“The Four Justices” (2012) by Nelson Shanks hangs at the National Portrait Gallery (photo from July 2023). From back left to front right are Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. O’Connor was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court after being nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1981. Ginsburg was nominated by Bill Clinton in 1993 while Sotomayor and Kagan were brought forward by Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Amy Coney Barrett would join the Court in 2020 under the eye of Donald Trump. At the time of this portrait, she was still practicing law in Stepford, Connecticut.Ketanji Brown Jackson was a Joe Biden era appointee. And her presence bucks the pervasive sense, among my tribe anyway, that all human progress halted and went full reverse during the Trump administration, the political equivalent of end-stage neurosyphilis (the grift that keeps on grifting).
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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