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May 16, 2024
Harrison Butker, supervillainHarrison Butker, supervillain. He needs to be fired from the NFL and canceled from the world. If you haven’t heard, his crime was giving a commencement address at Benedictine College, a small Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas. In that address...
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September 9, 2022
How medicine failsThe other day, I got a "courtesy" email from an insurance company asking for my explanation of why I had a higher number of level 4 office codes than my peers. (Office codes vary from level 1 to level 5 in terms of complexity and...
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January 12, 2022
A Pandemic of TestingI was blessed to be greatly influenced by a wonderful physician. He was truly a giant, but some would not know that, and he would even perhaps deny it. He was divisive, to be sure — either loved or hated, never in between,...
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December 9, 2021
A Call Out to PhysiciansWhen I was in medical school, I had the privilege of working in a large inner-city hospital, located right between two rival gangs. There were no emergency room residents, so trauma was handled by the general surgery residents. As s...
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November 13, 2021
Forming an alternative society in the age of COVIDFrom the balcony of the square, thousands looked up to see a most unlikely figure emerge: a stout middle-aged man, with thinning gray hair and deep eyes. The first non-Italian to stand there since before time. His first words to...
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October 21, 2021
Physicians and the Vaccine TyrannyI find myself in the position that I must use an alias for fear of reprisal. Those days may be quickly coming to an end, as hospitals are denying requests for vaccine exemptions with impunity. I will likely soon be out the door, with noth...