Wait times for medical procedures in Canada. Brain surgery? 349 days. Gynaecology? 284 days. If you want the government to help you kill yourself, the wait time is 0 days.
Excellent piece, as was yours last week. One thing to add -- almost everyone's views on Prasad and his departure, and on the Covid-related issues on which Prasad took a strong stand, are heavily colored by myside bias. Our views are highly influenced by our political ideology.
Put differently, subconsciously, we look to form beliefs and support people that allow us to keep our existing worldview intact.
Put differently still, we view the world through the lens of our existing worldview and ideology.
We can't help it. It's how humans are wired.
RT @txsportsdoc: Who knew this history of liver transplants? These are the giants who transform medicine and surgery, but why is it that of…
Well worth reading -a fascinating article about how transplant medicine came to be
What a real innovator looked like
is this kind of innovation in medicine still possible in the era of MBAs and WOKE etc controlling the vast majority of The House of Medicine
After 20 years working in emergency departments, I decided to try something different.
We're opening a new kind of clinic in Denver called @KaufCare.
Advanced urgent care run by board-certified ER physicians.
Transparent pricing. No insurance games.
Opening in about a month.
R to @anish_koka: open.substack.com/pub/anishk…
The origin story of organ transplant is brutal. (Link in reply)
The 3 precious kids pictured here with surgeon Carl Groth represented the longest anyone had survived with a liver transplant. All were dead within 2 years of this picture being taken.
Who is deposing these men? And for what?
Kudos to the committee for organizing this important series.
I’m honored to testify at the upcoming hearing.
Americans are feeling the strain of rising health care costs every day.
I’m looking forward to discussing some practical ideas for improving affordability.
Modified mRNA:
Triumph or Timebomb
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The degree of vile corrupt behavior of Texas Tech will be their undoing
it’s also emblematic of the deep rot in American Academic institutions generally and Medical Education specifically
support and stand with @KevinBass
Amazon and One Medical Really Leaning into AI (and not in a good way) https://dpcnews.com/dpc-politics/amazon-and-one-medical-really-leaning-into-ai/ no physicians were involved in your care
TX Assistant Attorney General Scott Smith is now refusing to permit me to review my educational records.
FERPA is federal law. Withholding my records is illegal.
Texas Tech has had five months to provide me adequate time to review my educational records. The deadline is 45 days. By law.
They waited until day 45 to begin scheduling a review--a one-hour review of 1600 documents.
It has now been over 150 days since my initial request and still I have not been granted adequate time to review the records, which are longer than War and Peace.
Look, these records are PDFs. They could be sent tomorrow.
Why doesn't Texas Tech just send them?
I have therefore filed another supplement to my complaint with the Department of Education.
I will be sending regulatory complaints to other federal agencies today.
Oh and in other news, months ago, Texas Tech requested a deposit of nearly $2,000 for a public records request.
I gladly accepted and submitted a check. I was happy to receive my records!
They cashed the check. And didn't release the records.
I have therefore sent a demand letter to Texas Tech and will be filing a third lawsuit within ten business days if they do not release the records. This is a violation of Texas law.
That's a lot of legal risk to keep some educational records under wraps from a medical student who suddenly started getting hammered by "professionalism" complaints after writing the truth about the abuse of power by the medical community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It sure is a great deal of trouble.
Hmm wonder what's in the records?
Medicaid has a billing process for literal witch doctors.
We waste so much money.
CMS Innovates has lost more than $7 billion since it started and it should have been shut down years ago.
It's a money pit for poorly thought out left and right wing healthcare "innovations".
This is called : “playing the man rather than playing the ball “
Excerpt from article;
“The optics of doctors and researchers working with industry naturally leads to public skepticism about financial motives coloring research outcomes. The immediate impulse is to dismiss any research from this union as suspect, but industry-supported research has been responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs of the last century. Everyone knows someone who is alive today because of an advance made in the lab of a private corporation. Starzl worked closely with companies that had promising immunosuppressive agents. Thank goodness he did.”
FBI arrested 11 Indian nationals named Patel in an immigration scam. They staged fake armed robberies at convenience stores to help participants fraudulently qualify for U Visas, granted to crime victims who assist law enforcement.
This was an exceptionally good show. @kevinnbass I have read your acct for so long, I thought I understood what you were put through. Hearing it actually descibed was on another level--Kafkaesque . How did you even survive?
I especially liked the part where Dr. DiGiorgio and Dr. Koka speculated re how your AI & coding skills could make medical records more efficient.
I can't even describe how much I hope you win your suit against TTUHSC. You deserve a huge, massive win.
R to @anish_koka: 21/ I hope that's not true.
