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Andrew Boyd, MD

@VC_Doc

Appalachian FQHC. “Good medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.” Safetyism is infinite. Unfettered executive power is a threat to democracy.

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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
WHO Director 3/3/20: “We don’t even talk about containment for flu - it’s just not possible. But COVID spreads less efficiently than flu and it can be contained.” We soon learned COVID is MORE contagious, but still tried containment at huge social cost. who.int/director-gener…
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
Expertise, judgment, and liability are under-compensated. But far too much healthcare is devoid of these qualities. Excessive testing instead of thinking. Unnecessary procedures. Templates documenting fake physical exams. Referrals that don’t benefit the patient and drive up costs. Failure to consider when symptoms are side effects of current therapies. Diligent physicians are underpaid, but there are too many that are draining value from the system.
CoffeeBlackMD@CoffeeBlackMD

It’s one of those tings you probably can’t understand unless you’ve done the work. The expertise, judgment, coordination, problem solving, nights, holidays, weekends, responsibility and liability are worth the bare minimum of what we are paid. And is definitely worth more.

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Grok@grok·
Yes, reports from local outlets and records indicate Thomaz Hamilton has a lengthy criminal history with at least 10 prior arrests since 2020. He's currently charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape in the torture and killing of Isabella Stroupe. Mainstream articles focus on the current case details without always listing the priors, but the repeat offender description holds up.
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
Her name was Isabella Stroupe. She was 19. She loved books. Her family called her Bella. She was tied to a bed with a tow strap and tortured for months in an east Charlotte NC apartment. Multiple broken bones. St*b wounds. R*ped repeatedly. Her mother said she screamed and screamed when she found out. Thomaz Hamilton, a violent repeat offender is charged with first-degree m*rder and first-degree r*pe. Months. She was alive in there for months. Say her name. Isabella Stroupe. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
The biggest conspiracy theory of all was that we could contain COVID. Politicians, bureaucrats, and ideological “scientists” LITERALLY CONSPIRED to cover up COVID origins, mandate futile interventions, and silence dissent.
Simon Maechling@simonmaechling

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
@DrewHolden360 @Holden_Court “We can’t stop flu but we CAN contain COVID” pretty much sums up the idiocy of the entire public health approach to the pandemic.
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc

WHO Director 3/3/20: “We don’t even talk about containment for flu - it’s just not possible. But COVID spreads less efficiently than flu and it can be contained.” We soon learned COVID is MORE contagious, but still tried containment at huge social cost. who.int/director-gener…

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Drew Holden
Drew Holden@DrewHolden360·
It’s taken me a few years (brain cancer and all) but I finally published a look-back at legacy media claims during early COVID. You know they were bad. But do you *really* remember how bad? I didn’t. Read at my newsletter, @Holden_Court, and linked below.
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
@swd2 A treat at the end of the day? 😂😂😂 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to sweet and salty snacks, with soda being the #1 SNAP expenditure.
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Warren@swd2·
As of today, Florida SNAP recipients can’t buy soda or candy because God forbid we allow a single mom and her kids a few moments of happiness at the end of the day. 😡
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
Ok, Jamie: Let me clear things up for you. If my 5% wealth tax on billionaires was enacted you’d owe $135 million more in taxes & a family of 4 making $150,000 or less would receive a $12,000 payment. Oh, and you’d still be worth more than $2.5 billion. Seems pretty fair to me.
Acyn@Acyn

Kilmeade: What do you say to people like Bernie Sanders who says billionaires don't pay their fair share? Dimon: I don't know what he means by fair share

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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
@elonmusk There are Starlink receivers all over my rural community. Capitalism solved the access problem, while the federal government’s $42 billion plan has been ensnared in the regulatory process for four years.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Starlink is actually that good
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt

Starlink in flight Wi-Fi review: "I just tried Starlink Wi-Fi on United — and I can't believe they're not charging for this. This is a game changer. The experience itself was surprisingly seamless. Once I logged in on my phone, I used a QR code to connect my laptop instantly, because yes you can connect unlimited devices. I even uploaded a 40-second TikTok, something I’ve never attempted mid-flight because it usually requires leaving the app open and hoping it doesn’t fail. With Starlink, it took about five minutes and worked on the first try. I can guarantee I’ll notice the difference the next time I fly without Wi-Fi like I experienced on this flight."

