American Healthcare continues to go backward
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There is a reason why African American females are the most obese demographic on the planet, and it isn't genetic. It's socio-economic-cultural.
The last time I was in Atlanta, for the birth of my grandson, there was a Popeye's chick across from my hotel. It had been maybe 20 years since I had Popeye's. So on the way back to the hotel one night I stopped and got some and took it back to the room. It was absolutely disgusting. A mouthful of grease in every bite. I didn't remember it being that way. Maybe it always was and it had just be so long since I had eaten like that, i seldom eat fast food any more, and I seldom eat out, that I just didn't remember.
You eat garbage and you get fat. But garbage food is cheap. I can't tell you how many patients I've sent to the nutritionist and they've come back and said, "I can't afford to eat the way she wants me to eat."
We trust experts every day, all day long. We have to. I'm typing this on a computer. I'm trusting the experts that designed it, I'm trusting the experts that built it. It runs on electricity. I'm trusting the experts that designed the power grid, I'm trusting the experts that maintain the power grid. I'm trusting the experts that built the electrical system in the building I'm in. I'm trusting the experts that developed the code and specs that the building was built to. I drove my car to work. The list of experts that I trusted when I got in my car is endless. "We need to stop trusting experts" is a nonsensical statement. We have to trust experts for society to function. What he means is "we have to stop trusting the particular experts I want you to stop trusting for the political reasons I want you to stop trusting them". He is dangerous. I've said before and will say again that the damage that this administration is doing to public health will be worse and longer lasting than any other damage they will do.
Hey, bro, this flight plan you people have to get us to Atlanta is BS. I've done my own research and I think we need to fly at 28000 feet and we can go direct to Nashville and your waypoints are off. I demand we change this before we take off. The HHS secretary says not to trust experts.....
Did you take into account the airspeed velocity of unladen European swallows?
This was a public health poster that was used to promote treatment of syphilis in the 30s during the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Do you notice anything about the colors of those who are "cured" and those who are not? I do not know who created the poster or the thought processes behind it, but it's pretty hard to miss. Happy and cured = white, sad and not cured = black. There is a deep distrust of public health in the African American population in this country, and with good reason. RFK Jr. is trying to create that same mistrust in all populations and he is being successful.
On May 16, 1997 President Bill Clinton issued a formal apology for the Tuskegee Experiment. In my estimation it is the single best thing that Bill Clinton did during his two terms as president it is to our shame that it took so long coming. The Trump administration is undoing it all.
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