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The reason AI can so easily take our doctors and dentists jobs is because they already weren’t human centered anymore, anyhow. Most medical professionals have Big Pharma and Big Insurance as their customers, not their patients.
In that sense, AI would be an improvement (and I don’t like AI).
But the doctors in it for the love of healing - they will likely always have patients. They may not grow rich off their practice anymore (ready to trade some chickens or eggs for services again?) but they’ll always be in demand because they see the whole patient personally.
I used to meet those Docs when I was young. Now, on a regular basis, I meet the arrogant "I know everything, you know nothing", types and the "if you don't follow my orders and take the statin, you are non-compliant and you are no longer my patient" type. I am 78 and regularly see my ophthalmologist to manage my glaucoma so I don't go blind. The rest can take a flying leap.
During the height of the Moo Goo Gai Panic, my cardiologist insisted everyone in the room was masked. When I pointed out that the weave-gap of an N95 mask was 0.3 microns (300 nanometers) and that the size of the COVID particle is 84 nanometers -- and that it goes through an N95 like sand through a cyclone fence -- he flew off the handle and (briefly) refused to treat me. I came THIS close, as Maxwell Smart might say, to reporting him for malpractice.
Are you an Industrial Hygienist, by any chance? The silencing of I.H.'s was truly shocking and harmful. Every time I tried to share the Stephen Petty podcasts, explaining reality, they were blocked and disappeared.
He and a few others were so helpful in explaining the actual science behind PPE and masks especially!! I will be forever grateful to them! And yes, it was shocking how *these* true experts were dismissed and sidelined, while people like doctors and epidemiologists, whose areas of expertise are not about that, were held up as experts. It made me even more furious when I learned that the whole universal masking nonsense was begun by people who had nothing to do with the medical field, even! If I remember correctly, one was a social scientist 🤨
My next door neighbor only had a few classes towards a nursing degree - she ended up in interior design - and said "If you can smell a fart through the thing, it isn't going to keep out a tiny germ." Her sass got me through the worst of it. Everybody knew but the nanny state 'experts'.
I canvassed with someone who I can’t remember exactly what they did, but it was along the lines of industrial hygienist. We had a long conversation about the “efficacy” of masks. Of course, no one would listen to him despite his knowledge about all of it.
Me too - long since retired. Upon hearing about the mRNA technology, I researched it and it wasn't difficult to determine that the animal studies did not fare well. So no jab for me. Also read up on the mask science. None of this was hard to find and not really difficult to understand.
But the real tip-off was OWS - an utterly impossible program to pull off in less than a year. I know how those programs work.
My husband had to have a procedure done at the VA in 2021. I had to drive him home. I wouldn’t wear a mask to sit in a waiting room, but they let me wait with a face shield, which I pushed up as I was the only one in the waiting room. The nurses in the station sat behind plexiglass, maskless. The doctor who did the procedure caught me in the waiting room with my face shield up. He sternly told me to properly position the shield as he took me to see my husband. The VA held onto their ridiculous masks for almost 3 years. Last fall my husband had another procedure and the same doctor from 2021 performed it. No masks now. I wanted to ask him if he had any regrets on being such a mask Nazi, with the knowledge we now have, but you’ll never get any of the mask pushers to admit they were wrong.
Medicine, law and it should be auto techs too, are called a 'practice' for a reason. A I seems to be taking the practice out of diagnosis and research. Can auto tech diagnosis be far behind?
The way those things are supposed to work is particles follow a torturous path. So, even though N95s have average pore sizes much bigger than the particles they’re designed to catch, they actually work. Provided they’re not plugged and fitted correctly. The sand through a cyclone fence analogy describes perfectly those ridiculous cloth masks intended for virtue signaling.
It is my understanding that they work on the condition that they are fitted and worn correctly. For the vast majority of regular people using those masks during Covid, that was not the case.
My Doogie Howser styled “cardiologist” chided me “if you were my mother, I’d have you on statins”, my reply: “if you were my son I’d put you in the corner” and then walked out. I no longer see any of these pushers, I figure God will take me when he wants me home and nothing I do here on earth will stop Him.
At the age of 63, I have started to think of how, not if. Seems longevity is the goal of doctors, but I would rather drop with a quick heart attack than a heart kept pumping with drugs while my brain deteriorates. They get quiet when you start that conversation. Everybody dies. I am aiming for a long, healthy glide, then a precipitous drop.
At 71 I’m in total agreement with you. Both of my parents lived fully and “went out like a light”. It is a shock when a loved one dies so suddenly but watching my in laws die an inch at a time, and be reduced to infantile, diaper wearing living sand bags stuck in a hospital bed, I’m voting for the “beam me up, Scotty” approach to death.
I love that! Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die has always seemed the perfect way to go. Every other way just raises my anxiety and control issues. 🙂 But I think Beam me up, Scotty has a snarky jauntiness that is sort of perfect. May I borrow it?
I also think of one of the terminal patients from the book The In-Between (sp?) - in her forties, dying of cancer after a life of pilates, marathons and stringent food restrictions who said "I wish I had eaten the cake at parties.'
Had my PCP pre-pandemic try to push a statin. I didn't even get beyond that. Just flat out "I'm not going to take a statin". Some muttering about cholesterol and I just said "I'll deal with that part - not taking a statin". They let it go. I'm sure something got noted in official records somewhere, but I think that was worth it.
My wife was asked by her oncologist to no longer be a patient because my wife would not commit to a 5 year regimen of a medicine (Tamoxifen) which would be ineffective/useless at preventing a recurrence of her particular cancer, for a cancer that had a very low probability of recurring, and would make my wife miserable for 5 years. I'm guessing her oncologist was really upset that should wouldn't be making a kickback.
My theory is, the more medical degrees they have, the more insufferable and rigid in their thinking they are. My daughter’s pediatric neurologist was really something special, he just retired (he’s younger than me and I’m 55). I handed him the latest folinic acid study for autism and asked if it could help her. I asked if you read about Cerebral folate deficiency do the symptoms sound like autism? I was met with silence. I asked if my daughter could start the folinic acid supplement, he said it probably wouldn’t work. But there’s no side effects, so you might as well try. Now I tried it and it is really helping her, both with engagement, speech, behavior and even her seizures (zero breakthrough seizures since putting her on it). I then asked if he shouldn’t just give it to his patients who are 4 and under presenting with seizures and autism. He said no. Even though there’s zero side effects. Zero logic. I’m at a loss.
Sad that other parents may not know about it in time to help their children. Doctors for sure will not tell them about it, but I really can't understand - why? Why on earth would you not prescribe it for children who COULD be helped by it??
Most doctors are in practices owned by hospitals or corporations. These doctors have very strict rules they are to follow, handed down from the leadership of their practice. Only private practice doctors have the freedom to prescribe outside the dictates of their bosses.
When my daughter was little, she had seizures as well. After putting her on their medication, she started getting these rages that are associated with seizure medications (that the doctors don’t warn you about). I discovered that, at least for my daughter, the rages were a result of low blood sugar levels. If I just handed her a carrot or some food, the tantrum would stop immediately. When I offered this to her pediatric neurologist to share with other parents experiencing the same thing, the head of pediatric neurology of a well-respected hospital, he said, “No.”
It’s exactly that, maybe it’s just permanent hospital policy now and the doctors that really care have already left the system. And I agree with you, the seizure medications come with horrific side effects. Seizures from autism tend to be intractable and medicine doesn’t help. So she’s on this intense keto diet, but still, she had breakthrough seizures. The folinic acid stopped them though, it’s nothing short of miraculous.
I've said many times here we cured my wife's cancer holistically, but we did meet with an oncologist once before we made that decision. Guy was supposed to be the best at a supposed to be very good hospital. Only fool I ever saw wearing 2 masks. Need I say more. ?
I’m hearing more and more stories from people I know that say fuggetaboutit to oncology/radiation and have eliminated the tumors with diet (NO SUGARS), homeopathic remedies and other off grid solutions. Ivermectin figures in all the remedies but each had other concoctions in addition. I am hoping AI can help sort out these parallel treatments in the near future.
A vey good friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer in her 80s.
she went to a Naturopath to be treated instead of the medical poisoners. He adjusted her diet and gave her some supplements and she lived to be 103 years old. I saw her in the hospice center a few weeks before she died. She knew who I was and could carry on a conversation. She is now with her Savior.
My oncologist wanted me to take an estrogen suppressor after I had a hormone positive tumor removed. I would always politely decline, and on every subsequent visit we would proceed to have a cordial debate about the data in various studies. I would always greet her with "I'm here for my scolding!". She was conventionally programmed, but very nice.
My husband was given a prescription from a doctor for a condition. He asked what was causing the condition and the doctor became infuriated. Just take the medicine he sniped. He didn't fill the prescription. Instead he got on the Internet and found a holistic cure and what caused it. Going to a doctor now is a last resort.
Same here! I am 63, and my Dr. dropped me over the statin issue. Now I live in Tasmania, where my doctor laughs and says "We are not Big Pharma here!" Well, they are a little, but much less than the US. They also have a lot of alternative practitioners NAET, sound frequency medicine, Chinese medicine - all more helpful with relieving my leftover COVID anxiety rather than the SSRI the US doctor recommended. I think AI competition might be good for medicine. The personal, empathetic holistic approach might make a comeback!
NAET has been wonderful for me! I was so sad when my long-time practitioner retired last year (at the age of 81!). It's been tough finding another as good as he was.
My doctor told me to put my mask up (I had it below my nose so that I could breathe) "in order to protect both of us". I gave him some stats that he said weren't true. Changed doctors immediately.
Sooo spot-on. I'm 59, and get the drops for my glaucoma, and one mood stabilizer. No more statins, no way. In recent years stopped taking so many darn pills, and feel better than ever.
I'm 80 in May... and have not needed meds, but my BP is starting to climb. So first, I'm going to try my natural solutions, but I may eventually have to give in to low-dose rx... BUT NOT TILL I'VE TRIED MY WAY FIRST.
I have been "fired" from two PCPs, two vets and the orthopedic surgeon that replaced my hip in 2019 (who told me in 2021 "If you don't get a Covid vaxx within the month I will no longer treat you) 😠 in the last 6 years because I WILL NOT just take a pill, or a shot or show up for "well visits" (i'm not a newborn🤷) Nor will I give endless meds and unnecessary vaccinations to my very senior dog...without a dang good reason)
Medical professionals do not like it if one questions their divinity. Not only are they offended... they feel obligated to stop you before your "mad" notions spread like the plan-demics that they find so satisfying!
The demise of Dr arrogance and hollyweird is a definite benefit of AI. Add in attorneys (sorry Jeff) and we have a triple win for AI, a very powerful tool that also can be and will be abused. It is not the complete end however. AIs hallucinate, that is one of the signs of no real intelligence, they can miss obvious things, think 2026 is 2024, deny they said something two paragraphs before, etc.
So these fields will still be there. A firm, instead of having 5 Paralegals will have one to review, and fewer attorneys as well. As to Hollyweird I have less sympathy for them. Exceptions like Jim Cavizel will always gain myself as an audience.
Jeff gave an excellent example of use of AI for medical. I self diagnosed ABPA, a serious lung disease sensitivity to a common mold through AI, and came in asking for the tests to prove it, and immediately asking for a biologic verses steroids.
I will be doing all the prep work for a living trust, and find a decent attorney to simply review. and file. (you don't want to error here) ( Distribution of a trust is where attorneys make the most, and that will no longer be needed with an appropriate AI. After doing the work for my Dads estate I realized it is not as difficult as I thought. Involved, yes, but a decent AI with state appropriate forms and your own research, can guide this very well.
My wife and I talked to a lawyer about wills, trusts, health care directives...the whole sheebang. The lawyer wrote up the documents and emailed them to me for review. I uploaded the doc to Claude Pro and it reviewed them all. It caught a spelling mistake, a wrong phone number, some inconsistencies with beneficiaries and listed a bunch of questions to ask the lawyer. I thought Claude did a very good job, but I'm not a lawyer.
@JBell- and pre-op questions. A nurse, who sounded like she had retired then went back to work- asked me about a medication. I said "If I were on 5 mg of (said med), I'd be dead." "Oh! Haha! Yes! .5 mg!" I also suspect she's the one who didn't send the complete meds list over to the operating center resulting in a medication mix up that could have killed me had I not had the medical background to recognize it.
I'm on medicare and have 5 separate specialties that I see on a less than regular basis. All 5 want to have me on different meds WITHOUT any sort of central control. I saw a ENT for a persistent runny nose. He gave me a nose spray that completely ended my ability to pee because it was contra indicated with my prostate med. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CHECKING, ASSHOLE!! I use Ai and no longer have med mixups.
While my dad was still alive, a wonderful RN arranged for CNA's to sit with him, laid out his meds weekly, and checked the meds the hospitals switched him to when he was there. Why they don't just accept what they are already on is beyond me. At least twice, perhaps 3 X, she saved his life with stories like you are telling here. Gave her $10K from dad's estate for what I figure was giving dad an extra 2-3 years of life.
a very similar reduction already happening... a major accounting firm just had to take about 25 percent off of a 400 k job, and soon that work may well go in house.
Ah, Allergic BroncoPulmonary Aspergillosis. I was diagnosed over 20 years ago. Itraconazole is the prescribed anti fungal and has been working well for me for a long time. I only take a half dose and have never had a side effect. In fact, by happenstance I met the research doc who was instrumental in developing it. My pulmonologist and I both believe that I am doing so well because I ride a road bike very vigorously and often. Plus, I live in a dry climate. Be careful with the biologics as they can have serious side effects. Good luck.
Interesting to meet someone else. It is true that everybody's body is its own unique chemistry experiment. Considering Itraconazole vs tezspire a biologic? What AI has shared...
Itraconazole is an antifungal often used off-label for certain types of severe asthma (like allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis), while Tezspire is a biologic (monoclonal antibody) specifically FDA-approved for severe, uncontrolled asthma.
Common Side Effects Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and stomach pain. Sore throat, joint pain, back pain, and injection site reactions.
Severe Risks Liver damage (hepatotoxicity), congestive heart failure, and hearing loss. Severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis).
Long-term Use May lead to hair loss, menstrual changes, and erectile dysfunction. Safety profile remains favorable with no increased risk of infections.
Administration Oral (capsules/solution) or IV. Subcutaneous injection every 4 weeks.
Key Differences
Organ Impact: Itraconazole requires monitoring of liver function and can negatively impact heart health. Tezspire generally has a more localized side effect profile, such as irritation at the injection site.
Systemic vs. Targeted: As an antifungal, Itraconazole has broad systemic effects, including potential impacts on hormones and digestion. As a biologic, Tezspire targets a specific protein (TSLP) in the immune system to reduce inflammation.
Allergic Reactions: Both can cause allergic reactions, but for Tezspire, these are a primary serious concern and can occur hours or even days after the injection.
@Sir- while they've come a long way, some people simply have bad cardiac genes and can't be fixed. My mother and her family came from a long line of cardiac patients. So far I'm good. In fact, I just had a stress test because my granddaughter called me in a panic. Her toddler was trapped in the bathroom with the tub running and she was trying mightily to kick the door in. I told her to get off the phone WITH ME and call 911 but she gave it one more kick and saved the day. My heart is still pounding.
No, you don't have bad genes. You simply need to come to my Heart Disease Seminar. I charge $1000, but you can collect10 friends, each paying $100 and get it for free. I reveal the ACTUAL cause and what people do to reverse it. I can do it on Zoom.
Contrary to the idea that heart disease appeared only after 1920, medical and archaeological evidence confirms it has plagued humanity for thousands of years. CT scans of ancient Egyptian mummies, some dating back to 1580 BCE, have revealed unmistakable atherosclerosis and arterial calcification identical to modern cases. While it is true that blood pressure (BP) measurement became a standard vital sign in the early 20th century, the first recorded measurement occurred as early as 1733, and the inflatable cuff was introduced in 1896 It is not a "phony" measurement, are understanding of its meaning is growing.
I donate every eight weeks. It's getting to be a hassle. There are too many stupid questions: Whose blood is it? Where did you get it from? Why is it in a bucket?
I donate every eight weeks. It's getting to be a hassle. There are too many stupid questions: Whose blood is it? Where did you get it from? Why is it in a bucket?
I've known 2 doctors like that. They both retired. Both were in private practice. Private practice is decreasing significantly in the US as practices over recent decades have become increasingly purchased/affiliated with corporations, hospitals, and health systems. The doctors in such systems are already controlled, with making money being the number one priority, not patient health. Independent, out of the box thinking is not allowed.
My PCP and my kids pediatrician are both private practice. And they’re much better than anything else I can get where I live BUT they still have too much faith in the system they came out of.
I’ve seen a LOT of holistic and alternative medicine doctors over the years (autoimmune conditions) and sadly I don’t think they are much better anymore.
I’ve known just one or two who aren’t wanting to supplement you into bankruptcy, and keep you on a diet of chicken and rice or whatever the latest fad is.
@David- my husband's last physical, the nurse handed him a stack of papers to fill out for Medicare. Dr. walked in while the poor guy was still trying to fill them out. Dr. took the clipboard out of his hands, took the paper out, threw them away, and said "They don't need all that crap." One reason we keep him.
The ins co offers to have "nurses" come to our HOME 4 x a year. Nope. They also ask if you have firearms, etc - things they do NOT have any business knowing! My MIL fell for it once and I was there to witness. I kept interrupting, asking, "why do you want that information? Has nothing to do with her conditions.". MIL thanked me and never had them out again.
I go with my mom to her doc appts and we get that big stack every year. Her primary care doc does not even look at them, she's been seeing mom for ~20 years and doesn't need to. So mom and I have fun with it and put a few random answers down that are both ridiculous and untrue. I always assumed it was a 'check the box' exercise that had no value but we fill it out (mom has bad arthritis in her hands so I am the scribe) just in case they need it to get paid by Medicare.