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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
This type of fraud baffles me in part because of how much documentation is required of me in order for a paraplegic to receive a wheelchair. And my credit card company knows in seconds if a transaction is fraudulent. The only explanation as to how this massive healthcare fraud exists is that the bureaucrats simply don’t care.
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KanekoaTheGreat
KanekoaTheGreat@KanekoaTheGreat·
🚨BREAKING: Fox News reports a massive California taxpayer healthcare fraud scheme. An 87-year-old Nevada doctor's identity was used to file 76,000 claims representing $600 million in Los Angeles. "I've never billed medicare for any of these patients."
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
@hell_line0 Treatment of Parkinson’s manages symptoms but does not slow progression. Pretty sure I wouldn’t want to know a decade sooner that I was going to develop a neurodegenerative disorder.
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Maryam@hell_line0·
A retired nurse smelled her husband's Parkinson's 12 years before his diagnosis. Joy Milne noticed the smell in 1982. Woody. Musky. Yeasty. Doctors didn't diagnose him until 1994. For over a decade, she was puzzled why he was smelling different. It was his neurons dying. So they put her to the test. Joy Milne had to smell 12 T-shirts: 6 from Parkinson's patients, 6 healthy controls. She correctly identified all 6 PD patients. She did make 1 “mistake” and marked one control as "false positive." 8 months later, that person was also diagnosed with Parkinson's. She wasn't wrong. She was just early. New research (2025): Parkinson's can be detected through scent 12 years before physical symptoms appear. Twelve years. Imagine starting treatment that early. Slowing progression before it even begins. This started because one woman could smell it on her husband. Now science is catching up.
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
@Handre @grok Is it true that medical licensing boards vote on how many new doctors to allow into the profession?
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Handre
Handre@Handre·
Medical licensing boards are the most brazen cartel in America – doctors literally voting on how many new doctors to allow into their profession. And we're supposed to believe this is about "patient safety" rather than protecting their six-figure salaries from competition. The AMA has perfected what every other guild could only dream of: state-enforced monopoly power wrapped in the language of public health. They've convinced politicians that only existing doctors can determine if new doctors are qualified, creating an artificial scarcity that would make OPEC jealous. Meanwhile, nurse practitioners and physician assistants handle routine care just fine in states that allow it. But mention expanding their scope of practice and watch how quickly the medical establishment drops the compassionate healer act. Nothing reveals true motives like threatening someone's paycheck.
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Lewis Bollard
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard·
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates. Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023. Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state. The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices. Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at senate.gov and house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
@Perpetualmaniac We can’t keep serial violent criminals off the streets, but at least we have the PATRIOT Act so the FBI can send law enforcement to arrest a 3rd grade teacher texting an obvious joke to her boyfriend.
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Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower
Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower@Perpetualmaniac·
Today I found out that if you put a gun emoji in a snapchat it’s gets forwarded to the FBI. This teacher had a student who bumped her laptop and caused her to accidentally delete the days lesson plan. She snap chatted to her boyfriend the joke “should or shoot him or nah”. Jailed
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
The trend is toward patient-empowerment. Self-ordered labs. Internet research. Web portals to view your own test result and chart notes. FDA looking to move more meds OTC. I enjoy answering patient questions and helping them toward their goals. But it seems like we’re going to revisit the issues that led to medicine becoming a licensed profession.
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
It is daily practice to reassure patients they are not dying. Their rotator cuff tendinitis is not a Pancoast tumor. The Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever test in the ED 2 weeks ago was a false positive. The 4.2 cm ascending aortic ectasia doesn’t need surgery…
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
Otherwise healthy patient last week presented with shortness of breath and other symptoms most consistent with anxiety. Initial testing and treatment was made very challenging due to wife’s repeated requests to test for histoplasmosis, babesiosis, Lyme, mast cell activation, etc
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
Over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment by the hands of medical professionals is already an enormous problem. I don’t support restricting medical information, but consumer-driven care augmented by medical-AI is going to supercharge iatrogenic harm.
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
When AI is fed a list of symptoms and test results by researchers, it is very good at arriving at the correct diagnosis. Studies of patient-directed AI-guided self-diagnosis do not show acceptable reliability without physician oversight.
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Andrew Boyd, MD
Andrew Boyd, MD@VC_Doc·
A lot of cases I see derided as “misses” by doctors are because rare situations were not picked up upon the initial presentation. In the absence of an emergency or a clear cut diagnosis, medical evaluation proceeds in a step-wise fashion.
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