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Absolute fucking lunacy. “Actually it’s better that the surgeon general isn’t really a doctor.” 
 

And regarding the last paragraph, this country had a week-long meltdown because Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden. 
 

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She does not appear to have had a surgical residency, unless it was correcting deviated septums.

I am skeptical how much metabolic health has to do with the work of an ENT and was any reason they weren't "getting better."  Her patients while she was a resident, that is.

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Absolute fucking lunacy. “Actually it’s better that the surgeon general isn’t really a doctor.” 
 
And regarding the last paragraph, this country had a week-long meltdown because Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden. 
 
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Dude, there’s a huge difference between her “kids should eat healthy” and Michele Obama’s “kids should eat healthy.”
You know what it is.
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3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

She does not appear to have had a surgical residency, unless it was correcting deviated septums.

I am skeptical how much metabolic health has to do with the work of an ENT and was any reason they weren't "getting better."  Her patients while she was a resident, that is.

To be clear, “functional medicine” is just quackery. She might as well have quit her residency to do reflexology or sell ground up animal potions. 

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Dude, there’s a huge difference between her “kids should eat healthy” and Michele Obama’s “kids should eat healthy.”
You know what it is.

It’s crazy, I really preferred Michelle’s stance of eating healthy and not having polio. 

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On 5/6/2025 at 11:18 PM, Biff Tannen said:

Also could explain a bit about how much the DNC sucks

Probably less suckage of the DNC, but a switch on her part as Russian asset to the new power in the white house.  Good chance she might have done some sabotage work while at DNC too.

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4 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

To be clear, “functional medicine” is just quackery. She might as well have quit her residency to do reflexology or sell ground up animal potions. 

And it appears I am incorrect on ENTs.  There apparently is a fairly heavy surgical aspect to their training.  For various reasons, the docs I know best are anesthesiologists and orthopedic surgeons, so one type with, one type without.

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Call me crazy, but it seems like the best way to support our "war fighters" would be to use the soft power we used to have to limit the amount of "war fighting" they have to do. 

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11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Was she ever licensed?  That seems to indicate a full MD license from 2018. Can you be licensed without completing a residency?

Rules of practice vary by state.

In most states if you pass step one and two of the usmle and graduate an accredited medical school you are eligible for a provisional (training) medical license. You then must pass step three test and complete any type of intern year for an unrestricted license. Then, in Texas at least, technically you can practice any type of medicine you want including any and all procedures and surgeries.
 

It’s up to the hospitals and surgery centers (and med mal carriers) to vet out the credentials and competency of physicians and deny privileges where appropriate. Most require you to be at least board eligible in the relevant specialty meaning you have successfully completed a residency at an ACGME accredited program and are eligible for board certification 
 

The lack of regulation at the state level is why you hear horror stories about in office cosmetic and plastics procedures ending in disaster a few times per year 

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8 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

To be clear, “functional medicine” is just quackery. She might as well have quit her residency to do reflexology or sell ground up animal potions. 

I have to disagree with this. Functional medicine is an important complementary component of primary care. The core principles of functional medicine are a healthy diet of mostly leafy green vegetables and fruits; avoiding sugar; limiting trans fats and omega 6 fatty acids; exercise; reducing the ill effects of stress (especially cortiosol production), and maintaining proper hormone levels as we age.

All of these things are good and promote healthy,  active and longer lives, decrease chronic disease (including musculoskeletal) and therefore need for medication hospitalizations, and surgeries and are a benefit for society as a whole 

Functional medicine is not a panacea and like all things can be taken to extremes or abused for financial gain. Interestingly there is a strong connection between functional medicine and anti-aging medicine and many of the advances in anti aging have come from functional medicine.

One problem with mainstreaming this area of medicine is that the “treatments” almost all involve diet and exercise plus supplements or medications that long ago aged out of patent protection, so large blinded and randomized trials cannot be done. In many ways it is limited the same way stem cell therapy research is: what pharma or implant company is going to fund a study showing your own cells, plus a $50 bone biopsy needle and an in office centrifuge can save you from a lifetime of daily NSAID or a joint replacement?