Isn’t that telling that that (throwing the paperwork away) CAN be done? If only more doctors would do it, the system wouldn’t be able to destroy them all!
I used to have one. didnt take insurance, but the visit was $15 less that my co-pay. After a brief consultation, he would, with great confidence, tell me what was wrong and how to fix it. He was correct EVERY time, and it was always a cheap fix. I miss him so much...
There are only four causes of sickness: toxic exposure, nutrition deficiencies, electromagnetic frequencies and chronic stress. If we listen to our body, we won’t money driven doctors, drugs or AI. Health should be our sole responsibility- instead it’s a 4 trillion dollar empire: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-youre-a-healthcare-customer-not
Vaccines are a huge part of illness, Franklin. You covered them by saying ‘toxic exposure’— but I just want the Portlanders in all of us to be 100% clear.
Thank GOD RFK made the HepB shot we were giving infants on Day 1 optional, although at present, I’m sure there are still millions unquestioningly allowing them to jab their newborns with it. THEN they give the synthetic vitamin K shot to their corn the blood bc babies can’t clot until Day 8.
*If they’d wait til Day 8 to circumcise or do any other surgery if any type, they wouldn’t need to artificially thicken the blood! It’s almost like the Creator had a clue what He was doing!
So the blood is made into a tar-like substance, and can no longer get into nooks and crannies to help heal little blood vessels and so on that may have been harmed during the trauma of birth. (Brilliant. Who needs THIN, healing blood when you can have sludge-like TAR?) This makes baby sloth-like and unable to nurse properly, but…
Then we go on and vaccinate MORE at 2, 4, 6, and 8 months.
EACH vaccine has alcohol, formaldehyde, aborted calf serum, (SO awful how this serum comes to be injected into our infants!) and fragmented cells of aborted babies— BOTH sexes, which I believe helps create autoimmune diseases AND gender confusion. The polysorbates in every vaccine open the Blood Brain Barrier and usher toxins past the barrier. These included heavy metals and aluminum. Everybody knows aluminum starts dementia and alzheimer’s, but what do we care? That won’t show up for decades.
*Sorry! I have to just keep telling this story, i’m the hopes that it saves ONE family from autism and more.
I so wish I could convince my kids to omit them...I've tried, but parents of course have full control. It sure adds to the worries you already have for your precious grandkids :(
Buy my other favorite attorney’s book, VACCINES, AMEN! for them.
The first paragraph hooks you. My kids aren’t having babies quite yet, although I wish they would. IF they do, I think I will BRIBE them to read ONE book. VACCINES, AMEN!,
TURTLES ALL the WAY DOWN, or
DISSOLVING ILLUSIONS. Their choice, and I’ll pay “biggly”!
You’ll be blessed if your adult kids listen to you on the vaccine topic. Typically they’re more inclined to believe the pediatrician- who has a major conflict of interest as they can make tens of thousands in bonus money by vaxxing as many kids as possible. Just ask the doc the question. THAT needs to change.
I’m very lucky in that my daughter has listened to me about vaccines and my 17mo old granddaughter has had none. The kid has never been sick a day in her life beyond two 12hr teething fevers! And she’s had lots of exposures. She just has an amazing immune system.
RFK recently ended the insurance kickbacks. I’m uncertain if it’s fully kicked in (or out!) yet but I read he had ended it.
You are correct; THAT will be helpful.
For now, I get on all the FB / instagram anti vaccine groups and post the ingredients, some of Aaron Siri’s brilliant stuff, videos from Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Dr. Sheri Tenpenny.
I post abt the movie Del Bigtree did, An Inconvenient Study, and so on.
I’ve been told by 4 people that they didn’t vax their babies on account of info I sent them. It makes it worthwhile knowing I possibly made a dent in the “safe & effective” mantra.
I have all of those sitting in my Amazon cart-lol! I love what Aaron Siri has done for our cause. A good thought though, thank you! I have tried to send books, articles, charts and studies on vaxxed vs unvaxxed, increased rates of autism post vaccination, etc...I read it all, get rebuffed, and then have to let it go. My firstborn son always had shot reactions as a toddler and got JRA and Dermatomyositis at age 2 and 5. I sadly never considered the shots as it was a time (1984) that you never questioned, so I guess my kids follow that pattern unfortunately. All my kids got the Covid vax due to employment and/or believing the hype :( I got religious exemptions, but still remember patients and coworkers that were so proud of all their boosters. Like Jeff says...what interesting times we live in...may the best yet lie ahead for us all.
It’s likely that your kids carry some part of the MTHFR gene. I went the same route as you did, and I am certain our middle child got eczema (listed on several
childhood vax inserts as a possible adverse reaction) but we cured it— eventually, thank heaven. She and her sister also got severe jaundice
as infants and one spent weeks in a tiny “tanning bed”, with a mask on her eyes, wearing mittens so she couldn’t pull it off. She had to have her heel pricked and blood drawn several times a day. I swear that’s why she so feisty! 😉
Later in life, the same child developed Gilbert’s Syndrome. I am 100% sure it stemmed from the SYNTHETIC vitamin K shot she endured, Day 1.
It is rough on the liver and that’s what Gilbert’s harms. It’s strongly connected with babies having severe jaundice, and of course, jaundice is listed in the vitamin K insert.
She’s 30 now, but her liver is junk. She can’t eat many food colorings, not much junk and she can’t have more than 1.5 drinks in like a 24 hour period— even at her own wedding.
@KC & the Sunshine Agree 💯 on “Vaccines, Amen!” Hubs and I listened to Aaron Siri on a podcast during a roadtrip, and he was so impressed that HE ordered it and read it. He always listened to me about vaxxing, but I never thought he really cared/understood the tremendous dangers. He did after reading that book!
How would you compare Vaccine Amen to Turtles all the way down. I have given Turtles to a niece but I fear it’s overwhelming— I’d welcome your thoughts thank you in advance.
How to Raise a Healthy Child … in Spite of Your Doctor cleared up vaccines for me back in 1989. And helped me relax about so much else in raising my kids. My youngest already has it (her wedding is next month).
And maybe, just maybe our little ones were perfect the way they were born. Somehow the Amish never need all of this stuff and their kids survive. Much better than ours do. I still am not all that convinced that circumcision is a good idea. Of course it might have made sense 3,000 years ago, but today? Why are we still doing that to those poor infants? What kind of emotional damage is being done to a little tiny baby when he is attacked and operated on without anesthesia!? And in the instances where it is a religious exercise, some of those rabbis actually suck on the little penis to stem the bleeding. I have Jewish people in my family, and I have never been able to get them to explain why that is okay. And has anyone ever asked the question how does this affect that infants brain? How is that not sexual assault? It's time to start asking these questions.
When I did circumcisions in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we used local anesthesia. They didn't cry or even seem to notice (though I wasn't around later , when the anesthesia wore off, either).
My sons were midwife home deliveries with circumcisions being done in doctor’s offices many days later. I wasn’t really aware of the 8 day Biblical reference, but a pastor who came to visit on the 8th day mentioned it the second time around.
I was amazed at how little it seemed to bother the babies. There was such redness for a few days; we put a stamp sized piece of gauze coated in petroleum jelly over the cut. But urination didn’t seem to hurt and it was all healed very quickly.
I have read that the fact that there is no crying isn’t necessarily an indication of no pain. It could mean that the baby shuts down from the trauma. I’ve heard the same about reactions to vaccines.
Well, you should have seen the babies on whom no anesthesia was used, and you might change your opinion. No anesthesia = torture. Lots of screaming and crying.
I have heard this over and over. I had a son and he was absolutely fine within minutes of his circumcision, but I kick myself that I let them talk me
out of waiting until Day 8. He was 2 days old.
He’s grown now and we’ve only spoken about it once when he had a friend sleep over and they pending our lake. He was alarmed! 😂 He was about 8 at the time.
No, we distracted them by having them suck on something, like a finger tip. I admit I don't recall that as clearly (my experience being about 35 years ago), but I do clearly recall how much better I felt because the babies were not distressed and in pain, as they were if no local anesthesia was used. It's the dorsal penile nerve that is targeted with the anesthesia, so perhaps it went numb quickly enough.
I can’t speak to the rabbi thing— nor even bring myself to type it. I can assure you that practice is NOT in the bible.
I’m not certain of the need or spiritual reasons behind circumcision or whether Jesus fulfilled that somehow when he was crucified. I have heard and read differing opinions on it.
I do know that for many people, 2nd guessing what God put into play is what gets us into trouble.
Don’t hear me totally saying circumcision has GOT to happen. But if it is a part of the plan, I think the pain is very short lived, and not remembered— similar to childbirth.
A friend is a nurse in an office where they regularly do circumcisions. I always assumed it was on babies. Nope!
They’re doing them sometimes multiple times, DAILY, on boys who are at that age, having sex, or about to, bc they are embarrassed. Or the boys are just embarrassed in the locker room/gym.
They wish they’d had it done years ago, I am sure.
It’s not necessary. Other Christian countries don’t do it. And they don’t have a bunch of boys or men with health problems due to not circumcising. It’s another cash cow for doctors and hospitals.
Yes, isn't it odd that so many uncircumcised males in this country "have to have" circumcisions?
But males in other countries don't?
It's almost as if there is some sort of financial reason involved.
And isn't it odd that males old enough to talk, report severe pain when part of their penis is removed, but newborn babies never complain? Obviously, if they don't complain, that means it doesn't hurt babies, just males old enough to talk.
I’m not concerned abt cleanliness or issues. It’s just a thing in the bible that God says to do. I am all in on whatever God says to do, regardless whether it seems like society or I have a better idea.
I’m just not certain whether it’s one of those things that was abolished by Jesus’ death and resurrection or if it remains.
Either way, it certainly isn’t a “sin unto death” if it isn’t done. It’s
more of an ordinance— if it’s still that. I haven’t looked too
much into it bc my
son is in his 20s, and I don’t have grandkids on the way— quite yet.
Nonetheless, it’s a common thing and I think hospitals insisting on circumcision before (IF they’re going to do it at all) the family leaves, is a HUGE part of the “you MUST have a synthetic vitamin K shot or your baby may bleed out”.
Yeahhhhh, if your blood is super thin, it’s not a good plan to have a bloody surgery! But does our medical establishment think maybe just wait a few days? MAYBE the blood is thin for a reason and MAYBE the bible says circumcise on Day 8 bc THAT is the first day blood can clot? Nooooo… Our medical establishment says, “There’s something wrong here. It can’t be what WE are doing. It’s MUST be Mother Nature. We have to intervene with a synthetic vitamin.”
My daughter has done extensive research into circumcision and vx…and is due with her first. I just wished I knew the vx info 25 yrs ago…both daughters are vx injured (meningitis vx) and I must be as well with my constant sinus infections as a kid. So evil they’ve been poisoning us…. Thank God my gut said NO during the Cvd experiment. No more for any of us! Detox and try to eat clean. 💟
I had my son in the small hospital where I was an ER nurse. Had a mild complication requiring me to have a 3 day hospitalization. The day after my son was born, my nurse happily walked into my room for me to sign for my son's circumcision. I politely declined. She left my room with such a bemused look. The next day, the head nurse came in with the same spiel. Again, I politely declined so I got the lecture about how this was important to my son's health. I asked for the consent form, tore it into a couple of pieces, smiled, handed it back. That was the end of that.
My son is 41 now, never had a problem. Teaching a male child about hygiene is just important as for a female, fairly simple. Years later my son asked why I didn't have him circumcised. He and his buddies had done a survey to see who was and wasn't circumcised. About 1/3 were not. I explained that it wasn't necessary and it hurt like hell. "Thank you, Mom."
I am also a nurse, and that is why I am vehemently opposed to the barbaric practice of cutting off part of a newborn baby boy's penis.
In nursing school I saw my first one. It was horrendous. The baby screamed and screamed, and didn't stop for a long time.
I have had people tell me "He's just afraid". So it's OK to terrorize a newborn? It doesn't hurt, it just terrifies them? I don't get that logic.
Anyway, I am a conscientious objector, and refused to have anything to do with circumcisions, leaving it to the nurses that didn't care.
But I can tell you that I heard them scream every single time.
I don't believe the women who say that their son was fine and didn't cry. They probably weren't there, so they don't know.
I worked with a doctor who was also against circumcision.
So when the parents insisted on doing that to their newborn, he would agree, but then require the father to be there for it.
He said that every father, except one, when faced with their little newborn strapped to the plastic tray, ready to be cut, changed their minds and rescinded the permission.
I wonder about that one father who let his son be mutilated in front of him.
Well said!! I am glad I found out about how harmful and unnecessary routine circumcision is before I had my kids. I have no regrets about saying no to that procedure and my kids haven’t had any problems either.
A woman from my church lost her 2 month old son to vitamin K deficiency Bleeding (VKDB). She had a home birth and was breastfeeding. (He was her 3rd).
My daughter (who is a physician) explained that by the time a parent realizes something is wrong and gets the baby to the ER, it’s already too late. No vitamin K shot and breastfeeding are classic red flags.
My 8 kids born between 1984-2002 all had the Vitamin K shot.
And that includes recovering from all the poor dentistry that many have been obediently allowing all their life: Metal fillings, fluoride, poorly fit crowns, etc. I would love to see more attention paid to poor, toxic dentistry.
I’m in this awful cycle right now 😢 I don’t have the old school fillings because my teeth were perfect till my mid twenties but after five kids (even with good dental hygiene and eating healthy) my teeth are one of my biggest worries. The dentist I see only wants to drill and fill. Last time I saw him, he shrugged off my questions. “I’m not a researcher. I’m just the mechanic.”
I AM a researcher and still can’t figure out why my teeth are deteriorating. Our only holistic dentist within an hour drive wants $600 and a ton of x-rays just to see me - and may refuse to talk to me if I refuse the x-rays! I’m getting so fed up even with the supposed “alternatives” but not in a position to just stop care now 😔
Franklin, a good overview yet a bit narrow unless stress is expanded to mean not engaging in those acts and thoughts that harm the soul and inevitably create universal misery. ( A simple illustration, the Miser is universally miserable in every culture, the one who strives to work as a service to otheres, the loving attentive Mom and Dad, the one who cares, they gain a universal happiness.) So our thoughts and actions are ultimately the root cause of stress.
David, 1,000% agree here. I actually just wrote an article how we need to bring back villages and communities, and one of the byproducts of villages is that deep spiritual piece you mention here. 1,000% agree here. Here the article: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-greed-destroyed-the-human-village
Thank you, an excerpt of this if you will...If all the radical statist indefatigable efforts to control society were instead directed to social studies which specifically teach free choice behavior that can be universally shown to engender happiness, such as the common religious ideal “life should be chiefly service” and the principles of eternal virtue, (called the ten commandments in the West, and Satama Dharma, or eternal principles of righteousness, in the East) only then will any earthly utopia be gained. With instant communication of need and rapid commerce, charity driven help could be rapidly delivered where needed all over. This is far more efficient than government, (where the effect is often the polar opposite of the stated intent) and far more liberating for those that engage in such work.
This understanding of true and universal happiness engendering actions and psychology is no small matter, and is so deeply missing in modern social science that failure is inevitable and all systems are doomed. Instead of wisdom, we have flawed people utterly lacking introspection, expensively taught to perceive themselves as elite and teaching others to perceive themselves as victims. These elite seek forced divisive based restitution rooted in confrontation with those innocent yet presumed guilty, often simply because of their color. And, in submission to their own demonstrated to be misery generating unwise personal desires, they often also spread their misery to all social structures, demanding to control every aspect of society and culture. The "March through the Institutions" is real.
Comprehensive studies on universal happiness (actions and attitudes that always eventually produce happiness) vs pleasure, (defined here as temporary capricious desires that only lead to temporary happiness, and often for that individual simply due to the fact that any desired satisfied temporarily removes a restless want from the undisciplined heart, or base desires that if catered to promise temporary happiness but instead enslave, produce misery and destroy happiness) is NECESSARY for society to survive and prosper. (“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” ~~George Washington)
This philosophy of happiness, is not impractical imagination. Everybody is a philosopher in that one’s ethos, emotions and desires, are inevitably and always one’s philosophy lived. What works can rightly be called wisdom. Giving in to undisciplined unwise desires, or “getting what you want”, has ruined countless lives and cultures. “Desires lead to restlessness, restlessness leads to acts, then the memory all betrayed, lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, until purpose mind and man are all undone.” There is an additional spiritual side of life that is necessary for lasting happiness. Yet that requires a different understanding of the “epistomolgy of nomunea” and so will be held for a later post.
Unbiased scientific understanding what truly makes content individuals and prosperous societies, and teaching this in our families and schools, would be immeasurably more valuable and lead to spiritual tuned lives and nations. In short teaching the Bible’s ten commandments as “eternal rules of happiness” and showing how these are perfectly reflected in India’s “Satama Dharma” principles, along with understanding the foundational freedom principles of the U.S., would be ideal.
Integration in the 60s destroyed the farm community I grew up in. The local school was the heart and brought everyone together, even though we may have attended different churches.
But everyone was forced onto buses and sent into town and it was never the same.
Now we hear that black people want their own segregated everything.
While I agree, managing a group of people and running a business boosted my cholesterol over 200. Been on statins since 1999 and have great blood pressure and good health. One does have to tolerate som aches and pains….its all part of growing older :) and it beats the alternative.
Statins are a complete scam, as is the war on cholesterol. Cholesterol is a very poor marker for heart disease. 50 % of the brain is cholesterol. Low cholesterol increases Alzheimer. Statins give over 90 % of recipients muscle pain, increase risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Alzheimers, and disrupt mitochondria function. The logic for using them is very flawed too. The doctors talk relative risk, not absolute risk . In this case high cholesterol shows a 2 % increase in heart disease. By taking statins, this drops to 1 %. That is an absolute decrease of 1 %, but a relative decrease of 50 %. You are taking toxic statins for a 1 % decreased chance of heart disease.
