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Spirituality in Medicine: A Messianic Judaism View Point
My Mom recently challenged me that if I talk about God to my patients, it is unethical. I totally disagree. I don’t proselytize, which we don’t practice in Messianic Judaism. At my Synagogue, Simchat Yisrael, you must choose the narrow gate that leads to life, Yeshua Hamashiach. Your existence as the light of Adonai Echad,…
Medicine: The Business of People and NOT the Business of Money
As a Surgical resident I quickly surmised that the administrators were running medicine, and deciding the faith of physicians. Ultimately, medicine has become a trifecta of revenue cycle management/billing and coding, financial management/accounting and last but not least medicine. During my second year of Surgical Residency I devised a plan to create compentency in the…
How to Turn the Tide of the Opioid Epidemic: Health Care Equity in Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
The main pathway to turning the tide of the opioid epidemic is medicine for opioid use disorder (MOUD) Telemedicine with Pharmacists being allowed to give IM Buprenorphine shots if needed. Additionally, patient who are revived with Narcan should be given IM Buprenorphine immediately or medical cannabis for sustainable medicinal therapy. We must destigmatize mental health…
NAACP’s Travel Advisory for Missouri: Getting Lost in Missouri
I too, (Langston Hughes), once got lost in Saint Louis, Missouri in the pouring rain, and when my car got stuck in mud. I walked to the nearest house with my white coat on, and knocked on the door, saying I was a resident, and needed to use a phone. The person handed me their…
Congenital Syphilis Resurgence in the United States: A Symptom of Health Inequity/Health Disparity
We need to educate the population of the United States relative to sexual public health about responsible sexual habits/behavior. In the meantime, while at the ranch, we are recommending Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, and in the future PrEP for STI/STDs, doxycycline. Irresponsible sexual habits have caused a resurgence in congenital syphilis, and chlamydia/gonorrhea…
The Constitution Does NOT See Color: Justice for the 2 Justins in the Tennessee Congress
Racism, bigotry and discrimination are all unconstitutional. Ultimately, the Constitution is blind, and the color of a man’s skin has no more significance than the color of his eyes, as per Bob Marley via Haile Salassie. For some reason Justin Jones invokse the spirit of Thomas Sankara for me, one of the greatest Pan-Africanist of…
The Elimination of Gender Disparity, Racial Disparity and Ethnic Disparity in Healthcare: The Utilization of Healthcare Jurisprudence Jurisdictions
To achieve Universal Healthcare-Equitable Healthcare in the United States (US) we will have to develop healthcare jurisprudence jurisdictions similar to the 13 Federal Judicial Jurisdictions that exist in law. Affording equitable healthcare via Telemedicine, so that Universal Healthcare can exist, will allow for easily accessible, and extremely affordable National Healthcare in the US. Thus each…
Dental Hygiene: A Core Component of Preventive Medicine
Preventive Medicine in the United States (US) should have only 2 components: the dentist and the Internist-General Practitioner. It boggles my mind that dental hygiene is not a part of standard of care of the whole person-human being. Most diseases can be diagnosed from the oral cavity. Poor dental hygiene is extremely deleterious to one’s…
The Cognitive Dissonance of the Magic Bullet in Medicine: The Bane of Health Equity-Preventive Medicine Care in Healthcare
In the United States society, the culture is that one pill will cure all ills-ailments. It has led to the opioid epidemic and a pill popping culture, that has been categorically deadly. Now, the CDC is pushing for non-opioid management of pain. Really now? That should have always been first line. As a Surgeon, I…
The Self Evident Truth That All Men Are Created Equitably: Poverty, A Symptom of Health/Wealth Inequity in the United States
“A Tale of Two Cities”, the United States (US) is a land of dichotomous extremes, and hyperbole. How can the wealthiest nation in the World have such crushing, and annihilating poverty? We have all become wage slaves in the US. The Federal minimum wage is still $7.25, since 1990. During the Reagan era, labor started…
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