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Category Archives: – Opinion
Essay: Opioids coming through the Mexican border are a national security risk
Update January 8, 2019- President Trump quoted from this story tonight during his talk from the Ova
Posted in - Opinion, - Pharma, - Policy, CDC, Congress, FDA, NIH, Primary care medicine, Rehab
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The Healthcare Channel hits 10
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
Posted in - Opinion
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Cardiology mafia egregiously obfuscates mortality differences between stents and CABG in EXCEL trial
December 10, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD In my recent book, The Medical Advocate, I excoriated the cardiology community, particularly
Posted in - Medical Devices, - NEJM, - Opinion, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, FDA
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A proposal to screen for mass shooters
August 5, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD President Trump today announced plans to have the Department of Justice create guidelines
Posted in - Opinion, - Policy, CDC, Congress, Psychology Psychiatry, Trauma Surgery
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I can’t get no satisfaction (from TAVR)
Update April 6, 2019- An expert source told us that Mick Jagger did have genuine aortic stenosis.
Posted in - Medical Devices, - Opinion, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, FDA
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Senior VA cardiologist, William Boden, smears most VA patients as “treasonous”?
September 27, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Anyone watching the “news” knows that the establishment, in the form of the Democrat party,
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Ken Burns series on FDR helps me discover my own history
September 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD I watched with fascination all of the episodes of the Ken Burns PBS series about the lives of Teddy, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt when, midway through the series
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What is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s prognosis?
December 21, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburd underwent surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Essay: The real villain in the New Zealand massacre is the video game industry
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
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson attempts to debate gun control with Annals of Internal Medicine Editor Christine Laine, MD
March 6, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD The puppets of the NRA on Fox News react predictably after each mass shooting in a school or
“You’re telling me this now?” Why the news is suddenly critical of statins and antidepressants
Opinion: February 19, 2012 By Steven Greer, MD The CBS news show “60 Minutes” made waves with a story asserting that the antidepressants
Did antidepressants cause the Germanwings pilot to commit suicide and mass homicide?
March 30, 2015- Opinion by Steven E. Greer, MD The facts are now becoming known in the Germanwings Flight 9525. The co-pilot, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz, was being
Posted in - Opinion, Psychology Psychiatry
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Elizabeth Holmes uses a fake low voice to be taken seriously
April 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD
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Why Americans should care deeply about the loss of freedom in other countries
June 9, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Making the news today is how a Canadian man was actually arrested for the crime of grossly
Essay: How Google accidentally invented surveillance capitalism
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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The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much
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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Google’s Larry Page wants your medical records to be public for “research”
March 20, 2014-By Steven E. Greer, MD Charlie Rose interviewed Google founder Larry Page at the 2014 TED conference. During the talk, Mr.
Posted in - Biotech, - Medical Devices, - Opinion, Congress, Genetics
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Google wants your DNA now (Not just with 23andMe)
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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