Tag: trauma
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The Trauma of Giving Birth in Gaza
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Deborah Harrington is a British doctor who recently spent two weeks at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital. Since 2016, Harrington, a consultant obstetrician and a subspecialist in maternal and fetal medicine, has been going to Gaza almost every year to teach obstetrics to medical students and doctors-in-training at several of the territory’s hospitals. In December, 2023, she…
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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Four days of waiting in UNC Hospitals’ psychiatric emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question. With knots in his stomach, the transgender teen asked: “Will I be placed in a girls’ unit?” Yes. The answer provoked one of the worst anxiety attacks Callum had ever…
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The Trauma of Gaza’s Doctors
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From the time Israel began bombing Gaza following Hamas’s October 7th attack, the charity Médecins Sans Frontières—which is often referred to as M.S.F., or by its English name, Doctors Without Borders—has been documenting the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, where more than eleven thousand people have already been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. I…
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How ‘Twin Flames Universe’ YouTubers Monetized Heartbreak and Trauma
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Jessi Hersey was on a Zoom call, like so many of us were in May 2020, when she was assigned a new gender identity. After consulting a deck of tarot cards, a high-ranking member of the online spirituality school Twin Flames Universe revealed to Hersey that she was the “divine masculine” half of a special…
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Matthew Perry’s cause of death unknown; LAPD says there were “no obvious signs of trauma”
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“Friends” star Matthew Perry’s official cause of death remained unknown Sunday pending an investigation by the coroner, the Los Angeles Police Department said. There were no obvious signs of trauma, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed to CBS Los Angeles station KCAL News. The actor was found unresponsive in his jacuzzi on Saturday, police…
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Gun violence and trauma; women in the workforce; tip-flation : NPR
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Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Gun violence marred Fourth of July festivities in many cities nationwide. Eleven mass shootings have already occurred this…
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More beat cops vs. ‘Treatment Not Trauma’ – Chicago Tribune
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Chicago mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson reconvened for a Wednesday evening debate hosted by Fox 32 in which they each laid out their goals for their first 100 days in office. Johnson, a Cook County commissioner, said he will double youth employment and vowed to pass “Treatment Not Trauma,” a City Council ordinance…
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Horror Film Turns Trauma Into an Evil Twin
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Hulu’s horror-comedy Appendage has definitely gone to therapy before. The film follows a budding fashion designer named Hannah (Hadley Robinson) whose unresolved childhood trauma begins to literally grow into a monster bent on ruining her life. Is it subtle? Absolutely not. Then again, how many evil-twin horror-comedies are? You don’t have to have done much…
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Monterey Park tragedy brings back trauma, fears of anti-Asian violence
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Mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, leaves at least ten dead The shooting happened near a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, California, one of the largest festivals for the occasion in the state. Patrick Colson-Price, USA TODAY MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — As investigators began probing the killing of five women and five men at…
