Regime's theory of relativity: Objects shrink when entering Iran 👇
Compare the size of B-2 published by the regime, with the actual size below 🤡
With an increasing prevalence of long-term survival among patients with cancer, understanding, managing, and reducing the effects of radiotherapy on benign tissues are of critical importance and warrant continuous reexploration and consideration. Learn more: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2506017
Current allocations under the Rural Health Transformation Program are inversely associated with rural mortality and hospital bed losses, indicating that funding may not reflect clinical need.
https://ja.ma/4liPFO1
This dog knows how to live.
“If you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
-Winston S. Churchill
@potus @vp @marcorubio @PeteHegseth @netanyahu @PahlaviReza
Supermajority of Voters Support Health and Medical Freedom, Poll Shows https://brownstone.org/articles/supermajority-of-voters-support-health-and-medical-freedom-poll-shows/ via @brownstoneinst
🚨 Breaking: Another regime ship just turned into a submarine
Two new stories:
NIH files reveal broader coronavirus engineering research before COVID-19
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/nih-files-reveal-broader-coronavirus-engineering-research-before-covid-19/
Emails show Wuhan scientist suggested hand-carrying research antibodies to China
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/wuhan-scientist-suggested-hand-carrying-research-antibodies-to-china/
Both stories via @lewiskamb @USRightToKnow
Glad to see HIMS will stop advertising unapproved compounded drugs and instead sell FDA-approved products through its new partnership with Novo Nordisk. Importantly, they will keep them affordable (no increase in price) and limit compounded GLP-1s for rare (FDA compliant) cases.
I’d like to congratulate both parties on this deal following our recent action. Also glad to hear Novo will withdraw its lawsuit against HIMS. A win for the American people, whom president Trump has charged us with putting first. 🇺🇸
"Auflösung von Sitzblockaden: Schmerzgriff kann zulässig sein"
@CHBeckRecht-Aktuell, @beckonlinede
https://rsw.beck.de/aktuell/daily/meldung/detail/ovg-lueneburg-14la825-aufloesung-sitzblockade-schmerzgriff-zulaessigkeit-unmittelbarer-zwang
You should read this: David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/09/david-french-suffers-an-apparent-brain-injury-over-james-talarico/
Brownstone Utah Supper Club
Friday March 13, 2026
Guest speakers: Jared St. Clair & Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek of Epoch Times
https://brownstone.org/event/brownstone-utah-supper-club-march-12-2026-jared-st-clair/
🚨 Breaking: Following a conversation with @EmmanuelMacron, President Trump just clarified that while he appreciates Macron's rapid response, his demand for "unconditional surrender" refers to the regime in Iran only.
New episode of The Brownstone Show! @jeffreytucker interviews @LeslieManookian of @theHFDF on their explosive Zogby poll: Supermajorities of Americans support medical freedom, right to refuse vaccines, transparency, and ending mandates. Watch now!
Dr. Anish Koka and Dr. Anthony DiGiorgio open with the little-known medical story behind the death of the Shah of Iran — how Mohammed Reza Pahlavi came to be operated on in Cairo in 1980 by legendary cardiovascular surgeon Michael DeBakey, and how the "comforting explanation" bias may have contributed to his death from a post-operative abscess rather than his underlying cancer. The case, drawn from a piece by Dr. Li Zhao (NYU Langone), launches a broader conversation about anchoring bias in medicine and the cognitive traps all clinicians face. From there, the hosts turn to the quality metric industrial complex — MIPS, the new low back pain ambulatory model threatening a 12% Medicare penalty for spine surgeons, the hospital readmission program's documented mortality spike, and how 2,266 CMS metrics are costing billions while failing patients. They close with a NEJM perspectives piece from Harvard Business School's Leemore Daphne on health insurance consolidation and her surprisingly free-market prescriptions for reform.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:00 The Shah of Iran — Political Background
03:45 The Shah's Leukemia and Michael DeBakey's 1980 Surgery
06:30 A Spleen the Size of a Football
08:00 The Decision Not to Drain — And Its Consequences
10:00 The Comforting Explanation Bias
12:30 Subspecialization Matters — The Most Famous Surgeon Isn't Always the Right One
14:45 Anchoring Bias in Clinical Medicine
17:00 Modern Imaging and Residents as Checks on Bias
18:30 Surgeons, Complications, and the M&M Conference
21:00 Segue: Judging Doctors by Stats
22:30 The Origins of Quality Metrics — Donabedian 1966
24:00 MIPS and How It Actually Works
26:00 The New Back Pain Ambulatory Specialty Model — A 12% Penalty
28:00 Evidence That Metrics Harm Patients: Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
30:30 Obstetrics and the C-Section Penalty
31:30 Press Ganey and the Cafeteria Problem
33:00 Risk Adjustment Gaming — 40% Margin Increase from Coder Rounding
38:00 2,266 Metrics and 108,000 Person-Hours at Johns Hopkins
40:00 Why Doctors Leave Medicare
42:00 What Good Metrics Could Look Like — Dr. DiGiorgio's JAMA Proposal
44:00 Health Insurance Consolidation — NEJM Perspectives
50:30 FDA, Vinay Prasad, and the WSJ Retraction
55:00 Next Week: Kevin Bass
Subscribe to The Doctor's Lounge: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Follow the Show: X: @DrsLoungePod Co-hosts: @anish_koka | @drdigiorgio
Grok can't manage it after multiple attempts and dead crews and we're told its the most advanced AI on the planet.
