Patient buying cigarettes while laid up in a hospital bed, USA?, 1951
Patient buying cigarettes while laid up in a hospital bed, USA?, 1951
"Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would exempt physicians and other healthcare workers from a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa petitions critics said would exacerbate workforce shortages."
#healthcare #hospitals #RuralHealth #physicians #nurses #workforce #immigrant #immigration #USpol

Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would exempt physicians and other healthcare workers from a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa petitions critics said would exacerbate workforce shortage | Introduced Tuesday, the Physicians and the Healthcare Workforce Act is endorsed by a slew of provider and hospital associations.
Mia Mottley, Barbados' Prime Minister, has started making the news again for demanding an end to the US blockade of Cuba.
What's that? Didn't realize Cuba was being blockaded?
So this is one of the knock on effects of the US kidnapping Venezuela's president and corner the country's oil.
No more Venezuelan oil sales to Cuba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Cuban_crisis
#MiaMottley #Barbados #Cuba #Venezuela #Oil #OilWar #OilBlockade #covid #doctors #nurses #medical
RE: https://mastodon.social/@amazing_sanaa/116223775988234434
I need your support, just €50, to buy school supplies for myself and my sisters. Please don't leave me alone in this difficult situation here in Gaza. 😔🙏🏻
#gaza #gazaverified #gazamutualaid #nurses #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #boostswelcome #boosting
#nursing
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2026/03/strike-mobilization-leads-reformer-win-oregon-nurses
got interviewed for labor notes on how we are transforming large unions to be more progressive and transparent

The 24,000-member Oregon Nurses Association has elected a slate of reform candidates to statewide leadership positions. The Caucus for Powerful Reform (CPR) won 15 out of the 21 seats it ran for, including the presidency, vice-presidency, secretary, and a majority of board of director seats. “We need better transparency,” said Raven Winters, a nurse on the slate at Oregon Health & Science University. “We need the union to listen to our members. Ultimately our goal is to have a member-led union, not something that is top-down and controlled by someone with a $300,000 annual paycheck.