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Daniel Zank @daniel_zank

Pulmonary/critical care physician, epidemiologist, raising a daughter on the front range and living with septuagenarian Korean immigrants. Opinions my own.

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$300,000,000,000 is about $860 from each and every man, woman, and child living in the U.S.
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This Trump $1.776 settlement seems so illegal. Who is going to be able to bring the lawsuit to bring it down? Would reps or senators have standing?
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Wait, the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize did what now?
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Tums are basically just Pez in the most boring dispenser for middle aged people.
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Folic acid supplementation during pregnancy has been recommended in this country since 1992 and folic acid has been added to our flour since 1998.
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RFK Jr is a danger to public health. I’ve heard him speak enough to realize that he doesn’t know how to interpret scientific papers. He is someone with an agenda who cherry picks studies and flat out misinterprets studies to support his agenda.
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Science in public health isn’t a perfect process but the intention is to move progressively toward best practices. The secretary doesn’t respect the process. He thinks he knows better and surrounds himself only with the likeminded in the minority on extensively studied issues.
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Trump has the National Guard troops picking up garbage and mulching cherry trees. I think he’s onto something. Why can’t we have a civilian corps that assists with beautification work? Municipalities can’t always afford all maintenance work, but if there was a shared workforce…
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If this had been Biden, I’m pretty sure there would already be impeachment proceedings on the floor of the House.
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How is it possible that we still don’t have a button on our television that can help us locate our remote?
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We got rid of pens from pharmaceutical reps because they might affect prescribing patterns, but sure, a $400 million jet will have zero sway.
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I feel like this is a metaphor for something.
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I worry for this next generation of physician scientists. I was on this track to be a physician researcher and probably would be today if I had met with success at the right point in my career. My timing was off, and I chose to be a full-time clinician.
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I’m saddened by the innovations and discoveries that now won’t happen to advance medical care in my lifetime. Sadly, we may never know what we missed out on.
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I’m even more concerned for the PhD students who don’t have the option of seeing patients to make ends meet.
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Still okay to get your flu shots, people. Not too late. Seeing lots of folks in the ICU with influenza A. apple.news/ANeq55Od7QpKw7fE8…

Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign

As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.

apple.news
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When someone who has suffered brain death is taken off a ventilator, there is nothing but stillness. In the room, you can feel the grieving loved ones almost willing something to happen. But, stillness.
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I was in this unfortunate situation again recently, and I tried to brace the family against the nothingness of it all. A young husband and father brought such clarity by saying, “we are now just wishing farewell to the electricity that remains in her body.”
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Einstein once said, “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
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