It takes a lot of smarts to become a doctor. Here’s why students smart enough to do it would be wise to pursue another career.
Nearly half of practicing physicians agree.
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AOC’s Ketamine Leadership Consultant
Leadership consulting?
AOC’s campaign paid nearly $19K to a psychiatrist associated with ketamine therapy.
The issue isn’t the treatment. It’s the labeling.
Private Credit: Code Red for U.S. Healthcare
As if U.S. healthcare isn’t dysfunctional enough, the industry’s growing exposure to private credit could eventually make today’s system look like the good old days.
If the model cracks, as many veteran investors predict, the fallout won’t just hit lenders and investors. It will be felt in doctors’ offices, emergency rooms, and patient bills.
Kennedy Is Unfit. Media’s Bias Made Him Possible
The CDC and FDA were once the gold standard of public health. Smallpox eradicated. Polio defeated. Frances Kelsey standing up to Big Pharma and sparing America the Thalidomide tragedy.
Today, those same agencies are politicized, distrusted, and weaponized. The media’s selective outrage helped get us here.
Jet Fumes, Sick Crews, and the FAA’s Sgt. Schultz
Commercial airlines love to boast about how safe cabin air is, and how powerful HEPA filters scrub out bacteria and viruses. What they prefer you don’t know: HEPA filters don’t stop engine fumes or chemical vapors—and those toxic substances seep into cabin air far more often than the public realizes.
How common are these so-called “fume events”? No one knows. The FAA reportedly blew off a Congressional mandate to track them.
The Liberation of Dr. Mary Talley Bowden
The FDA dismissed her as a quack. Houston Methodist hospital gleefully vilified her. The corporate media tried to cancel her. Despite costly litigation, public abuse, and the toll on her family, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden remains unbowed.
Her defiant response? “I just feel free — like what else can they do to me.”
BEWARE: Private Equity is Harming America’s Pets
It’s National Pet Week—a time to celebrate the pets who enrich our lives and to promote responsible pet care. But rising costs, driven by private equity ownership, are making pet ownership increasingly unaffordable for many Americans. This has contributed to a disturbing trend known as “economic euthanasia”—where pets are put down not for health reasons, but because their owners can’t afford treatment.
Our furry companions, whom many of us consider family, deserve far better.
My 2025 Resolution: Overcoming Epistolophobia
A cautionary tale about the dangers and causes of not opening snail mail.
Karen Lynch’s Well Deserved CVS Lynching
In the heyday of the Wall Street Journal when the publication was the gold standard of American journalism, the newspaper’s page one stories were a delight to read. They often began with a telling anecdote that alerted readers about the subject they were about to read, and some of the…
If Donald Trump Were a Focused Grownup
If Donald Trump focused his attention on his groundbreaking achievement to reduce hospital costs rather than hurling childish insults, he’d put the Biden/Harris administration to shame. Unfortunately for Trump, he seems unaware of his administration’s major accomplishment.