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Indian doctors flown in to meet UK staff shortages - Locality News - 0 views

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    Britain's exit from the European Union is likely to impact NHS workforce, leading to the UK governme...
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Bipolar Disorder - 0 views

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    Bipolar disorder is a serious brain illness. It is also called manic-depressive illness or manic depression. Children and teens with bipolar disorder should get treatment involving medication and different kinds of psychotherapy, or "talk" therapy, that can help bipolar disorder. If you think your child may have bipolar disorder, make an appointment with your family doctor to talk about the symptoms you notice
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Rice method - 0 views

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    RICE is an acronym for a type of treatment. Doctors usually recommend this treatment when a person has injured a muscle, tendon, or ligament. These are called soft tissue injuries
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The Moral Premise Blog: Story Structure Craft: Not Without My Daughter - 0 views

  • There is a fundamental anti-conscience aspect to radical Islam where rote ideology supports a culture where suppression of another person's conscience (the inner sense of what is right or wrong) is allowed and encouraged
  • Thus, Moody manipulates Betty to take their daughter back for a 2-week visit to Iran to visit his family, but secretly he has no intention of leaving, or letting them leave the deeply misogynistic culture. 
  • Why would Moody (an American trained doctor) stay in a culture that seems to have jumped backwards 1,000 years in terms of hygiene, medicine, science, human rights, freedoms, and basic knowledge about the human condition? Several reasons. (1) It's revealed that his political activities in the U.S. have resulted in his termination from two jobs, in two states, and two different hospital systems -- further resulting in the loss of his Green Card.
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  • (2) The second reason Moody relapses to his upbringing is that (as Betty surmises in the book) there is an basic inability of the Islamic culture to think independently -- a trait ingrained by the educational system upon her daughter, where all learning is by rote repetition
  • You are taught only to say and think what is spoon fed to you.
  • Where there's a will, there's a way.
  • This engenders in Betty, a perseverance in the midst of persecution, that allows her achievement of the goal -- getting out of Iran with her daughter. And the odds and obstacles for the unlikely, common hero are immense -- natural structure for a successful movie
  • Betty reiterates that her father brought her up to believe
  • In this story, Betty retains or embodies the practice of listening to her (properly formed) conscience (or will) while her antagonists (the autocratic Islamic culture, represented by Moody) embody a rote-mentality (or suppression of the will) and a willingness to live under tyranny.
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    The not without my daughter, Premise
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Hospitals under 'unprecedented' attack in war zones: MSF - Locality News - 0 views

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    The MSF spoke out as guilt grew over the bombing of hospitals in the dissident-held east of the Syri...
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