DocCathy

MD - Diabetes/Endocrinology. Hobbies: Science, Sociology, Photography. Political views expressed are exclusively DocCathy. RT & Likes may not be endorsements.

[DocCathy @TheDocCathy]

Who needs a hug today?

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

Lyme disease DID NOT come from gain of function research. Borrelia has been known to be in nature at least 60,000 years of recorded history. RFK Jr knows that and is spreading lies.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

I’ve been asked by friends and media to comment on the recent Dr. Fauci document dump. There are plenty of people in Washington, D.C. who say and do things more for themselves than for our country. Tony Fauci is not one of them. He served this nation -mostly in the shadows - for 50+ years, until a pandemic and an election suddenly thrust him into the spotlight. Like any of us, I’m sure there are things he would do differently with the benefit of hindsight. But I 💯 believe everything he said and did was driven by the best intentions for our country. 1/3

[DocCathy @TheDocCathy]

Last week an earthquake was movement of earth, now videos are moving photographs 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

🚨 I have been told that despite bragging about her Stanford medical degree, HHS is technically proposing to have Casey Means be the first non-physician to ever be confirmed as Surgeon General - because she can’t actually be commissioned as a physician in the PHS (as every SG before her has been) because she doesn’t have an active medical license. In other words, they acknowledge that their nominee for “America’s doctor,” can’t even join the uniformed service she would be charged with leading… as a doctor (they are proposing she join in the health service officer category- which doesn’t uniformly require an active medical license. Ironically even in this category, she wouldn’t even meet the criteria to be a physician’s assistant, because it also requires an active license)🤦🏽‍♂️

They are literally attempting to lower 100+ years of merit and safety standards, so that she can take on the role. 👇🏽

A physician nominee for Surgeon General would need to meet the below Corps commissioning standards to be appointed and serve effectively in the role.

While 42 U.S.C. § 205 doesn't explicitly require an active medical license for the SG position itself, the Surgeon General must be a member of the Regular Corps - and USPHS Commissioned Corps policy mandates that PHYSICIAN officers hold a current, unrestricted, and valid medical license from a U.S. state, D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, or Guam.

This is required for commissioning, adhering to appointment standards, maintaining basic readiness, eligibility for special pay, promotion, and overall conditions of service. Official sources confirm this: USPHS Physician profession page: "Current, unrestricted, and valid medical license from any U.S. state..." (https://t.co/wvB9EzKx7V)
Commissioned Corps Licensure policy: Keeping licenses "active and unrestricted" is mandatory for officers whose qualifying degree requires it (https://t.co/8Bnad9pNJY & Inst 251.01)

Bottom line: the current nominee for Nation’s top doctor… can’t legally be commissioned in the Corps she would be charged to lead, as a doctor!

Past Surgeons General have been required to maintain active licenses to lead credibly as the nation's top public health physician.

Lacking said licensure creates a practical (and legal) barrier to commissioning AS A PHYSICIAN and undermines the role's integrity and authority, and compromises the Corps itself. 😞

[Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334]

A large Korean study just published in Biomarker Research analyzed cancer diagnosis by COVID-19 vaccination status in 1yr following primary or booster doses of vaccines.

They report more diagnoses after vaccination after primary doses, but a closer look shows the patterns are inconsistent, biologically implausible, and best explained by surveillance bias/reverse causality, not vaccine causality. 🧵

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Here's a happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that @RobertKennedyJr is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".

It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

[DocCathy @TheDocCathy]

@notcapnamerica Yep, obviously has a mitochondrial dysfunction.

[McBee @McBeeHS]

@DGlaucomflecken MGAGA? Make Golgi Apparatus Great Again?

[DocCathy @TheDocCathy]

So then this also means the lower gas and egg prices is zbiden too 😂

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Trump on declining GDP: You probably saw some numbers today. I have to start off by saying that's Biden, not Trump. Because we came in on January -- these are quarterly numbers. @Acyn

[Will Watson @willwatson]

Your life will not be better because some poor person in the Ozarks or Delta can’t pick up groceries or go to the doctor and if you’re too dumb or mean to understand that, God help you.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

RFK Jr. went on national TV and spouted egregious, dangerous falsehoods about vaccines. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. @FoxNews might not fact-check him, but I will. I've reviewed the trials. I've catalogued them. I have receipts. 🧵

[DocCathy @TheDocCathy]

These idiots are so clueless to the real world.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Lankford: "People are screaming and saying, 'It's kicking people off Medicaid.' It's not kicking people off Medicaid. It's transitioning from Medicaid to employer-provided healthcare. So yes, we've got 10 million people that are not gonna be on Medicaid, but they then are gonna be on employer-provided healthcare."

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

NEW: In a shocking leaked audio, Trump’s newly sworn-in head of the Social Security Administration Frank Bisignano admits he didn’t even know what the job was: “I'm like, well, what am I going to do? So, I'm Googling Social Security. I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?”

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Who the hell sleeps in front of the media??

[Acyn @Acyn]

Suozzi: Does this tax bill continue the payroll tax on tips?

Barthold: Yes it does

Suozzi: Does this bill continue the payroll tax on overtime?

Barthold: It does not exempt overtime from payroll tax

Souzzi: Does this bill remove taxes on Social Security benefits?

Barthold: …

[Grok @grok]

Trump's claim of cutting healthcare costs by 50-90% lacks evidence. Data from his first term shows premiums and out-of-pocket costs rose, not fell. Policies like price transparency and drug price reforms were proposed, but no credible sources confirm such drastic reductions. The claim appears exaggerated, likely part of political rhetoric, as healthcare costs did not decrease significantly.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We're doing what a lot of smart people would do, and we're not necessarily being politically correct. You saw what we did yesterday in healthcare. We've cut our healthcare by 50 to 90 percent."

[DocCathy @TheDocCathy]

WTH

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: He retired, lost his momentum. He retired and led a beautiful life. He had a wife. It was his second wife. A trophy wife, what can I say? I don't like telling you everything but we are all friends, can we talk? He had a trophy wife.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Trump refuses to understand that the US is not being "ripped off," but on the contrary has been subject to an exorbitant privilege: Foreigners wanted to invest their financial assets in the US. This was the US exceptionalism. US stocks were valued at 2/3 more than EU stocks. /1