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So, the alarm goes off and it's five to 12 or so.
And as you can anticipate, there was international alarm, international concern on a scale that we hadn't seen in recent years caused by a disease like this.
I mean, at this point, it's kind of a no-brainer, a little bit like hearing a smoke alarm going off and standing with your hand on the hot door, waiting for some data to tell you that your house is on fire.
But if you want to get somewhere quickly, you now know to set your alarm for 4:45 in the morning and you're all set.
My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
But if the injury had been treated, why would the alarm bell keep ringing?
But the most important thing about his book was that it was kind of an emotional alarm bell for medicine.
In postcolonial Arab countries functioning in an increasingly globalized world, it is a growing alarm that less and less people are using the Arabic script to communicate.
Nobody can get in the same elevator with him without the alarm going off.
And not by your alarm clock.
These stimuli accomplish many things from serving as an alarm to other ants if one is killed, to signaling when a queen is nearing the end of her reproductive life.
Unfortunately, you don't have a floor plan, and you'll only have enough time to search a single floor before the alarm system reactivates.
At a 10-year memorial for the genocide, he reflected, "I believed at the time I was doing my best, but I realized after the genocide that there was more I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support."
I rationalized my silence by reminding myself that I was a guest in the country, that sounding the alarm could even get me kicked out, keep me from doing good work, taking care of my patients, doing much-needed research.
Sounding the alarm is the first step towards doing public health right, and it's how we may rally support to break through and create real change together.
That's why sounding the alarm about the impact of racism on health in the United States, the ongoing institutional and interpersonal violence that people of color face, compounded by our tragic legacy of 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and 60 years of imperfect equality, sounding the alarm about this is central to doing my job right as New York City's Health Commissioner.
Our role as health professionals is not just to treat our patients but to sound the alarm and advocate for change.
I regret not speaking up in Zimbabwe, and I've promised myself that as New York City's Health Commissioner, I will use every opportunity I have to sound the alarm and rally support for health equity.
As the emergency generators kick in, an alarm confirms your worst fears: all the sample vials have broken.
It's just as vital that we protect the next veteran's health care whistleblower alerting us to overcrowded hospitals, or the next environmental worker sounding the alarm about Flint's dirty water, or a Wall Street insider warning us of the next financial crisis.
And they are sounding the alarm for their futures.
On numerous occasions in the last 200 years, scholars and activists have raised the alarm that we are running out of work and making ourselves obsolete: for example, the Luddites in the early 1800s; US Secretary of Labor James Davis in the mid-1920s; Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief in 1982; and of course, many scholars, pundits, technologists and media figures today.
All the data that you help us collect will be shared with vetted authorities, and will help create a new global alarm system to help protect sites.
In order to stay sane, I silently counted the seconds on my alarm clock.
Like a tornado strike in an area without an early warning system, there is no alarm to warn, for the danger is already at your doorstep when your odds of survival are greatly reduced.
We're working on ways to frequently activate an early-stage cancer alarm by enabling regular screenings that would start when a person is healthy so that action could be taken to stop cancer the moment it emerges, and before it can progress beyond its infancy.
Even if we are so unlucky as to be diagnosed with cancer, that early-stage alarm will provide a strong beacon of hope.
For the last decade as a doula turned journalist and blogger, I've been trying to raise the alarm about just how different the experiences of women of color, but particularly black women, are when it comes to pregnancy and birth in the US.
There was a lot of reporting about this group, Doctors Without Borders, sounding the alarm and calling for aid and assistance.
That's when we need to sound the alarm and wave our arms.
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