Medicine and Politic: A Deadly Mix -Pin This

  From Libertarian Tom Woods comes a very insightful post concerning how physicians have gutted true medicine in the name of "Public Health." I can totally relate to the writer's insights and angst. I first noticed this in med school, and I also had the realization that my fellow students lock-stepped (thanks for the accurate image!) right into line. It was a lonely time of my life for me. I actually gave up discussing politics with these particular classmates. I felt very much alone.

"In my opinion, the medical intelligentsia is in complete lockstep with far-left politics. It is so fully ingrained that I personally don’t think it's possible for it to change from the inside. I think outside forces need to become aware of it. Without going into too much detail, the public health field is generally made up of people who define medicine to be such a broad term, that almost no area of our lives would not be subject to control by it. For example, gun control leads to trauma, so health experts should make policy on it. Poor housing leads to worse health outcomes, so health experts should make policy on housing subsidies/projects, etc...

"...It is the orthodox opinion that the medical community should advocate and push for policies (that always line up with left-wing politics)."

The Tom Woods Show

Benadryl Use for Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

 My Quora Answer to:

Does Benadryl help hand, foot, and mouth disease?

If the rash (dermatitis) is pruritic (itchy) then, yes.

HFMD rarely occurs in adults and when it does, can be extremely itchy. Conversely, it is rarely pruritic in children, who catch it much more frequently.

The lesions are painful, so over-the-counter pain medications like acetaminophen and ibuprofen will help. Adults can use aspirin safely if not contraindicated, but avoid it in children because of the increased risk of Reye's Syndrome in that age group.

The above pain relievers are also antipyretic, meaning that they will reduce fever. And chills.

Heat can increase the pain so avoid hot liquids. Very cold beverages decrease pain.

If your rash is itchy, then by all means take Benadryl (diphenhydramine) and/or the non-sedating antihistamines such as Allegra, Claritin, and Zyrtec.

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

To Spank or Not to Spank? That is the Real Question.

 My Quora Answer to: Would you spank a teen like me if you had to?

"Unless it’s done between consenting adults, spanking is VERY rarely warranted. Before I go into more detail, allow me to provide my child-forwarding (and not “-rearing”) credentials."

Spankings

The COVID-19 Antibiotic Cocktail

Trump is going back to work tonight only three days after being hospitalized with a COVID-19 infection. I tried looking up the ingredients of the "antibiotic cocktail" but could only discover the manufacturer (Regeneron). I suppose that the recipe is proprietary, but it would be helpful if at least physicians would know in order to educate patients. 

And yes, I do know someone who caught it early on, and she ended up in the hospital for a couple of weeks. It's real. It's out there. And it can be fatal.

"Serological status at baseline also predicted how rapidly patients had alleviation of their COVID-19 clinical symptoms. In the untreated (placebo) patients, seropositive patients had a median time to alleviation of symptoms of 7 days, compared to seronegative patients who had a median time to alleviation of symptoms of 13 days.

REGN-COV2 rapidly reduced viral load through Day 7 in seronegative patients (key virologic endpoint)."

Regeneron's Antibiotic Cocktail