Dr. Cassidy broke his Hippocratic Oath long ago when he gave-up his proctoscope for the money and power of Louisiana politics. Just wait for the BBBA to hit his hometown and the lines at the local ER wrap around the block. A colonic clusterfuk of his own making.
I do not live in Louisiana, and am not a constituent of Senator Bill Cassidy. I was not his patient when he practiced medicine. I know that he was an exemplary physician, founding the Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic and facilitating the vaccination of schoolchildren. However, his failure to oppose the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a violation of the Hippocratic oath. There is no difference of opinion between Dr. Cassidy and myself when it comes to vaccination. His record and his public statements prove it. Surely there is very little controversy on the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners as to the efficacy and safety of vaccines, but even if there were, the elevation of an ignorant crank like Kennedy will have disastrous consequences for the credibility of the medical profession, and for our now rapidly deteriorating public health infrastructure. As far as I know, no Louisiana children have yet died of measles in the current outbreak, but it cannot be long now.
Whatever political differences there may be between Sen. Cassidy and me are of no consequence. Sen. Cassidy’s standing in his political party does not concern me, nor should it concern him when it comes to medical issues. His professional commitments precede his political career, scientifically and morally. He was in a unique position to block Kennedy’s nomination, and failed. This is not merely an omission. His failure to speak up for something as easy and uncontroversial as vaccination, in spite of his own manifest convictions as a doctor, is the deliberate infliction of harm on the children of Louisiana and the entire country. I was depending on every senator, not just those from my home state, to speak up against Kennedy, but Sen. Cassidy was in a unique position to do so.
I therefore ask that you strip him of his license.
Wearables can also detect/predict when a woman might be ovulating (elevated core body temp, avg time of menstrual cycle, etc).
For an administration that’s weirdly focused on the fertility of women and the restriction of abortion so severely that some want to investigate miscarriages, this is HIGHLY worrying.
And in the old days, in some countries, the state-run liquor stores wrote down your name and how much you purchased. You'd get a note from the government if your alcohol consumption veered towards "too much." All in the name of a healthier population.
Wearables are not the issue Jr is fighting, software is. I have numerous apps on my phone because one does one thing while another does...another- better. Then you have different devices (scale/bp mon/CGM/etc.) that do not all work with the same list of apps. Just try setting your phone to connect to a device and find often that the device you have is not in their list so you can buy another device or use a different app.
So I kept a log and tried to update my PDF to my doc's portal (U of Colorado) and the girls screamed because I had uploaded all this clutter (providers must verify/approve your data). So I think the portal (Epic) would be great if it would do the aggregating and then all data would be verified and uploaded in the background.
Now it's more complex by an order of magnitude since Google syncs with the cloud (of course Samsung does too, but my insurance (united health) only uses Goggle Fit while Samsung Health does a better job of tracking. Oh bloody heck can we just adopt a standard already?
PS We HAD this back in the mid 2010s when I discovered Microsoft Health Vault. This was a free online service where you could keep all your records, control family's records, and grant access to whichever doctor you wish. Did I mention it was free? They dropped it a decade ago because it never caught on!
Adopt a standard, let people opt in. Easy peesy, lemon squeezy. No real way for corps to < profit).
“Wearables are spy devices,” fringe health figure Mike Adams, who has often appeared on InfoWars, posted, adding that the devices would be “medical shackles” fit for prisoners of a “medical police state.”
Wait a minute! I thought they want a police state. So confusing!!
Over my dead body will I wear a device that polices and could obviously intrusively communicate my medical status to anyone with even the slightest connection to death cult purveyor RFK Jr. and his unqualified band of medical charlatans. This broaches the kind of medical authoritarian surveillance state that no freedom loving citizenry should accept. The sovereignty of my personal health information belongs to me. And my chosen health professionals. Not quacks and vaccine conspiracy nut jobs who wouldn't know a scientific fact if it wapped them in the ass.
I use a simple Casio non smart watch to track my steps. I track my calories and protein into an app manually. I go to the doctor once or twice a year. I don't need or want all that continuous health data from a smart device. It gives me anxiety. Taxpayer money should not be used there especially with this crazy conflict of interest. Everyone in Trump's presidency is just out to get rich off people one way or another.
It would be nice if we could ignore them, but they are the ones making policy now for the rest of us and causing other real-world horrors. I listen to Knowledge Fight, a podcast about Alex Jones, and the always-reasonable host made a credible case that the guy who shot the Minnesota legislators, a devoted Infowars listener, was directly inspired by a recent Alex Jones rant.
Dr. Cassidy broke his Hippocratic Oath long ago when he gave-up his proctoscope for the money and power of Louisiana politics. Just wait for the BBBA to hit his hometown and the lines at the local ER wrap around the block. A colonic clusterfuk of his own making.
