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Emergency physician 🇨🇦 | U.S.-trained, mid-career. I watched U.S. medicine sell its moral core to fascists. Canada still has time to choose differently. substack.com/@codeblackdispatch

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
The full video of the shooting can be found here: bsky.app/profile/gian...
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
nazis.us
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/01/2026
More than 110 U.S. health professionals joined one B.C. hospital network in the last six months www.fraserhealth.ca/news/2026/Ja... @fraserhealth.ca More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
RJ, registered nurse, Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Royal Columbian Hospital; Kathryn Guir, registered nurse, Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Royal Columbian Hospital; and Megan Harvey, cardiac nurse, Royal Columbian Hospital
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I’ve collected my Canada Healthwatch essays in one place. A chronological record of physician migration, health policy, and institutional failure—written under a pseudonym, now indexed here. @canadahealthwatch.ca
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Published Elsewhere: A Canada Healthwatch Series on Medicine, Migration, and System Collapse
Nine essays written under a pseudonym, tracing the flight of U.S. physicians, Canada’s policy choices, and the growing political assault on evidence-based care
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
In February 2025, @nicktsergas.ca and I warned Canada to prepare for the anticipated influx of physicians immigrating north. The time has come, and Canada is finally ready. Thanks to all Canadians who helped make this happen. 🇨🇦
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Paging Canada: Your future doctors are fleeing the U.S.
Before the US election, my wife and I talked about moving to Canada. 2 days after, we put the wheels in motion.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
As an America who moved to Canada in 2025, here’s my advice to Canadians: Defending Canadian sovereignty means relentlessly defending the truth in all domains. This includes issues that you may believe do not directly affect you as an individual. Elbows up. 🇨🇦
Oil reserves: Trump said the US would take control of Venezuela's massive oil reserves and recruit
American companies to invest billions of dollars to refurbish the country's gutted industry. He specified that US troops would "have a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil."Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says U.S. President Donald Trump isn't joking - he believes Trump's threat to make Canada the 51st state is a "real thing,' ," in part due to his desire to gain access to Canada's critical minerals, according to a source who heard the behind-closed-doors comment at a summit in Toronto on Friday.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
My New Year’s resolution: To warn that medical institutions like University of California, San Francisco, ushered Dr. Vinnay Prasad to the highest levels of government while firing those advocating for science-based medicine. Do not support. Do not apply. This institution is beneath you.
Vinay Prasad MD MPH • @VPrasadMDMPH
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letting fucking morons run public health is the greatest anti-vaccine movement imaginable
10:30 PM • 3/15/25 • 20K Views
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Bethankit Hums @tangibullah.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The other thing that's interesting here is that the AMA responds *as an institution* - choosing self-preservation over truth, and self-preservation over individual members' values. I mention this because it's a big factor in how this kind of political manipulation gets normalized.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I’ve collected my Canada Healthwatch essays in one place. A chronological record of physician migration, health policy, and institutional failure—written under a pseudonym, now indexed here. @canadahealthwatch.ca
substack.com
Published Elsewhere: A Canada Healthwatch Series on Medicine, Migration, and System Collapse
Nine essays written under a pseudonym, tracing the flight of U.S. physicians, Canada’s policy choices, and the growing political assault on evidence-based care
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Mehmet Oz recently visited the American Medical Association (AMA), where he threatened doctors to get in line, saying, “When the music stops and everyone has to sit down, guess who doesn’t get a chair? You.” @canadahealthwatch.ca
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Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms
Something is breaking inside of American medicine.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
About a year ago, at the start of the Trump 2.0 regime, a woman was about to pass me on the sidewalk and then stopped,
turned toward me and almost shouted: "It's a fucking nightmare!"
It has been a "fucking nightmare".
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/12/2025
HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about. Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.
Alt text: Screenshot of a tweet from the verified HHS (@HHSGov) account. The tweet states that @HHSGCMikeStuart referred Seattle Children’s Hospital to @OIGatHHS for allegedly failing to meet professionally recognized health care standards, citing Secretary Kennedy’s declaration that sex-reassignment procedures for children and adolescents are neither safe nor effective treatments for gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, or related disorders in minors. The tweet shows a timestamp of 2:47 PM on Dec 26, 2025, and 15.1K views.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Mehmet Oz recently visited the American Medical Association (AMA), where he threatened doctors to get in line, saying, “When the music stops and everyone has to sit down, guess who doesn’t get a chair? You.” @canadahealthwatch.ca
canadahealthwatch.ca
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms
Something is breaking inside of American medicine.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
“The Charging Party is a Christian. She believes that her body is a temple, which the Bible commands her to keep pure. Her religious beliefs and practices do not permit abortion.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Federal agency sues Advocate Aurora over COVID vaccine mandate
The lawsuit comes as the independent federal agency aligns its priorities with President Donald Trump's administration.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Both in Canada and the U.S., governments explicitly chose to train fewer doctors. We’re still dealing with the fallout. @canadahealthwatch.ca
canadahealthwatch.ca
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Imagine discovering a nursing home isn’t safe. Now imagine that regulatory enforcement will likely depend more on the owners’ political status than on whether they broke the law. That’s now happening everywhere in healthcare.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Both in Canada and the U.S., governments explicitly chose to train fewer doctors. We’re still dealing with the fallout. @canadahealthwatch.ca
canadahealthwatch.ca
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
modern authoritarian systems persist because ordinary people participate in small, meaningless lies to avoid friction. this was written in 1978 but could have been written today.
Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life. It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.
The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the work ing class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of in formation is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics.
It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I just canceled my subscription to the @theatlantic.com. This isn’t just delusional, it’s dangerous. Don’t normalize fear mongering racists and if you think this is “censorship” you’re the fucking problem.
THE UNIFYING POTENTIAL OF CHARLIE KIRK'S LAST
WORDS
A new book by the right-wing activist, who was murdered in September, has moments of seriousness, beauty, and cross-
partisan appeal.
By Judith Shulevitz
DECEMBER 22, 2025
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Americans should NOT PAY their “student loans.” Why should they pay to work? Why is their interest being publicly traded on the NYSE? Remind me, did the people in power incur massive debt to pursue their own American dream. No they didn’t. And neither should you.
forbes.com
Student Loans For 6.4 Million Borrowers Are Heading Toward A Dangerous ‘Cliff’
Many Americans are struggling with their student loans and millions are heading toward a default cliff, with potentially major financial consequences.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Is anyone watching Pluribus? I have an idea about why it’s so popular but I want to know what you think.
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Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever - 9to5Mac
After touting Pluribus as its biggest drama launch ever, Apple has now confirmed another milestone for the hit series.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
November 2022 Ranking member of Trump’s We Want Them Infected (WWTI) doctors laments the “The Rise of Biodigital Surveillance.” Every accusation is a confession = projection (propaganda technique). They’re doing it everywhere. Look it up. Call it out. @joho.bsky.social
The Rise of Biodigital
Surveillance
Unless we collectively decline to participate in this new social experiment, digital IDs-tied to private demographic, financial, location, movement, and biometric data-will become The New Abnormal.
AARON KHERIATY, MD
NOV 11, 2022
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“You cannot protect patients in a system where the people claiming that “vaccines kill children” and “vaccines cause autism” are now controlling the very institutions responsible for national vaccine policy and scientific oversight.”
codeblackdispatch.substack.com
Canada Finally Changed Course. Now It Must Finish the Job.
As the United States hands its healthcare system to anti-vaxxers and disinformation doctors, Canada has started to move in the opposite direction — and must keep going if it wants to avoid the same.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
modern authoritarian systems persist because ordinary people participate in small, meaningless lies to avoid friction. this was written in 1978 but could have been written today.
Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life. It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.
The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the work ing class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of in formation is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics.
It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
it gets worse. Dr. Oz recently visited the AMA to threaten doctors to get in line, and the AMA supported it by silencing its members. This should be a national news story.
canadahealthwatch.ca
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms
Something is breaking inside of American medicine.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Tonight, I’m published in MSNBC—sorry, MS Now. In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment. www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...
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Opinion | The FDA’s anti-vax turn came out of the right-wing backlash to the Covid pandemic
Walker Bragman: The Food and Drug Administration — like other HHS agencies overseen by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — is no longer moored to evidence-based reality.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 20/11/2025
The American Medical Association Has Lost Control of Its Own House codeblackdispatch.substack.com/p/the-americ... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
Screenshot of MedPage Today's coverage of Dr. Mehmet Oz's November 2025 speech to the AMA House of Delegates. Used under fair use for the purpose of reporting, commentary, and analysis. Original article: https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/ama/118572
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Disinformation continues to have a negative impacts on patients and providers. I see it all the time. Canadians must not buy into the “censorship” narrative (ie Alberta BIll 13). It is a lie, a coverup, and all intended to make the truth seem unknowable. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/07/07/n...
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Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age
These conversations are increasingly common. And increasingly exhausting.
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The script, visuals, and voiceover narration are generated by AI, and so are the fake studies brought up as evidence. A slew of AI-generated videos target seniors with unreliable health advice, using made-up papers. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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Deceitful AI Videos Mislead Seniors on Important Health Issues
I had never received an email in Vietnamese before. My request for an interview had been written in English, and the channel I had reached out to made English-language videos, but the reply I received...
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“I don’t want to start this article by saying that the sky is falling, but…” Y’all. The sky is falling. Read.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/12/2025
Today @americansunlight.org published a report we've been working on all fall, detailing the worrisome connections and quack science in the MAHA movement, the Bolsonaro health ministry's failed COVID policies and President Trump's "gold standard" HHS: americansunlight.substack.com/p/how-maga-u...
