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Just before the pandemic began, a group from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago wrapped up one of the first major studies to describe physician experiences with online harassment. In the offline world, health care jobs are among the most dangerous, and hospital workers face four times the risk of violence as people in other industries (“When Healers Get Hurt,” Winter 2019). The study, published in
JAMA Internal Medicine early in 2021, found that this danger exists online as well, with one in four physicians reporting a personal attack on social media. Top reasons for attacks included the doctors’ advocacy of vaccinations, gun control and access to abortion. But there were also personal attacks based on the poster’s religion and race, and one in six female physicians faced online sexual harassment.
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Join us for a talk and workshop with Dr. Alan Segel about flow on Tuesday May 4th at 7pm
Dr. Alan Segal is a physician/scientist, clinician/educator, electrical/bioengineer, inventor and evolutionary physiologist. His main interests are the kidney, ion channels, and teaching via storytelling and comedy. He pursued graduate work in Feedback & Control Systems and did a thesis in Bioelectromagnetics, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He is now board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology and his basic science laboratory focuses on the properties and regulation of ion channels in health and disease. He has been teaching physiology and nephrology since 1990 and has directed the nephrology fellowship program at UVM for more than a decade.
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The Doctors Ian K. Smith, M.D.’s unique new plan takes intermittent fasting to the next level, combining the power of time-restricted eating with a detailed program that flips the body into a negative energy state, scorching fat on the way to weight loss and physical transformation.
Many IF books leave readers to figure out what and how much they should eat during their feeding window, and even how long to fast each day. Smith knows that even readers highly motivated to change their weight and their health need marching orders, and they’re all here in