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The United States had around 300-400 treaties with native North Americans, and they broke every single one
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The United States had around 300-400 treaties with native North Americans, and they broke every single one
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What if losing your leg wasn't inevitable, but doctors simply didn't know how to save it yet?
Charles Dotter met an elderly woman whose foot was becoming gangrenous. Surgeons recommended amputation. She refused. So Dotter tried something radically different: instead of opening her leg with surgery, he pushed a narrow catheter through the blocked artery and gradually widened it from inside. The blood flow returned. Her foot healed, and she walked on both feet for nearly three more years. In 1964, Dotter and Melvin Judkins published the technique, the first intentional transluminal angioplasty. Their idea helped launch interventional radiology and changed how blocked arteries could be treated.
"I'm still walking on my own two feet." (Says his patient Laura Shaw)
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I'm starting to wonder if men actually invented/created anything at all
The female scientist who found down syndrome had her work stolen by a male colleague for decades
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Down syndrome was discovered by John Langdon Down in 1866.
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Life can totally flip upside down in just a split second. All it takes is one phone call, a sudden doctor's diagnosis, or one crazy unexpected moment, and everything is completely different.
Nothing in this world is ever really promised to us. You don't get a guarantee on tomorrow, your good health, or even the people you care about the most.
So make sure you love a whole lot harder and appreciate things way more deeply while you've got them. Because that ordinary, normal life you are living right now could easily turn into the exact thing you're begging and praying to have back tomorrow.