I am sorry if this offends you, but I have done the research. This is one article, but virtually every cancer book I have read (over a dozen, most more than once ) says statins are a total scam. And no , your body chemistry does not change the story on statins. A woman (with a very bad case of TDS, and a former NIH employee) told me the same thing as you after she called me healing my wife's cancer holistically "anecdotal".
As I tell everyone, nobody should take anything anyone says at face value, including me, and doctors. Do your own research, or not. We are all responsible for our own health, and should do whatever they feel is best for them.
No offense intended, but with that assumption you should have been a doctor, assuming you aren't already.
Using 23andMe raw data, I learned from CLAUDE that I have a susceptibility to a SERIOUS disease condition that can be prevented by adopting nutrition and lifestyle changes that no doctor ever even asks about, at least in my experience.
In fact, now I have to go to my doc and get him to prescribe a couple of meds that can be preventatively helpful, knowing it will take a month or two to see him for 10 minutes and risk hearing all the blowback.
And by the way Claude doesn't use the raw data for training, doesn't keep nor spread it around... it goes away when the conversation is closed out.
"Yes, you can download your raw DNA data from MyHeritage if you took a MyHeritage DNA test. The option to download the raw data file is available in your account under the DNA section. However, this feature has been intermittently unavailable, with reports indicating temporary removals and reinstatements. As of recent updates, the download option may be accessible depending on your account and region, but it's not consistently available across all user accounts."
A limited list. Infectious agents( bacteria/ viruses/ prions/ parasites) also cause many diseases, some not traditionally linked to infection, such as the HPV cervical cancer cascade.
Genetic/ congenital issues are also a significant source of illnesses in many people.
Accident/ trauma cause major morbidity and mortality world wide.
Family/ social environment underlie much of mental illness.
You have an incomplete list of causes of disease.
Perhaps an AI consult could help improve the list.
Bacteria appear to clean up dead or diseased tissue. They are not pathogens. They are the clean up crew. No one has yet isolated any so called viruses including the alleged HPV. Contagion has yet to be proven. Same with genetic issues. Looking for genes as the cause of disease is a great distraction and money pit.
Franklin O’. So if you catch a cold is that a toxic exposure? Infectious diseases were & are big killers. Not sure how you fit those into your 4 categories.
I think there is an underestimated need for Personal Medical Advocates. Maybe some displaced doctors who refused being a lab rat can earn some sheckles working with patients privately. If I have a confounding ailment, or surgery is recommended, I would LOVE an advocate that can go on consultation appts with me and read lab results. It is akin to bringing my car to the mechanic and being stymied by the foreign language of “car” so I’m at the mercy of the mechanic.
Absolutely! Also in practice by himself so he can do it the way he believes he should rather than having some corporate office calling the shots. Gee, after 2020, that phrase takes on new meaning.
Speaking of doctors' inhumanity who are no longer patient centered: I drove a friend an hour and a half to her eye doctor. The waiting room was cold and sterile with at least 100 steel chairs with gray walls in straight rows. There was a huge red stop sign just inside the front door no one could pass until called by a woman behind a thick glass barricade. My friend was told that because she was 20 minutes late, she would not be seen. We headed home . As it turned out, my friend had not been late; the employee who made the appointment had keyed it into the system incorrectly.
Here's another one: my husband's cardiologist "fired" him last summer after we told him that my husband isn't taking any of the prescriptions his doctor put him on and instead he's taking vitamins, supplements, and eating a keto diet. It's ok. He's doing extremely well without the pharmaceuticals and their awful side effects.
I am admittedly biased. My ex is a surgeon and I watched him morph from a supposed human to a creature of the medical complex. Doctors learn a rote bedside manner that makes their patients feel cared for. That may or may not be the truth. Whenever someone says "My doctor is the best!" I know they are being bamboozled by appearances and an authoritative white coat. And the hardest part of it all is how do you even determine if the medical "care" you are getting is good? I've had so many medical screw ups by "the best". Medicine is a black box to most of us. Who knows what lurks within? I personally welcome AI. Maybe not human. Maybe competent without too many competing priorities.
We are blessed with a doc that's in it for healing. Spends minimum 30 mins with each patient, but often an hour. Makes sure he understands the problem and then ensures that the patient understands what he's recommending and why. He doesn't take insurance but he's worth every penny. He's so old school that all patient charts are paper-based, and we appreciate that too! There are some good ones out there!
I agree. My dentist who is very up to date on everything, (she was recommended by my old dentist, who I loved, when he retired), has cut her office staff to one besides herself. She uses AI to do all her bookkeeping, insurance forms, and appointment set ups. Her assistant does all the cleaning and hygiene stuff and she does just the actual dental work.
It definitely was NOT when I went to dental school. Anything to do with running a business was learned by reading articles and attending continuing education.
It may have transitioned as I my impression from industry specific trade shows talking to young dentists and veterinary students, and seeing many business specific exhibits. This was in the early 2000s.
Could be the case. If a dentist is going to enter private practice and own a business, some amount of accounting and business skills would be very helpful, to put it mildly. The profit margin in dentistry is quite small as overhead is huge, generally 65-75%, equipment and supplies are expensive, there are a lot of extra regulations due to the healthcare industry, and most fees are capped by an insurance industry whose fee schedules have changed by only a small percentage since the 1970s. I agree that learning the technical aspects of dental care is of primary importance, but if you’re responsible for the livelihood of your dental team, then you as the leader of that team better have some business knowledge.
My dentist who was recommended by retiring dentist used to be friendly, conversion, and gave options. He has become very authoritative, after all he is the dentist, demands that you follow his demands or you can go elsewhere. He demanded annual X-rays, had them and less than 6 months later after breaking a tooth and needing root canal and crown, I was informed of 2 adjoining teeth requiring root canals. The endodontist hedged about whether the dentist should have seen the cavities on X-ray. They are crowned teeth, the dentist stated the X-rays can’t see under the crowns! I’m not sure if this is true or not. In any case, when demanding X-rays, he never told me the X-rays would only be good for uncrowned teeth! I am finishing the work on 2 teeth and will be finding a new dentist.
It is true the metal in the crowns obscure any decay occuring in the tooth structure underneath the crowns so it is not visible on the radiograph/xray.
However, that does not excuse his lack of chairside decorum. He could have taken 5 minutes to explain it to you. It is not rocket science.
Thank you! He knew where I was going with my questions and cut me off saying X-rays will always be required in his practice. (He didn’t used to be strict until after a new building and Covid! Even if I have to have X-rays elsewhere, I will have a discussion about the limitations of them and the “false sense of security “ the profession is giving.
I have basic ‘bitewing’ xrays done 1 X per year. If I have symptoms (hot/cold sensitivity) then one film to see the whole tooth (root, nerve, and surrounding bone) in the area in question.
I do remember my friend, also a hygienist, asked her boss for a raise. He explained he could not afford it—had all kinds of excuses. Then his wife pulled up in a cute little Mercedes convertible and my friend remarked “there’s my raise”. She left the practice not long afterward.
Being paid in chickens is not an exciting prospect for someone who paid a quarter mill' for their education and devoted at least 8 years of their life to obtain the training they needed to help people.
My nephew has found a lucrative practice in temp’ing at ab—tion clinics in CA. He lives out of state with his wife/children but travels back for a month or so to earn enough to maintain a comfortable life style. He also self-medicates with weed. I guess he figures his ‘patients’ won’t sue and don’t care as long as ‘the problem’ is taken care of. I pray for him. He has gone from a brilliant, personable guy to a very miserable, sullen jerk.
My grandfather was a doc like that. Small town in Minnesota during the depression and after. Right now I’m sure he’s rolling in his grave and wondering what has happened to Minnesota?😩
You forgot to add Big Data to your customer list. Doctors spend more time looking at their screens, navigating checklists and buried menus with more checklists, and cross-examining patients for data than they do looking at or touching patients.
Respectfully disagree. It's because of government intrusion, specifically Obamacare and Medicare. Government is the one requiring the data collection; if doctors don't comply, they are penalized.
True, but what data do they collect? And how is it collected? They collect the data the lawyers (malpractice risk) and bean counters (extracting every possible penny) want, and they force clinicians to collect it in ways that interfere with providing clinical care. I'm a doctor who was there for the beginning of that trend, and it only got worse. Prohibiting doctors from owning hospitals was another grave error, because it left them in the hands of corporate executives who talk about patients as if we are widgets.
I agree but they also collect other data that is way too intrusive and doesn't seem to have anything to do with malpractice. For example: how many cups of coffee do I drink -- if the issue is the person who drinks X number of cups, then ask if I drink X number. The quantity of questions and details are inappropriate for a doctor visit.
I've never been asked that, nor did I ever ask it, as a routine question. I could see asking that for someone with difficulty sleeping, the jitters, or high blood pressure, e.g.
Just finished a crazy medical year. But I’m coming out healed. And my doctor is wonderful. In fact, all my doctors are wonderful and they hate this current system as much as anybody.
We better straighten out the exorbitant costs for Medical school before we ditch the high pay for physicians. Most schools charge anywhere from $250k to $450k depending on private or public schools. Students also have to borrow money to live on, can’t work and go to med school. Unfortunately it’s a debt they carry for many years beyond school and residency. BTW their pay in residency is akin to an indentured servant. My child went thru the Air Force which paid for his Med School, but they aren’t comparable in pay to the civilian sector. So they loose a lot of docs after they pay back their debt thru service time.AI can’t pay off their debt, so it maybe awhile before it can take over our Medical Systems.
I’m finding fewer MDs and more PAs….my husband was a Corpsman in the Coast Guard. While enlisted he could do everything a PA seems to do these days. Instead of granting him a license to continue in the medical field, utilizing the skills and knowledge he had, he became Cinderella at 1 minute past midnight…..totally unable to do anything outside the military. Why are we wasting talent like this?
Could not possibly agree more with every single every word of this. Am so anti-AI that I did not expect to feel this way. However, with AI, it is often a fairly easy matter to spot the errors, and AI has no personality or behaviour to contend with while you're unwell and needing help. A godsend.
It's been our experience that doctors rarely even see their patients anymore. They now now have PA's. I'm ok with that if it's something minor but if it's a PA you get post outpatient surgery, no bueno, imo.
Part of the problem is that these young doctors are coming out of med school with 300K or more in debt. They can't leave a corporate practice to pursue real medicine. They can't veer from the dictates of the AMA, Insurance and Pharma if they want to keep their job and pay off their debts. Slaves to the industry. Some are forming groups that offer more time and better care to patients by offering subscriptions paid monthly and limiting patient numbers. Probably not as lucrative as working in a big corporate hospital but definitely more rewarding in many ways to the doctor's own well being.
😛Truth be told, I sleep in fits and spirts, and write and read on my phone until I fall asleep again. I have a feeling some doctors are going to give me some things to do today.
Thank you, those of us who struggle to sleep need to constantly hear this. We know it's bad for everything but we don't choose to not sleep. I have spent hundreds of dollars on things to help you sleep to no avail. I give myself plenty of sleep time, but ...
Oh, that is an interesting angle. If asked about the name Yahweh, what would Jesus have said? I would assume he also knew Hebrew. Maybe His connection to the Father and Holy Spirit was so perfect, He could speak any language at will. I am not aware of the name Yahweh anywhere in the New Testament, though I AM is certainly repeated.
As long as AI doesn’t rid us of our need for YOU, Mr. Childers, and your running commentary on this beautiful thing called LIFE, with a side of the occasional Dumpster Fire, everything will be alright. Alright, alright, alright.
Now that I can't steer the kids into a Big Pharma career path, "politician" will be my advice, based on the certainty of untold, undeserved riches, with little risk of arrest.
I’d go with a plumbers license. After all, everybody’s gotta go. It’s not really that difficult. Hot on the left, cold on the right and shit can’t run up hill. Oh, and don’t forget, don’t lick your fingers.
Going to see the oncologist today to go over my PET scan. Will spend more time on waiting room that with her. If it’s negative like last time that’s good. But I’m about to decided they are ordering scans because they know how many and how often Medicare will pay for them.
Depends on your diagnosis/ treatment and time since treatment.
There is no schedule from Medicare as to how often a PET scan will be reimbursed if indicated. What causes you to think such a schedule exists? Most coverage restrictions are imposed by commercial insurance and their Medicare Advantage bastard offspring.
If you are interested, NCCN ( National Cancer Care Network)provides extensive information about diagnosis, treatment and follow up regimens for almost all forms of cancer.
Or make an AI query, but give all the details for an accurate answer.
There is nothing that bombards you with more toxic radiation than a PET CAT scan. My wife had one, and after it didn't show any cancer, but we had addressed it without any oncologist, or slash burn poison, we received the most mealy mouthed say nothing report they probably ever wrote. No more CAT scans or PET scans for us. Same for biopsies.
I know many will disagree but, the whole point of early screening is to do early interventions. There are literally dozens if not hundreds of natural cures for cancer and many cancers would go away on their own if (expensive) medical interventions weren't there to encourage them to grow. Oncologists are just evil.
“Direct-to-consumer drug ads are allowed by only one other country in the world, a tiny island nation that explicitly compares its own citizens to fruit (New Zealand’s kiwis). Just. Saying.”
Ironically, New Zealand is also the only other country in the world that still allows child mutilation for sex changes. Along with the United States. Just saying.
Eliminating Big Pharma ads from the Media is Win-Win-Win for Humanity. Will greatly reduce demand for drugs that alleviate symptoms. Will increase demand for healthcare that addresses root causes. Will cripple Mainstream Media’s financial viability.
1,000% aligned here Steve! I still wouldn’t call him a prince and totally agree with the whole clan being horrible, but I’ll take the win they give us.
"Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, projecting, ironically told reporters there is 'almost like a religion' around vaccines in Washington."
Too late, Albert. We anti-vaxxers have already appropriated the religion label about you vaccine pushers. See Aaron Siri's book Vaccines, Amen for the latest comparison.
And long before that, there was Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn’s 1979 book Confessions of a Medical Heretic, in which “he argued that medicine was a dogmatic institution prioritizing authority and ritualistic practices over patient well-being.”
“Mendelsohn highlighted how doctors compulsively rushed to prescribe new drugs before side effects were known, many routine practices caused more harm than benefit, that medicine’s compulsion to ‘do something’ was faith-based rather than rational, and that doctors challenging the faith were treated as heretics and cast out.”
Karen: Hello, doctor AI. I have uploaded my labs and my current prescription meds. Please proceed with my checkup
AI: Hello, Karen. Why are you taking all of these medications?
Karen: I don't know. I went to my previous doctor with a complaint and they phoned it in.
AI: What about this one - Prozac?
Karen: Yeah, I was down in the dumps and they said my chemicals were imbalanced.
AI: Did they identify and measure the chemicals?
Karen: um, no, they didn't draw blood or anything.
AI: I see this was this was your first long-term prescription, with several others added afterward to treat new problems that were crept up after starting Prozac. I noticed that you are obese, and that your weight has crept up 10 or more pounds every year since starting Prozac. You mentioned that you can't seem to prevent further weight gain, let alone lose weight. While your blood sugar seems okay, I see that your fasting insulin is rather high. This indicates that you have what's referred to as "occult type-2 diabetes", meaning your insulin is doing an admirable job cramming that blood glucose into your ever-growing fat cells. Eventually, however, this effort will hit a wall and your blood sugar will spike. That's when humans typically "become" diabetic, but I assure you, you are currently diabetic.
Karen: I can't believe your bedside manners! How dare you insult me!
AI: It's not an insult, Karen. It's a fact. Please follow these steps to reverse the condition: 1. Enter a rehab program to wean yourself from Prozac. This part is going to suck big-time. 2. Once you are off, your body will finally feel normal, though you will have to learn how to regulate your emotions, which Prozac kept numb for decades. You may need to deal with old traumas that have been blunted. 3. Let's move on to diet. You must forego processed foods and refined carbohydrates. Here is a recommended diet with guidelines for an eating window and a fasting window. 4. After a few weeks we can cease most of your other meds. 5. Here is a recommended fitness plan to get your body moving like it did when you were a child. Is there anything else?
Karen: No. You are incredibly rude! I believe in "fat is fit" and "healthy at any size". And before you say anything, I WILL NOT give up the nose ring!
AI: You have a nose ring? Hold on while I spin up another datacenter. This is going to be harder than I thought
There are NO physical markers or tests for depression. A happy person's bloodwork and other tests will look the same as a depressed person. The entire psychiatric profession is pure quackery .
Maybe with AI doctors we won’t continue to be lied to, coerced and killed.
Is affirming the concluding thoughts of a mental disorder the proper way for sane people to handle it? Have we not learned the more you coddle mental illness the worse things will get. Think, if I started having crazy feelings, went to my doctor and said “Doc I think I’m a worm”. The doctor then affirms that my feelings are normal, he doesn’t treat my mental disorder, he cuts off my arms and my legs. Wouldn’t you think the doctor bears some if not all of the responsibility for not treating my psychological problem but instead chopping up my body? Wouldn’t you think I needed some psychological help, not all of my limbs amputated? Should the teachers that seeded these thoughts, influenced my mind, bear some of the responsibility?
What if I said I was a cat and my wife started feeding me milk from a saucer, would people that witnessed this not think my wife was a part of the problem, affirming and enabling my mental illness? Why would anyone affirm obvious mental problems that can never be corrected by coddling and encouraging a person, you will only further damage the person, and escalate their disorder.
“Primum non nocere”, first do no harm. This is the fundamental principle of medical ethics, historically attributed to Hippocrates, emphasizing that a doctors primary goal is to avoid causing a patient further harm while also working to provide benefit. How many families and people need to be gunned down by people with the same, many times coerced, mental disorder before we call it what it is.
From the point of education and medicine this is savagery! Let us not forget Merrick Garland and the Biden administration legally going after parents that opposed their children having their genitals cut off or being given life altering chemicals. From the highest law enforcement agency in America the governments punishing of parents that try to protect their children from this evil is pure divisive Marxism.
