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  • In the US, the AMA has always artificially limited the supply of MDs. Over the last century osteopathic medical schools basically adopted all the same philosophies of evidence based medicine as “regular” medical schools, maybe with a vestigial course or two on spinal alignment. Both have the same licensing requirements.

    At this point, DOs in the US are basically just regular doctors with lower MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs, and indeed, they basically fill the role of providing doctors to less lucrative specialties and regions.




  • Even this can use some aditional context. SCOTUS took away a tool, nationwide injunctions, that judges were using to pause executive actions by presidents in both parties. They said that a class action was more appropriate, and a District Court judge has already certified a class for people affected by the birthright citizenship EO, and its accompanying injunction should go into effect by the end of the week.

    This SCOTUS has been insanely cowardly in not taking on this stuff head-on, but I do tend to think that that other than Thomas and Alito, they think much of this shit is unconstitutional, so they’re intentionally slow-playing it with narrow rulings, hoping the mid-terms and public opinion will save them from having to piss off Papa Trump and the MAGAs. It’s disgraceful because it’s hurting the country and real people, but hopefully it’s not unfixable in a structural sense.



  • wjrii@lemmy.worldtoDogs@lemmy.worldShe was a good girl.
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    We lost our “young senior” heeler mix unexpectedly a few weeks ago, from seizures, either due to simple epilepsy or maybe Old Dog Distemper since he spent an unknown amount of time as a stray when he was young. He too made the choice for us, declining rapidly overnight at the animal hospital, to the point where they don’t think his brain ever truly woke up fro the cluster seizures, though I understand that also means he likely felt nothing.

    It’s been very hard, even with the legitimate joy of bringing a new puppy in. Thoughts are with you in a tough, tough time, and I think we want to relate our stories just to let you know there are people who truly empathize.



  • Our new guy is a mutt (Embark DNA pending) and is still in the goony velociraptor phase, but he already plays with the older one there (only about 4, though) largely by driving him and nipping at heels, and he’s learned to abuse the strap of “potty jinglebells” on the back door just to ask out to hunt for june bugs and investigate everything.

    Oh, and our last pup who passed away was mostly Heeler and while he decided after a period as a stray that his ass wasn’t going anywhere he didn’t absolutely have to, he also did a great death-glare, making me question my life choices deep down to my soul. 🤣









  • Given the quote is from a Democrat state senator, I am guessing at least part of him agrees.

    The level of sheer incompetence is also extremely impressive. Evil populist Trump is getting outcompeted by evil-smoothbrain trump that can’t understand anything other than bullet points and sounbdbites:

    “There’s pressure on the ice agents to be able to pick up 900,000 people in the next six months, which I think is physically impossible,” said Senator Jimenez.

    The sheer enormousness of the utterly arbitrary number has meant they’ve had to eat so many more faces than is politically prudent, to say nothing of it being fucking awful. The leopards are going to get sick. Assuming we still have actual midterm elections, Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer are going to ethnically cleanse the republicans out of the majority.