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Just on Tom Addis

Stanford and the AMA behaved badly - as most large organizations usually do.

From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... with lessons for today.

#MedSky #HistoryofMedicine
At the end of his career, Stanford University took away Addis's laboratory, perhaps on account of his leftist political views. He supported the loyalists in the Spanish Revolution, and was chairman of the San Francisco chapter of the Spanish Refugee Appeal, an organization that aided refugees from Franco's Spain. Addis toured the Soviet Union in 1935 and came away impressed by the communist country's medical accomplishments. He was friends with Harry Bridges and other leftwingers. Addis was chairman of the San Francisco chapter of Physician's Forum, an organization that supported national health insurance. Shortly before his death, he was expelled from the American Medical Association for refusing to pay his annual membership fee, which he did to protest the AMA's lack of support for President Truman's national health insurance plan. His Stanford colleague Frank W. Weymouth wrote about him: Injustice or oppression in the next street ... or any spot inhabited by men was a personal affront to Thomas Addis and his name, from its early alphabetical place, was conspicuous on lists of sponsors of scores of organizations fighting for democracy and against fascism. He worked on more committees than could reasonably have been expected of so busy a man. ... Tom Addis was happy to have a hand in bringing to the organization of society some of the logic of science and to further that understanding and to promote that democracy which are the only enduring foundations of human dignity.[5]
September 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Now in 2025, it seems the #NephJC changeover period is over. Almost all the top online voices in nephrology are using #Bluesky as their platform of choice to discuss the latest #science.
May 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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From the Scottish Empire
Packet of biscuits labelled Tesco Scottish Empire Biscuits, baked int eh Kingdom of Fife
March 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
neilturn.bsky.social
Mine similar, so I’ve relabeled it an editing day.
January 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I did not know that, and I should.
January 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Good to see Daniel Clowes tucked in there near the bottom.
December 31, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Hoping this is 1/12 great works of art??
December 25, 2024 at 11:28 AM