Intervening Interventionalist

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@MurrayHillGuy1 It will be very interesting to see what happens when Trump is no longer around as a scapegoat or provide cover for feckless politicians.

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@MurrayHillGuy1

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@DrDiGiorgio @HeathVeuleman I don’t know how general surgeons survive anymore

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@noahkaufmanmd @isabellasg3 What are your favorite tools ?

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@WallStreetApes Verified. Bought years ago. No longer buy. Garbage

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

Open evidence provided me an excellent one as well. This one I remember from a while back

Kelley JM, Kraft-Todd G, Schapira L, Kossowsky J, Riess H. The influence of the patient-clinician relationship on healthcare outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PLoS One. 2014 Apr 9;9(4):e94207. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094207. Erratum in: PLoS One. 2014;9(6):e101191. PMID: 24718585; PMCID: PMC3981763.

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@MattZirwas One with more measurable effects.

https://t.co/QKsmtfT65w

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@MattZirwas https://t.co/A0ITpmv3DK

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@RyanGirdusky Followed today too!!! Biden for D nominee for prez!

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

Honest question for all you proliferative content producers on this platform, who are physicians, specifically surgeons, or run their own practice. Where do you find the time to post? Is your OR turn overtime terrible? Do not have children? Is your practice functional, well run, and have a great practice manager?

Asking for a friend.

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@avivafashion11 Honest question. If there was an option for a specialist to do home visits (can include at office) etc if guaranteed privacy space available, would you prefer that? Would you pay extra for that? If there was a mobile office that came to you, would you pay for access?

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@Patrickwebb @hypergrowth102 It’s not an approval per se. it’s just guidelines to submit for FDA to then review and later FDA will determine if they will permit it to be compounded, allowed for research Bla Bla.

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@DrDiGiorgio @generalorthomd This is one of my biggest pet peeves.

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

Real advice? First this all should be apart of a pt and practice familiar with runners ( has running lab). Second, which shockwave did you do (radial or focused or both) and was it given by a physician who loves it? 3rd have you had an US and or MR? And when you say IT band injury, that is not a great term or diagnosis. Where is the pain. You can DM and I know people in NYC that can actually help.

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@bryan_johnson Sureeeeeeeeeee.

[Intervening Interventionalist @NeedleNinjaMD]

@BrentAWilliams2 Agreed. It’s also the number one replacement for opioids in general for all populations. Side effects are rough if you are a functioning adult.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

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Companies could self-declare safety, often with no long-term human studies, no independent oversight, and no requirement to prove the substances were harmless when consumed every day for a lifetime alongside thousands of other additives. The old poisons had obvious names and obvious victims. The new ones arrived wearing white lab coats and carrying regulatory paperwork.
Seed oils replaced ancestral fats. High-fructose corn syrup replaced sugar.

Ultra-processed products engineered in laboratories to hijack appetite, extend shelf life for years, and survive cross-country shipping—now supply the majority of calories in the typical American diet. The doses are smaller than formaldehyde in milk, but they are constant, cumulative, and largely unmonitored at the population level. Gut microbiomes shift.

Inflammatory pathways stay switched on. Metabolic systems that evolved over millennia are asked to process molecules that never existed in the human diet until a few decades ago.
We did not volunteer for this experiment. No one handed us a waiver to sign.

There is no pristine basement dining room, no daily weigh-in, no government chemist logging our symptoms.

The table now stretches across every grocery store, every school lunch line, every convenience store aisle. The subjects are not twelve brave men. The subjects are all of us—our children, our parents, our neighbors. The data is being written in real time on our bodies in the form of rising chronic disease, autoimmune conditions, metabolic collapse, and cancers that appear earlier and more aggressively than before.

This time, we are all the twelve men.

The original Poison Squad had an end date. They endured five years so the law could change. Our version has no scheduled conclusion. It runs on inertia, on quarterly earnings, on the quiet assumption that if something is legal and cheap and tastes good, it must be acceptable. The courage required of us is quieter but no less demanding than theirs: the daily decision to step away from the table they have set for us.

To read every label as though our lives depend on it because in many measurable ways they do. To choose food that still looks like it came from soil or pasture rather than a factory. To treat “safe until the next study” as an unacceptable standard when the experiment is being run on entire generations.

Those twelve men gave us the first shield. They could not give us the wisdom or the will to keep using it against an opponent that simply changes its methods every time the old ones are exposed. That part belongs to us.

We are living inside their unfinished experiment. The only question left is whether we will finally recognize it and choose, this time, to end it ourselves.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

At the beginning of the twentieth century, twelve men sat down to dinner knowing exactly what awaited them: every bite they ingested was contaminated.

They eat it so you didn’t have to. The only thing is that industry found and exploited loopholes.

They ate anyway, three times a day, every single day, for five long years. They did it because the American table had become a quiet slaughterhouse.

Milk dosed with formaldehyde to hide the souring. Meat dusted with borax to disguise rot. Vegetables lacquered green with copper sulfate. Desserts sweetened with lead and mercury. This was not carelessness. It was commerce, protected by silence and sanctioned by law.

Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, chief chemist at the Department of Agriculture, understood exactly what was happening. He knew that millions of families were feeding their children slow poison with every meal, and that no statute on the books required a single word of truth on a label.

So he stopped waiting for permission.

In the basement of his government office in Washington, he built a different kind of laboratory: a formal dining room dressed in white linen and set with proper china.

There he offered something radical and terrible free meals in exchange for the daily consumption of the very chemicals flooding the food supply. Borax. Formaldehyde. Salicylic acid. Sulfurous acid. Volunteers had to sign away their right to sue the government if the experiment killed them. Students, clerks, and letter carriers stepped forward anyway.

They were not reckless.

They were willing to let their own bodies become the evidence that might save everyone else’s. The newspapers named them the Poison Squad.

At first the meals looked ordinary; the poison arrived hidden inside the food. Later, for precision, it came in capsules. The men joked in the beginning. Then the jokes stopped. Their skin grew pale and waxy. Weight fell from them in visible stages. Nausea became permanent. Stomach pain turned savage. Headaches folded them double. Every day they were weighed, examined, and logged like specimens. Not one of them walked away.

The country watched the slow spectacle with a mixture of fascination and unease. The food industry responded with lawyers, lobbyists, and character attacks on Wiley. None of it mattered. The data was pitiless: the substances long declared “harmless” were systematically destroying healthy young men.

Five years of deliberate suffering produced an undeniable result. In 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act became law the first federal statute that forced manufacturers to tell the truth about what they were selling and made it illegal to poison the public for profit. It was the foundation on which the FDA would later stand.

The victory belonged to Wiley’s stubborn courage, but it belonged far more to the twelve men who had volunteered to become living proof. They left the experiment with no medals, no pensions, and almost no public recognition. They simply returned to their ordinary lives. Yet every ingredient list we now read, every expiration date we trust, every time we open a refrigerator without fear we are living inside the protection they purchased with their own bodies.

They swallowed poison so the rest of us would not have to. Their names are mostly forgotten. Their courage is not. It sits on every shelf in every kitchen in America.
But the industry did not surrender. It simply learned a more sophisticated game.

When blatant adulteration became illegal, the manufacturers discovered they could invent entirely new classes of substances emulsifiers, stabilizers, flavor enhancers, artificial colors, preservatives, texture agents and slip them into the food supply through a loophole called “Generally Recognized as Safe.”

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