Michael Applebaum, M.D.

Michael Applebaum, M.D.


  • Medicine Degrades When It Becomes Politicized

    July 3, 2024

    Medicine Degrades When It Becomes Politicized

    Together with 51,269,999 others, I watched the Trump-Biden debate on Thursday, June 27, 2024. I also paid attention to the obligatory spin from both sides. In addition to the usual talking head commentary, the Biden side released information about Jo...

  • Testosterone: Its Effects Matter Earlier Than You Think

    February 24, 2024

    Testosterone: Its Effects Matter Earlier Than You Think

    When I’m confronted with a statement having start and end dates, I wonder, “How and why were these dates chosen?” This is an excellent question when it comes to testosterone and athletic performance. Time frames matter. We’...

  • March 22, 2023

    How Do We Fix the Racism of Every White Doctor?

    Apparently, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has taken the lead in accelerating progress toward Personalized Health Care. So we are on the same page, let us use this definition of Personalized Health Care (emphasis in the original)...

  • October 11, 2022

    A news flash about 'violence' for the woke new doctors of America

    It was reported that the incoming class of medical students at the University of Minnesota Medical School recited a homegrown oath at their "white coat" ceremony on August 19.  (Read it all here.)   The affi...

  • December 7, 2021

    Comparing Vaccines

    So, how do the COVID vaccines (grouped together for this piece) compare to other vaccines? I’ll tell you. But first, I gotta disclaim: 1. Yes. I am a medical doctor. 2. No. I am not your doctor. 3. No. I am not providing you with me...

  • August 2, 2021

    Welcome to the American Bribe-ocracy

    "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."  That's from President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.  Poor John must be spinning in his grave. ...

  • July 30, 2021

    Vaxectomy: A new COVID-related procedure

    SATIRE With many advances in Medicine, there are stories to tell about their development.  This is the short-version story of the latest medical advance. Since 2015, there has been one thing and one thing only that has infor...

  • July 18, 2021

    The 'COVID Misinformation' Train Wreck

    One cannot avert one’s eyes from witnessing a catastrophe, e.g., a train wreck, or so it is popularly said. But train wrecks cease being entertaining when you are on the train. But for the fact that we are on the Government-Big Tech tra...

  • May 26, 2021

    COVID: The Perfect Crime?

    So, I am following the media (not just any media talking heads and writers, but Experts) telling viewers, listeners, and readers that “We need an investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic so we can know what happened and how to pr...

  • November 19, 2013

    Obama-K-K-K-arma

    Some might recall America's most learning disabled leader having tossed his spiritual guide and authority, Jeremiah Wright, under the bus. That would be the same Wright who "arranged" Michelle Robinson's marriage to BHO, baptized their kids, acted...

  • October 30, 2013

    Is this the world's smartest spell checker?

    Is this the world's smartest spell checker? Screen shot taken from Thunderbird, an email client server: ...

  • October 8, 2013

    PLO BHO

    President Obama will not negotiate with the Republicans until he gets everything he wants first, up front. Then he will be motivated to negotiate. Story by the Associated Press; curated by Dave Urbanski WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama...

  • July 28, 2013

    Juror B29's Imbecilic Comments: Maddy's Addled Mind

    Maddy, aka Juror B29, is indisputably incoherent. Yet I have not seen any real challenge to her statements.  If there is a voice of reason challenging her stupidity, it would seem to be meek in comparison to the support and communicable inflam...

  • July 22, 2013

    Obama: African-Americans Are Incapable of Acting as Citizens of the United States

    It is with sadness that I witnessed the president of the United States tell the world that African-Americans are incapable of functioning as responsible citizens at the most basic level. Our first White African American leader said: You know, wh...

  • January 11, 2013

    It's Not the 'Doctor Shortage,' Stupid

    Newsmax.com, on 07 January 2013, published an article entitled, "Doctor Shortage Becoming Crisis Under Obamacare." The sick care industry is a repair and rescue industry. This so-called crisis is a manufactured one in the same way that there would b...

  • September 5, 2012

    Who Says New Ideas Always Are Better?