A girl can be a boy. A boy can be a girl. When we are forced to believe, as Orwell said 2+2=5, or socialism/communism is good, we are being forced to surrender our sanity, and reality.
Once cut or treated with these drugs, these psychologically manipulated kids will never be able to experience the deeper emotional bond in a relationship with the person they love. This connection is supported by the brains release of a powerful cocktail of hormones and neurotransmitters that promote pleasure, bonding and emotional intimacy. They will never experience this or the ability to naturally have a child together. Many will quickly realize and resent what’s been done to them. They were sold a lie and realize they will never be a woman or never be a man. What these doctors are doing is unforgivable.
Between this and handing out puberty blocking drugs or pumping male or female hormones into the opposite sex, what could possibly go wrong. Are we beginning to see what can go wrong? This path of medicine and education is pure evil and butchery. The whole of this policy is a social experiment, again performed on our society just like mRNA injections. It’s another case of us, the American citizen, being the guinea pigs in this narcissistic medical establishment experiment.
Fabulous analysis, James! I so appreciate your thoughtful input. In reading through all the comments this morning about doctors, medical school education, and its decline, i concur with personal knowledge of the erosion. I have a beloved daughter (an extremely radical liberal from Seattle) who is now doing her residency in medicine. This is her second career, having completed medical school at the age of 43. I say hats of to her for such an accomplishment. However, what I have observed is the dumbing down of her medical training, and the pure propaganda churned out thst she has embraced. Is it just UofW Medical School, or is it all medical schools across the country? I tend to think the latter. She does have a wealth of knowledge on various topics, but has totally bought in to the transgender ideology, like so many of her medical peers. Excuse me, where's the science? the biology? 2+2 does not equal 5. And this is a doctor you want to trust your life with? It saddens me. I love my daughter, and want to see her excel, but until she surrenders her life to Jesus Christ, only then can she fully serve patients in a field that so desperately needs truth.
Pretty sure it is all medical schools. You are what you eat, and most doctors get zero hours of training in nutrition. They also have no training that tells them your soul and consciousness are part of the body, and you cannot treat one without the other. Some don't even think stress is physically harmful. You really don't need to know any more than that.
Don’t forget the money. That, I believe, is the motivating factor for these so-called “doctors.” Never the welfare of the patient. They couldn’t possibly believe drugging and chopping is good for any person. Well, unless they are insane and/or inherently evil.
The problem with a lot of drs today is that they are arrogant and condescending. I have had a few tell me not to "Google it" when something has come up and I run for the hills. I recently told a dentist to take a hike after saying that to me. I may not have a medical degree but I am not an idiot and I have been saying for several months now that AI is going to take over for drs. Like Jeff, I had a similar experience with Chat GPT diagnosing a hip problem I had for YEARS. I knew that it was muscle related because I would get muscle spasms in my hip that were very painful. Enter Chat. I told it the problem and it actually intuitively figured out how the problem started and then gave me very specific excersizes to do. I am now pain free.
I had a similar experience with a doctor! I offered an opinion about the mRNA shots (which he still supports). He replied with, "I would not tell you how to teach American history any more than you should have a view on medicine."
Exactly! Plus, I was taught to read points of view that differed from my own. He apparently was not. Btw, he prescribed an antibiotic for me that had an interesting side effect: burst aorta. I read that on the package insert and decided not to take it. In fact there were four pages of side effects, single spaced.SMH
Via online searches, I discovered my FIL was in kidney failure due to all the drugs he was on. The doctor saw swollen ankles and just prescribed a diuretic. My Googling save him several years. The arrogance is appalling.
"...a tiny island nation that explicitly compares its own citizens to fruit (New Zealand’s kiwis)" Not so. We are called kiwis because the Kiwi is our national bird. The fruit was originally called a Chinese Gooseberry until the late 60's early 70's when New Zealand fruit growers in Northland developed a larger fruit and renamed it the kiwi, because it was brown and fuzzy. It was then marketed as the New Zealand kiwifruit. 😉
The government is a total clusterf..k and has been for many years. PM Lange told Reagan he couldn't dock subs and ship in NZ ports unless Reagan told him which vessels carried nuclear weapons or were powered by nuclear. Reagan gave him the middle finger, and that ended the ANZUS treaty. NZers were pissed off with Lange. The leaders during Covid were utterly evil.
I forget the name of that tranny PM you had. Have you watched the cooking shows by Annabell Langbein? Those showed so much of the beautiful crops and geography of NZ.
Are you talking about Jacinda Ardern? What a revolting human being. One of the monsters. And she's now a Dame. What a joke. I haven't lived in NZ for 38 years, but NZers went through hell with her during covid. Is Annabell Langbein the woman who drives an old yellow pickup truck? If so, I've watched her shows. It is a lovely country, especially the South Island with the southern Alps.
Am I safe in assuming that with the capabilities of AI, the data dump that Jeff wrote about on Saturday, it could easily determine the harms of the Covid shots?
I don’t think they want to know what’s causing obesity (and I think it’s a lot more complicated than just our food quality), they just want to provide the miracle cure that will solve all the problems. Oh, and get rich while they’re doing it. Typical pattern of pharma.
Big Food makes people fat and sick; Big Pharma keeps them sick. (Nearly 50% of our population now has Type 2 diabetes, many of them children, and according to science writers like Gary Taubes it all starts with processed foods made in factories). Big Pharma would virtually disappear if we ate whole food and eliminated seed oils, along with the fat.
There's a doctor here on Substack who calls his stack "I'm a Doctor," by Brandon Luu, MD. His last piece was advice on how to lower blood pressure. His list includes eliminating salt (a horrible idea) and using seed oils (another horrible idea). How hard is it to read the research on this since it's everywhere now?
The scamdemic has shown the world, or rather those who still think, that the word "doctor" is not only not something to revere, but not even a compliment anymore . And with very good reason as you just showed.
I would add…Our bad habits, like eating out allll the time, too much food without real food ingredients, sedentary lifestyle, maybe even things like cell phone tower waves, who knows?
There are lots of suspicions about 5G towers, but I haven't seen the evidence of that yet, probably because I haven't looked. But restaurants use the cheapest ingredients, so seed oils and cane sugar are in everything on the menu from salad dressing to French fries to desserts. That, in combination with a sedentary lifestyle, is the primary cause of metabolic disease, CV problems, stroke, and cancer. The US permits titanium dioxide which is used for strengthening colors (jelly beans, doughnuts, french fries, ketchup, and cakes. Titanium dioxide is a carcinogen.
Not cane sugar unfortunately. High fructose corn syrup, rebranded now as natural sweeter. Cane sugar is much better for you, and artificial sweeteners (most of them) are toxic
Who can find “whole food?” I doubt any of our organic labeled foods are really organic. I don’t think strawberries are suppose to be the size of a tomato! We try, but at our age, it’s just trying to get the best of what’s offered and available. But, a day is coming when it all changes…
Buy local and in season. We buy all our beef, chicken, eggs, saturated fats, and pork from local farmers. We buy fruit and vegetables in season from local farmers. Our town has a weekly farmers market. I buy all soap, toothpaste, vitamins, etc from small businesses online. I even buy salt online, that comes from an ancient dead lake in Utah. The only reason we go to the grocery store is for paper towels and that sort of thing. And yes, it's inconvenient. But when I consider the alternative.....
Good for you. I ask people who say they are too busy "what price your health?". I have known rich people who had poor health, so their money was worth nothing.
To find local farmers, go to eatwild.com, click on your state on the U.S. map and you'll be taken to a page of all the clean farmers in your state who sell their stuff to the public. You most likely will find farmers somewhere near you.
Blindness? I haven’t heard that. I know permanent paralysis of your GI tract is one, higher incidence of pancreatic cancer, and of course nausea. That’s the one that most people get. But I haven’t heard blindness as a main one.
Oh, I’m not on it, nor do I think I ever would. It has real side effects. But for some people the side effects are worth it because the risk of obesity’s effects on their body is much higher.
I’m not a pharma absolutist, in just think there’s always a trade off that just be considered carefully. And glp-1s don’t make sense for vanity weight loss.
I agree Bard - i don't have anything against tobacco - just the drug mongers behind it all, using deceptive marketing tactics and what you just described.
It amazes me that today’s big Pharma can’t design an experimental trial with a proper design. I was able to do it 50 years ago while working on my MS and PhD. But hey I wasn’t a Vet like the head of Pfizer.
It isn't can't . It's won't. The why is easy. Vaccines are voodoo medicine. They don't work, and if you can't whore up the trials, none would ever be approved.
Polio was another scam. Improved hygiene , and redefining / splitting diseases caused the decline in polio numbers. Transverse myelitis, Guillane Barre syndrome and 7 other diseases got their own classification after the "vaccine" was released. Plus as you probably know they introduced, intentionally or not SV 40 money virus into the vaccine that led to an explosion of cancers. They did it again with the jab , clearly intentionally this time.
The reason AI can so easily take our doctors and dentists jobs is because they already weren’t human centered anymore, anyhow. Most medical professionals have Big Pharma and Big Insurance as their customers, not their patients.
In that sense, AI would be an improvement (and I don’t like AI).
But the doctors in it for the love of healing - they will likely always have patients. They may not grow rich off their practice anymore (ready to trade some chickens or eggs for services again?) but they’ll always be in demand because they see the whole patient personally.
I’ve heard there are doctors like that. Maybe someday I’ll meet one
I used to meet those Docs when I was young. Now, on a regular basis, I meet the arrogant "I know everything, you know nothing", types and the "if you don't follow my orders and take the statin, you are non-compliant and you are no longer my patient" type. I am 78 and regularly see my ophthalmologist to manage my glaucoma so I don't go blind. The rest can take a flying leap.
During the height of the Moo Goo Gai Panic, my cardiologist insisted everyone in the room was masked. When I pointed out that the weave-gap of an N95 mask was 0.3 microns (300 nanometers) and that the size of the COVID particle is 84 nanometers -- and that it goes through an N95 like sand through a cyclone fence -- he flew off the handle and (briefly) refused to treat me. I came THIS close, as Maxwell Smart might say, to reporting him for malpractice.
Moo Goo Gai Panic---love this!
I've heard it called a lot of things. I think mine might be the Propagandemic™. Someone else called it the Modelo Virus.
Are you an Industrial Hygienist, by any chance? The silencing of I.H.'s was truly shocking and harmful. Every time I tried to share the Stephen Petty podcasts, explaining reality, they were blocked and disappeared.
He and a few others were so helpful in explaining the actual science behind PPE and masks especially!! I will be forever grateful to them! And yes, it was shocking how *these* true experts were dismissed and sidelined, while people like doctors and epidemiologists, whose areas of expertise are not about that, were held up as experts. It made me even more furious when I learned that the whole universal masking nonsense was begun by people who had nothing to do with the medical field, even! If I remember correctly, one was a social scientist 🤨
My next door neighbor only had a few classes towards a nursing degree - she ended up in interior design - and said "If you can smell a fart through the thing, it isn't going to keep out a tiny germ." Her sass got me through the worst of it. Everybody knew but the nanny state 'experts'.
I canvassed with someone who I can’t remember exactly what they did, but it was along the lines of industrial hygienist. We had a long conversation about the “efficacy” of masks. Of course, no one would listen to him despite his knowledge about all of it.
Interesting how the only “experts” that were listened to were the ones saying what the authorities wanted them to say 🤔😑
There were two female OSHA staff in Michigian that tried to show how ridiculous it was!
Was one of them Kristen Meghan?
I think that video was how I found out about him.
Software engineer
Me too - long since retired. Upon hearing about the mRNA technology, I researched it and it wasn't difficult to determine that the animal studies did not fare well. So no jab for me. Also read up on the mask science. None of this was hard to find and not really difficult to understand.
But the real tip-off was OWS - an utterly impossible program to pull off in less than a year. I know how those programs work.
My husband had to have a procedure done at the VA in 2021. I had to drive him home. I wouldn’t wear a mask to sit in a waiting room, but they let me wait with a face shield, which I pushed up as I was the only one in the waiting room. The nurses in the station sat behind plexiglass, maskless. The doctor who did the procedure caught me in the waiting room with my face shield up. He sternly told me to properly position the shield as he took me to see my husband. The VA held onto their ridiculous masks for almost 3 years. Last fall my husband had another procedure and the same doctor from 2021 performed it. No masks now. I wanted to ask him if he had any regrets on being such a mask Nazi, with the knowledge we now have, but you’ll never get any of the mask pushers to admit they were wrong.
Like auto technicians....doctors do not like to be told they are wrong.
Medicine, law and it should be auto techs too, are called a 'practice' for a reason. A I seems to be taking the practice out of diagnosis and research. Can auto tech diagnosis be far behind?
The way those things are supposed to work is particles follow a torturous path. So, even though N95s have average pore sizes much bigger than the particles they’re designed to catch, they actually work. Provided they’re not plugged and fitted correctly. The sand through a cyclone fence analogy describes perfectly those ridiculous cloth masks intended for virtue signaling.
It is my understanding that they work on the condition that they are fitted and worn correctly. For the vast majority of regular people using those masks during Covid, that was not the case.
That’s likely true. The masks were a waste, generally.
We used them in the ER for suspected TB
That was my understanding too, Running Logic. And they’re only effective for a certain period of time, something like 2 hours if I remember correctly…
Is he still you're cardiologist? Is your condition something which the current medical models predict will recommend lifelong treatment?
Afib and a deep history of cardiac issues in the family. 9 stents and an aortic valve.
My Doogie Howser styled “cardiologist” chided me “if you were my mother, I’d have you on statins”, my reply: “if you were my son I’d put you in the corner” and then walked out. I no longer see any of these pushers, I figure God will take me when he wants me home and nothing I do here on earth will stop Him.
At the age of 63, I have started to think of how, not if. Seems longevity is the goal of doctors, but I would rather drop with a quick heart attack than a heart kept pumping with drugs while my brain deteriorates. They get quiet when you start that conversation. Everybody dies. I am aiming for a long, healthy glide, then a precipitous drop.
At 71 I’m in total agreement with you. Both of my parents lived fully and “went out like a light”. It is a shock when a loved one dies so suddenly but watching my in laws die an inch at a time, and be reduced to infantile, diaper wearing living sand bags stuck in a hospital bed, I’m voting for the “beam me up, Scotty” approach to death.
I love that! Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die has always seemed the perfect way to go. Every other way just raises my anxiety and control issues. 🙂 But I think Beam me up, Scotty has a snarky jauntiness that is sort of perfect. May I borrow it?
I also think of one of the terminal patients from the book The In-Between (sp?) - in her forties, dying of cancer after a life of pilates, marathons and stringent food restrictions who said "I wish I had eaten the cake at parties.'
I am definitely mellowing in good way.
Amen. Preach it sister.
Had my PCP pre-pandemic try to push a statin. I didn't even get beyond that. Just flat out "I'm not going to take a statin". Some muttering about cholesterol and I just said "I'll deal with that part - not taking a statin". They let it go. I'm sure something got noted in official records somewhere, but I think that was worth it.
Now, that’s the truth. When it’s your time, it’s your time, and there’s nothing that can stop it from happening.
Love all this!
My wife was asked by her oncologist to no longer be a patient because my wife would not commit to a 5 year regimen of a medicine (Tamoxifen) which would be ineffective/useless at preventing a recurrence of her particular cancer, for a cancer that had a very low probability of recurring, and would make my wife miserable for 5 years. I'm guessing her oncologist was really upset that should wouldn't be making a kickback.
My theory is, the more medical degrees they have, the more insufferable and rigid in their thinking they are. My daughter’s pediatric neurologist was really something special, he just retired (he’s younger than me and I’m 55). I handed him the latest folinic acid study for autism and asked if it could help her. I asked if you read about Cerebral folate deficiency do the symptoms sound like autism? I was met with silence. I asked if my daughter could start the folinic acid supplement, he said it probably wouldn’t work. But there’s no side effects, so you might as well try. Now I tried it and it is really helping her, both with engagement, speech, behavior and even her seizures (zero breakthrough seizures since putting her on it). I then asked if he shouldn’t just give it to his patients who are 4 and under presenting with seizures and autism. He said no. Even though there’s zero side effects. Zero logic. I’m at a loss.
That is wonderful for your daughter!!
Sad that other parents may not know about it in time to help their children. Doctors for sure will not tell them about it, but I really can't understand - why? Why on earth would you not prescribe it for children who COULD be helped by it??
Most doctors are in practices owned by hospitals or corporations. These doctors have very strict rules they are to follow, handed down from the leadership of their practice. Only private practice doctors have the freedom to prescribe outside the dictates of their bosses.
When my daughter was little, she had seizures as well. After putting her on their medication, she started getting these rages that are associated with seizure medications (that the doctors don’t warn you about). I discovered that, at least for my daughter, the rages were a result of low blood sugar levels. If I just handed her a carrot or some food, the tantrum would stop immediately. When I offered this to her pediatric neurologist to share with other parents experiencing the same thing, the head of pediatric neurology of a well-respected hospital, he said, “No.”
It’s all about CYA, not helping people.
It’s exactly that, maybe it’s just permanent hospital policy now and the doctors that really care have already left the system. And I agree with you, the seizure medications come with horrific side effects. Seizures from autism tend to be intractable and medicine doesn’t help. So she’s on this intense keto diet, but still, she had breakthrough seizures. The folinic acid stopped them though, it’s nothing short of miraculous.
I've said many times here we cured my wife's cancer holistically, but we did meet with an oncologist once before we made that decision. Guy was supposed to be the best at a supposed to be very good hospital. Only fool I ever saw wearing 2 masks. Need I say more. ?
I’m hearing more and more stories from people I know that say fuggetaboutit to oncology/radiation and have eliminated the tumors with diet (NO SUGARS), homeopathic remedies and other off grid solutions. Ivermectin figures in all the remedies but each had other concoctions in addition. I am hoping AI can help sort out these parallel treatments in the near future.
