What they did to these DOGE kids, purely to harass them and discourage anyone else from even trying to do real civic work, is completely beyond the pale. Truly sick people. Credit to Nathan Cavanaugh for running circles around that mob.
Whenever Paul Ehrlich comes up, this letter comes to mind.
I don’t like celebrating anyone’s death. But Ehrlich’s legacy should be remembered for what it is: apocalyptic environmental predictions that helped legitimize coercive sterilization and ruin countless lives. Horrific.
Remember when the India-Pakistan partition happened and it went perfectly and nobody died and there were zero refugees?
Zaid Jilani remembers.
Stop what you are doing and read this. Thank you for sharing your story, @anish_koka and reminding us of giants like Dr Thomas Starzl and Carl Groth, who not only made saving your daughter possible, but also made medicine great.
https://open.substack.com/pub/anishkokamd/p/the-price-of-progress?r=18lnvt&utm_medium=ios
The DOGE kids are getting deposed because the Left knows how to impose costs. The ACLU harassed me for years, ran up my legal bills, because of my work eliminating woke with DeSantis. They have a whole playbook for punishing productive right-wing people.
1.) The Count Of Monte Cristo
2.) Frankenstien
3.) The Brothers Karamazov
4.) East Of Eden
5.) Jane Eyre
6.) Stoner
7.) Lonesome Dove
8.) Pride And Prejudice
9.) Kindred
10.) Rebecca
⭐️ piece
Big corporate hospital systems have broken trust putting profits over patients.
in @mcall
https://www.mcall.com/2026/03/14/opinion-hospital-monopolies-driving-pennsylvanias-health-care-crisis/
It’s all scam.
All this money is going to politically connected cronies.
That’s the real reason the budget is out of control and NYC needs to raise taxes.
Mamdani won’t do anything to fix this. In fact, he’ll make it much worse.
This is huge and it will reduce drug spending and save lives.
But to really make a dent, we need patent law to be reformed, because right now, companies engage in strategic patenting to block the entry of biosimilars.
They need to be stopped.
Would appear to be a case of an invasive angio precipitated by a positive calcium score ?
The problem with issuing class I recommendations without strong evidence is that many interpret these as standard of care - meaning failure to do these things is low quality care or maybe even malpractice
Next chapter, we could see quality metrics mandating CAC/Lp(a) tests!
The woking of developmental psychology: @JDHaltigan 's critique of developmental psychpathology
https://open.substack.com/pub/fair370/p/reflections-on-john-d-haltigans-critique?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=tduh3 via @SuePHall
Agree with you but think a better strategy is to reclaim the ownership of the medical profession that we have given away over the past 25 years, in large part because we don’t have united advocacy in Washington. The wRVU coupon that CMS provides is essentially the same as it was 25 years ago and adjusted for inflation is a fraction of what it was. Yet the hospital makes a increasing yearly amount on our labor. In my humble opinion our societies need a different strategy. @DutchRojas @DrDiGiorgio @anish_koka @realdocspeaks @GeBaiDC
4.59/mile for 26.2😳 How many could do just one mile at that pace?
When True, a five-year-old under social services, was dropped off for heart surgery at Children’s Nebraska, anesthesiologist Dr. Amy Beethe found him alone in pre-op. Moved by his situation, she decided he needed a stable home.
But what she and her husband, Ryan, offered went far beyond that. @SteveHartmanCBS shares the story of a doctor for whom saving lives is more than just her job. https://cbsn.ws/3PBJWa2
Chronicles of life in the People’s Republic of California.
