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Hopefully with this great and affordable house we can finally address the housing crisis.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/11/march-for-our-lives-gun-control-protests-washington

Gun violence is the number one cause of death in young people. I hope we are better and turn this epidemic around.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953071

Vaxinia has been shown to shrink cancer tumors in animals, but its real test starts now with phase one human trial.

Here we go again. See in which states COVID 19 is making a comeback.

Find full data here.

To understand how this log graph works, you can check my earlier post here.

With the black lives matter movement actively protesting these days, it’s important to know why we have such a discrepancy in how people in the US are treated, how we got here, how bad the situation is, and how we can get out of it.

There are many videos and graphs on the web, but here is a sample of some of the best ones that help explain it.

When I think of legendary modern time physicians one name comes to mind, Dr. Stephan L Kamholz. Sadly that man is no longer with us today.

He was known for his kindness and superb knowledge. He was a walking Wikipedia! For any obscure thing, he could quote all studies on that disease, where they were first published, page numbers, paragraphs, and then he would tell you about how he knew the authors of all those studies and something about them. He knew everyone everywhere and everyone knew him. In all my interviews and travels everyone had always asked about him and how he was doing. He was kind and went out of his way to make sure he helps everyone.

At the time of his passing, he was the Chair of Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. This is where he stood up and showed his greatest final act of leadership against COVID 19 and later from COVID 19 passed away. I remember in early March while we were becoming the epicenter of COVID 19 pandemic in the United States he gathered everyone, planned for combat, organized, and mobilized everyone. We needed ventilators, he got them. We needed oxygen tanks he got them. We needed staff he made it happen. On top of it all, since residents could no longer have any lectures or grand rounds, he would go team to team and teach the residents in private groups. His priority of everyone else.

Of course, prior to coming to Maimonides, he was also:

– Chief of Pulmonary Critical Care at SUNY Downstate.

– Chair of Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

– Chair of North Bronx Health Care Network (Jacobi and North Central Bronx Hospital)

– Vice-Chair of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

– Founding Academic Chair of Department of Medicine at Hofstra University School of Medicine.

– Professor of Medicine at North Shore University

– Professor at NYU Schoo of Medicine.

Just putting searching his name on Pubmed as of today yields 108 publications.

He was an inspiration to everyone who knew him. May his hard work, dedication, patient care, philanthropy, and philosophy carry on through all those he touched.

I always wondered how do police brutality and the Homicide rate in the US compare to other countries. For sure we are much worse than European countries, and there is no way we are as bad as Middle or South America with all the drug wars. So are we as bad as the Middle east? This graph answered that question. This is a graph of countries according to the death rate per year from homicide vs law enforcement killing. The US is between Pakistan and Iran. full data can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_country

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