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How MAGA Used Problematic Research From Brazil To Push False Covid Cures
When research didn’t support Trump’s pandemic “game changer” claims in 2020, his administration went to Brazil. Today, Trump’s “gold standard” anti-science HHS mirrors Bolsonaro's.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a... by @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social via @statnews.com #HHS #FDA #CDC #publichealth #vaccines #science #MedSky
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Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Disturbing details about Dr. Harvey Risch, whose anti-vax bibliography was cited by Kennedy’s HHS and who is still somehow at Yale. americansunlight.substack.com/p/how-maga-u...
americansunlight.substack.com
How MAGA Used Problematic Research From Brazil To Push False Covid Cures
When research didn’t support Trump’s pandemic “game changer” claims in 2020, his administration went to Brazil. Today, Trump’s “gold standard” anti-science HHS mirrors Bolsonaro's.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“You cannot protect patients in a system where the people claiming that “vaccines kill children” and “vaccines cause autism” are now controlling the very institutions responsible for national vaccine policy and scientific oversight.”
codeblackdispatch.substack.com
Canada Finally Changed Course. Now It Must Finish the Job.
As the United States hands its healthcare system to anti-vaxxers and disinformation doctors, Canada has started to move in the opposite direction — and must keep going if it wants to avoid the same.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New essay: Canada is beginning to change course, but if it hesitates now, it risks spiraling into the same breakdown of medicine, truth, and democratic stability that the United States is living through in real time. @canadahealthwatch.ca
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Canada Finally Changed Course. Now It Must Finish the Job.
As the United States hands its healthcare system to anti-vaxxers and disinformation doctors, Canada has started to move in the opposite direction — and must keep going if it wants to avoid the same.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Remember when our medical establishment faked a concern about routine vaccines to dunk on the covid vaccine? Bad faith disingenuous performance, all the way down.
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Covid Vaccines Shouldn't Be
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The CDC's latest guidelines could wind up lowering vaccination rates for truly dangerous diseases, like polio and measles.
Dr. Vinay Prasad writes.
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With its unscientific push to vaccinate all infants and toddlers against COVID, the agency will harm vaccine uptake for more significant diseases
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JULY 05, 2022
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I could not be more explicit about this active and ongoing threat to Canadian democracy from one of the most unlikely places. #MedCan #MedSky
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New essay: Canada is beginning to change course, but if it hesitates now, it risks spiraling into the same breakdown of medicine, truth, and democratic stability that the United States is living through in real time. @canadahealthwatch.ca
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Canada Finally Changed Course. Now It Must Finish the Job.
As the United States hands its healthcare system to anti-vaxxers and disinformation doctors, Canada has started to move in the opposite direction — and must keep going if it wants to avoid the same.
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This happens in every hospital in every state in America. Until Americans stop treating these as aberrations, and only take interest when it happens to (gasp!) them, it will continue to happen in every hospital in every state in America.
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 08/12/2025
They said they would reduce prior auth...by making more prior auth👇🏻 This new threat to Medicare, aka the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model (WISeR), is a pilot program instigated by a political appointee, Dr. Mehmet Oz that requires prior authorization.
tri-cityherald.com
This harebrained new scheme poses a major threat to Medicare | Opinion
It places greater financial burden on children, seniors and the poor by delaying or denying claims necessary for preventive care. | Opinion
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It’s both, because of federal health transfers. But providences couldn’t be more different & deserve our attention @mark-carney.bsky.social. N American healthcare is at an inflection point and each province is responding in its own way. Alberta is the worst. Quebec is very bad. BC is innovating.
canadahealthwatch.ca
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
“A massive crisis” Again: Making a broken system less bad is not enough. #MedicareForAllNOW www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
As a reminder sciencebasedmedicine.org/big-pharma/
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The Anti-Vaccine Movement Supports Big Pharma
It's common knowledge that anti-vaxxers are dedicated to filling the coffers of Big Coffin.  Simple math leads to another obvious conclusion: they also work extremely hard to enrich hospitals and Big
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Ask Your Doctor… Why They’re Still Paying for This Project 2025 is already being implemented. Doctors may claim they’re against it—but their license fees are funding the institutions doing it.
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Ask Your Doctor Why They’re Still Paying for This
Project 2025 is already being implemented. Doctors may claim they’re against it—but their license fees are funding the institutions doing it.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
That’s another horrendous ACIP meeting on the books. This clown show did a lot more than weakly recommend delaying the HBV birth dose and compare vaccines to planes. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
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Say Hello to Hepatitis B, Baby
Anti-vax ACIP are bumbling their way to higher rates of pediatric liver cancer...and worse
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CODE BLACK @codeblackamerica.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
When the ER Is the Only Door Left Open Why emergency physicians are walking away—and what happens to the public when we do.
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When the ER Is the Only Door Left Open
Why emergency physicians are walking away—and what happens to the public when we do
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