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February 26, 2022
'You cannot veto responsibility'
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1497347231707455490
February 26, 2022
Harsh conditions mean Russian troops near Ukraine will need to be moved soon
Analysis: advance forces’ battle readiness will quickly degrade
https://apple.news/A82M-0xU_T7GdvKdN5Xjgrw
Reminds me of other military blunders... Hitlers, Napoleons, et al
https://twitter.com/jonsoltz/status/1497343034110795782Harsh conditions mean Russian troops near Ukraine will need to be moved soon
Analysis: advance forces’ battle readiness will quickly degrade
https://apple.news/A82M-0xU_T7GdvKdN5Xjgrw
February 26, 2022
https://twitter.com/euromaidanpress/status/1497339980687028227
Zelenskyy in his evening speech...
https://twitter.com/euromaidanpress/status/1497335476293980160https://twitter.com/euromaidanpress/status/1497339980687028227
February 26, 2022
Putties war is not going as planned..
https://twitter.com/pitharoy/status/1497367346410926087
February 26, 2022
Grandpa gets involved....
https://twitter.com/franciskoromaj1/status/1497331096450654210
February 26, 2022
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1497282460094242818
NoShit...
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1497281766863822858https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1497282460094242818
February 26, 2022
Journalism in Ukraine....
https://twitter.com/maximeristavi/status/1497282205630009348
February 26, 2022
Dear Putin, 'Let's speed up to the part where you kill yourself in a bunker'
https://twitter.com/sihvo65/status/1497353766579888133
February 25, 2022
Part of my training as a forensic pathologist at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner included forensic neuropathology, which meant I was given the opportunity to attend a course on brain diseases at the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. I was privileged to join doctors from all over the country in Bethesda, boning up on our understanding of all the things that can go wrong with the brain and spinal cord. There were lectures on tumors, neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease, and head trauma. Most everyone there was an experienced resident physician in their final years of training. Over 90% of those in the room were neurosurgeons; neuropathology is an important part of the neurosurgery board examinations. Only a handful of attendees were pathologists.
When the instructor in the forensic neuropathology course projected onto the lecture hall's screen a series of autopsy photos in vivid color, a collective, horrified gasp rose in the packed auditorium. I was puzzled. What was wrong with these guys? They were experienced physicians. Sure, pictures of shotgun wounds to the face and comminuted skull fractures from suicidal jumpers can be unpleasant, but how could it be they were so revolted that some of them were averting their gaze? This is medicine -- they've seen it before, right?
And then it occurred to me: No, they hadn't. Neurosurgeons never see patients with injuries as devastating as these, injuries that are, in our parlance, not compatible with life. These are the patients who never make it to the hospital. They get declared dead at the scene, and then they come to us forensic pathologists in the morgue. So does every death that happens unattended at home, including simple falls from standing.
This is why I was not surprised that a recent New York Times article on the death of actor and comedian Bob Saget reported that "some neurosurgeons said that it would be unusual for a typical fall to cause Mr. Saget's set of fractures -- to the back, the right side and the front of his skull. Those doctors said that the injuries appeared more reminiscent of ones suffered by people who fall from a considerable height or get thrown from their seat in a car crash." The Times quotes commentary from Houston neurosurgeon Gavin Britz, MD, saying, "'This is significant trauma. This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.'"
No, it's not. Blunt trauma from swung baseball bats and falls from 20 or 30 feet cause much more serious injuries than Saget's. The injuries in Saget's autopsy are common in patients found dead at a scene after they have had a simple fall from standing height. By asking neurosurgeons to review an autopsy report prepared by a forensic pathologist, the New York Times chose to rely on interviews with doctors who are opining way outside their realm of expertise. In doing so, the paper has fed those reckons to a pack of social media conspiracy theorists who have, predictably, amplified doubts about a celebrity's manner of death as clickbait for profit.
Bad Falls and Bad Calls: Speculation on Bob Saget's Death
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/working-stiff/97330Part of my training as a forensic pathologist at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner included forensic neuropathology, which meant I was given the opportunity to attend a course on brain diseases at the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. I was privileged to join doctors from all over the country in Bethesda, boning up on our understanding of all the things that can go wrong with the brain and spinal cord. There were lectures on tumors, neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease, and head trauma. Most everyone there was an experienced resident physician in their final years of training. Over 90% of those in the room were neurosurgeons; neuropathology is an important part of the neurosurgery board examinations. Only a handful of attendees were pathologists.
When the instructor in the forensic neuropathology course projected onto the lecture hall's screen a series of autopsy photos in vivid color, a collective, horrified gasp rose in the packed auditorium. I was puzzled. What was wrong with these guys? They were experienced physicians. Sure, pictures of shotgun wounds to the face and comminuted skull fractures from suicidal jumpers can be unpleasant, but how could it be they were so revolted that some of them were averting their gaze? This is medicine -- they've seen it before, right?
And then it occurred to me: No, they hadn't. Neurosurgeons never see patients with injuries as devastating as these, injuries that are, in our parlance, not compatible with life. These are the patients who never make it to the hospital. They get declared dead at the scene, and then they come to us forensic pathologists in the morgue. So does every death that happens unattended at home, including simple falls from standing.
This is why I was not surprised that a recent New York Times article on the death of actor and comedian Bob Saget reported that "some neurosurgeons said that it would be unusual for a typical fall to cause Mr. Saget's set of fractures -- to the back, the right side and the front of his skull. Those doctors said that the injuries appeared more reminiscent of ones suffered by people who fall from a considerable height or get thrown from their seat in a car crash." The Times quotes commentary from Houston neurosurgeon Gavin Britz, MD, saying, "'This is significant trauma. This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.'"
No, it's not. Blunt trauma from swung baseball bats and falls from 20 or 30 feet cause much more serious injuries than Saget's. The injuries in Saget's autopsy are common in patients found dead at a scene after they have had a simple fall from standing height. By asking neurosurgeons to review an autopsy report prepared by a forensic pathologist, the New York Times chose to rely on interviews with doctors who are opining way outside their realm of expertise. In doing so, the paper has fed those reckons to a pack of social media conspiracy theorists who have, predictably, amplified doubts about a celebrity's manner of death as clickbait for profit.
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