The issue here like most things in trumps orbit is extremists are in charge. Functional medicine does not  help with infectious disease at the macro level. Vaccines and antibiotics, other than figuring out how to separate drinking water from sewage; are undeniably the two biggest contributors to human life expectancy in history. What is going on on that front is a crime against humanity. 

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Just now, hookem2010 said:

Like you actually know any of that, scalpel jockey!

I know the heart’s primary function is to get Ancef to the bones, and I’ve been part of a few double blind studies over the years. 

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5 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

I have to disagree with this. Functional medicine is an important complementary component of primary care. The core principles of functional medicine are a healthy diet of mostly leafy green vegetables and fruits; avoiding sugar; limiting trans fats and omega 6 fatty acids; exercise; reducing the ill effects of stress (especially cortiosol production), and maintaining proper hormone levels as we age.

All of these things are good and promote healthy,  active and longer lives, decrease chronic disease (including musculoskeletal) and therefore need for medication hospitalizations, and surgeries and are a benefit for society as a whole 

Functional medicine is not a panacea and like all things can be taken to extremes or abused for financial gain. Interestingly there is a strong connection between functional medicine and anti-aging medicine and many of the advances in anti aging have come from functional medicine.

One problem with mainstreaming this area of medicine is that the “treatments” almost all involve diet and exercise plus supplements or medications that long ago aged out of patent protection, so large blinded and randomized trials cannot be done. In many ways it is limited the same way stem cell therapy research is: what pharma or implant company is going to fund a study showing your own cells, plus a $50 bone biopsy needle and an in office centrifuge can save you from a lifetime of daily NSAID or a joint replacement?

The issue here like most things in trumps orbit is extremists are in charge. Functional medicine does not  help with infectious disease at the macro level. Vaccines and antibiotics, other than figuring out how to separate drinking water from sewage; are undeniably the two biggest contributors to human life expectancy in history. What is going on on that front is a crime against humanity. 

From what I can tell, "functional medicine" is a broad and vague term that does indeed encompass quite a bit of quackery.

The basic notion of metabolic health seems sound.

This Means quack would be a lot more credible if she'd studied endocrinology or a similar field.  

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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

From what I can tell, "functional medicine" is a broad and vague term that does indeed encompass quite a bit of quackery.

The basic notion of metabolic health seems sound.

This Means quack would be a lot more credible if she'd studied endocrinology or a similar field.  

Functional medicine is an evolving discipline with focuses within traditional residency programs and postgraduate fellowships at certain allopathic medical schools. It is a valid and growing field. Early practitioners helped overturn the low fat myth of CV disease and show that it’s an inflammatory process. It’s the reason expanded lipid profile tests are now routine. They were doing them 15-20 years ago and labeled quackery by pharma backed cardiologists and medical journals.
 

It is also ripe for abuse and profiteering because it hasn’t been around long enough to have a well established board to set and maintain minimum standards of practice, and because anyone can hang a shingle and advertise as a “functional medicine specialist”

 

Then again there are traditional docs where everyone who walks through their door gets some type of procedure or surgery 

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Here is one I doubt they fill. Cross posting.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/fema-administrator-acting-fired-cameron-hamilton

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been fired one day after he broke with fellow members of the administration when he told lawmakers he does not support dismantling the agency, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

Cameron Hamilton, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, was escorted out of FEMA’s headquarters on Thursday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

“It’s at the discretion of (Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem) to have the personnel she prefers,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN, confirming that DHS official David Richardson will take over for Hamilton effective immediately. McLaughlin declined to explain why Hamilton was removed from the post.

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8 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

It's so on point for Trumpt to tout the ratings of Piro's show.   I mean, high ratings on Fox has to mean she's going to be a good US attorney, right?

Hey it's working out just fine for Secretary of Defense. 

