing budgets to proper civil servants.

Enforce zoning regulations and apply rental laws or hotel regulations to Air BnBs. If you make them actually follow the rules, it suddenly becomes vastly less profitable.

Relevant Contrapoints: https://youtu.be/qtj7LDYaufM

Yes, yes…most species have individuals that do horrible things to other animals/species, but I’m more willing to ignore the outliers of species that do not have the capacity for complex ethical philosophy. In this case, pointing out aberrant abominable behavior is more pedantry than discourse, in my opinion.

I’m always down for replacing problematic celebrities, especially when you can replace them with precious critters.

I’m keeping my reddit account alive for just a handful of subreddits because there aren’t really equivalent communities here or elsewhere.