Thomas Starzl passed away in his sleep on March 4th, 2017. My little girl started her freshman year of college in the fall of 2025.
R to @anish_koka: 20/ Starzl believed the system was ruthless and without pity — that harmful practices would be snuffed out quickly and the rest would ultimately disappear from the scene. The system he trusted to self-correct may have grown too large, too entangled, and too profitable to fail cleanly.
R to @anish_koka: 19/ There certainly appears to be a problem in the FDA-biotech-NIH ecosystem, which seems increasingly gamed by researchers and companies alike to spend an enormous share of the nation's dollars on marginally useful or outright harmful therapies.
R to @anish_koka: 18/ What exists today is the surgery he developed and the same immunosuppressant he helped bring to fruition: FK506, or Tacrolimus. What we have is light-years ahead of the early days of transplant — but is this the best we can do? Is Starzl's long dream of protocols to allow tolerance of a transplanted organ without the need for lifelong immunosuppression a pipe dream? Or has the system made it too hard for the next Starzl to overturn established dogma?
R to @anish_koka: 17/Thomas Kuhn, an American historian and philosopher of science who influenced Starzl greatly, noted that the barrier to scientific revolution was scientific dogma committed to existing paradigms. Starzl wryly noted that the changes he sought to bring into practice were resisted by members of the transplant community who were hung up on protocols he himself had written ten years earlier.
R to @anish_koka: 16/ As of this writing, that little girl marked for certain death when she was born has just started her freshman year in college. A miraculous gift, courtesy of Thomas Starzl.
R to @anish_koka: 15/ Thank goodness for that. Because 27 years later it was my 3 month old daughter dying with a failing liver that needed a liver transplant.
R to @anish_koka: 14/ Some have a utopian ideal that advancement in medicine may take place in some sanitized fashion that avoids needless dead ends. Yet travel in uncharted territory means that dead ends aren't known beforehand. The eventual success of organ transplant was built on the crumpled, tiny bodies of children. Knowing what we know now, it seems utterly foolish that Starzl would have attempted that first transplant on Bennie Solis. But he did.
R to @anish_koka: 13/ Starzl was guilty of every sin modern medicine warns us about. Clinician bias. Industry collaboration. Persisting through repeated spectacular failure. The "average" liver transplant recipient died — and that was true for nearly twenty years.
R to @anish_koka: 12/ The next chapter would unfold in Pittsburgh — where I grew up. The first four recipients died. Radio callers demanded the program close. But the fifth lived. And so did the next 22.
R to @anish_koka: 11/ Early results from England were disastrous — kidney damage, leukemia, deaths. Starzl thought the cyclosporine doses were too high. He insisted on combining lower doses of cyclosporine with prednisone. His protocol was a stunning success. Just as Sandoz was again considering abandoning the drug, Starzl kept it alive.
R to @anish_koka: 10/ A transplant surgeon named Roy Calne literally flew to Basel, Switzerland to beg them to proceed. Medicine almost lost its most important drug to a spreadsheet.
R to @anish_koka: 9/ The barrier wasn't surgical anymore. It was rejection. Enter cyclosporine — discovered by a Swiss company called Sandoz. Animal experiments were remarkable. And Sandoz almost killed the whole thing. Executives wanted to abandon the drug. Limited market. Too costly.
R to @anish_koka: 8/ From 1963 to 1979, 170 patients were transplanted. Only 29 survived. The question asked with growing urgency: how could they keep going? It was the rare successes that gave the team hope. The pessimists focused only on failure.
R to @anish_koka: 7/ What drove him? He never viewed these attempts as causing death. These patients were already consigned to die a horrid death. The people who favored "not trying" talked endlessly about the dignity of death. But that phrase assumes there's a good death to be had. Sometimes there isn't.
R to @anish_koka: 6/ Starzl shrugged. He admitted all those patients to his own surgical service — two residents and two attendings. That was the whole team.
R to @anish_koka: 5/ Most surgeons would have stopped. The medical establishment WANTED him to stop. Colleagues called it "macabre and unethical." The entire medical training program at his own institution signed a resolution denouncing liver transplantation as an "unethical pursuit."
R to @anish_koka: 4/ He was not ready. It took hours to enter Bennie's abdomen. Every piece of tissue that was cut bled without stopping. An elementary observation obvious only in hindsight — operating on a healthy dog liver was nothing like operating on a diseased human liver with no clotting factors. Bennie died on the table. March 1st, 1963.
R to @anish_koka: 3/ When Bennie was born, every child with his condition had one fate: death. A young surgeon named Thomas Starzl believed the only hope was a liver transplant. He had done nearly 200 liver transplants in dogs. He was ready.