Years ago, these would have been outlandish jokes. "Yeah watch him pluck Fox hosts for important positions! Ha ha ha!"

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9 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

It's so on point for Trumpt to tout the ratings of Piro's show.   I mean, high ratings on Fox has to mean she's going to be a good US attorney, right?

Trump doesn't think the high Fox ratings means she's going to be a good US attorney, it's her complete loyalty to Trump that means she'll be a good US attorney.

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1 minute ago, gernblansten said:

Trump doesn't think the high Fox ratings means she's going to be a good US attorney, it's her complete loyalty to Trump that means she'll be a good US attorney.

She's an interim or acting.  Not sure that means he's going to put her up for the post on a permanent basis.

But make no mistake, he values those "high ratings" about as much as anything except maybe wealth.

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I guess we could a whole lot worse than an incompetent Kash Patel running the FBI.

Kash Patel's new way of leading the FBI: Fewer morning intel briefings, more pro sports events

Supporters of the new director say he is bringing needed change. Some current and former FBI and DOJ officials worry he is not taking the job seriously enough.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/kash-patels-new-way-leading-fbi-fewer-morning-intel-briefings-sports-e-rcna202865

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The two current FBI officials said Patel sometimes seemed uninterested in the material and his intelligence briefers are struggling to craft a briefing that captures his attention. Williamson, the FBI spokesman, denied that Patel was uninterested and said the new director has worked tirelessly since taking office.

He's just like Dotard.

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21 minutes ago, C-Man said:

I guess we could a whole lot worse than an incompetent Kash Patel running the FBI.

Kash Patel's new way of leading the FBI: Fewer morning intel briefings, more pro sports events

Supporters of the new director say he is bringing needed change. Some current and former FBI and DOJ officials worry he is not taking the job seriously enough.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/kash-patels-new-way-leading-fbi-fewer-morning-intel-briefings-sports-e-rcna202865

He's just like Dotard.

Just take all of this picture in. Surreal cartoonIMG_8118.thumb.jpeg.fe4ef4d2d6fd4fb7ca9a68a83556c157.jpeg

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1 hour ago, bluto said:

Just take all of this picture in. Surreal cartoonIMG_8118.thumb.jpeg.fe4ef4d2d6fd4fb7ca9a68a83556c157.jpeg

look at that 4 year old brain absorbing the scene of two men trying to bash each other's brains out.

 

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3 minutes ago, yoladu said:

look at that 4 year old brain absorbing the scene of two men trying to bash each other's brains out.

 

And also the kid sitting two seats to his left.

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10 hours ago, Pods said:

Call me crazy, but it seems like the best way to support our "war fighters" would be to use the soft power we used to have to limit the amount of "war fighting" they have to do. 

Quite the transition from "speak softly and carry a big stick."  

 

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Maybe needs a thread of it's own, but Trump starting a collegiate athletics committee using Saban as leader seems pretty bad.  I can't understand Saban working with Trump after he supported the BLM movement, and he seems like a pretty good judge of character, take Sark for example.  The billionaire oil guy from Tech I get, he and Tuberville seem to be great examples of Trump lackeys, but Saban just doesn't fit.  Maybe he's so worried about his legacy he will do anything to kill off NIL and the portal to make sure all the schools in the future play can't eclipse his records?  

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-president-trump-creating-commission-on-college-sports-to-address-issues-ailing-industry-led-by-nick-saban-180732653.html

Be interesting to see how Abbott accomodates this, or if he just starts working to overturn NIL

 

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4 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

Maybe needs a thread of it's own, but Trump starting a collegiate athletics committee using Saban as leader seems pretty bad.  I can't understand Saban working with Trump after he supported the BLM movement, and he seems like a pretty good judge of character, take Sark for example.  The billionaire oil guy from Tech I get, he and Tuberville seem to be great examples of Trump lackeys, but Saban just doesn't fit.  Maybe he's so worried about his legacy he will do anything to kill off NIL and the portal to make sure all the schools in the future play can't eclipse his records?  

