Arrogance, Ignorance, or Both?
What is the relationship between education, knowledge, and wisdom? This is not a trivial question, and the ramifications are far from obvious. Our lives may literally depend on it. Let me illustrate the problem.
What Broke University Science?
If universities and their medical centers want to regain public trust, they must demonstrate that knowledge and learning—not image management—are once again the point of academic life. If they fail, new institutions will rise to take their place.
The Perverse Incentives in the US Healthcare System
Ultimately, we need to reform the stranglehold that the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and its Application Service (AMCAS) have on medical education. This whole process is worthy of study by the NIH.
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The Triumph of DIY
Thanks to survival on the planet, I now know how to do more things around the house than I used to. Maybe add in YouTube for a few things, and there is a lot of learning available.
Vaccine Misunderstanding…or Intentional Deception?
With Covid-19 we were told that vaccination was our only way out of the pandemic, that natural immunity from prior infection was insufficient protection, and that the Covid vaccines were 95% effective. Except it wasn’t, because “95% effective” was based on obfuscation.
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The Way Home
How do we find our way home? I suggest it starts by changing our governmental obligations from care to responsibility. How do you develop responsible people? You do it by making them bear the consequences of their decisions.
Poison Embedded in the Education of Doctors
As the Trump administration expands its battle to stamp out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology by targeting medical schools and hospitals, recent interactions with medical trainees highlighted just how entrenched this ideology has become in the education of doctors.
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Schools Make Kids Crazy
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative.
How the American Academy of Pediatrics Betrayed Children Everywhere
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is the largest professional association for pediatricians in the United States. The Covid era revealed that the AAP has abandoned its stated mission and has betrayed children everywhere.
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Beware Universal Mental Health Screening
There are good reasons to object to the new Illinois program based on general principles. If sufficient resources are not provided to allow careful and precise identification of children in distress, it has the potential to be a disaster.
In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died from Covid?
I’m working on a story that will try to debunk a nonsensical and specious claim made by the Alabama Education Association that “sixty-five” Alabama educators died from Covid in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
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Embracing Ambiguity and Outliers in a VUCA World
Medicine must learn to operate in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world. The recognition of the importance of this is beginning, but it must be added to the clinical competencies at every step in the education of health professionals.
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