A vey good friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer in her 80s.
she went to a Naturopath to be treated instead of the medical poisoners. He adjusted her diet and gave her some supplements and she lived to be 103 years old. I saw her in the hospice center a few weeks before she died. She knew who I was and could carry on a conversation. She is now with her Savior.
Better believe it
My oncologist wanted me to take an estrogen suppressor after I had a hormone positive tumor removed. I would always politely decline, and on every subsequent visit we would proceed to have a cordial debate about the data in various studies. I would always greet her with "I'm here for my scolding!". She was conventionally programmed, but very nice.
My husband was given a prescription from a doctor for a condition. He asked what was causing the condition and the doctor became infuriated. Just take the medicine he sniped. He didn't fill the prescription. Instead he got on the Internet and found a holistic cure and what caused it. Going to a doctor now is a last resort.
What was the condition, if you’re willing to share?
Sorry but that feels invasive. I respect his personal privacy.
No worries! Thanks!
Same here! I am 63, and my Dr. dropped me over the statin issue. Now I live in Tasmania, where my doctor laughs and says "We are not Big Pharma here!" Well, they are a little, but much less than the US. They also have a lot of alternative practitioners NAET, sound frequency medicine, Chinese medicine - all more helpful with relieving my leftover COVID anxiety rather than the SSRI the US doctor recommended. I think AI competition might be good for medicine. The personal, empathetic holistic approach might make a comeback!
NAET has been wonderful for me! I was so sad when my long-time practitioner retired last year (at the age of 81!). It's been tough finding another as good as he was.
Ok, what does NAET stand for,
please?
NAET- Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Techniques
It can also be used for tons of other stuff beside allergies. It's actually quite fascinating!
https://www.naet.com/
My doctor told me to put my mask up (I had it below my nose so that I could breathe) "in order to protect both of us". I gave him some stats that he said weren't true. Changed doctors immediately.
My doctor called me an anti-vaxxer when I refused to get the jab. That was the end of her. To insult me to my face was unbelievable.
I’m a healthcare professional with 32 years of experience and a proud anti-vaxxer!
Sooo spot-on. I'm 59, and get the drops for my glaucoma, and one mood stabilizer. No more statins, no way. In recent years stopped taking so many darn pills, and feel better than ever.
Does the mood drug happen to be Lamictal?
I have a pal that got on it years ago... game changer.
I'm 80 in May... and have not needed meds, but my BP is starting to climb. So first, I'm going to try my natural solutions, but I may eventually have to give in to low-dose rx... BUT NOT TILL I'VE TRIED MY WAY FIRST.
I have been "fired" from two PCPs, two vets and the orthopedic surgeon that replaced my hip in 2019 (who told me in 2021 "If you don't get a Covid vaxx within the month I will no longer treat you) 😠 in the last 6 years because I WILL NOT just take a pill, or a shot or show up for "well visits" (i'm not a newborn🤷) Nor will I give endless meds and unnecessary vaccinations to my very senior dog...without a dang good reason)
Medical professionals do not like it if one questions their divinity. Not only are they offended... they feel obligated to stop you before your "mad" notions spread like the plan-demics that they find so satisfying!
The demise of Dr arrogance and hollyweird is a definite benefit of AI. Add in attorneys (sorry Jeff) and we have a triple win for AI, a very powerful tool that also can be and will be abused. It is not the complete end however. AIs hallucinate, that is one of the signs of no real intelligence, they can miss obvious things, think 2026 is 2024, deny they said something two paragraphs before, etc.
So these fields will still be there. A firm, instead of having 5 Paralegals will have one to review, and fewer attorneys as well. As to Hollyweird I have less sympathy for them. Exceptions like Jim Cavizel will always gain myself as an audience.
Jeff gave an excellent example of use of AI for medical. I self diagnosed ABPA, a serious lung disease sensitivity to a common mold through AI, and came in asking for the tests to prove it, and immediately asking for a biologic verses steroids.
I will be doing all the prep work for a living trust, and find a decent attorney to simply review. and file. (you don't want to error here) ( Distribution of a trust is where attorneys make the most, and that will no longer be needed with an appropriate AI. After doing the work for my Dads estate I realized it is not as difficult as I thought. Involved, yes, but a decent AI with state appropriate forms and your own research, can guide this very well.
My wife and I talked to a lawyer about wills, trusts, health care directives...the whole sheebang. The lawyer wrote up the documents and emailed them to me for review. I uploaded the doc to Claude Pro and it reviewed them all. It caught a spelling mistake, a wrong phone number, some inconsistencies with beneficiaries and listed a bunch of questions to ask the lawyer. I thought Claude did a very good job, but I'm not a lawyer.
I think we can add accountants/bookkeepers to the list.
Tax Preparation!
@JBell- and pre-op questions. A nurse, who sounded like she had retired then went back to work- asked me about a medication. I said "If I were on 5 mg of (said med), I'd be dead." "Oh! Haha! Yes! .5 mg!" I also suspect she's the one who didn't send the complete meds list over to the operating center resulting in a medication mix up that could have killed me had I not had the medical background to recognize it.
I'm on medicare and have 5 separate specialties that I see on a less than regular basis. All 5 want to have me on different meds WITHOUT any sort of central control. I saw a ENT for a persistent runny nose. He gave me a nose spray that completely ended my ability to pee because it was contra indicated with my prostate med. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CHECKING, ASSHOLE!! I use Ai and no longer have med mixups.
While my dad was still alive, a wonderful RN arranged for CNA's to sit with him, laid out his meds weekly, and checked the meds the hospitals switched him to when he was there. Why they don't just accept what they are already on is beyond me. At least twice, perhaps 3 X, she saved his life with stories like you are telling here. Gave her $10K from dad's estate for what I figure was giving dad an extra 2-3 years of life.
If we get rid of the income tax, then we’ll need them even less 😑
My son does volunteer tax prep for seniors at our local library. He enjoys giving back.
a very similar reduction already happening... a major accounting firm just had to take about 25 percent off of a 400 k job, and soon that work may well go in house.
Ah, Allergic BroncoPulmonary Aspergillosis. I was diagnosed over 20 years ago. Itraconazole is the prescribed anti fungal and has been working well for me for a long time. I only take a half dose and have never had a side effect. In fact, by happenstance I met the research doc who was instrumental in developing it. My pulmonologist and I both believe that I am doing so well because I ride a road bike very vigorously and often. Plus, I live in a dry climate. Be careful with the biologics as they can have serious side effects. Good luck.
Interesting to meet someone else. It is true that everybody's body is its own unique chemistry experiment. Considering Itraconazole vs tezspire a biologic? What AI has shared...
Itraconazole is an antifungal often used off-label for certain types of severe asthma (like allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis), while Tezspire is a biologic (monoclonal antibody) specifically FDA-approved for severe, uncontrolled asthma.
Side Effects Comparison
Feature Itraconazole (Antifungal) Tezspire (Biologic)
Common Side Effects Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and stomach pain. Sore throat, joint pain, back pain, and injection site reactions.
Severe Risks Liver damage (hepatotoxicity), congestive heart failure, and hearing loss. Severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis).
Long-term Use May lead to hair loss, menstrual changes, and erectile dysfunction. Safety profile remains favorable with no increased risk of infections.
Administration Oral (capsules/solution) or IV. Subcutaneous injection every 4 weeks.
Key Differences
Organ Impact: Itraconazole requires monitoring of liver function and can negatively impact heart health. Tezspire generally has a more localized side effect profile, such as irritation at the injection site.
Systemic vs. Targeted: As an antifungal, Itraconazole has broad systemic effects, including potential impacts on hormones and digestion. As a biologic, Tezspire targets a specific protein (TSLP) in the immune system to reduce inflammation.
Allergic Reactions: Both can cause allergic reactions, but for Tezspire, these are a primary serious concern and can occur hours or even days after the injection.
Great idea!
Before 1920 heart disease was unknown. Enter blood pressure testing with phoney numbers and new drugs.
Also enter the advent of seed oils and ultra processed foods.
and the Rockefellers
@Bard- horsepuckies. They knew about heart disease. They just didn't know how to treat it.
It's true. There was very little heart disease before the early 20th century. The cancer books mention it all the time.
One big change was pushing everyone onto seed oils like Crisco instead of healthy saturated fats.
The food pyramid was a damned disgrace.
True, but as I posted in the past week, Crisco isn't even food. It is truly a frankenfood.
@Sir- while they've come a long way, some people simply have bad cardiac genes and can't be fixed. My mother and her family came from a long line of cardiac patients. So far I'm good. In fact, I just had a stress test because my granddaughter called me in a panic. Her toddler was trapped in the bathroom with the tub running and she was trying mightily to kick the door in. I told her to get off the phone WITH ME and call 911 but she gave it one more kick and saved the day. My heart is still pounding.
No, you don't have bad genes. You simply need to come to my Heart Disease Seminar. I charge $1000, but you can collect10 friends, each paying $100 and get it for free. I reveal the ACTUAL cause and what people do to reverse it. I can do it on Zoom.
Contrary to the idea that heart disease appeared only after 1920, medical and archaeological evidence confirms it has plagued humanity for thousands of years. CT scans of ancient Egyptian mummies, some dating back to 1580 BCE, have revealed unmistakable atherosclerosis and arterial calcification identical to modern cases. While it is true that blood pressure (BP) measurement became a standard vital sign in the early 20th century, the first recorded measurement occurred as early as 1733, and the inflatable cuff was introduced in 1896 It is not a "phony" measurement, are understanding of its meaning is growing.
My Certified Phlebotomist is named, Dr. Acula...
Don't you worry about seeing a doctor that can't resolve the blood in his stool?
Take a picture and ask ChatGPT. 🤔
I worry about everything.
Perhaps Dr. Acula can help; I hear he's also a hypnotist.
"Look into my eyes. Look! Deeper.
@Jeff S. - seriously??? If not, either way...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Not serious. Never!
maybe you should be... donating a pint 1-2X/year reduces heart attack risk by 70%+
Dr Jonathan Wright... a good guy... not sure if still kicking...
I donate every eight weeks. It's getting to be a hassle. There are too many stupid questions: Whose blood is it? Where did you get it from? Why is it in a bucket?
You should know by now that it’s highly unlikely he’s being serious 😁
@Running- yeah...my coffee deprived brain realized it after I posted it. Still funny!!!
I donate every eight weeks. It's getting to be a hassle. There are too many stupid questions: Whose blood is it? Where did you get it from? Why is it in a bucket?
I've known 2 doctors like that. They both retired. Both were in private practice. Private practice is decreasing significantly in the US as practices over recent decades have become increasingly purchased/affiliated with corporations, hospitals, and health systems. The doctors in such systems are already controlled, with making money being the number one priority, not patient health. Independent, out of the box thinking is not allowed.
My PCP and my kids pediatrician are both private practice. And they’re much better than anything else I can get where I live BUT they still have too much faith in the system they came out of.
I’ve seen a LOT of holistic and alternative medicine doctors over the years (autoimmune conditions) and sadly I don’t think they are much better anymore.
I’ve known just one or two who aren’t wanting to supplement you into bankruptcy, and keep you on a diet of chicken and rice or whatever the latest fad is.
@Susanna- our PCP is in a conglomerate and hates it. I'm going to suggest concierge service to him to see if he can do it.
We are one of those counties losing cardiologists.
I had one, but he retired relatively young because of all the Obama[don't]care rules. He was buried in paperwork when he preferred seeing patients.
@David- my husband's last physical, the nurse handed him a stack of papers to fill out for Medicare. Dr. walked in while the poor guy was still trying to fill them out. Dr. took the clipboard out of his hands, took the paper out, threw them away, and said "They don't need all that crap." One reason we keep him.
Yeah. I ignore messages to come in for my Annual Medicare health visit. Nope.
The ins co offers to have "nurses" come to our HOME 4 x a year. Nope. They also ask if you have firearms, etc - things they do NOT have any business knowing! My MIL fell for it once and I was there to witness. I kept interrupting, asking, "why do you want that information? Has nothing to do with her conditions.". MIL thanked me and never had them out again.
I had a PCP Doc give a "Wellness" appt... not to be charged...
So she added another full appt and billed me. I reported this to medicare, they opened a fraud investigation, but whitewashed it.
The PCP immediately sent me a letter deleting me as a patient... of course. Scumbag!
Medicare does NOT have your back.
I go with my mom to her doc appts and we get that big stack every year. Her primary care doc does not even look at them, she's been seeing mom for ~20 years and doesn't need to. So mom and I have fun with it and put a few random answers down that are both ridiculous and untrue. I always assumed it was a 'check the box' exercise that had no value but we fill it out (mom has bad arthritis in her hands so I am the scribe) just in case they need it to get paid by Medicare.
I want to hear the kinds of random ridiculous and untrue statements you make! I need some inspiration.
Mom was never much for booze and quit altogether many years ago. But she put down she had 3-5 glasses of wine a day.
"last pregnancy" was 10 years ago. (she is 87!)
She uses a walker and a motorized wheel chair, but put that for exercise she walks 2-3 miles a day.
@Donna- That's fabulous!!!! HAHAHAHA!
Isn’t that telling that that (throwing the paperwork away) CAN be done? If only more doctors would do it, the system wouldn’t be able to destroy them all!
Love this!!
I know of several doctors that went concierge they don’t deal w any insurance paperwork.
🙏🙏
I used to have one. didnt take insurance, but the visit was $15 less that my co-pay. After a brief consultation, he would, with great confidence, tell me what was wrong and how to fix it. He was correct EVERY time, and it was always a cheap fix. I miss him so much...
Usually these doctors leave the system and start their own practices. They do not accept insurance. Payment on a cash basis.
Like the doctors in the Independent Medical Alliance are doing.
I thought I met one once, but I was mistaken.
Just don’t look at any doctor under the age of 42.
Me too....
There are only four causes of sickness: toxic exposure, nutrition deficiencies, electromagnetic frequencies and chronic stress. If we listen to our body, we won’t money driven doctors, drugs or AI. Health should be our sole responsibility- instead it’s a 4 trillion dollar empire: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-youre-a-healthcare-customer-not
Vaccines are a huge part of illness, Franklin. You covered them by saying ‘toxic exposure’— but I just want the Portlanders in all of us to be 100% clear.
Thank GOD RFK made the HepB shot we were giving infants on Day 1 optional, although at present, I’m sure there are still millions unquestioningly allowing them to jab their newborns with it. THEN they give the synthetic vitamin K shot to their corn the blood bc babies can’t clot until Day 8.
*If they’d wait til Day 8 to circumcise or do any other surgery if any type, they wouldn’t need to artificially thicken the blood! It’s almost like the Creator had a clue what He was doing!
So the blood is made into a tar-like substance, and can no longer get into nooks and crannies to help heal little blood vessels and so on that may have been harmed during the trauma of birth. (Brilliant. Who needs THIN, healing blood when you can have sludge-like TAR?) This makes baby sloth-like and unable to nurse properly, but…
Then we go on and vaccinate MORE at 2, 4, 6, and 8 months.
EACH vaccine has alcohol, formaldehyde, aborted calf serum, (SO awful how this serum comes to be injected into our infants!) and fragmented cells of aborted babies— BOTH sexes, which I believe helps create autoimmune diseases AND gender confusion. The polysorbates in every vaccine open the Blood Brain Barrier and usher toxins past the barrier. These included heavy metals and aluminum. Everybody knows aluminum starts dementia and alzheimer’s, but what do we care? That won’t show up for decades.
*Sorry! I have to just keep telling this story, i’m the hopes that it saves ONE family from autism and more.
I so wish I could convince my kids to omit them...I've tried, but parents of course have full control. It sure adds to the worries you already have for your precious grandkids :(
Buy my other favorite attorney’s book, VACCINES, AMEN! for them.
The first paragraph hooks you. My kids aren’t having babies quite yet, although I wish they would. IF they do, I think I will BRIBE them to read ONE book. VACCINES, AMEN!,
TURTLES ALL the WAY DOWN, or
DISSOLVING ILLUSIONS. Their choice, and I’ll pay “biggly”!
You’ll be blessed if your adult kids listen to you on the vaccine topic. Typically they’re more inclined to believe the pediatrician- who has a major conflict of interest as they can make tens of thousands in bonus money by vaxxing as many kids as possible. Just ask the doc the question. THAT needs to change.
I’m very lucky in that my daughter has listened to me about vaccines and my 17mo old granddaughter has had none. The kid has never been sick a day in her life beyond two 12hr teething fevers! And she’s had lots of exposures. She just has an amazing immune system.
RFK recently ended the insurance kickbacks. I’m uncertain if it’s fully kicked in (or out!) yet but I read he had ended it.
You are correct; THAT will be helpful.
For now, I get on all the FB / instagram anti vaccine groups and post the ingredients, some of Aaron Siri’s brilliant stuff, videos from Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Dr. Sheri Tenpenny.
I post abt the movie Del Bigtree did, An Inconvenient Study, and so on.
I’ve been told by 4 people that they didn’t vax their babies on account of info I sent them. It makes it worthwhile knowing I possibly made a dent in the “safe & effective” mantra.
I have all of those sitting in my Amazon cart-lol! I love what Aaron Siri has done for our cause. A good thought though, thank you! I have tried to send books, articles, charts and studies on vaxxed vs unvaxxed, increased rates of autism post vaccination, etc...I read it all, get rebuffed, and then have to let it go. My firstborn son always had shot reactions as a toddler and got JRA and Dermatomyositis at age 2 and 5. I sadly never considered the shots as it was a time (1984) that you never questioned, so I guess my kids follow that pattern unfortunately. All my kids got the Covid vax due to employment and/or believing the hype :( I got religious exemptions, but still remember patients and coworkers that were so proud of all their boosters. Like Jeff says...what interesting times we live in...may the best yet lie ahead for us all.
