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<p>Currently, there are 17 COVID-related shortages in major and minor consumer products and medical supplies but expected to be resolved, albeit with price increases. Included are new cars, chlorine, lumber, pet food, homes, chicken, and hotdogs, to name a few. Most formidable is a fuel shortage — already in play due to the lack of gas truck drivers (see more on that below) — but exacerbated by the oil pipeline cyberattack, on the verge of becoming a national security threat. Now, after paying ransom, the pipeline is slowly reopening, but supply vulnerabilities remain.</p>

Woke Medicine Will Destroy the Hippocratic Oath The idea of race-based healthcare is morally unethical and transgresses the oath every medical doctor takes. When I entered into the practice of medicine in 2005, I took what is called the “Hippocratic Oath.”The Hippocratic Oath is one of the oldest documents in human history, dating to Greece around 400 B.C. It is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians and health care providers entering the practice of medicine. There are numerous modern-day versions of the Hippocratic Oath but the message is essentially the same.Basic Principles of The Hippocratic OathThe basic principles...

The Biden administration has abandoned women by supporting the removal of the Food and Drug Administration requirements surrounding the distribution of the mifepristone abortion regimen. Based on extreme lobbying efforts of the pro-abortion movement on this issue, Americans might conclude these regulations—the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, otherwise known as the REMS—were overly protective and put into place by the pro-life Trump administration; however, that is not the case.The REMS are the product of the pro-abortion Clinton administration’s effort to ensure that the abortion regimen—which carries life-threatening and health-endangering risks such as hemorrhage, infection, incomplete pregnancy, retained fetal parts, the...

Dear friends, The Mass Media is highly controlled by the elite of the world, as well as the Social Media, which has recently shut down Trump in just about all communications. So I hope we can at least continue to communicate with each other and offer the whole truth by Email, at least for now, even though many email marketing services are clamping down on those who try to warn people of what is really going on today in the world and in the Church. “Another email marketing service stops emails from Republicans, Trump campaign” (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/another-email-marketing-service-stops-emails-from-republicans-trump-campaign). (Note: When pasting this...

The COVID-19 epidemic has accelerated a growing trend among doctors toward corporate medicine and away from private practice. The personality and priorities of doctors had already been undergoing a metamorphosis. And, just as we have witnessed the collapse of small businesses across the country from the politization of the disease, many independent physicians have lost their practices as well. American entrepreneurship in medicine is another casualty of the government's response to COVID-19. What survives the crisis is a Big Business/Big Government cluster of health care delivery "systems" where doctors can find safe harbor. Older doctors who remember when hard work...

US medical professionals have devised an inventive to celebrate Christmas in the time of the coronavirus: by decorating trees with facemasks, hand sanitizer and other personal protective equipment (PPE). The trend is currently getting attention on social media, despite a continuing shortage of the equipment in increasingly burdened hospitals

Professional discussion of the harms and benefits of masks and mask mandates cannot even happen privately among doctors without vitriol. This kind of atmosphere kills science.My 18-year-old son, who has Down Syndrome, had a dental procedure last week. We were supposed to have it done in March, but due to the cancellation of outpatient procedures, it was postponed until then. His teeth needed major cleaning, and since he has a ton of oral sensory issues, sedation has become necessary. All went well, thankfully. However, that night the dentist called and talked with my husband, who is an urgent care physician,...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest surge in U.S. coronavirus cases appears to be much larger than the two previous ones, and it is all but certain to get worse — a lot worse. But experts say there are also reasons to think the nation is better able to deal with the virus this time. “We’re definitely in a better place” when it comes to improved medical tools and knowledge, said William Hanage, a Harvard University infectious-disease researcher. To be sure, the alarming wave of cases across the U.S. looks bigger and is more widespread than the surges that happened...

