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May 16, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

Are you saying the medical students are being fed this stuff from the front of a classroom?!

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May 16, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

This should be required reading for all med school faculty and officers of the AMA and the AAMC

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What is the purpose of all this? WHAT in the name of all that is holy is this cardiac patient's physician supposed to DO about bankers, real estate developers, or labor unions? When did the purpose of medicine shift away from *helping the patient* to....whatever this is?!?

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May 16, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

As I read ‘Bastiat’ this morning I thought to myself this Graboyes fellow--as learned and clever as I’ve come to appreciate he is--has gone too far to make his point. No one in their right mind will believe his spoof of the medical establishment....

but then I realized, holy🤬

(all my thoughts that followed have been redacted to protect your reader’s sensibilities)

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May 16, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

YES! I am fortunate enough to be able to retire from this circus.

And it occurs to me that Paddy Chayefsky was a prophet. We are living out the ending of "The Hospital."

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May 17, 2023Liked by Robert F. Graboyes

In eighth grade, I learned how to diagram sentences. This article took me right back there and demonstrated the connection between clear thinking and clear writing!

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