It’s likely that your kids carry some part of the MTHFR gene. I went the same route as you did, and I am certain our middle child got eczema (listed on several
childhood vax inserts as a possible adverse reaction) but we cured it— eventually, thank heaven. She and her sister also got severe jaundice
as infants and one spent weeks in a tiny “tanning bed”, with a mask on her eyes, wearing mittens so she couldn’t pull it off. She had to have her heel pricked and blood drawn several times a day. I swear that’s why she so feisty! 😉
Later in life, the same child developed Gilbert’s Syndrome. I am 100% sure it stemmed from the SYNTHETIC vitamin K shot she endured, Day 1.
It is rough on the liver and that’s what Gilbert’s harms. It’s strongly connected with babies having severe jaundice, and of course, jaundice is listed in the vitamin K insert.
She’s 30 now, but her liver is junk. She can’t eat many food colorings, not much junk and she can’t have more than 1.5 drinks in like a 24 hour period— even at her own wedding.
Thanks, Big pHARM-us!
@KC & the Sunshine Agree 💯 on “Vaccines, Amen!” Hubs and I listened to Aaron Siri on a podcast during a roadtrip, and he was so impressed that HE ordered it and read it. He always listened to me about vaxxing, but I never thought he really cared/understood the tremendous dangers. He did after reading that book!
OH, that’s terrific!!
I am green with envy, yet delighted for you!
My hubs thinks I’m crazy. I can’t even bring it up with him. He just got his 4th or 5th covid jab, the flu shot and I think shingles— again.
I’d love to be able to talk with him about the things I learn daily and abt Aaron, etc.
I've read Turtles and Dissolving. Had not heard of Vaccines, Amen.
Former son in law is doing it right. Military and in Okinawa. One 4, other 1. Neither has had shot 1.
How would you compare Vaccine Amen to Turtles all the way down. I have given Turtles to a niece but I fear it’s overwhelming— I’d welcome your thoughts thank you in advance.
VACCINES, AMEN! is probably
less
bog-down-ish.
Of she’s super
busy, or not that interested yet— get on FN and join all the vaccine sites you can. I’m about a DAY, you’ll get so
many quick videos that are full of info, as well as
memes
and so on.
They won’t read it. Already tried.🤷🏻♀️
😢
How to Raise a Healthy Child … in Spite of Your Doctor cleared up vaccines for me back in 1989. And helped me relax about so much else in raising my kids. My youngest already has it (her wedding is next month).
Dr. Robert Mendelsohn. That book worked for us, too. Amazing that he was also a syndicated columnist back then.
Another awesome book!
And maybe, just maybe our little ones were perfect the way they were born. Somehow the Amish never need all of this stuff and their kids survive. Much better than ours do. I still am not all that convinced that circumcision is a good idea. Of course it might have made sense 3,000 years ago, but today? Why are we still doing that to those poor infants? What kind of emotional damage is being done to a little tiny baby when he is attacked and operated on without anesthesia!? And in the instances where it is a religious exercise, some of those rabbis actually suck on the little penis to stem the bleeding. I have Jewish people in my family, and I have never been able to get them to explain why that is okay. And has anyone ever asked the question how does this affect that infants brain? How is that not sexual assault? It's time to start asking these questions.
It’s completely unnecessary. No other western countries perform routine circumcision.
I've often wondered if the baby remembers the trauma of being circumcised, even though he probably doesn't remember what specifically happened.
When I did circumcisions in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we used local anesthesia. They didn't cry or even seem to notice (though I wasn't around later , when the anesthesia wore off, either).
My sons were midwife home deliveries with circumcisions being done in doctor’s offices many days later. I wasn’t really aware of the 8 day Biblical reference, but a pastor who came to visit on the 8th day mentioned it the second time around.
I was amazed at how little it seemed to bother the babies. There was such redness for a few days; we put a stamp sized piece of gauze coated in petroleum jelly over the cut. But urination didn’t seem to hurt and it was all healed very quickly.
I have always been glad to have circumcised them.
All this was 45 years ago.
I have read that the fact that there is no crying isn’t necessarily an indication of no pain. It could mean that the baby shuts down from the trauma. I’ve heard the same about reactions to vaccines.
Well, you should have seen the babies on whom no anesthesia was used, and you might change your opinion. No anesthesia = torture. Lots of screaming and crying.
I have heard this over and over. I had a son and he was absolutely fine within minutes of his circumcision, but I kick myself that I let them talk me
out of waiting until Day 8. He was 2 days old.
He’s grown now and we’ve only spoken about it once when he had a friend sleep over and they pending our lake. He was alarmed! 😂 He was about 8 at the time.
They didn't cry when you injected their penises with lidocaine?
That seems odd. Needles hurt and lidocaine burns.
Mrs. RW
No, we distracted them by having them suck on something, like a finger tip. I admit I don't recall that as clearly (my experience being about 35 years ago), but I do clearly recall how much better I felt because the babies were not distressed and in pain, as they were if no local anesthesia was used. It's the dorsal penile nerve that is targeted with the anesthesia, so perhaps it went numb quickly enough.
Clif High says it is a very bad idea. Don't remember the details, but it made sense when he said it on several podcasts.
I can’t speak to the rabbi thing— nor even bring myself to type it. I can assure you that practice is NOT in the bible.
I’m not certain of the need or spiritual reasons behind circumcision or whether Jesus fulfilled that somehow when he was crucified. I have heard and read differing opinions on it.
I do know that for many people, 2nd guessing what God put into play is what gets us into trouble.
Don’t hear me totally saying circumcision has GOT to happen. But if it is a part of the plan, I think the pain is very short lived, and not remembered— similar to childbirth.
A friend is a nurse in an office where they regularly do circumcisions. I always assumed it was on babies. Nope!
They’re doing them sometimes multiple times, DAILY, on boys who are at that age, having sex, or about to, bc they are embarrassed. Or the boys are just embarrassed in the locker room/gym.
They wish they’d had it done years ago, I am sure.
I had a nephew who got an infection under the foreskin and was circumcised at age 10. It was traumatic for him.
It’s not necessary. Other Christian countries don’t do it. And they don’t have a bunch of boys or men with health problems due to not circumcising. It’s another cash cow for doctors and hospitals.
Yes, isn't it odd that so many uncircumcised males in this country "have to have" circumcisions?
But males in other countries don't?
It's almost as if there is some sort of financial reason involved.
And isn't it odd that males old enough to talk, report severe pain when part of their penis is removed, but newborn babies never complain? Obviously, if they don't complain, that means it doesn't hurt babies, just males old enough to talk.
Mrs. RW
I’m not concerned abt cleanliness or issues. It’s just a thing in the bible that God says to do. I am all in on whatever God says to do, regardless whether it seems like society or I have a better idea.
I’m just not certain whether it’s one of those things that was abolished by Jesus’ death and resurrection or if it remains.
Either way, it certainly isn’t a “sin unto death” if it isn’t done. It’s
more of an ordinance— if it’s still that. I haven’t looked too
much into it bc my
son is in his 20s, and I don’t have grandkids on the way— quite yet.
KC - I so agree.
Circumcision not necessary either…..
I know.
Nonetheless, it’s a common thing and I think hospitals insisting on circumcision before (IF they’re going to do it at all) the family leaves, is a HUGE part of the “you MUST have a synthetic vitamin K shot or your baby may bleed out”.
Yeahhhhh, if your blood is super thin, it’s not a good plan to have a bloody surgery! But does our medical establishment think maybe just wait a few days? MAYBE the blood is thin for a reason and MAYBE the bible says circumcise on Day 8 bc THAT is the first day blood can clot? Nooooo… Our medical establishment says, “There’s something wrong here. It can’t be what WE are doing. It’s MUST be Mother Nature. We have to intervene with a synthetic vitamin.”
I hate that I fell for it.
My daughter has done extensive research into circumcision and vx…and is due with her first. I just wished I knew the vx info 25 yrs ago…both daughters are vx injured (meningitis vx) and I must be as well with my constant sinus infections as a kid. So evil they’ve been poisoning us…. Thank God my gut said NO during the Cvd experiment. No more for any of us! Detox and try to eat clean. 💟
I had my son in the small hospital where I was an ER nurse. Had a mild complication requiring me to have a 3 day hospitalization. The day after my son was born, my nurse happily walked into my room for me to sign for my son's circumcision. I politely declined. She left my room with such a bemused look. The next day, the head nurse came in with the same spiel. Again, I politely declined so I got the lecture about how this was important to my son's health. I asked for the consent form, tore it into a couple of pieces, smiled, handed it back. That was the end of that.
My son is 41 now, never had a problem. Teaching a male child about hygiene is just important as for a female, fairly simple. Years later my son asked why I didn't have him circumcised. He and his buddies had done a survey to see who was and wasn't circumcised. About 1/3 were not. I explained that it wasn't necessary and it hurt like hell. "Thank you, Mom."
I am also a nurse, and that is why I am vehemently opposed to the barbaric practice of cutting off part of a newborn baby boy's penis.
In nursing school I saw my first one. It was horrendous. The baby screamed and screamed, and didn't stop for a long time.
I have had people tell me "He's just afraid". So it's OK to terrorize a newborn? It doesn't hurt, it just terrifies them? I don't get that logic.
Anyway, I am a conscientious objector, and refused to have anything to do with circumcisions, leaving it to the nurses that didn't care.
But I can tell you that I heard them scream every single time.
I don't believe the women who say that their son was fine and didn't cry. They probably weren't there, so they don't know.
I worked with a doctor who was also against circumcision.
So when the parents insisted on doing that to their newborn, he would agree, but then require the father to be there for it.
He said that every father, except one, when faced with their little newborn strapped to the plastic tray, ready to be cut, changed their minds and rescinded the permission.
I wonder about that one father who let his son be mutilated in front of him.
Mrs. RW
Well said!! I am glad I found out about how harmful and unnecessary routine circumcision is before I had my kids. I have no regrets about saying no to that procedure and my kids haven’t had any problems either.
Yes. Please keep telling this story. We need to hear it. You are performing a public service. Thank you.
Thank YOU!
A woman from my church lost her 2 month old son to vitamin K deficiency Bleeding (VKDB). She had a home birth and was breastfeeding. (He was her 3rd).
My daughter (who is a physician) explained that by the time a parent realizes something is wrong and gets the baby to the ER, it’s already too late. No vitamin K shot and breastfeeding are classic red flags.
My 8 kids born between 1984-2002 all had the Vitamin K shot.
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions---pediatrics/v/vitamin-k-deficiency-bleeding-in-the-newborn.html
And that includes recovering from all the poor dentistry that many have been obediently allowing all their life: Metal fillings, fluoride, poorly fit crowns, etc. I would love to see more attention paid to poor, toxic dentistry.
I’m in this awful cycle right now 😢 I don’t have the old school fillings because my teeth were perfect till my mid twenties but after five kids (even with good dental hygiene and eating healthy) my teeth are one of my biggest worries. The dentist I see only wants to drill and fill. Last time I saw him, he shrugged off my questions. “I’m not a researcher. I’m just the mechanic.”
I AM a researcher and still can’t figure out why my teeth are deteriorating. Our only holistic dentist within an hour drive wants $600 and a ton of x-rays just to see me - and may refuse to talk to me if I refuse the x-rays! I’m getting so fed up even with the supposed “alternatives” but not in a position to just stop care now 😔
The whole dental system is a toxic mess.
IMO, the hysteria around mercury amalgams is absurd.
My father was an Orthodontist and I knew many of his dentist pals... they agreed to a man and it would be no problem for them to switch to composites.
Franklin, a good overview yet a bit narrow unless stress is expanded to mean not engaging in those acts and thoughts that harm the soul and inevitably create universal misery. ( A simple illustration, the Miser is universally miserable in every culture, the one who strives to work as a service to otheres, the loving attentive Mom and Dad, the one who cares, they gain a universal happiness.) So our thoughts and actions are ultimately the root cause of stress.
David, 1,000% agree here. I actually just wrote an article how we need to bring back villages and communities, and one of the byproducts of villages is that deep spiritual piece you mention here. 1,000% agree here. Here the article: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-greed-destroyed-the-human-village
Thank you Franklin. I will review the link. Please consider to read my always free not a news feed posts .https://anderdaa7.substack.com/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt
I will! And thank you for sharing! Love this! This is good ideas going around! This is what social media should be used for ❤️
Thank you, an excerpt of this if you will...If all the radical statist indefatigable efforts to control society were instead directed to social studies which specifically teach free choice behavior that can be universally shown to engender happiness, such as the common religious ideal “life should be chiefly service” and the principles of eternal virtue, (called the ten commandments in the West, and Satama Dharma, or eternal principles of righteousness, in the East) only then will any earthly utopia be gained. With instant communication of need and rapid commerce, charity driven help could be rapidly delivered where needed all over. This is far more efficient than government, (where the effect is often the polar opposite of the stated intent) and far more liberating for those that engage in such work.
This understanding of true and universal happiness engendering actions and psychology is no small matter, and is so deeply missing in modern social science that failure is inevitable and all systems are doomed. Instead of wisdom, we have flawed people utterly lacking introspection, expensively taught to perceive themselves as elite and teaching others to perceive themselves as victims. These elite seek forced divisive based restitution rooted in confrontation with those innocent yet presumed guilty, often simply because of their color. And, in submission to their own demonstrated to be misery generating unwise personal desires, they often also spread their misery to all social structures, demanding to control every aspect of society and culture. The "March through the Institutions" is real.
Comprehensive studies on universal happiness (actions and attitudes that always eventually produce happiness) vs pleasure, (defined here as temporary capricious desires that only lead to temporary happiness, and often for that individual simply due to the fact that any desired satisfied temporarily removes a restless want from the undisciplined heart, or base desires that if catered to promise temporary happiness but instead enslave, produce misery and destroy happiness) is NECESSARY for society to survive and prosper. (“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” ~~George Washington)
This philosophy of happiness, is not impractical imagination. Everybody is a philosopher in that one’s ethos, emotions and desires, are inevitably and always one’s philosophy lived. What works can rightly be called wisdom. Giving in to undisciplined unwise desires, or “getting what you want”, has ruined countless lives and cultures. “Desires lead to restlessness, restlessness leads to acts, then the memory all betrayed, lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, until purpose mind and man are all undone.” There is an additional spiritual side of life that is necessary for lasting happiness. Yet that requires a different understanding of the “epistomolgy of nomunea” and so will be held for a later post.
Unbiased scientific understanding what truly makes content individuals and prosperous societies, and teaching this in our families and schools, would be immeasurably more valuable and lead to spiritual tuned lives and nations. In short teaching the Bible’s ten commandments as “eternal rules of happiness” and showing how these are perfectly reflected in India’s “Satama Dharma” principles, along with understanding the foundational freedom principles of the U.S., would be ideal.
Integration in the 60s destroyed the farm community I grew up in. The local school was the heart and brought everyone together, even though we may have attended different churches.
But everyone was forced onto buses and sent into town and it was never the same.
Now we hear that black people want their own segregated everything.
While I agree, managing a group of people and running a business boosted my cholesterol over 200. Been on statins since 1999 and have great blood pressure and good health. One does have to tolerate som aches and pains….its all part of growing older :) and it beats the alternative.
Statins are a complete scam, as is the war on cholesterol. Cholesterol is a very poor marker for heart disease. 50 % of the brain is cholesterol. Low cholesterol increases Alzheimer. Statins give over 90 % of recipients muscle pain, increase risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Alzheimers, and disrupt mitochondria function. The logic for using them is very flawed too. The doctors talk relative risk, not absolute risk . In this case high cholesterol shows a 2 % increase in heart disease. By taking statins, this drops to 1 %. That is an absolute decrease of 1 %, but a relative decrease of 50 %. You are taking toxic statins for a 1 % decreased chance of heart disease.
You must read A Midwestern Doctor’s substack…. :)
I do, but not every day
You are absolutely right about cholesterol!! [Must tell you that I didn't see this reply before replying to you further down here]
Courtsey in replying to most comments is helpful. Starting with " a complete scam" is not. Everyone's body is a unique chemistry experiment.
I am sorry if this offends you, but I have done the research. This is one article, but virtually every cancer book I have read (over a dozen, most more than once ) says statins are a total scam. And no , your body chemistry does not change the story on statins. A woman (with a very bad case of TDS, and a former NIH employee) told me the same thing as you after she called me healing my wife's cancer holistically "anecdotal".
As I tell everyone, nobody should take anything anyone says at face value, including me, and doctors. Do your own research, or not. We are all responsible for our own health, and should do whatever they feel is best for them.
I wonder if AI will repeat or advise what we know regarding illness.
No offense intended, but with that assumption you should have been a doctor, assuming you aren't already.
Using 23andMe raw data, I learned from CLAUDE that I have a susceptibility to a SERIOUS disease condition that can be prevented by adopting nutrition and lifestyle changes that no doctor ever even asks about, at least in my experience.
In fact, now I have to go to my doc and get him to prescribe a couple of meds that can be preventatively helpful, knowing it will take a month or two to see him for 10 minutes and risk hearing all the blowback.
And by the way Claude doesn't use the raw data for training, doesn't keep nor spread it around... it goes away when the conversation is closed out.
How do you get the raw data? I used MyHeritiage for my DNA profile. Would love to get the raw data.
With 23andMe one can just request to download it from their website, after logging in of course.
I'm not familiar with MyHeritage, but will try to look into it assuming they have a website.
Here's what I found: https://www.yourdnaguide.com/download-myheritage
Here's an AI generated answer:
"Yes, you can download your raw DNA data from MyHeritage if you took a MyHeritage DNA test. The option to download the raw data file is available in your account under the DNA section. However, this feature has been intermittently unavailable, with reports indicating temporary removals and reinstatements. As of recent updates, the download option may be accessible depending on your account and region, but it's not consistently available across all user accounts."
You forgot genetics. There are mutations that cause cancer
Parasite cause cancer... they are finding out they cause most.
Jacquijacq - thanks for this comment! So the idea is that genes and cancer themselves are incorrect ideologies - hence the only 4 causes. Here’s an article on cancer too: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/cancer-your-bodys-desperate-attempt
Thanks for the link. Good article. Glad you mentioned glyphosate which is in everything. Air, also, from burning bio diesel.
