Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.
The main focus of this video is the zoster vaccination and the possibility that it reduces the incidence dementia. The physician also has hopeful comments about multivitamin-mineral supplementation, omega-3 fatty acid supplementation, and creatine.
I recently hit an improvement plateau with my weight training, so have started supplementing with creatine 5 g/day. It’s quite popular these days.
Remember all the problems with the COVID-19 mRNA “vaccines”? Well, there’s a new mRNA vaccine on the market in the U.S. for influenza. Dr. John Campbell isn’t taking it and neither am I. In the 40,000-person safety and effectiveness study, the mRNA vaccine was immediately more toxic than the comparator.
Hospitals where I’ve worked for the last few decades have required medical staff to take the yearly flu vaccination. There may be religious exemptions, I’m not sure. I hope the traditional time-tested flu vaccines are still available this fall. I’m getting mine early, before supply runs out.
Photo of the retina at the back of the eyeball, where macular degeneration occurs
Age-related macular degeneration is the #1 cause of blindness high-income societies. A recent study found that metformin use by type 2 diabetics at least 50 years old reduced the incidence of macular degeneration by ~35% over the course of five years. The authors consider their results preliminary and, as usual, recommend further study.
Macular degeneration can be difficult to reverse or treat once it takes hold. As with many illnesses, prevention is better.
Metformin is among the top drug therapies for type 2 diabetes, but it has many competitors on the rise. If macular degeneration runs in your family, this study suggests it may be a good idea to stick with metformin.
Anthony Fauci privately acknowledged “impressive data” showed stronger immunity from a COVID-19 infection than vaccination while publicly pushing mandated shots, newly released documents show.
Former President Joe Biden’s top pandemic response officials discussed a thorough study from Israel showing the superiority of natural infection in August 2021, simultaneous with the initiation of federal vaccine mandates via an Aug. 24 Pentagon memo, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Protect the Public’s Trust, indicating officials who helped compel COVID shots had contemporaneous scientific evidence they were unjustifiable for millions of Americans.The officials distorted the evidence in public statements, repeatedly saying vaccination is necessary for immunity.
On a December evening in 2020, [President Donald] Trump granted clemency to Philip Esformes, a South Florida nursing home operator serving a 20-year sentence for orchestrating what federal prosecutors called the largest individual healthcare fraud scheme ever prosecuted in American history. The commutation freed Esformes from prison after he had served just over four years, though it left his conviction and roughly $44 million in financial penalties intact.
***
The first warning signs emerged in 2006 when Esformes and associates connected to Larkin Community Hospital reached a civil settlement with federal and Florida authorities. The $15.4 million agreement resolved allegations involving kickbacks and admitting patients for medically unnecessary treatment. Though the settlement required no admission of wrongdoing, prosecutors later pointed to this episode as evidence that suspicious conduct continued unchecked.
A decade later, federal authorities brought criminal charges that painted a portrait of systematic fraud on an unprecedented scale. In July 2016, prosecutors indicted Esformes on multiple counts related to what they described as a roughly $1.3 billion scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. The government’s case detailed an intricate operation designed to maximize profits by manipulating patient care and gaming federal reimbursement rules.
According to court filings, Esformes orchestrated a system that moved beneficiaries among hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and assisted living centers in carefully timed patterns. These transfers satisfied Medicare eligibility requirements such as mandatory three-day hospital stays and 100-day skilled nursing limits, allowing facilities to restart billing cycles regardless of whether patients actually needed the care. Prosecutors alleged that medical decisions took a back seat to financial calculations.
The scheme allegedly extended beyond unnecessary services. Federal authorities claimed Esformes paid kickbacks and bribes to physicians and physician assistants who referred patients to his network. These illegal payments flowed through intermediaries and were disguised as legitimate business expenses. Some payments were allegedly hidden as charitable donations, prosecutors said, while others appeared in fake contracts and invoices designed to conceal their true purpose.
Parker here. That’s just one way to get filthy rich in the healthcare industry. I wonder how much money Esformes got to keep in exchange for his four years in prison. I wonder if Esformes paid a substantial “donation” in exchange for his clemency.
I quit running my own medical practice in 2001 because I couldn’t make a decent living at it while following the rules.
Regarding COVID-19 vaccines, LifeSite News reports that former Pfizer vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory Dr. Michael Yeadon has concluded that someone with his expertise was directed to “…design injections that will injure, kill, and reduce fertility in the people you give it to. And design it so that it won’t kill everybody, it won’t injure everybody, but if we give it to enough people over time it will lower the fertility and their health and reduce population.”
The article states that Dr Yeadon believes that putting COVID-19 patients on ventilators caused adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). All the ventilator patients I saw had ARDS before they were ever put on ventilators.
I have a few other bones to pick with Dr Yeadon. He says there was no pandemic. The year 2020 undoubtedly saw a high number of respiratory deaths worldwide from what seemed to be an infection by a virus, whether it was COVID-19 or some other virus. Dr Y believes ventilators were used excessively and too early in the course of illness. I didn’t see that in my hospital. We used them in patients in extreme respiratory distress with sustained high respiratory rates (e.g., 60 breaths/minute) who we thought were likely to quit breathing soon if we did nothing. Putting them on the ventilator was often the only option we had left. Dr Y also is convinced that the drug treatment called remdesivir (“run, death is near”) was worthless. If memory serves, the World Health Organization in 2020 decreed the same thing. Yet there were professional societies of infectious disease specialists who thought it was useful. Either way, I’m not sure.
—–Steve Parker, M.D.
PS: After listening to a podcast interview, my sense is that Dr Yeadon doesn’t believe viruses are real.
Like thalidomide, frontal lobotomies, margarine is healthier than butter, ulcers are caused by stress and spicy food.
A snippet:
A scientific law or theory is only valid until some other set of facts proves it to be incorrect in some or all situations, then the law or theory has to be modified, or perhaps even scrapped altogether. Scientific laws and theories are never considered absolute, eternal truths. They are the best current explanations/models that fit the available evidence, and they remain open to revision or replacement when new, contradictory evidence emerges.
Advanced Mediterranean Diet 