Mark Raines

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Sorry

Mark Raines

I am proud to be part of the 41% of Australians who felt the status quo was not good enough. For those who voted No how do you plan to make a difference now?

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Gaza 2023

Mark Raines

Israel, renewing the stains of its foundation with the blood of Palestine

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Being a Doctor on Social Media

Mark Raines

In our community, doctors are in a group of people that are held up to a different standard than the rest of the community. I realised that a few years ago when I posted to Facebook a picture of myself holding up a dead feral cat that I had dispatched with an arrow. Someone commented “Doctors should not be killing animals” And I thought I was doing the environment a favour by taking a predator of native animals out of the picture.

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True confessions….

Mark Raines

Ring block only works with one of these solutions. “Ooh doctor that still hurts” “I’ll give it another 10.5 seconds and try again” “Ooh… ” “Hmm” I felt sick in the stomach. I had made a mistake. I had tried to pull off a toenail without anaesthetic on someone’s Grandma. I thought she was being overly whingy putting in the block.

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Genocide?

Mark Raines

Is Israel inflicting genocide upon the Palestinians of Gaza? Using the diagram below from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust , you can see parallels. Listen to Israeli government ministers if you doubt this. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in October “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly,” “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” Avi Dichter, Israeli Agriculture Minister and member of the right-wing Likud party, said Saturday, in comments widely reported by Israeli media.

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Dear Minister Wong

Mark Raines

Honourable Penny Wong Dear Minister I am writing to you as an Australian doctor concerned about the dire humanitarian and healthcare crisis in Gaza. I am a signatory, to a petition initiated by Australian and New Zealand doctors for Palestine, which has garnered over 28,000 signatures urging Australia to support South Africa at the International Court of Justice.

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Rule 35

Mark Raines

Directing an attack against a zone established to shelter the wounded, the sick and civilians from the effects of hostilities is prohibited. I am a doctor, my wife a nurse & midwife, so I have a pretty selfish conflict of interest in sharing this post. I don’t want to be killed during my working life providing care for people who have come for help.

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