When the now-successful family practice doctor was interviewed for a place at medical school at the start of her career, the interviewer bluntly asked her whether she had cheated on her Medical College Admission Test. “Usually we don’t see women with your hair color score this well,” he pronounced. The then-22-year-old blonde was shocked, but she held her head high and replied: “No, I didn’t cheat — I worked very hard to achieve that score.” Nine years on, successfully employed as the only female partner in a Las Vegas family health practice, the doctor is still being undermined because of...

The increasingly high cost of health care continues to rank as the top issue among American voters. But let’s get one point clear: Doctors aren’t the problem. In fact, for the most part, they’re on your side. Although lumping doctors into the overall problem of health care costs is natural, physicians have little to do with the price of health care. Hospitals and insurance companies set the prices, yet doctors often get the blame. Heck, insurance companies and Medicare tell doctors what their services are worth, not the other way around. How would lawyers, or accountants, or car makers like...

On October 11, President Trump’s physician issued his daily update on the president’s recovery from COVID-19. Dr. Conley issued his formal written update to Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who shared it on social media as she has been doing for several days. The assessment is pretty straightforward: Saturday night’s update from President @realDonaldTrump’s physician: pic.twitter.com/UG4oRJaE0p— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) October 11, 2020 As Dr. Conley notes, the president is following the CDC guidance on recovery. In cases with mild to moderate symptoms, the CDC states that a patient can stop quarantining 10 days after symptom onset if he has been fever-free...

Yesterday, Candace Owens shared a crazy story about her inability to get medical treatment for her asthma attack. Why? Well, because of Covid. That’s why. Isn’t that the reason for everything insane in 2020? Owens explained in her video post that she is a severe asthmatic. When she was eight years old, she had a severe asthma attack and a collapsed lung. Owens, who is seven months pregnant, shared that her asthma and allergies have worsened during pregnancy. She was having trouble breathing and her inhaler was not helping her so she decided to in and see a doctor at...

Looking for references or links to sources of independent or concierge type doctors or medical services.

On Oct. 4, 2020, three preeminent experts — Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University; Dr. Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at Oxford University; and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and epidemiologist at Stanford University — delivered the following declaration, calling for a different approach to dealing with the novel coronavirus than the lockdown model: As infectious-disease epidemiologists and public-health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental-health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted...

https://www.oann.com/hhs-secy-azar-meets-with-doctors-who-oppose-covid-19-lockdowns/ Great to open up to other opinion besides the current lockdown method. Apologies if this has already been posted.

Recent Harris Poll research revealed that two-thirds of consumers describe every step of acquiring health care as difficult. Half of respondents even avoid care because of this complicated bureaucracy, likely making their ailments worse and costlier in the long term. Doctors have been sounding the alarm on this problem for years. Thankfully, the White House is listening to physicians who are actually practicing—and we practitioners are saying patients need more price transparency, less reliance on insurance, and less government interference.This would result in lower cost, increased access, and higher quality. You can have only two of these in government-controlled health care....

A team now holding a press conference concerning misinformation given by Fauci and WHO on hydroychloroquin as a preventative and cure.

A long-suspected fear of the Covid-19 lockdowns is starting to come to light. In many parts of the world doctors are pointing to a very real probability that lockdown orders are leading to people dying from other serious maladies as a result of avoiding hospitals. Heart attacks in particular are now looked at as a cause of death greater than the coronavirus itself. Almost from the beginning of our pandemic lockdowns there have been questions raised over both the wisdom behind the decisions and the broad application of the quarantine orders. Recall early on that Americans were lectured about the...

Now European doctors gather to ask how did we get here with COVID. On July 27, 2020, a group of frontline doctors in the US held a gathering in Washington D.C. where they expressed their concerns with COVID from a frontline doctor point of view. We reported: Frontline doctors from across the US held a “White Coat Summit” on Monday in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus.The doctors are very concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media today. From their website: “If Americans continue to let so-called experts...

Frontline Press Conference the Day After the Censorship - Summary of Presentations