{"title":"Bright spots in dark times.","authors":"Benjamin R Colton","doi":"10.1093/fampra/cmaf051","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The current war in Gaza has created a thick cloud over the surrounding region: a cloud of anger, frustration, and despair. Palestinians make up a large portion of the population in Jordan with 2.39 million registered refugees alone, not including non-registered refugees. Many have relatives living in Gaza, making them particularly invested in the conflict.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The ongoing suffering of loved ones preoccupies them, making it difficult to focus on anything else. I also sometimes fall into despair even though I am a foreigner living in Jordan.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A bright spot between the thick clouds occurred during my time with Ali at \"Camp for All,\" a camp for students with disabilities in Jordan.</p>","PeriodicalId":12209,"journal":{"name":"Family practice","volume":"42 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Family practice","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmaf051","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: The current war in Gaza has created a thick cloud over the surrounding region: a cloud of anger, frustration, and despair. Palestinians make up a large portion of the population in Jordan with 2.39 million registered refugees alone, not including non-registered refugees. Many have relatives living in Gaza, making them particularly invested in the conflict.
Discussion: The ongoing suffering of loved ones preoccupies them, making it difficult to focus on anything else. I also sometimes fall into despair even though I am a foreigner living in Jordan.
Conclusion: A bright spot between the thick clouds occurred during my time with Ali at "Camp for All," a camp for students with disabilities in Jordan.
期刊介绍:
Family Practice is an international journal aimed at practitioners, teachers, and researchers in the fields of family medicine, general practice, and primary care in both developed and developing countries.
Family Practice offers its readership an international view of the problems and preoccupations in the field, while providing a medium of instruction and exploration.
The journal''s range and content covers such areas as health care delivery, epidemiology, public health, and clinical case studies. The journal aims to be interdisciplinary and contributions from other disciplines of medicine and social science are always welcomed.