We're supposed to believe a 72 KB hand woven copper birds nest can do it live in space with a chasing radar?
Manche Gäste wollen tief eintauchen in die Fine-Dining-Welt, mit dem Küchenchef plaudern, die Hitze fühlen. Aus diesem Grund boomen die Chef’s Tables. https://bellevue.nzz.ch/kochen-geniessen/gastronomie/10-restaurants-in-der-schweiz-fuer-das-besondere-erlebnis-am-chefs-table-ld.1927930?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=20260309699bfcf444c4e21fcfd7d007
In adults with major depressive disorder, the PETRUSHKA tool, which combines patient preferences and clinical predictors, was effective in personalizing antidepressant treatment and increased the likelihood of continuing treatment through 8 weeks.
https://ja.ma/46NaV8u
A multilevel nudge intervention—including previsit texts, peer comparison feedback, and automatic orders increased #Influenza vaccine completion by 5.1 percentage points for adults ≥50 years during #PrimaryCare visits. https://ja.ma/4aVegDF
AI-generated video posted as news 🙄
Niemanden interessiert, was die Dürr-FDP sagt, meint oder will.
Eigentlich ist es doch ganz einfach:
Wenn Dir Dein Gott Vorgaben macht, wie Du zu leben hast, ist das grds. in Ordnung.
Aber wenn Dein Gott mir Vorgaben macht, wie ich zu leben habe, dann haben wir wohl ein Problem. Oder?
Höhere Mathematik . . . .
https://www.infosperber.ch/wirtschaft/uebriges-wirtschaft/donald-trumps-behauptungen-sind-mathematisch-unmoeglich/
"Interestingly, we did not find viral RNA in the investigated samples,
but we could show a positive in situ Hybridization of BNT162b2 [Pfzier/BioNTech vaccine]
and S-encoding mRNA-1273 [Moderna vaccine]
in two individual samples."
From breakthroughs in genomics 🧬 to advances in global health 🌎, our annual science review captures a year of progress and preparedness.
Explore this snapshot of our scientific achievements 🚀.
Read the review here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69aa94daac93547152b9b24f/UKHSA_Science__Securing_Health_and_Prosperity._2025_Review.pdf
#BSW26
BILD exklusiv: Stuttgarts CDU-OB Nopper fordert: #Oezdemir und #Hagel sollen sich MP-Job teilen!
https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/erster-cdu-promi-fordert-dass-hagel-und-oezdemir-sich-die-macht-teilen-69ae8de210f264d559778ebf
"Grüne Ideen gedeihen nicht nicht in den Quartieren der Arbeiter. Sie gedeihen in den Luxusvillen der Schickeria" - Franz Josef Strauß"
#BadenWürttembergWahl2026
Trotz relativ klarer Volksmehrheit wäre die Steuerreform gescheitert, wenn dafür das Ständemehr verlangt worden wäre. Das gibt einen Vorgeschmack auf die Abstimmung über die EU-Verträge. https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/der-kampf-um-die-individualbesteuerung-zeigt-wenn-sich-der-stadt-land-graben-oeffnet-ist-das-staendemehr-eine-hohe-huerde-ld.1928309?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030969ab6a81e077e55d2a03b893
So many people who support assisted suicide in principle, change their minds when it comes to actual proposals that inevitably put vulnerable people at risk.
Did someone say “Egyptian blue”?
I wonder how ancient Egyptians could possibly invent it…
…knowing it appears automagically every time I’m etching granite in the open.
This process brings out this beautiful color 🦋 consistently.
I mean: I have already posted Egyptian blue before, etching a piece of red granite but this one is a different kind of granite. It’s not even red, it’s ugly brown.
And yet, this beautiful blue 🦋 color appeared again while I was busy etching a scoop mark on the top.
Heureka 🤩
Eine „Aufarbeitung“ nach Spahns Geschmack.
Aus dem Juni 2025.
Hat sich nix geändert.
Man könnte heute mal heraus suchen, wer damals, außer Merz, noch so vom damaligen „Erfolg“ der Trumpschen Bombenkampagne überzeugt war…
Why the Resolution? https://brownstone.org/articles/why-the-resolution/ a través de @brownstoneinst
Avert not your eyes: life for civilized people entered into a period of barbarism from which we’ve yet to emerge.
Observe the Economic Fallout Six Years Later https://brownstone.org/articles/observe-the-economic-fallout-six-years-later/ via @brownstoneinst
It happened in a courtroom in Roermond, Netherlands and it was so deserved.
So many honorary titles, "Seyed", "Ayatollah"... He is so talented that it's a matter of days until he gets the "Shahid" title as well 💪
R to @JesslovesMJK: substacktools.com/sharex/b5z…
Here's my summary of this article.
@Kevin_McKernan @jikkyleaks @jathorpmfm @CanadaCHD @ChildrensHD @SecKennedy @brownstoneinst
https://substacktools.com/sharex/b5zdb4a0