Last night, JD Vance waved "conscience" in health care. But surely this hospital has a team who'd want to operate in a case like this. Instead, medical ethics were stifled by policy, yoked to "God's will," aka needless suffering and rejected autonomy. beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety…

Today's NIH: good-for-you denial, where the trauma of a face covering exceeds that of any other disability. "...people weren’t wearing masks [at a long Covid research summit]...people just want to live a normal life. We really don’t want to go back." statnews.com/2024/10/01/nia…

"Current evidence best supports the adoption of year-round standard time, which aligns best with human circadian biology and provides distinct benefits for public health and safety.” mdlinx.com/article/why-do…

"Find out what people believe to be sacred, and when you look around, there you will find rampant irrationality.” nytimes.com/2024/10/10/opi…

"...large-scale deportations could actually backfire and make the housing crisis worse. Foreign-born workers make up a quarter of the construction labor force, and they are especially concentrated in trades like plastering, hanging drywall and roofing." nytimes.com/2024/10/11/bus…

Any rappers out there, this one writes itself. An IQ drop of 3-6-9? Who would rather just be fine?latimes.com/opinion/story/…

“Time is brain. For every single minute that there’s a delay in presenting to a doctor’s office or emergency room, about 2 million neurons die.” B E F A S T and save a brain. It's a puzzle that can be solved. cnn.com/2024/10/19/hea…

"...the nearest pharmacy is 28 miles away after the community’s only drugstore closed last year... The town’s one doctor said he had seen more complications like sepsis or pneumonia because of delays in filling antibiotic prescriptions by patients..." nytimes.com/2024/10/19/bus…

"If the American public declines to give him a second term in office, his plan is to force himself on that public on the theory that the country and its political system are too far gone to stop him." Is that theory truer today than 1/6/21? We decide. nytimes.com/2024/10/25/opi…

Withholding discussion of assisted death w/ a suffering solo I/P PALS bc he can't talk, lots of pts, and being poor, he might be suspicious? Not valid excuses. Fortunately, most PALS can die @ home in peace. See the ALS Forums & Chat or alsguidance.org. medpagetoday.com/podcasts/anamn…

“...SARS-CoV-2... causes cell death in the blood-retinal barrier. The longer viral remnants remain in the eye, the risk of damage to the retina and visual function increases.” Just another of the senses Covid might jettison, but that's flu for you, eh? fortune.com/well/article/c…

The cure to a deadly politics: science ratio in disease control: give someone who'd be more comfortable with medieval medicine the authority to suppress the work of centuries. Charlatans have long made chaos and death their rationales for unchecked power. msnbc.com/top-stories/la…

Beyond a whisker of a doubt Your vote this year is all about The right to chill in a lovely tree And past force, fraud, or danger to just let it be The tyrannic threats we face are not remote So Peacy says: humans, get out and vote! #CatsforFreedom #Election2024 #CalicoPower

As the winter holidays host HPAI, Covid, flu, pneumonia, RSV, and Mpox, health facts need a place at the table, too. EBM regains a fragment of stature in the next 2 months or is set back even further on Jan. 20. Let's mask up, live smart, & speak out. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-now-…

So 15% of hospital employees were boosted for Covid last season, 80% for flu. RFK's advice will move neither of those numbers, nor infections, in the right direction. But where they are now suggests the massive disinformation cult that already exists. beckershospitalreview.com/infection-cont…

"Dads and boyfriends voted to remove autonomy from the women in their lives. Immigrants voted to remove other immigrants..." Wealthy white straight males are good. Others will need to suffer [that "temporary hardship."] "These are acts of hate." And fear.cnn.com/2024/11/09/pol…

"...right-wing operatives, dark money groups, media, and politicians worked to create an alternate reality in which the discredited positions they adopted throughout the pandemic—minimizing the virus and opposing mitigation measures—were vindicated." thegauntlet.news/p/how-covid-he…

“What we cannot allow...is that the collective security commitments on the U.S. part will falter, that it will weaken because the weakening of the trans-Atlantic link is the end of the common European framework and of NATO’s future.” politico.eu/article/wanted…