A limited list. Infectious agents( bacteria/ viruses/ prions/ parasites) also cause many diseases, some not traditionally linked to infection, such as the HPV cervical cancer cascade.
Genetic/ congenital issues are also a significant source of illnesses in many people.
Accident/ trauma cause major morbidity and mortality world wide.
Family/ social environment underlie much of mental illness.
You have an incomplete list of causes of disease.
Perhaps an AI consult could help improve the list.
Bacteria appear to clean up dead or diseased tissue. They are not pathogens. They are the clean up crew. No one has yet isolated any so called viruses including the alleged HPV. Contagion has yet to be proven. Same with genetic issues. Looking for genes as the cause of disease is a great distraction and money pit.
Franklin O’. So if you catch a cold is that a toxic exposure? Infectious diseases were & are big killers. Not sure how you fit those into your 4 categories.
I *used* to have a good one like that but she left the practice because she defied the rules and took her time with all of her patients!
I miss her dearly 😔
I think there is an underestimated need for Personal Medical Advocates. Maybe some displaced doctors who refused being a lab rat can earn some sheckles working with patients privately. If I have a confounding ailment, or surgery is recommended, I would LOVE an advocate that can go on consultation appts with me and read lab results. It is akin to bringing my car to the mechanic and being stymied by the foreign language of “car” so I’m at the mercy of the mechanic.
Yes, and a pharmacologist who can reconcile different prescriptions to avoid overdoing it.
I bet AI will be helping a lot with this in future.
Someone said we have a doc like that in our town who took time to listen to his patients but I am sure that is an urban legend.😊
Did she continue elsewhere or retire?
I have a good one, and I am so grateful for him.
Praise the Lord for that! I’m guessing he’s a believer.
Absolutely! Also in practice by himself so he can do it the way he believes he should rather than having some corporate office calling the shots. Gee, after 2020, that phrase takes on new meaning.
Maybe a list of all these doctors, NP, from all our readers from around the globe for reference to all who are in need.
Speaking of doctors' inhumanity who are no longer patient centered: I drove a friend an hour and a half to her eye doctor. The waiting room was cold and sterile with at least 100 steel chairs with gray walls in straight rows. There was a huge red stop sign just inside the front door no one could pass until called by a woman behind a thick glass barricade. My friend was told that because she was 20 minutes late, she would not be seen. We headed home . As it turned out, my friend had not been late; the employee who made the appointment had keyed it into the system incorrectly.
How horrible! Maybe God spared your friend from being “treated” by those people!!
Here's another one: my husband's cardiologist "fired" him last summer after we told him that my husband isn't taking any of the prescriptions his doctor put him on and instead he's taking vitamins, supplements, and eating a keto diet. It's ok. He's doing extremely well without the pharmaceuticals and their awful side effects.
Lol! "You can't get better like that, not with me around! You're fired!" Good grief.
I would like to think that if I were a cardiologist, I would be interested in following a patient who has chosen another way to heal. SMH
I am admittedly biased. My ex is a surgeon and I watched him morph from a supposed human to a creature of the medical complex. Doctors learn a rote bedside manner that makes their patients feel cared for. That may or may not be the truth. Whenever someone says "My doctor is the best!" I know they are being bamboozled by appearances and an authoritative white coat. And the hardest part of it all is how do you even determine if the medical "care" you are getting is good? I've had so many medical screw ups by "the best". Medicine is a black box to most of us. Who knows what lurks within? I personally welcome AI. Maybe not human. Maybe competent without too many competing priorities.
That's why they are still practicing. Maybe at some point they will get it right. ;-)
We are blessed with a doc that's in it for healing. Spends minimum 30 mins with each patient, but often an hour. Makes sure he understands the problem and then ensures that the patient understands what he's recommending and why. He doesn't take insurance but he's worth every penny. He's so old school that all patient charts are paper-based, and we appreciate that too! There are some good ones out there!
Hopefully your dream doctor is close to Charlotte, NC so I can get his name? 😁
I agree. My dentist who is very up to date on everything, (she was recommended by my old dentist, who I loved, when he retired), has cut her office staff to one besides herself. She uses AI to do all her bookkeeping, insurance forms, and appointment set ups. Her assistant does all the cleaning and hygiene stuff and she does just the actual dental work.
Any lowering of cost yet?
A large part of dental and veterinarian school is how to make money.
It definitely was NOT when I went to dental school. Anything to do with running a business was learned by reading articles and attending continuing education.
It may have transitioned as I my impression from industry specific trade shows talking to young dentists and veterinary students, and seeing many business specific exhibits. This was in the early 2000s.
Could be the case. If a dentist is going to enter private practice and own a business, some amount of accounting and business skills would be very helpful, to put it mildly. The profit margin in dentistry is quite small as overhead is huge, generally 65-75%, equipment and supplies are expensive, there are a lot of extra regulations due to the healthcare industry, and most fees are capped by an insurance industry whose fee schedules have changed by only a small percentage since the 1970s. I agree that learning the technical aspects of dental care is of primary importance, but if you’re responsible for the livelihood of your dental team, then you as the leader of that team better have some business knowledge.
And virtually no nutrition classes.
My dentist who was recommended by retiring dentist used to be friendly, conversion, and gave options. He has become very authoritative, after all he is the dentist, demands that you follow his demands or you can go elsewhere. He demanded annual X-rays, had them and less than 6 months later after breaking a tooth and needing root canal and crown, I was informed of 2 adjoining teeth requiring root canals. The endodontist hedged about whether the dentist should have seen the cavities on X-ray. They are crowned teeth, the dentist stated the X-rays can’t see under the crowns! I’m not sure if this is true or not. In any case, when demanding X-rays, he never told me the X-rays would only be good for uncrowned teeth! I am finishing the work on 2 teeth and will be finding a new dentist.
It is true the metal in the crowns obscure any decay occuring in the tooth structure underneath the crowns so it is not visible on the radiograph/xray.
However, that does not excuse his lack of chairside decorum. He could have taken 5 minutes to explain it to you. It is not rocket science.
Thank you! He knew where I was going with my questions and cut me off saying X-rays will always be required in his practice. (He didn’t used to be strict until after a new building and Covid! Even if I have to have X-rays elsewhere, I will have a discussion about the limitations of them and the “false sense of security “ the profession is giving.
I have basic ‘bitewing’ xrays done 1 X per year. If I have symptoms (hot/cold sensitivity) then one film to see the whole tooth (root, nerve, and surrounding bone) in the area in question.
I do remember my friend, also a hygienist, asked her boss for a raise. He explained he could not afford it—had all kinds of excuses. Then his wife pulled up in a cute little Mercedes convertible and my friend remarked “there’s my raise”. She left the practice not long afterward.
Interesting.
Being paid in chickens is not an exciting prospect for someone who paid a quarter mill' for their education and devoted at least 8 years of their life to obtain the training they needed to help people.
True, but medical education needs serious reform. And reform is never easy for those caught in between.
The entire Big Pharma, corrupt to the core,,, needs to be torn down.
My nephew has found a lucrative practice in temp’ing at ab—tion clinics in CA. He lives out of state with his wife/children but travels back for a month or so to earn enough to maintain a comfortable life style. He also self-medicates with weed. I guess he figures his ‘patients’ won’t sue and don’t care as long as ‘the problem’ is taken care of. I pray for him. He has gone from a brilliant, personable guy to a very miserable, sullen jerk.
MaryAnn, how very, very sad.
Agree. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is so sad.
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Oh my.
Oh wow 😳☹️
It depends on the kind of chickens?
golden eggs!
The best!
Kentucky fried?? 😬
Four fried chickens and a coke, please.
My grandfather was a doc like that. Small town in Minnesota during the depression and after. Right now I’m sure he’s rolling in his grave and wondering what has happened to Minnesota?😩
You forgot to add Big Data to your customer list. Doctors spend more time looking at their screens, navigating checklists and buried menus with more checklists, and cross-examining patients for data than they do looking at or touching patients.
Because of the lawyers and bean-counters (financial types).
Respectfully disagree. It's because of government intrusion, specifically Obamacare and Medicare. Government is the one requiring the data collection; if doctors don't comply, they are penalized.
True, but what data do they collect? And how is it collected? They collect the data the lawyers (malpractice risk) and bean counters (extracting every possible penny) want, and they force clinicians to collect it in ways that interfere with providing clinical care. I'm a doctor who was there for the beginning of that trend, and it only got worse. Prohibiting doctors from owning hospitals was another grave error, because it left them in the hands of corporate executives who talk about patients as if we are widgets.
I agree but they also collect other data that is way too intrusive and doesn't seem to have anything to do with malpractice. For example: how many cups of coffee do I drink -- if the issue is the person who drinks X number of cups, then ask if I drink X number. The quantity of questions and details are inappropriate for a doctor visit.
I've never been asked that, nor did I ever ask it, as a routine question. I could see asking that for someone with difficulty sleeping, the jitters, or high blood pressure, e.g.
Just finished a crazy medical year. But I’m coming out healed. And my doctor is wonderful. In fact, all my doctors are wonderful and they hate this current system as much as anybody.
We better straighten out the exorbitant costs for Medical school before we ditch the high pay for physicians. Most schools charge anywhere from $250k to $450k depending on private or public schools. Students also have to borrow money to live on, can’t work and go to med school. Unfortunately it’s a debt they carry for many years beyond school and residency. BTW their pay in residency is akin to an indentured servant. My child went thru the Air Force which paid for his Med School, but they aren’t comparable in pay to the civilian sector. So they loose a lot of docs after they pay back their debt thru service time.AI can’t pay off their debt, so it maybe awhile before it can take over our Medical Systems.
I’m finding fewer MDs and more PAs….my husband was a Corpsman in the Coast Guard. While enlisted he could do everything a PA seems to do these days. Instead of granting him a license to continue in the medical field, utilizing the skills and knowledge he had, he became Cinderella at 1 minute past midnight…..totally unable to do anything outside the military. Why are we wasting talent like this?
Good question!!
Could not possibly agree more with every single every word of this. Am so anti-AI that I did not expect to feel this way. However, with AI, it is often a fairly easy matter to spot the errors, and AI has no personality or behaviour to contend with while you're unwell and needing help. A godsend.
It's been our experience that doctors rarely even see their patients anymore. They now now have PA's. I'm ok with that if it's something minor but if it's a PA you get post outpatient surgery, no bueno, imo.
Part of the problem is that these young doctors are coming out of med school with 300K or more in debt. They can't leave a corporate practice to pursue real medicine. They can't veer from the dictates of the AMA, Insurance and Pharma if they want to keep their job and pay off their debts. Slaves to the industry. Some are forming groups that offer more time and better care to patients by offering subscriptions paid monthly and limiting patient numbers. Probably not as lucrative as working in a big corporate hospital but definitely more rewarding in many ways to the doctor's own well being.
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A voice is calling,
“Prepare the way for Yahweh in the wilderness;
Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.
Let every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;
Then the glory of Yahweh will be revealed,
And all flesh will see it together;
For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.”
— Isaiah 40:3-5 NAS95
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You’re number one!!!
Sometimes it pays to wake up too early. 😬
Do you have a C&C alarm clock? That rings when this blog lands on your PC?
😛Truth be told, I sleep in fits and spirts, and write and read on my phone until I fall asleep again. I have a feeling some doctors are going to give me some things to do today.
Keep the faith that the Lord does heal His sheep: I didn’t sleep more than 2 hrs at a time for 20 years… but the Lord set me free. 🙌
If you don’t sleep well, could be bad for the heart. Just saying.
Thank you, those of us who struggle to sleep need to constantly hear this. We know it's bad for everything but we don't choose to not sleep. I have spent hundreds of dollars on things to help you sleep to no avail. I give myself plenty of sleep time, but ...
Yes, sir. My overnight O2 sats had been improving, but after the embolization I had Thursday, they’ve tanked. Wrong direction. 😣
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Notication settings.
Does it pay?!
Not in actual cash. 🤪
Every single knee will bow before the Lord God Almighty
Amen!
Janice, that brought tears to my eyes
Christ never mentioned Yahweh. Interesting.
You know, I’m tired a lot of the time, but I am certain my life is not as exhausting as yours, Bard Joseph. I have peace.
AMEN!
I do believe His relationship was Son, so naturally He called Him Father. Do you refer to your dad by first name?
He mentioned His Father all the time.
Speaking of the origin of the word. Christ spoke Aramaic.
Oh, that is an interesting angle. If asked about the name Yahweh, what would Jesus have said? I would assume he also knew Hebrew. Maybe His connection to the Father and Holy Spirit was so perfect, He could speak any language at will. I am not aware of the name Yahweh anywhere in the New Testament, though I AM is certainly repeated.
Because he and the father are one.
As long as AI doesn’t rid us of our need for YOU, Mr. Childers, and your running commentary on this beautiful thing called LIFE, with a side of the occasional Dumpster Fire, everything will be alright. Alright, alright, alright.
“This is Big Pharma’s Chernobyl moment.”
Drip. Drip. KABOOM!
Thank you, Jesus!
Exactly! No vaccine is safe and this industry is falling! Here’s a guide to all the harms and how it’s been hidden for so long: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-complete-vaccine-harm-profile
Here is another, documenting why not even one vaccine should be legal or in use:
https://ageofautism.com/why-is-this-legal-presentation-on-vaccines-by-laura-hayes/
And another, documenting that when it comes to vaccines, there is nothing to be “pro” about:
https://ageofautism.com/vaccines-what-is-there-to-be-pro-about-laura-hayes-to-weston-a-price-foundation-conference-2/
Watching now! Absolutely the BEST presentation on and about vaccines I have ever witnessed. Still watching now!! Cudos!!!
And another, documenting that when it comes to vaccines, there is nothing to be “pro” about:
https://ageofautism.com/vaccines-what-is-there-to-be-pro-about-laura-hayes-to-weston-a-price-foundation-conference-2/
Childhood Vaccines Completely Alter the Genes of Children According to Massive Study
"67 cancer-related genes activated instantly..."
https://diedsuddenlynews.substack.com/p/childhood-vaccines-immediately-and
So many martyrs to this cause!
Now that I can't steer the kids into a Big Pharma career path, "politician" will be my advice, based on the certainty of untold, undeserved riches, with little risk of arrest.
I’d go with a plumbers license. After all, everybody’s gotta go. It’s not really that difficult. Hot on the left, cold on the right and shit can’t run up hill. Oh, and don’t forget, don’t lick your fingers.
Changing my hat from sarcastic to realistic, Plumbing is exactly what I recently told my nephew.
Oh yea. I was just being half funny.
I am experiencing "moderate to severe" joy about this
Going to see the oncologist today to go over my PET scan. Will spend more time on waiting room that with her. If it’s negative like last time that’s good. But I’m about to decided they are ordering scans because they know how many and how often Medicare will pay for them.
Looking for cancer. They will find it. The testing is the killer, not cancer.
Bingo! That's why screenings are free. Everything beyond that is not
The last three were negative that’s why I think they are just pumping Medicare.
Maybe ask AI how many & often the scans are needed.
Depends on your diagnosis/ treatment and time since treatment.
There is no schedule from Medicare as to how often a PET scan will be reimbursed if indicated. What causes you to think such a schedule exists? Most coverage restrictions are imposed by commercial insurance and their Medicare Advantage bastard offspring.
If you are interested, NCCN ( National Cancer Care Network)provides extensive information about diagnosis, treatment and follow up regimens for almost all forms of cancer.
Or make an AI query, but give all the details for an accurate answer.
I stand corrected.
There is nothing that bombards you with more toxic radiation than a PET CAT scan. My wife had one, and after it didn't show any cancer, but we had addressed it without any oncologist, or slash burn poison, we received the most mealy mouthed say nothing report they probably ever wrote. No more CAT scans or PET scans for us. Same for biopsies.
I know many will disagree but, the whole point of early screening is to do early interventions. There are literally dozens if not hundreds of natural cures for cancer and many cancers would go away on their own if (expensive) medical interventions weren't there to encourage them to grow. Oncologists are just evil.
If you know you know and if you don’t you don’t. Either way what ever will be will be.
Gee I hadn’t thought about binomial distributions in years.
“Direct-to-consumer drug ads are allowed by only one other country in the world, a tiny island nation that explicitly compares its own citizens to fruit (New Zealand’s kiwis). Just. Saying.”
Ironically, New Zealand is also the only other country in the world that still allows child mutilation for sex changes. Along with the United States. Just saying.
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Eliminating Big Pharma ads from the Media is Win-Win-Win for Humanity. Will greatly reduce demand for drugs that alleviate symptoms. Will increase demand for healthcare that addresses root causes. Will cripple Mainstream Media’s financial viability.
Yes, the Pharma money will no longer prop up the propaganda media.
Foundations will step in.
Tax exempt kind.
Not to mention when little darlins may we watching tv as a family anew ask their parent what the STD commercial is all about!!!!
Wow — thanks for this comparison. That’s an eye-opening fact.
On the whole drug to advertising piece, marketing is the ONLY reason drugs cost so much. Not research and development, but marketing: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-are-drug-prices-so-high-hint
I’ve never been a Kennedy fan and I mean the whole clan, the Americas royalty bull but if RK can get drug ads banned from TV I’ll call him a prince.
I read his voice damage was vaccine caused. He has a reason to fight on that hill.
1,000% aligned here Steve! I still wouldn’t call him a prince and totally agree with the whole clan being horrible, but I’ll take the win they give us.
He refuses to come out openly and call for the BAN of ALL mRNA poisons.
I read that the maggot Wiles, a Big Pharma AND zionist stooge... is blocking him.
And pharmaceutical ads on TV. It would be nice to get them out of magazines as well.
Sorry, I see Jeff mentioned that.
Still allowed in Canada ☹️
"Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, projecting, ironically told reporters there is 'almost like a religion' around vaccines in Washington."
