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Husband, father, grandfather, board-certified family physician. Past president of the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians and 2024 SC Family Physician of the Year.
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One of my favorite Vonnegut quotes:
"I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine."
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It’s naturalistic fallacy, survivorship bias, and Gish gallop all rolled up in a word salad.
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Have you no sense of decency?
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Don’t drive like my brother.
— The Tappet Brothers
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I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape.
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“If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace — son of a bitch!”
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“Keep pushin' 'til it's understood and these badlands start treating us good”
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Does the HHS Sec have an alibi?
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I won’t back down, Evan
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We have a term 'snob.' It's an old term but it means basically a rich layabout who never had to buy their own food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound.
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Healthcare spending is high because we refuse to spend money on social protection. Combine both categories and we still don’t spend enough on people.
The result is medicalized social dysfunction.
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Blocked and reported
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I was in residency in the 1980s when invasive H flu infections (including meningitis) were common. After the introduction of HiB vaccine the incidence of invasive infections decreased by 99% in children under 5 years.
Do these MAHA nihilists really want hospitals to reopen the meningitis wards?
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There’s a whole government website tracking every trinket a doctors might get from pharma — go figure
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The ease by which the Emoluments Clause simply disappears is breathtaking. Next stop: Habeas corpus and trial by jury.
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— Isaac Asimov, 1980
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’
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So this is how liberty dies … with lame memes
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Wonder what he thinks about the fact that there has never been a placebo-controlled double blind study on the safety of parachutes.
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Every day I tell myself, we’ve hit rock bottom. Surely, there is nothing worse this administration could do to harm public health.
Unfortunately, there is no bottom to its reckless venality.
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Nearly everything we do in diabetes management was derived from the DPP and DPPOS trials.
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Welcome back to the fight…
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And guys would be thinking about the Carthaginian Empire all the time.