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A.L. Kushner

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Former surgeon, now (mostly) stay-at-home dad. WIP, a memoir “Lessons from Chaos: Notes of a “Simple” Surgeon, sort of Anthony Bourdain with a scalpel. Join my mail list at alkushner.com

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 24d

Memoir update: 47k words, 82 chapters.

New working title: Lessons from Chaos: Notes of a ‘Simple’ Surgeon.

Grateful for the encouragement so far, it keeps me writing.

Chapter 1: An Idiot. It begins with this Newsweek cover. Opening days of the war in Slovenia, I was next to the photographer. 😬

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 20h

Surgery in a war zone isn’t just about saving lives. It’s about controlling chaos long enough to make it look like order.

I learned that the hard way.

#LessonsFromChaos #WHS2025

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 11h

Listening to this. Interesting take on philanthropy www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747...

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas: 9781101972670 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 20h

Surgery in a war zone isn’t just about saving lives. It’s about controlling chaos long enough to make it look like order.

I learned that the hard way.

#LessonsFromChaos #WHS2025

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 1d

Nice turnout at Boo to the flu ANMC - get your flu shot

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 1d

Morning walk #AnchorageAK

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 1d

Ever wonder what it’s really like on an @MSF mission or what you would do if the OR lights went out mid-surgery?

It’s not just medicine. It’s a mix of chaos, survival, and absurdity. I wrote Lessons from Chaos to try and make sense of it.

#LessonsFromChaos

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 2d

Surgeons are supposed to be cool under pressure. But nothing prepares you for operating in a converted chicken farm with missiles flying overhead.

That’s chaos.

#LessonsFromChaos #surgery #war #memoir

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 2d

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t have a literary agent (yet) but spent the day working on a proposal for my memoir #LessonsFromChaos 🤞

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 2d

Reading “The Inevitable” by Kevin Kelly. Interesting take on future of books among other things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ine...

The Inevitable (book) - Wikipedia

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 2d

Morning walk #Anchorage

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes…to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness. As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/

Nobel Peace Prize

www.nobelprize.org

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 3d

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 4d

Working with the US military, I taught soldiers about humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, including human rights and international humanitarian law. It helped commanders accomplish their mission and saved military and civilian lives. #LessonsFromChaos #humanitarian #military #ethics

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 3d

8 am Westchester Lagoon #winteriscoming

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. Felt that one

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 4d

Anchorage plans changes to improve snowplow operations ahead of winter season www.adn.com/alaska-news/... (Let’s hope it helps)

Anchorage plans changes to improve snowplow operations ahead of winter season

Residents will be able to track the progress of the city’s snow fleet as it clears roads and sidewalks with GPS tracking in place.

www.adn.com

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Professor Brandon Hamber @brandonhamber.bsky.social · 5d

A forgotten conflict, at least in the West. More than 20 people killed in central #Myanmar after the military launched motorised paraglider attacks during a candlelight vigil

Dozens killed in Myanmar after armed paraglider attack: Reports

Amnesty International says the military launched a paraglider attack on a nighttime civilian gathering.

www.aljazeera.com

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 4d

Same here. Including this one: Twitter and mobile technology as diagnostic aids in the Democratic Republic of Congo pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22196637/

Twitter and mobile technology as diagnostic aids in the Democratic Republic of Congo - PubMed

Twitter and mobile technology as diagnostic aids in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 4d

Friends are reading my manuscript and talking about it with others who are requesting to read the draft. I’ll take that as a good sign 😎

A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 4d

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 4d

Once in Sierra Leone, surgery almost stopped for want of light bulbs.
#LessonsFromChaos #globalhealth #surgery #SierraLeone

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