Physician Assistant and single payer advocate because healthcare is ruining the American Experiment
Sacramento, CA
Joined September 2016
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TEACHABLE MOMENT:
It is not healthy for any American to imagine that our system of electoral politics will deliver a fix of the financing of health care.
There is a century of history supporting this assessment.
Here is a primer on it all:
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.@toddzwillich What you do not know about the hx of American medicine, the hx American healthcare propaganda - which is the globes new benchmark for govt propaganda, and the hx of the corporate takeover of American medicine makes.
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.@toddzwillich There is no hcare jouranlism in our USA. Only hcare propaganda. And your show was full-on hcare propaganda with actual healthcare propagandists talking shit to citizens.
It's such a good thing gun violence is now part & parcel of American hcare.
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.@ahartreports Angela, I invite you - along with all the other all healthcare propagandists active in the last decade in the USA, to submit 1K words on "the problem called American healthcare propaganda." Anonymous submissions not ideal but surely okay.
Thanks!
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.@LeahHoustonMD You MDs created this shit system that now consumes you.
You physicians have so fucked this country and yourselves, and that is true going back to pre-Antebellum, pre-germ theory days.
#ProlessMDsWhining
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These two contemptibles vary only in their views on how to keep healthcare profitable, unreformed and harm-delivering.
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MD speaking as though the corporate takeover of American medicine and the demise of the MD professn never happened.
Keep in mind that MDs created the world first hcare propaganda machine in 1945, and that machine is now an industry, and it steamrolled its MD professn
A new cover for SUPER AGERS after making the NYT bestseller list. Thanks to you for making it the #1 ranked new non-fiction book on Amazon.
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Keep in mind that newsom created the world first corporatized healthcare system that comes with the world best healthcare propaganda industry.
It really is no wonder gun violence is now part and parcel of American heatlhcare.
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MDs have been fucking citizens & citizen patients since the @AmerMedicalAssn & @CMAdocs were created in pre-Antebellum and pre-germ theory days to protect the snake oil indstry.
Our days, the AMA is no assn of MDs but a medical coding company, and CMA is wing of Kaiser providers
I've been hearing a lot about this common concern: "Are kids getting too many vaccines?"
It's a fair question. I'm a parent too. And as an infectious diseases physician who directs an antibiotic stewardship program, a big part of my job is stopping unnecessary medications. I'm a minimalist by nature - both personally and professionally.
But here's what most people don't realize:
A shocking fact in vaccine science: Kids today are exposed to FEWER antigens from vaccines than children in 1900 - when there was literally ONE vaccine (smallpox).
In 1986, kids received about 10 shots protecting against 7 diseases. Those vaccines exposed them to over 3,000 antigens - the pieces of viruses or bacteria (like proteins or sugars) that teach the immune system to recognize and respond to real infections.
Today's schedule includes more injections - about 50 by age 18 - but the total number of antigens is just ~150. That's a 95% reduction in antigen exposure, thanks to modern acellular and conjugate vaccine designs.
The data over 18 years (Offit et al., Pediatrics 2002):
🔹1900: 1 vaccine (smallpox) = ~200 antigens
🔹1986: ~10 vaccines = 3,000+ antigens + 3mg aluminum
🔹2025: ~50 vaccines = ~150 antigens + 5-6mg aluminum
As for aluminum adjuvant - a compound added to help trigger a stronger immune response - children today receive about 5–6 mg total over the full vaccine schedule, up from ~3 mg in 1986. That's a modest increase over 18 years. For perspective, infants ingest ~7–10 mg of aluminum just in their first six months from breast milk or formula.
So yes, there are more shots. But the actual antigen exposure is dramatically lower than it was in 1986 - or even 1900. Modern vaccines stripped out thousands of extra proteins while adding protection against Hib meningitis, pneumococcal sepsis, chickenpox complications, liver cancer, HPV cancers, and more.
TL;DR: Modern vaccines do far more with less. That's progress. Let's not go backwards.
@BradSpellberg @mtosterholm @ReporterGoodman @HelenBranswell @thekibosch @ENirenberg @AliSMV7 @atrupar @alejodiaz81 @zacroBID @ThePharmFox @DhandAbhay
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Such a great ad campaign, NCAA.
My fav part is your celebrating more wellness and mental health hugs for athletes but make it clear no healthcare coverage of worth coming.
#ItsTakingGunsToFixHealthcare
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"Doctor's Day"
wtf
MDs have royally phucked us all, and our country. And themselves.
MDs have been stripped of their meritorious, demoted to provider status, have mounted no defense of the profession, and now are dead profession walking.
#ThisIsWhyItIsTakingGunsToFixHcare.
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Fucking physicians.
Talking "unjust society" with zero awareness of his own damn profession's hateful history.
It's a good thing it's taking guns to fix healthcare. It's such a good and healthy sign for a citiznery saturated in healthcare propaganda.
The longer I work in medicine, the more convinced I am that anxiety and depression are a just response in a deeply unjust society.
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I just gave my Health Economics class their final exam. I'm excited to start my new job in Bethesda next year, but it is bittersweet because I love teaching bright students so much. I hope I get to do it again someday.
