Modern parents are raising self-entitled swamp rats.
• They buy them smartphones at an early age
• Dance with them in TikTok videos
• Reward them when they throw tantrums
• Avoid punishing them
• Employ housemaids to carry out house tasks as children sit and play in the house
These children can't wash their clothes, cook a simple meal, or clean the table after a meal.
They even insult housemaids.
Some even talk back to their parents.
These are the children who grow to become the idiots you see saying, "children need privacy."
Which privacy?
The results of a poorly raised child are so many awkward and displeasing teenagers and young adults on X insulting people and disrespecting order.
Children need strict supervision and instant punishment.
Otherwise, the consequences will be catastrophic.
Today I had lunch with my fellow hoof trimmer friend Gaetan. Between the two of us we have close to 90 years of hoof trimming experience. He's 64, I'm 73. We both still hoof trim. We shared a few good 'barn' stories.
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Where you live shouldn’t determine whether you live, but in rural America… it often does.
As a locums emergency physician working primarily in austere, critical-access communities, I see it every shift.
Last week, I treated a patient who needed care we simply didn’t have, and the clock started before the helicopter even lifted. The hardest part of my job is not taking care of critical patients... It's watching them die in front of you because, despite high-quality care, rural hospitals simply don't have the life-saving personnel or resources of urban or suburban healthcare systems.
In many rural communities:
🏥 The nearest trauma center can be 60–120+ miles away
🩺 Specialty care is limited—or nonexistent
🚑 Transfers take hours, not minutes
When you're critically ill, those hours matter. Hell... minutes matter. Seconds matter.
🫀 Mortality in heart attack rises with every delay to reperfusion.
🧠 In stroke, nearly 2 million neurons die every minute.
🩸 Rural trauma mortality is 20–25% higher than in urban areas, largely due to delays in reaching definitive care.
And in many rural settings… those delays aren’t minutes… they are hours, or potentially days, due to weather or transportation limitations.
Yes, days. Yes, in the United States. And not for lack of trying - it's lack of transport medics, helicopters, fixed wing aeromedical planes, or even having an accepting hospital with bed availability at the often overwhelmed trauma centers.
When you cannot change the geography in resource-limited settings, your baseline health isn’t just important - it’s protectively life-saving.
Metabolic dysfunction, chronic inflammation, unfettered chronic illness, and unmanaged stress don’t just “catch up someday.” They determine how fast you decompensate, how well you tolerate delays in care, and, in many cases, whether you even survive the transport.
And if you do survive? You’re often transferred far from home, separated from your support system, have worse outcomes with potentially permanent disability, and face significantly higher costs of care - hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars over a lifetime.
Let that sink in: it's not just the cost of a daily pack of cigarettes, the huge risks of cancer, cardiovascular & neurovascular disease associated with obesity, and the potential loss of income and ability to work due to requiring dialysis three times weekly at a site an hour away from your home. It's the psychosocial impacts of not having a safety net in your backyard.
We keep talking about access to healthcare, but in rural medicine, the truth is simpler: when geography works against you, your physiology becomes your first line of defense. That’s not a mindset. That’s a biological truth. Pay now by taking care of your health, or prepare to pay later.
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I don’t have many followers, but I am going to share regardless! It’s a thread so check it out! Back in 2017, my son Bodyn was diagnosed with leukemia and kicked cancers ass! Now he’s 12, healthy and amazing as ever. Bo absolutely loves wrestling and collecting trading cards. 🧵