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Be careful using AI to answer residency application questions. You may think it is super slick and nobody can tell. But when your answer is nearly identical to 15 other people…. Not ideal
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This is one of my favorite action book series out there. Hands down.
Who is Orphan X?
Chosen as a child, Evan Smoak was raised and trained in an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: a disposable assassin. Evan was Orphan X—until he broke with the Program and used everything he learned to disappear and become the legendary Nowhere Man, protecting and saving the truly desperate and deserving.
If you could ask Evan one question, what would it be?
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It was on my phone, and I was moving - but snagged this cool shot of a heron on the way to work this morning
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Imagine a chef employed at a restaurant that charges $100 for a hamburger.
One day he gets sick of his institution ripping off customers, so he goes across the street and opens a shop with $5 hamburgers.
Now the hamburger loving people are better off. Competition drives down prices and increases quality.
The original restaurant, angry over the lost business, gets a law passed that bans chefs from owning restaurants.
Everyone would recognize this as a corrupt, protectionist law.
And yet, in healthcare, with skyrocketing costs, we still outlaw physician owned hospitals.
ICYMI: Congress put a spotlight on physician-owned hospitals today.
During a House Judiciary Committee field hearing on competition in health care, Brian Miller, MD, MBA, MPH, highlighted the federal restrictions that prevent new POHs from participating in Medicare and existing facilities from expanding.
His testimony cited 30 years of research showing that POHs can deliver higher-quality care, and called on policymakers to reconsider federal policies that restrict physician-led competition. 👏
The AANS and CNS have long advocated for removing these barriers and expanding opportunities for POHs.
🎥 Watch the hearing: judiciary.house.gov/committe…
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We all held our collective breath when Bear 224's cubs slipped over the falls.
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🚨 TODD BEAMER, UNITED 93 PHONE CALL: "LET'S ROLL" 🇺🇸
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?
Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.
Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me? [They pray the Lord’s Prayer.] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me. Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
SOURCE: @SterlingMSnow
America's Mayor Live (1015): Remembering September 11th, 2001 x.com/i/broadcasts/1kKzDPEBw…
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