William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP

ER doc. MBA. Humorist. Purveyor of fine sarcasm.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

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[Ginny Robinson @ImGinnyRobinson]

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran."

— Hillary Clinton

Tell me again how the candidates and political parties are so different.

Please. I’m begging you.

[salaryDr @SalaryDr]

Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians have dropped 29% in real dollars since 2001.

Hospital facility fees? Up 60% over the same period.

The money didn't disappear. It just stopped going to doctors.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@ChristinaPushaw Americans are ok with insurance executives making millions each year, but God forbid a doctor makes a good living.
‘Murica

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@DrNeilStone @30ASeawitch Conspiracy theories tend to not be well thought out.
‘Murica

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@BrentAWilliams2 It’s probably the national shortage of hospital CEOs that is causing this… Oh wait.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

Healthcare it’s the only industry in America whose resource distribution is driven solely by those making the money rather than those spending the money.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@DrNeilStone Easy Peasy. Just keep the blue side up.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Don't trust experts

Next time you board a plane, push the pilot aside and fly it yourself

You've done your own research. You've watched Top Gun, right?

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

There has never once in my memory ever been healthcare legislation that led to MORE people getting MORE care.

The insurance industry can lobby, Congress, and the regulatory agencies… And they’re never asking to provide MORE care. Always less.

So I couldn’t agree more. We need to just dismantle this system and start over again where the goal is taking care of patients, not making huge profits.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@DrNeilStone There are a lot of paramedics who think they understand all this stuff.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

Look how much I learned on Duolingo in 2025! How did you do? #Duolingo365

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@elonmusk The beauty of socialism… There are plenty of wealthy people, but they’ve always been wealthy, and they will always be wealthy, and you are NOT allowed to join them… But you never have to watch your peers out succeed you… Therefore, no envy.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@PCK3RS Shouldn’t the Packers be playing a professional team in the Super Bowl?

LOL

Stuck the Feelers!!!

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@DrNeilStone In the mind of someone who doesn’t understand that lack of disproof isn’t proof.

There’s nothing you can do to fix that mentality.

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@talyashahz38489 Either, or. It’s still about the overall energy that one puts out, positivity, someone that a man’s proud to say, “this girl is mine.“

[William E. Franklin, DO, MBA, FACEP @WEFranklinCA]

@DrNeilStone Thanks for all you’re doing. It’s a heavy lift. Thank you.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Imagine someone insists there’s a dragon living in their garage. Not a metaphorical dragon - a real one.

So we check. We open the door.
Nothing.

No sound, no footsteps, no heat, no movement.
But the dragon, they say, can’t be seen.
Invisible.

Fine - we try paint.
If the paint lands on it, we’ll see a shape.
But no - the dragon floats, they insist, so nothing will stick.

Thermal camera?
Pointless, they say. Its fire produces no heat.

Footprints?
It leaves none.

Sensors?
They won’t detect it.
Any tool we try somehow fails in advance.

Every test becomes impossible.
Every method is dismissed before it begins.

The idea keeps shifting just far enough to escape evidence. At that point, the dragon is no longer a claim about the world.

It’s a story that survives only by avoiding reality.

This is how a lot of modern pseudoscience works.

Homeopathy hides behind “unmeasurable effects.” Chemophobia claims harm that “science can’t detect yet.” Anti-vaccine rhetoric dismisses every study as corrupt by default.

In each case, the rules change to protect the belief, not to reveal the truth.

Evidence becomes irrelevant.
Falsification becomes impossible.

And once a claim cannot be tested, it cannot be trusted.

Science does the opposite.

It hands you the idea and invites you to smash it.
It survives by resisting failure, not by dodging it.
If thousands of attempts to break an idea don’t work,
we don’t call it perfect - we call it reliable.

You don’t need faith in science.
You need a world where ideas can be questioned.

A belief that survives only by avoiding measurement
isn’t knowledge - it’s fiction.

Truth doesn’t fear experiments.
Only lies do.

Reality > Stories
Evidence > Ideology
Testable > Untouchable

If it can’t be measured, tested, or challenged…
it’s just another dragon in someone’s garage.

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