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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the "ML" influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hmm, who is this Rose fellow?

Michael Rose is a senior resident in internal medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The only person The Atlantic could find to peddle this shit isn’t even allowed to practice medicine without supervision? lmao

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

Not even an endocrine doctor. IM knows diabetic medicine because they happen to run into it a fair amount, along with a lot of other diseases from a lot of other body systems like kidney disease or COPD, but they're not nephrologists or pulmonologists either.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

credit to michael rose, they want all diabetes medications to be cheaper or free.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

That’s fair! It’s entirely possible they got rolled by The Atlantic and didn’t know what the editors were going to do to the piece. But like, at the same time maybe question why a national publication would need someone who isn’t able to practice on their own to do an opinion piece about something highly politicized… (them before they agreed to write the piece I mean, if that wasn’t clear)

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 5 points 14 hours ago

another comment pointed out elsewhere that the titles are rarely made by the writer, so im inclined to believe that the atlantic recieved this piece and wanted to slant it for those who just read the headline, yeah.