This is the text of a letter I just mailed (you have to use a snail, yes) to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (see https://www.lsbme.la.gov/content/investigations):
Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
630 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
To whom it may concern:
I do not live in Louisiana, and am not a constituent of Senator Bill Cassidy. I was not his patient when he practiced medicine. I know that he was an exemplary physician, founding the Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic and facilitating the vaccination of schoolchildren. However, his failure to oppose the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a violation of the Hippocratic oath. There is no difference of opinion between Dr. Cassidy and myself when it comes to vaccination. His record and his public statements prove it. Surely there is very little controversy on the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners as to the efficacy and safety of vaccines, but even if there were, the elevation of an ignorant crank like Kennedy will have disastrous consequences for the credibility of the medical profession, and for our now rapidly deteriorating public health infrastructure. As far as I know, no Louisiana children have yet died of measles in the current outbreak, but it cannot be long now.
Whatever political differences there may be between Sen. Cassidy and me are of no consequence. Sen. Cassidy’s standing in his political party does not concern me, nor should it concern him when it comes to medical issues. His professional commitments precede his political career, scientifically and morally. He was in a unique position to block Kennedy’s nomination, and failed. This is not merely an omission. His failure to speak up for something as easy and uncontroversial as vaccination, in spite of his own manifest convictions as a doctor, is the deliberate infliction of harm on the children of Louisiana and the entire country. I was depending on every senator, not just those from my home state, to speak up against Kennedy, but Sen. Cassidy was in a unique position to do so.
I therefore ask that you strip him of his license.
Wearables can also detect/predict when a woman might be ovulating (elevated core body temp, avg time of menstrual cycle, etc).
For an administration that’s weirdly focused on the fertility of women and the restriction of abortion so severely that some want to investigate miscarriages, this is HIGHLY worrying.
And in the old days, in some countries, the state-run liquor stores wrote down your name and how much you purchased. You'd get a note from the government if your alcohol consumption veered towards "too much." All in the name of a healthier population.
Wearables are not the issue Jr is fighting, software is. I have numerous apps on my phone because one does one thing while another does...another- better. Then you have different devices (scale/bp mon/CGM/etc.) that do not all work with the same list of apps. Just try setting your phone to connect to a device and find often that the device you have is not in their list so you can buy another device or use a different app.
So I kept a log and tried to update my PDF to my doc's portal (U of Colorado) and the girls screamed because I had uploaded all this clutter (providers must verify/approve your data). So I think the portal (Epic) would be great if it would do the aggregating and then all data would be verified and uploaded in the background.
Now it's more complex by an order of magnitude since Google syncs with the cloud (of course Samsung does too, but my insurance (united health) only uses Goggle Fit while Samsung Health does a better job of tracking. Oh bloody heck can we just adopt a standard already?
PS We HAD this back in the mid 2010s when I discovered Microsoft Health Vault. This was a free online service where you could keep all your records, control family's records, and grant access to whichever doctor you wish. Did I mention it was free? They dropped it a decade ago because it never caught on!
Adopt a standard, let people opt in. Easy peesy, lemon squeezy. No real way for corps to < profit).
“Wearables are spy devices,” fringe health figure Mike Adams, who has often appeared on InfoWars, posted, adding that the devices would be “medical shackles” fit for prisoners of a “medical police state.”
Wait a minute! I thought they want a police state. So confusing!!
An exquisite newsletter.
Now I want a story of the crossover who thought the Covid vaccines had nanobots to track us to now being cool with wearing a wearable.
Over my dead body will I wear a device that polices and could obviously intrusively communicate my medical status to anyone with even the slightest connection to death cult purveyor RFK Jr. and his unqualified band of medical charlatans. This broaches the kind of medical authoritarian surveillance state that no freedom loving citizenry should accept. The sovereignty of my personal health information belongs to me. And my chosen health professionals. Not quacks and vaccine conspiracy nut jobs who wouldn't know a scientific fact if it wapped them in the ass.
I can just see the welfare queens wearing their fancy new Levels closely watching their glucose levels rise while sucking on their sugar daddies.
No vaccines for you. No meds. But here. Wear this magic watch and call me in the morning.
Let them eat fitbits.
I use a simple Casio non smart watch to track my steps. I track my calories and protein into an app manually. I go to the doctor once or twice a year. I don't need or want all that continuous health data from a smart device. It gives me anxiety. Taxpayer money should not be used there especially with this crazy conflict of interest. Everyone in Trump's presidency is just out to get rich off people one way or another.
“His hepatic highness” LOL
re health monitors: MAHA will make Medicare/Medicaid/SNAP benefits contingent on fitness levels at some point.
As much pleasure I receive from Will’s updates on the crazies, wouldn’t society be better off pushing these folks back under the rocks they came from?
It would be nice if we could ignore them, but they are the ones making policy now for the rest of us and causing other real-world horrors. I listen to Knowledge Fight, a podcast about Alex Jones, and the always-reasonable host made a credible case that the guy who shot the Minnesota legislators, a devoted Infowars listener, was directly inspired by a recent Alex Jones rant.
i'm putting mine on my dog.
Wearables for the subjects of the “medical police state “. Pretty funny when held up against the opposition to Medicare for All.