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Joined April 2017
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
USA. A diner. The waitress asked me how I want my eggs, and my mind went completely blank. "How do you want your eggs, hon?" Want. How do I WANT them. No one has ever asked me this. In my land, the egg arrives as the cook decrees, and you thank the egg, the cook, and your ancestors, in that order. "Scrambled? Over easy? Sunny side up?" she offered, gently, the way one talks a man down from a roof. The terms did not help. Over easy — over WHAT, easily? Easy for whom? Sunny side up — these people have named an egg after the dawn. Who does that. I needed time. I have chosen battlefields faster than I chose those eggs. She refilled my coffee and said she'd come back. It was the second refill. I had been deciding for nine minutes. The man on the next stool leaned over. "Just say over easy, man. You can't go wrong." "And if I CAN go wrong?" "...it's eggs, buddy." It's eggs. Eight hundred years of my family training itself to want nothing, and this man dismissed all of it with a fork in his hand. He was right. I will never tell him. "Sunny side up," I declared, with the weight of a man choosing a path for life. "I will face the sun." "You got it, hon." The eggs came. Two small suns on a white plate, looking up at me. Golden. Ridiculous. Exactly what I wanted. So THAT is what wanting feels like. I had to cross an ocean and hold up a breakfast line to learn it. The man on the next stool got his check and left. "Good choice," he said. I have never been more proud of anything. A man does not ask the eggs to be simple. He only becomes a man who knows what he wants. Tomorrow: over easy. I am almost ready.
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
Design matters. At #EHRA2026, VOLT 12‑month data reinforce that biophysics, contact, and lesion durability are critical to long‑term success in pulsed field ablation.
✅ Outcomes driven by catheter and waveform design #EPeeps #AFib #PFA #abbott #MedTech
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
17 Apr 2025
Rep. Dan Meuser blames Josh Shapiro for the antisemitic arson attack against Josh Shapiro: "He makes comments where he said President Trump is an existential threat to democracy, and he recently stated very falsely that President Trump and the administration was withholding funding for food for hungry Pennsylvanians ... when you say things like that, that creates hatred."
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
Air Force erases first female Thunderbird pilot’s achievements from websites following little Donald Trump’s DEI directive 9news.com/article/news/local…
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I was so excited to be driving behind another EP enthusiast or possibly a patient of mine s/p pathway ablation...until I zoomed in. @WestPointWomen #EPeeps
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
Do statins cause dementia? This one has been conclusively answered. Which seems surprising to some. 🧵👇 /1
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
UnitedHealthCare needs to be broken up. They own PBM’s, Pharmacies, Hospitals, Physicians and even a Bank. Multiple levels of Conflicts of Interest. newsweek.com/doctor-says-uni…
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
Trump has ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research. “The impact of [Trump’s] collective executive orders appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
20 Jan 2025
The Commanders season so far by Washington Post covers. What a story.
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
Sweetie, since you didn't serve and, well, I did, I thought I'd point out a few things about Gen. Milley's uniform you clearly don't understand. See that blue thing above his ribbons? That's the Combat Infantryman Badge. It's awarded to Army soldiers in the Infantry or Special Forces in the rank of colonel or below who have engaged in direct combat. You don't earn that by being a senior officer in the rear. There are plenty of senior officers who deployed and never earned a CIB, including general officers. If you look really close, his badge has a star at the top, which means it's his second CIB. You only get to earn one per war. He engaged in direct combat in both Panama (1989) and the Global War on Terrorism, and thus, he earned that rare star. If you look closely at his ribbon rack--and I'll grant you, this photo is a bit grainy--you'll notice he's earned three Legions of Merit and four Bronze Stars. On his left shoulder are the Special Forces tab and the Ranger tab, meaning he's both a former Green Beret and Ranger-qualified. There are some other cool things: both Master Parachutist and Special Operations Diver, the latter of which is a *very* hard course. But all of that pales in comparison to what you can't see in this photo: on his right sleeve, a quarter inch above the sleeve braid, are 10 overseas service bars. Each one of those bars represents six months of completed service while deployed in a theater of war. Gen. Milley spent five years of his career serving in combat zones: Panama, Bosnia, Haiti, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I imagine it must make someone like you feel pretty damn insecure that a leader who has committed his entire adult life to service in uniform thinks your orange daddy is a coward who avoided military service, but that's not a good enough reason to lie about his service record.
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This picture shows General Milley's Combat Infantryman Badge (2nd award), which is awarded only when a recipient is personally present and under hostile fire in a unit actively engaged in ground combat with the enemy. hrc.army.mil/content/Combat… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_In…
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
12 Nov 2024
New: Oil giant ExxonMobil opposes President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, a company spokesperson told CNN in a statement.    “A second US exit from the Paris climate agreement will have profound implications for the United States’ efforts to reduce its own emissions and for international efforts to combat climate change,” an ExxonMobil spokesperson told CNN in a statement. “We advocate for policy that accounts for security, affordability, reliability and environmental stewardship – not drastic changes that could hinder the progress being made today.”
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
Yo it’s wild when oil companies are like “bro your ideas are too bad for the Earth”
12 Nov 2024
New: Oil giant ExxonMobil opposes President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, a company spokesperson told CNN in a statement.    “A second US exit from the Paris climate agreement will have profound implications for the United States’ efforts to reduce its own emissions and for international efforts to combat climate change,” an ExxonMobil spokesperson told CNN in a statement. “We advocate for policy that accounts for security, affordability, reliability and environmental stewardship – not drastic changes that could hinder the progress being made today.”
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
2 Nov 2024
FBI Statement on False Videos.
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
BILLY ON THE STREET IS BACK with WILL FERRELL!!! LOUD WHITE MEN FOR KAMALA!!! LET’S GO!!!!!!! IWillVote.com
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Alexander S. Asser, MD, FHRS, FACC retweeted
23 Oct 2024
NYT tweeted this to its 55 million followers and it has under 500 retweets - presumably suppressed due to the link out. “John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would try to govern like a dictator if elected”
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