Category Archives: – Opinion

The Healthcare Channel hits 10

Posted on May 17, 2019 by admin

February 3, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD I don’t recall the exact date, but it was sometime during the summer of 2006, when I was daydreaming

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Essay: Opioids coming through the Mexican border are a national security risk

Posted on May 12, 2019 by admin

Update January 8, 2019- President Trump quoted from this story tonight during his talk from the Ova

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Essay: How Google accidentally invented surveillance capitalism

Posted on May 10, 2019 by admin

March 24, 2019- by Steven E. Greer I read a few more pages of Surveillance Capitalism (it will be a tough slog to finish this). As

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Elizabeth Holmes uses a fake low voice to be taken seriously

Posted on April 20, 2019 by admin

April 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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I can’t get no satisfaction (from TAVR)

Posted on April 6, 2019 by admin

Update April 6, 2019- An expert source told us that Mick Jagger did have genuine aortic stenosis.

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Google’s Larry Page wants your medical records to be public for “research”

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

March 20, 2014-By Steven E. Greer, MD Charlie Rose interviewed Google founder Larry Page at the 2014 TED conference. During the talk, Mr.

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Google wants your DNA now (Not just with 23andMe)

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

Opinion December 17, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Wall Street Journal published an article explaining how the pharmaceutical industry data mines

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Apple, Google, and Amazon need to make their own hospitals

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

Update February 27, 2018- Well, they used my idea from two-years ago. Amazon, Warren Buffet,

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Essay: The real villain in the New Zealand massacre is the video game industry

Posted on March 21, 2019 by admin

March 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I normally protect my soul by not watching grotesque videos. I have never seen the films of people jumping

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President-elect Trump adopts plan by The Healthcare Channel to bring back drug manufacturing jobs

Posted on March 20, 2019 by admin

September 4, 2010- by Steven Greer, MD The Commissioner of the FDA, Margaret Hamburg, could become the single biggest job creator

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What is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s prognosis?

Posted on March 14, 2019 by admin

December 21, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburd underwent surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering

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The secret agenda of Neocons: Supporting the corrupt status quo in healthcare

Posted on March 9, 2019 by admin

January 29, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Kamala Harris announced her run for president. She gave a town hall talk laying out her platform.

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The deadly risks of TAVR being downplayed to patients by hospitals

Posted on March 3, 2019 by admin

January 18, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD On July 20th, 2011, the FDA convened an advisory committee to help it determine whether to

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The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

Posted on February 24, 2019 by admin

April 5, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD The New York Times has a nice essay explaining why college tuition is out of control. They first

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Big Time College Sports is not the worst thing about American universities

Posted on February 24, 2019 by admin

January 10, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I was chuckling at an irrelevant essay in the NY Post complaining about how college football

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Industry conflicts arise at PCORI threatening any real comparative effectiveness research

Posted on February 10, 2019 by admin

February 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) was created by the PPACA “ObamaCare” law in 2010.

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Essay: The Sad State of Affairs for American Medicine Primary Care

Posted on February 1, 2019 by admin

December 26, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD I am so saddened by the state of our profession. I have been in different industries and unaware

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The Year in Review: 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by admin

December 29, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD The biggest stories this year related

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Essay: The Silos of American Healthcare Stifle Communication Between Providers

Posted on December 19, 2018 by admin

December 19, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have a clinical practice that treats chronic conditions, among other things. I recently ran across a

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Essay: Everything you say can and will be used against you

Posted on December 18, 2018 by admin

November 10, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD I keep telling people that “smart home” devices, such as Amazon’s Alexa, record everything

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