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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor, Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain (For those who don’t know, some states have banned…

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I do want people to know that I was all in on the shelter-in-place bandwagon in March. Did it help? Not sure. Here is an article to debate that. Hindsight is 20/20 and we know this virus (man-manipulated from Wuhan?) is very contagious and kills the old. Yes, there are cases of younger people dying…

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So, this article professes “organized medicine’s shameful attacks on high-quality nurse practitioner (NP) care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.” This statement in the article is a lie. The lies must stop. There is no shameful attack on NP’s. Here’s the irony. NP groups are using this pandemic crisis to push for full practice authority (FPA) yet accuse organized…

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Readers, if you bother finishing this piece, you owe me one for having slogged through this article for you:  “We need more transgender and gender nonbinary doctors.” Yep, that’s exactly the thing we were missing in medical school.  This New York City (oh great) MD/PHD candidate told a friend’s story:  “Years of distress from gender dysphoria and constant bullying…

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Here is some fun news: Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman’s insurance $10,984 for his COVID-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8. Even more surprising: The insurer paid in full. Feel free to read the whole article because it will make your…

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Here is some news: CommonSpirit Health and Paladina Health are negotiating primary care contracts with employers, unions, and other organizations. Who thinks this will go well? Who thinks this won’t fall into the same trap as the other ones who tried before to scale up DPC? Here’s more: CommonSpirit, which operates more than 700 care…

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From the archives of the Placebo Journal. RIP. Tweet

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“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.” Mahatma Gandhi (BTW: They are trying to remove his statue as well.) Tweet

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If it is a function of the amount of money a country spends on its healthcare, then the United States of America should have the best healthcare sector in the whole world. But you and I know that is as far away from the case as possible. Like as far away as anything you can…

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