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There's a chance I'm experiencing some kind of burnout. What should I do?

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Kinda a leap from OPs post. While unfulfilled, he doesn’t describe his job as oppressive, or being overworked at all.

It sounds like depressive symptoms, TBH. Having worked in a high pressure system that demands more all the time, one helpful tool is to make and work towards goals. Goal based work feels fulfilling because there’s a reward at the end of it. Even if the goal is 2 years down the road, it’s worth working towards something rather than just working.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

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They’re both twats. They aren’t making converts or reaching the people who can even effectuate a change. All the do is poison the well for the middle of the country that otherwise might have been receptive.

If I’m on my way to work, or the hospital, or to visit gram gram and some whack job makes my life noticeably more miserable then I’m always going to have negative feelings for them.

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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’

So not that I like insurance companies (I very much do not) but this seems odd. I do histiotripsy, which is super cool! It allows us to treat certain tumors that could be difficult to get otherwise. But… histiotripsy is can be substituted with lower cost treatments almost always (Cryo or MW ablation) and if curative possibility were present with histiotripsy then another treatment modality would be feasible too.

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Scientists discover first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI

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If you spent more than 3 seconds reading what you post, you’d realize that fecal transplant only affects the gut microbiome, not body-wide resistance. Fecal transplant, obviously, does nothing to combat pneumonia, skin infections, abscesses, or literally anywhere other than the gut. As the vast majority of fatal or life threatening infections are not isolated to the gut, your argument fails. But I need not argue against citations, as the provided papers don’t even argue your point.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine

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I’m not sure what to make of the argument- on one hand I get your point for sure, no one wants to be profited off of. That said, she could not have possibly been credited in her time as she passed in the same year to biopsy was performed. Furthermore, the cell line was taken from the remaining tissue for her biopsy, which was destined to be destroyed or discarded. I think this argues against the idea that she was uniquely victimized.

This is certainly not to discount her contribution, it’s just that the harm here (lack of informed consent) was pervasive and widespread. If there’s another another harm committed, please enlighten.