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-president-trump-creating-commission-on-college-sports-to-address-issues-ailing-industry-led-by-nick-saban-180732653.html

Be interesting to see how Abbott accomodates this, or if he just starts working to overturn NIL

 

If I'm Saban I feel like I could pretty easily justify doing it out of love/concern for the sport regardless of any loathing for cheeto. 

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3 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

If I'm Saban I feel like I could pretty easily justify doing it out of love/concern for the sport regardless of any loathing for cheeto. 

He might think it easier to get something done with the dumbass simply because he's not Congress and he's malleable as hell.  But likely anything emanating from the executive on this is going to be damn near useless and unenforceable.

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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

He might think it easier to get something done with the dumbass simply because he's not Congress and he's malleable as hell.  But likely anything emanating from the executive on this is going to be damn near useless and unenforceable.

Oh yeah the whole thing is a lock to be a total clown fire dumpster show. Everything Trump touches dies. 

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11 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

The lack of regulation at the state level is why you hear horror stories about in office cosmetic and plastics procedures ending in disaster a few times per year 

You’re almost describing the Republican Party.

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11 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Functional medicine is an evolving discipline with focuses within traditional residency programs and postgraduate fellowships at certain allopathic medical schools. It is a valid and growing field. Early practitioners helped overturn the low fat myth of CV disease and show that it’s an inflammatory process. It’s the reason expanded lipid profile tests are now routine. They were doing them 15-20 years ago and labeled quackery by pharma backed cardiologists and medical journals.
 

It is also ripe for abuse and profiteering because it hasn’t been around long enough to have a well established board to set and maintain minimum standards of practice, and because anyone can hang a shingle and advertise as a “functional medicine specialist”

 

Then again there are traditional docs where everyone who walks through their door gets some type of procedure or surgery 

Fair enough, it’s something I’ve viewed with deep suspicion and RFK Jr endorsements didn’t help but this is way deeper knowledge than I have. 

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The sad thing to me is that RFK has so much truly good ideas to offer in terms of public health, but his Blindspot regarding vaccines more than nullifies all the rest. It truly can’t be overstated the impact of infectious disease on our way of life. The fact that we are going to have to relearn this is stupefying to me.

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12 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

The sad thing to me is that RFK has so much truly good ideas to offer in terms of public health, but his Blindspot regarding vaccines more than nullifies all the rest. It truly can’t be overstated the impact of infectious disease on our way of life. The fact that we are going to have to relearn this is stupefying to me.

RFK looks like Hoggle.

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On 5/8/2025 at 9:40 PM, TwiceHorn said:

And it appears I am incorrect on ENTs.  There apparently is a fairly heavy surgical aspect to their training.  For various reasons, the docs I know best are anesthesiologists and orthopedic surgeons, so one type with, one type without.

Anathesiologists crack me up. They come in before the procedure and they are like “chillax, broseph, we’re going to take good care of you. You’re just going to take a little nap when I count down so my man Dr Bob here can do this thing and when you wake up that bad appendix will be gone and you’ll have a cool story to tell the honeys. 5-4-3-”

then, when you suddenly find yourself wide awake and completely disoriented, paralyzed on an operating table,  staring into lights with a tube down your throat, you hear the same voice say “oh shit, sorry … hold on a second, fuck-“

 and then you wake up the second time, in recovery.  
Cool cool story bro!

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2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Anathesiologists crack me up. They come in before the procedure and they are like “chillax, broseph, we’re going to take good care of you. You’re just going to take a little nap when I count down so my man Dr Bob here can do this thing and when you wake up that bad appendix will be gone and you’ll have a cool story to tell the honeys. 5-4-3-”

then, when you suddenly find yourself wide awake and completely disoriented, paralyzed on an operating table,  staring into lights with a tube down your throat, you hear the same voice say “oh shit, sorry … hold on a second, fuck-“

 and then you wake up the second time, in recovery.  
Cool cool story bro!

Nightmare fuel.



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