    One mantra of BHO's acolytes and supplicants being used against the GOP is "no new ideas."  It is repeated by Axelrod, Emanuel, and others. This is intended to be a negative. But is it really? The following offers a somewhat different take from ...

  • September 3, 2012

    If you did not succeed, somebody else made THAT happen

    Now, as we are poised at the event horizon of the DNConvention, where the Anointed (as Thomas Sowell would likely characterize them), will be sucked-in to worship their benighted belief system and its High Priests/Messiah, it might pay to consider th...

  • April 18, 2012

    Balance the budget by 2039? Wanna bet?

    A recent budget proposal of Paul Ryan's purports to balance the budget by around 2039 -- possibly a decade or so earlier based on an alternative scenario.  The plan will take decades to work (if at all). As with every federal budget, certain ass...

  • April 5, 2012

    More Evidence That Obama Is Learning Disabled (updated)

    On Monday, April 02 BHO declared: "I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. This is gross s...

  • March 29, 2012

    The Republic, if We Can Keep It

    With its uninterrupted history of peaceful transition of power through elections, America has a multitude of citizens who justifiably feel pride in the strength of their democracy.  But it cannot be denied that political tensions are rising, and...

  • February 5, 2012

    What's Fair

    On January 24, 2012, POTUS delivered his State of the Union address. The word "fair" appeared 8 times, either followed by words such as "shot," "share," and "play" or preceded by "un-" or "not." The predominant domestic policy use of "fair" was i...

  • September 11, 2011

    R.I.P. Israel - 1948-2012?

    In some circles there is a deeply-held belief that 2012 will be the end of civilization. The adherents to this theory base their faith on the Mayan calendar. Predicting the future is a tough game. I am willing to wait and see and am not preparing. Th...

  • November 28, 2010

    A Possible Lesson from the TSA

    The TSA has of late been on the receiving end of lots of shots.Late-night comics make cracks about the TSA's probing of cracks, and the agency is the butt of many jokes joking about many butts.It is, of course, easy to criticize and then move on; dri...

  • November 8, 2010

    Brain function and the Obamas

    It is my opinion that both of the adults residing in the White House leave much to be desired when it comes to intellectual ability and cognition. I believe that I have posited plausible arguments at AT, e.g., here, here and here.Now there is a scien...

  • October 30, 2010

    Expert Fools

    The voting public has been chastised for being unappreciative of the good the expert elites of the ruling class have done to them. The experts are expert in all things except realizing that they are not experts.Perhaps by accident, Joe Klein, "T...

  • October 26, 2010

    Juan Williams and the ObamaCare Death Panels

    The events surrounding Juan Williams' firing offer evidence on how Obama's death panels could function. They can serve to provide a "teachable moment."RIP, Juan Williams' career at NPR. He was fired on Wednesday, October 20, 2010.What purpo...

  • August 19, 2010

    Michelle's Flawed Crusade

    The recently passed child school nutrition legislation is exemplary of the administration's deficiency in basic knowledge and its willingness to elevate politics and ideology over all scientific fact, despite assurances to the contrary.Its approach t...

  • August 11, 2010

    Joe Biden and Other Obstacles to Preventive Sick Care

    In the sick care domain, there are several dirty words. Two are "anabolic" and "steroid."The Ur anabolic steroid (AS) is testosterone (T). Erroneously characterized as a male hormone, it is produced by both sexes, where it exerts ...

  • August 4, 2010

    The Big Lie of Preventive Care

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will change the face of American medicine, based in no small part on a big lie about preventive care. A list of so-called "Preventive Services Covered under the Affordable Care Act" can...

  • July 23, 2010

    Does Barack Obama Have a Learning Disability?

    Does Barack Obama have a learning disability (LD)? It seems like an outlandish question to ask, but the actions of President Obama suggest that he may suffer from one. Consider:LearningLearning is "the cognitive process of acquiring skill or kno...

  • March 27, 2010

    Health Care, Sick Care, and ObamaCare

    There are simple reasons why the ObamaCare approach to sick care reform can never and will never work to accomplish its stated goals of cutting costs while increasing access.The simple truth requires neither confusing numbers nor rhetorical flourishe...