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FDA is moving proactively to advance potential therapies to address America’s mental health crisis. It’s time for new approaches.

One of the things I found really frustrating about public health guidance during the pandemic was that the public wasn't trusted with nuance, so the communication was often over-torqued. I think health communicators should trust their audiences with nuance. "Friends, stop drinking alcohol. Not cut back. Eliminate." isnt' really nuance. It's absolutism. You're offering a pragmatic defense of absolutism, and it's smart to be pragmatic, but I'd prefer we just be honest: Alcohol is a delicious bit of extremely mild cellular poison and having too much of it is really bad in the long run but having a little of it won't kill you. Everything in the realm of diet circles the issue of moderation. Chronic caloric surplus leads to obesity. Severe caloric deficit can lead to death. I'd prefer we attempt to articulate the principle of moderation in alcohol, too

Kaiser LA wants to pay board-certified cardiologists $218.65/hr to work overnights and weekends. Don’t take this job. It’s hurts all of us.

I’m amazed. It’s really true: the BA.3.2 COVID lineage is infecting children at a much higher rate than previous lineages. I’m late to this party, but I couldn’t really believe it was true until I did the analysis for myself. 1/

Hearing that both Mark Pope and John Calipari have privately vented that UK’s fanbase has negatively affected recruiting since 2020. Other schools use the fanbase and the negativity against UK and it has cost multiple elite recruits.

Most people don’t realize that many of these jobs are not caregivers. In fact, we are seeing physicians elect for early retirement and finding a clinical RN over 50 is like finding a unicorn. In fact, majority of these jobs are non-clinical are actually parasitic to the host: the buyer and the seller (the physician and the consumer). Recent job-posting data from 2025 shows employers listed 180,800 non-clinical healthcare roles (up 8% from 2024). Key drivers included: >>Financial/billing roles (medical billing and collections): 37,500 postings, +47% year-over-year. >>Administrative roles: 59,700 postings, +15%. >>Roles like patient access specialists and intake coordinators also surged as organizations focused on throughput. BLS projections reinforce this: medical and health services managers are expected to grow 23% from 2024–2034 (much faster than average), with low unemployment rates in areas like medical secretaries/admin assistants (3.7%), claims adjusters/examiners (2.4%), and medical records specialists (1.0%). And while we need jobs in the United States, and good paying jobs, the irony is that these jobs aren’t enhancing local economies like the government intends because they drive up the cost of healthcare. Therefore, the purported economic benefit of adding another manager at the hospital, for example, is off-set by the exponential cost created by the system itself. The costs are reflected in greater government subsidy and arbitrage, but also higher premiums.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says that US Government raising taxes doesn’t do anything to help the average American He says raising taxes does nothing because Congress just launders the money to their friends, special interest groups and “17,000 lobbying groups” “I don't know anyone, and you guys in the room, you might be Democrats, Republicans who thinks that sending another trillion dollars to Washington D.C will actually improve anything. So when you say raise taxes, if you said raise taxes and directly give it to the people who need it, do it. That does not happen. It goes to all these interest groups, and they give it to their friends and all that.” “Which is why the people are considered a swamp. It's kind of a swamp, the 17,000 lobbying groups. But bank companies are guilty too. They're just fighting for their one self-interest as opposed to what's good for my country”