Latest @DRsLoungePod now up:
Latest @DRsLoungePod :
Kevin Bass, PhD, joins Anish and Dr. DiGiorgio to tell the story of how a viral Newsweek op-ed apologizing for his support of COVID lockdowns and mandates set off a chain of events that ended in his dismissal from Texas Tech's MD/PhD program. Kevin walks through the internal emails, sham professionalism hearings, and rigged dismissal process he uncovered through FERPA records requests — and his ongoing federal and state lawsuits alleging First Amendment retaliation. The conversation then shifts to what Kevin has been building since: using AI pipelines to do large-scale investigative data analysis, from parsing the Epstein files to probing Medicaid fraud — work he argues would have taken a newsroom months, done now in days by one person.
YouTube Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction and Kevin Bass background
01:16 - Kevin's COVID arc: from establishment supporter to dissenter
03:14 - The Newsweek op-ed and Tucker Carlson appearance
08:00 - Internal emails and the professionalism complaint campaign
13:44 - Sham hearings, appeals, and eventual dismissal
19:19 - The rigged consolidated hearing and Darren Gibson
27:34 - Dr. DiGiorgio on the medical training dismissal system
29:51 - Why Kevin still believes in the broader legal system
33:00 - What Kevin has been building since dismissal
36:00 - Using AI to analyze the Epstein files
40:10 - The messiness of large health data sets
46:00 - Immigration policy data analysis
49:06 - Medicaid fraud and the limits of legal definitions
56:20 - Advice to physicians on AI
01:03:10 - The future of health policy research in the AI era
Cohosts: @anish_koka and @drdigiorgio
@drsloungepod
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-doctors-lounge/id1489323962
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vE4aCMpVHnSGwuOHiGVLp
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDoctorsLounge
Resources:
Kevin Bass's case documentation site: https://case.kevinnbass.com
Kevin Bass on Substack: https://www.kevinnbass.com
Kevin Bass on X: @kevinnbass
Kevin's original Newsweek op-ed (Jan. 2023): https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-scientific-community-admit-we-were-wrong-about-coivd-it-cost-lives-opinion-1776630
Kevin's Epoch Times essay on his dismissal: https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/how-my-medical-school-scandalously-dismissed-me-5580841
The TL/DR version of this : there are definite good use cases for calcium scores , but there’s a high probability in the current landscape the test leads to inappropriate escalation, or inappropriate de-escalation because the test just isn’t that good as a discriminating tool.
Problem is most patients (and maybe some doctors) get the impression it’s like a positive or negative mammogram.
If you look at primary papered: there are more events in CAC zero with high FRS scores than CAC > 300 with low FRS scores,
On this day in 44 BC, Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by 30 Roman senators. The conspirators hope that the assassination will help restore the imperilled Republic. It doesn't. #IdesOfMarch
The Francis Collins book tour pledge :
“I will bring a generous spirit to all my interpersonal interactions refusing to ascribe evil intentions to others simply because of different political or societal beliefs”
Cc @DrJBhattacharya
This evening’s festivities.
Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass ) was an MD PhD student in good standing.
Then he wrote a Newsweek editorial in 2023 apologizing for his COVID views that he had come to believe were wrong and unscientific.
Pretty clear he was then kicked out of medical school as a result :
What is up with the UK and their love of coronary CT?
Anyone know the story of how the CTfirst crew managed to hoodwink NICE into recommending it ?
I don’t know folks… @x journal club is pretty top flight.
Drug Coated Balloons non inferior to Drug Eluting Stents?
Not so fast.
A Class 1 "STRONG" recommendation for checking Lp(a) is interesting.
We, at the moment have poor data to suggest a Lp(a) guided therapeutic strategy does anything productive.
Ok 2 do, but why give that such a strong recommendation ?
“A working system quickly figures out what works and what doesn’t. A poorly working system gets stuck in a dead-end loop. I fear the system has gotten worse, not better, since Starzl’s time. We are more compassionate than ever when it comes to funding treatments for patients with rare diseases through government programs, but this means zombie therapies survive longer because a government billing code is essentially forever.”
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
Robert Malone MD
#HealthIsNumberOne
@drcraigwax http://WWDBAM.com
Sat. March 14, 2026
http://HealthIsNumberOne.com