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1. Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:39:38 JST Clive Thompson

   “A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty. We needed to coin a phrase because so many of our patients die of the same thing.”

   Excellent essay by a US doctor describing how many of her patients suffer (and die) not from their illnesses but from the wildly precarious economics of their lives

   Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opinion/doctor-safety-net-hospital.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.4z6-.Jp89JtFlvuyi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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   • Misuse Case (misusecase@twit.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:40:07 JST Misuse Case

     in reply to

     @clive @ashar Poverty is the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S.:

     https://www.commondreams.org/news/poverty-4th-leading-cause-death