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[Inspirational Quotes @SeffSaid]

Describe yourself in one word.

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@RNSuperHero @Puck_556_2 Wow

[Dr Paddy Barrett @Paddy_Barrett]

In office, blood pressure measurements are as close to useless as makes no difference.

A doctor checking your blood pressure is mostly just theatre.

You need multiple measurements in the community.

[MedBitter @MedBitter]

Dx: Insomnia 2/2 Spiritualpenia
DDx: Bipolar
Tx: Spiritual awakening

[Nornal Guy 🧙‍♂️ @theralkia]

I had chronic insomnia for 5 years. During that time, I saw every type of doctor imaginable — general practitioners, sleep specialists, endocrinologists, psychiatrists, psychologists. Not one helped. The pills made my sleep worse, the endocrinologist invented and diagnosed me with a bipolar-adjacent disorder, and the CBT therapist literally told me to “try to feel tired.”

In the end, the insomnia was spiritual in origin (manifesting physically) and no medical treatment could have touched it. Yet every one of these “experts” was certain they had the solution.

That experience taught me that credentials, titles, and the societal “pat on the back” don’t equal wisdom. Many who are called “professionals” are well-trained (and well-brainwashed) in a narrow system of assumptions. Like the majority of people, even your experts can be ignorant — but they think they can’t.

True wisdom isn’t found in institutions. It’s found in people who are humble, open, and guided by something deeper than ego. I’d rather take advice from a schizo on Twitter with an open heart and real insight than from the guy in this screenshot.

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@poopoo_PP_ @B_Cham5 @SeedOilDsrspctr But whats the root cause of me being fat since 13 and wanting to eat trash and smoke?? See! Its my unregulated mitochondria and daddy issues! You missed the root cause! Im such a genius

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@Iwhoaminane @B_Cham5 @SeedOilDsrspctr Show me your peer-reviewed sources on the root cause of physicians not being up to date on literature?

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“root cause”

“show me your peer-reviewed sources”

[Seed Oil Disrespecter™️ @SeedOilDsrspctr]

Doctors are now openly mocking how patients are asking about the “Root Cause” of diseases instead of just taking the pills

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🤔

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Here’s a fun party trick: ask ten Americans whether we have “free market healthcare” and watch nine confidently say yes.

Then show them this:

- Employer Coverage: 160M Americans

- Medicare: 67M (seniors + disabled)
- Medicaid / CHIP: 72M (low-income + kids)

- ACA Marketplace: 21M enrolled
- Military / VA: 9M

- Uninsured / Other: 25M

I know what you’re thinking: “But Dutch, employer coverage is private!”

Is it though?

Last I checked, employers receive a massive tax deduction for buying your health insurance, a subsidy so large that if we removed it tomorrow, the entire system would collapse by next Wednesday.

The government mandates companies to buy insurance on your behalf, and then we call it “the free market” because the check gets routed through Aetna.

It’s the health policy equivalent of calling a taxi “public transport” because the government subsidizes the fare.

Here’s the bit nobody wants to admit:

We already have socialized healthcare.

We’ve designed it to feel private by adding expensive intermediaries, baroque complexity,
and enough paperwork to kill a forest.

Medicare? Government program.
Medicaid? Government program.

Employer plans?
Tax-subsidized and federally regulated.

Marketplace plans?
Wouldn’t exist without subsidies; most people pay a fraction of the actual premium.

We’ve built the world’s most elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to avoid admitting we don’t actually trust markets with healthcare.

We say we want competition, then we:

- Let employers choose the government-approved insurers (that’s not a market—you have zero choice)
- Mandate coverage levels
- Subsidize premiums
- Cap profits
- Regulate networks

Then lawmakers are shocked when premiums rise, innovation crawls, and doctors become data-entry clerks for UnitedHealthcare.

The problem isn’t that markets don’t work in healthcare.

The problem is we never tried them.

We built a state-managed cartel, spray-painted “free market” on the side, and then spent sixty years wondering why it drives like a Soviet tractor.

It’s not an ideology problem.
It’s a *category error.*

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

—Dutch Rojas

[MedBitter @MedBitter]

@RunRunlover Honestly…Id hire

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We were all warned in 1995, but no one listened.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

It's weird that we can all clearly see how AI is about to wipe out millions of jobs all at once, destroy every artistic field, make it impossible for us to discern reality from fiction, and destroy human civilization as we know it, and yet not one single thing is being done to stop it. We aren't putting up any fight whatsoever.

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@nickmmark 😂 i may be an idiot but im sure not lazy. I read that twice before commenting. I think the wording is just a bit misleading, or its pertaining to tests requested by LEO.

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If Trey Reeds 2nd autopsy is deemed a suicide, will any lessons be learned here?

Im seeing calls for violence, riots, and revenge all over the internet - based off a rumor. I fear the future given the power of the internet rumor.

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@lastsigfig @drrdemon I just looked at your profile. 25, active medical student. I am so impressed with you. Id write you a LOR right now.

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@lastsigfig @drrdemon You sound so smart and emotionally intelligent. One of my favorite parts of med school was meeting minds like yours.

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@drrdemon @lastsigfig What if that super rich kid’s parents are stingy? Suddenly you deserve an adult head start but not them? I get what youre saying but you cant assume every rich boomer parent who came from nothing actually spoils their kid

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Next time you think REAL doctors are evil. Someone has paid for these bots to brainwash you. Remember that. You are being programmed. Who is investing in murder and the spread of disease?

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@GabbyShires @ValmereTheory @veggie_eric Youre so good at this 😂😂😂

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@millertcb @DrNeilStone Thats public record by law, Billy Bob. Look for yourself

[Oren Gottfried, MD @OGdukeneurosurg]

I cannot believe that doctors ever rawdog stuck a needle so close to the brainstem, but this was 1920. Know all the other risks?

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As a doctor, this video had me in tears.