Too late, Albert. We anti-vaxxers have already appropriated the religion label about you vaccine pushers. See Aaron Siri's book Vaccines, Amen for the latest comparison.
And long before that, there was Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn’s 1979 book Confessions of a Medical Heretic, in which “he argued that medicine was a dogmatic institution prioritizing authority and ritualistic practices over patient well-being.”
“Mendelsohn highlighted how doctors compulsively rushed to prescribe new drugs before side effects were known, many routine practices caused more harm than benefit, that medicine’s compulsion to ‘do something’ was faith-based rather than rational, and that doctors challenging the faith were treated as heretics and cast out.”
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dissecting-the-religion-of-vaccines
Bourla can be compared to a cult leader.
Compared?
Is.
A hardcore POS... evil as hell. He and his fellow cockroach bancel KNEW full well the Covid jabs were deadly.
Dr. Mendelsohn’s book was one of my go-to’s when my kids were young. He was so wise and calming.
I wish I had known about it before I had kids.
Karen: Hello, doctor AI. I have uploaded my labs and my current prescription meds. Please proceed with my checkup
AI: Hello, Karen. Why are you taking all of these medications?
Karen: I don't know. I went to my previous doctor with a complaint and they phoned it in.
AI: What about this one - Prozac?
Karen: Yeah, I was down in the dumps and they said my chemicals were imbalanced.
AI: Did they identify and measure the chemicals?
Karen: um, no, they didn't draw blood or anything.
AI: I see this was this was your first long-term prescription, with several others added afterward to treat new problems that were crept up after starting Prozac. I noticed that you are obese, and that your weight has crept up 10 or more pounds every year since starting Prozac. You mentioned that you can't seem to prevent further weight gain, let alone lose weight. While your blood sugar seems okay, I see that your fasting insulin is rather high. This indicates that you have what's referred to as "occult type-2 diabetes", meaning your insulin is doing an admirable job cramming that blood glucose into your ever-growing fat cells. Eventually, however, this effort will hit a wall and your blood sugar will spike. That's when humans typically "become" diabetic, but I assure you, you are currently diabetic.
Karen: I can't believe your bedside manners! How dare you insult me!
AI: It's not an insult, Karen. It's a fact. Please follow these steps to reverse the condition: 1. Enter a rehab program to wean yourself from Prozac. This part is going to suck big-time. 2. Once you are off, your body will finally feel normal, though you will have to learn how to regulate your emotions, which Prozac kept numb for decades. You may need to deal with old traumas that have been blunted. 3. Let's move on to diet. You must forego processed foods and refined carbohydrates. Here is a recommended diet with guidelines for an eating window and a fasting window. 4. After a few weeks we can cease most of your other meds. 5. Here is a recommended fitness plan to get your body moving like it did when you were a child. Is there anything else?
Karen: No. You are incredibly rude! I believe in "fat is fit" and "healthy at any size". And before you say anything, I WILL NOT give up the nose ring!
AI: You have a nose ring? Hold on while I spin up another datacenter. This is going to be harder than I thought
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There are NO physical markers or tests for depression. A happy person's bloodwork and other tests will look the same as a depressed person. The entire psychiatric profession is pure quackery .
Maybe with AI doctors we won’t continue to be lied to, coerced and killed.
Is affirming the concluding thoughts of a mental disorder the proper way for sane people to handle it? Have we not learned the more you coddle mental illness the worse things will get. Think, if I started having crazy feelings, went to my doctor and said “Doc I think I’m a worm”. The doctor then affirms that my feelings are normal, he doesn’t treat my mental disorder, he cuts off my arms and my legs. Wouldn’t you think the doctor bears some if not all of the responsibility for not treating my psychological problem but instead chopping up my body? Wouldn’t you think I needed some psychological help, not all of my limbs amputated? Should the teachers that seeded these thoughts, influenced my mind, bear some of the responsibility?
What if I said I was a cat and my wife started feeding me milk from a saucer, would people that witnessed this not think my wife was a part of the problem, affirming and enabling my mental illness? Why would anyone affirm obvious mental problems that can never be corrected by coddling and encouraging a person, you will only further damage the person, and escalate their disorder.
“Primum non nocere”, first do no harm. This is the fundamental principle of medical ethics, historically attributed to Hippocrates, emphasizing that a doctors primary goal is to avoid causing a patient further harm while also working to provide benefit. How many families and people need to be gunned down by people with the same, many times coerced, mental disorder before we call it what it is.
From the point of education and medicine this is savagery! Let us not forget Merrick Garland and the Biden administration legally going after parents that opposed their children having their genitals cut off or being given life altering chemicals. From the highest law enforcement agency in America the governments punishing of parents that try to protect their children from this evil is pure divisive Marxism.
A girl can be a boy. A boy can be a girl. When we are forced to believe, as Orwell said 2+2=5, or socialism/communism is good, we are being forced to surrender our sanity, and reality.
Once cut or treated with these drugs, these psychologically manipulated kids will never be able to experience the deeper emotional bond in a relationship with the person they love. This connection is supported by the brains release of a powerful cocktail of hormones and neurotransmitters that promote pleasure, bonding and emotional intimacy. They will never experience this or the ability to naturally have a child together. Many will quickly realize and resent what’s been done to them. They were sold a lie and realize they will never be a woman or never be a man. What these doctors are doing is unforgivable.
Between this and handing out puberty blocking drugs or pumping male or female hormones into the opposite sex, what could possibly go wrong. Are we beginning to see what can go wrong? This path of medicine and education is pure evil and butchery. The whole of this policy is a social experiment, again performed on our society just like mRNA injections. It’s another case of us, the American citizen, being the guinea pigs in this narcissistic medical establishment experiment.
The Love of Money is the Root of All Evil.
J.Goodrich
Depends on who's doing the programing. If it's the lefties you can count on getting bad medicine.
That’s why I said maybe..,
Fabulous analysis, James! I so appreciate your thoughtful input. In reading through all the comments this morning about doctors, medical school education, and its decline, i concur with personal knowledge of the erosion. I have a beloved daughter (an extremely radical liberal from Seattle) who is now doing her residency in medicine. This is her second career, having completed medical school at the age of 43. I say hats of to her for such an accomplishment. However, what I have observed is the dumbing down of her medical training, and the pure propaganda churned out thst she has embraced. Is it just UofW Medical School, or is it all medical schools across the country? I tend to think the latter. She does have a wealth of knowledge on various topics, but has totally bought in to the transgender ideology, like so many of her medical peers. Excuse me, where's the science? the biology? 2+2 does not equal 5. And this is a doctor you want to trust your life with? It saddens me. I love my daughter, and want to see her excel, but until she surrenders her life to Jesus Christ, only then can she fully serve patients in a field that so desperately needs truth.
Pretty sure it is all medical schools. You are what you eat, and most doctors get zero hours of training in nutrition. They also have no training that tells them your soul and consciousness are part of the body, and you cannot treat one without the other. Some don't even think stress is physically harmful. You really don't need to know any more than that.
Don’t forget the money. That, I believe, is the motivating factor for these so-called “doctors.” Never the welfare of the patient. They couldn’t possibly believe drugging and chopping is good for any person. Well, unless they are insane and/or inherently evil.
Read "Rappacinni's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorn.
Thank you James for speaking the truth and facts!
Spot on, as usual!
The problem with a lot of drs today is that they are arrogant and condescending. I have had a few tell me not to "Google it" when something has come up and I run for the hills. I recently told a dentist to take a hike after saying that to me. I may not have a medical degree but I am not an idiot and I have been saying for several months now that AI is going to take over for drs. Like Jeff, I had a similar experience with Chat GPT diagnosing a hip problem I had for YEARS. I knew that it was muscle related because I would get muscle spasms in my hip that were very painful. Enter Chat. I told it the problem and it actually intuitively figured out how the problem started and then gave me very specific excersizes to do. I am now pain free.
I had a similar experience with a doctor! I offered an opinion about the mRNA shots (which he still supports). He replied with, "I would not tell you how to teach American history any more than you should have a view on medicine."
Tell him 50 % of doctors finished in the bottom half of their class.
Next time I see him.... yes! 🤣
I knew an English professor who always said that most doctors couldn't get a C- in composition class.
This doctor told me that both he and his wife and their kids got the covid vaccine! I suspect he in fact DID graduate in the bottom half of his class.
True story!
A differing view on American history is much less likely to kill you, though. I can't believe he said that to you!
Exactly! Plus, I was taught to read points of view that differed from my own. He apparently was not. Btw, he prescribed an antibiotic for me that had an interesting side effect: burst aorta. I read that on the package insert and decided not to take it. In fact there were four pages of side effects, single spaced.SMH
oh that is maddening. I am so sorry.
"Trust the experts!"
Always! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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It’s YOUR body, of course YOU should have a view on how it’s treated!
I love it, great that you are pain free now!
Via online searches, I discovered my FIL was in kidney failure due to all the drugs he was on. The doctor saw swollen ankles and just prescribed a diuretic. My Googling save him several years. The arrogance is appalling.
Today?
That is sad. Sorry to hear that about your FIL.
"...a tiny island nation that explicitly compares its own citizens to fruit (New Zealand’s kiwis)" Not so. We are called kiwis because the Kiwi is our national bird. The fruit was originally called a Chinese Gooseberry until the late 60's early 70's when New Zealand fruit growers in Northland developed a larger fruit and renamed it the kiwi, because it was brown and fuzzy. It was then marketed as the New Zealand kiwifruit. 😉
I love Kiwis. The fruit, the bird and the people. Not their government though.
The government is a total clusterf..k and has been for many years. PM Lange told Reagan he couldn't dock subs and ship in NZ ports unless Reagan told him which vessels carried nuclear weapons or were powered by nuclear. Reagan gave him the middle finger, and that ended the ANZUS treaty. NZers were pissed off with Lange. The leaders during Covid were utterly evil.
I forget the name of that tranny PM you had. Have you watched the cooking shows by Annabell Langbein? Those showed so much of the beautiful crops and geography of NZ.
Are you talking about Jacinda Ardern? What a revolting human being. One of the monsters. And she's now a Dame. What a joke. I haven't lived in NZ for 38 years, but NZers went through hell with her during covid. Is Annabell Langbein the woman who drives an old yellow pickup truck? If so, I've watched her shows. It is a lovely country, especially the South Island with the southern Alps.
Helen Clarke could have been a tranny too. My dad thought the sun shone out of her a$$. I couldn't stand her either.
Gee - sorry to learn that your Dad admired Helen. I'm a Kiwi who, like you, thought she left/still leaves a lot 2 B desired.....
I have a photo of my dad with her 🤮 He was life-long Labour. I was National. My first time voting I told him I voted N and he hit the roof 🤣😂
Nice to meet you Noel. I'm from Auckland. Great to know another kiwi in this stack.
Thanks for the kiwi history!
Am I safe in assuming that with the capabilities of AI, the data dump that Jeff wrote about on Saturday, it could easily determine the harms of the Covid shots?
Let all corruption be exposed!
DOGE all elections!
And all government spending.
Let AI find all the missing children, too. Including CPS kidnappings.
Shouldn’t fraudulent lawsuits, unlawfully convicted prisoners and suppressed evidence all come to light?
Can’t cold case murders & other crimes now be solved?
Drug, human & arms trafficking brought to a halt?
Set AI to searching the dark web, and to finding the missing $21 trillion from the treasury!
You would think that. Will it happen? Will it be published? You knows
Very good question, Dr. Linda
…. 🤔…. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻….. good question… potentially
Yes, Tara’s doctor would have suggested Ozempic because literally every doctor’s office in the country is trying to put anyone they can on a glp-1.
Heck, try to fill a script on amazon pharmacy and the first thing you see are push suggestions for them.
Is it to hid the fact food is poisoned and will make you obese??
I don’t think they want to know what’s causing obesity (and I think it’s a lot more complicated than just our food quality), they just want to provide the miracle cure that will solve all the problems. Oh, and get rich while they’re doing it. Typical pattern of pharma.
Big Food makes people fat and sick; Big Pharma keeps them sick. (Nearly 50% of our population now has Type 2 diabetes, many of them children, and according to science writers like Gary Taubes it all starts with processed foods made in factories). Big Pharma would virtually disappear if we ate whole food and eliminated seed oils, along with the fat.
(good ) Fat is good for you. The low fat diet advice was very detrimental.
There's a doctor here on Substack who calls his stack "I'm a Doctor," by Brandon Luu, MD. His last piece was advice on how to lower blood pressure. His list includes eliminating salt (a horrible idea) and using seed oils (another horrible idea). How hard is it to read the research on this since it's everywhere now?
The scamdemic has shown the world, or rather those who still think, that the word "doctor" is not only not something to revere, but not even a compliment anymore . And with very good reason as you just showed.
Most cardiologists are diehard lipophobes.
I would add…Our bad habits, like eating out allll the time, too much food without real food ingredients, sedentary lifestyle, maybe even things like cell phone tower waves, who knows?
There are lots of suspicions about 5G towers, but I haven't seen the evidence of that yet, probably because I haven't looked. But restaurants use the cheapest ingredients, so seed oils and cane sugar are in everything on the menu from salad dressing to French fries to desserts. That, in combination with a sedentary lifestyle, is the primary cause of metabolic disease, CV problems, stroke, and cancer. The US permits titanium dioxide which is used for strengthening colors (jelly beans, doughnuts, french fries, ketchup, and cakes. Titanium dioxide is a carcinogen.
Not cane sugar unfortunately. High fructose corn syrup, rebranded now as natural sweeter. Cane sugar is much better for you, and artificial sweeteners (most of them) are toxic
Who can find “whole food?” I doubt any of our organic labeled foods are really organic. I don’t think strawberries are suppose to be the size of a tomato! We try, but at our age, it’s just trying to get the best of what’s offered and available. But, a day is coming when it all changes…
Buy local and in season. We buy all our beef, chicken, eggs, saturated fats, and pork from local farmers. We buy fruit and vegetables in season from local farmers. Our town has a weekly farmers market. I buy all soap, toothpaste, vitamins, etc from small businesses online. I even buy salt online, that comes from an ancient dead lake in Utah. The only reason we go to the grocery store is for paper towels and that sort of thing. And yes, it's inconvenient. But when I consider the alternative.....
Good for you. I ask people who say they are too busy "what price your health?". I have known rich people who had poor health, so their money was worth nothing.
To find local farmers, go to eatwild.com, click on your state on the U.S. map and you'll be taken to a page of all the clean farmers in your state who sell their stuff to the public. You most likely will find farmers somewhere near you.
I agree. And probably "lighten the load" (on the Earth) along the way.
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Right!
And blindness is the number one side effect. Some choice.
Blindness? I haven’t heard that. I know permanent paralysis of your GI tract is one, higher incidence of pancreatic cancer, and of course nausea. That’s the one that most people get. But I haven’t heard blindness as a main one.
Detached retina
Really. That’s crazy!
And now the daily ad if you play NY Times Wordle.
Yes! I play Wordle and connections every day and they both advertise it!
The Medicare insurance I have reached out to me twice, asking me if I wanted ozempic. I didn't respond. Never had them do that with any other drug.
Just be careful that you don't get scurvy.
Oh, I’m not on it, nor do I think I ever would. It has real side effects. But for some people the side effects are worth it because the risk of obesity’s effects on their body is much higher.
I’m not a pharma absolutist, in just think there’s always a trade off that just be considered carefully. And glp-1s don’t make sense for vanity weight loss.
Just made that comment in case people hadn't heard that something in these pills blocks vital nutrient absorption. (Go figure.)
And most of the weight loss is muscle unless you’re super careful.
"There will be less invention, investment, and innovation in vaccines generally, across all the companies.”
Translated, there will be less abuse/grift of taxpayer dollars going to create dangerous toxins disguised as medical solutions.
Hallelujah!!!
Drug makers aren't in freefall, they've just changed their name and done a bait and switch, putting their money behind AI Healthcare.
Kinda like Big Tobacco. Reinvent the grift.
Cigarette papers were soaked in opium. Not sure that pure tobacco is a problem. The crops were also sprayed with pesticides.
It is not unlikely that tobacco will one day be rehabilitated like coffee, butter, eggs, etc.
I agree Bard - i don't have anything against tobacco - just the drug mongers behind it all, using deceptive marketing tactics and what you just described.
Exactly! They already did this with Big Tech and cell phones:
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/i/99270587/letting-the-fox-guard-the-hen-house
Blocking Mrna flu vaccine is a start, though AI will bring new forms of injected control.
AI doctor? Which Doctor is that?
Project Stargate
I should have wrote Witch Doctor.
Aha aha ha ha good one. Exactly!
It amazes me that today’s big Pharma can’t design an experimental trial with a proper design. I was able to do it 50 years ago while working on my MS and PhD. But hey I wasn’t a Vet like the head of Pfizer.
Why would they want to? They had the government in their pockets, so real trials weren’t necessary.
That’s why they are squealing like Ned Beatty in Deliverence.
Eeeee. Eeeeee. Pretty much killed his career. The Greaseman once did an entire 3 hour show on it.
Agreed.
However, It is their best interest to design testing that benefits the dollar not the living being.
And going for the quick $ to boost share price instead of a slower process that yields better products and boosts share price just not as quick.
It isn't can't . It's won't. The why is easy. Vaccines are voodoo medicine. They don't work, and if you can't whore up the trials, none would ever be approved.
They worked for IBR on feedlot cattle but they weren’t mRNA they were modified live or killed vaccine. Seems like polio and smallpox worked as well.
Polio was another scam. Improved hygiene , and redefining / splitting diseases caused the decline in polio numbers. Transverse myelitis, Guillane Barre syndrome and 7 other diseases got their own classification after the "vaccine" was released. Plus as you probably know they introduced, intentionally or not SV 40 money virus into the vaccine that led to an explosion of cancers. They did it again with the jab , clearly intentionally this time.
I laughed at big Pharma actually saying they do trials. We know the kind of trials they do. 🥴