November 17, 2024

Trump gives us permission for healthier lives

Trump did the impossible: he normalized RFK Jr.  Mostly.  In so doing, he gave us permission to question the government’s recommendations for community health.  Specifically, he’s given us permission, like RF...

March 26, 2024

Another COVID-19 legacy

We are currently experiencing another “unforeseen” consequence of COVID lockdowns.  Every day, in medical practices across our country, doctors are treating patients with viral injuries to the body’s nervous system at a le...

November 18, 2022

The immunity debt and why we're sicker than usual

Guess what happens when a population stays home from work and school to avoid communicable illness.  When they mask up, physically distance, and use good handwashing techniques to slow down the spread of viral illness.  The transm...

June 18, 2022

The Truth Regarding Health Care

There are truths regarding health care in America that need broadcasting.  Some truths are intimidating and discouraging, with no need for us to be reminded, such as the crazy costs of hospitalization, testing, procedures, and pharmaceutica...

January 13, 2022

How about a Nasal Wash to Treat COVID?

As with most viral respiratory illnesses, the primary entry point into the human body is through the nose.  Once in the nasal passages, viruses propagate exponentially on nasal mucous membranes.  With COVID-19, this rapid growth i...

December 13, 2021

There's Never Going to Be a Life 'After COVID'

Remember when we were under the impression that we could wait for Americans to acquire natural immunity to COVID-19, and, along with the adoption of vaccines against the novel virus, we could all "return to normal"?  Well, that...

September 11, 2021

Ivermectin, 'Noble Lies,' and Whom Do We Trust?

The controversy around the use of ivermectin and, previously, hydroxychloroquine joins a long list of things where the left's pursuit of the "Noble Lie" is judged more important than honest debate.  This particular piece of di...

March 30, 2021

Immigrant doctors and why we are lucky to have them

Sitting in a doctor's lounge today, listening to the realities of the practice of medicine in 2021, you can't help but wonder why anyone still does this job.  That said, it is quite obvious that bright, caring, and motivated people ...

March 20, 2021

The ground is shifting under Americans' feet on health care

American health care is not about sick patients and their interactions with doctors and hospitals.  Far from it.  It is about power and money, with two of the four major players who currently split the loot rapidly losing their fu...

February 6, 2021

America Is Rocketing toward the Health Care Precipice

Our American medical system with its deep pool of highly trained specialists, the best in the world when it accrued inside a culture of science and learning, is Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall.  It has had to focus its priority away from...

January 21, 2021

How Health Care Works in America, and Why It's So Bad

We all know in our hearts that a well functioning society should reward intelligence and hard work.  This runs counter to the thinking of those who consider this concept aggressively hurtful to the stupid and lazy, but it is something we kn...

January 12, 2021

Doctors are giving up on private practice, assimilating into Big Medicine

The COVID-19 epidemic has accelerated a growing trend among doctors toward corporate medicine and away from private practice.  The personality and priorities of doctors had already been undergoing a metamorphosis.  And, just as we...

January 1, 2021

Is Telemedicine Our Future?

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a huge push for telemedicine, a means by which patients can "visit" their doctor without risking exposure to illness in waiting rooms and health care facilities.  Social engineers in our government v...