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Back in March, the Trump admin boasted that it was getting medical schools to teach nutrition.
hhs.gov/press-room/wtas-sec-ke…
Now it's cutting nutrition education for recipients of food assistance.
npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-58962…
My wife is on the phone with #UnitedHealthcare because a surgery she had scheduled for Tuesday next week was denied by the insurance company. The woman who is speaking to her has informed her that there is a nursing support call that is free of charge if my wife needs to discuss the emotions of getting this claim denied and to plan future care. It is such bollocks. USians generally hate our healthcare plans and these companies. Imagine facing surgery and being told that they won't pay for it, but they will pay for a nurse to call you and console you about their decision. Absolutely horrific.
Oh, and I pay over $3,000 per year for this level of health insurance for my family.
#USHealthcare
#PrivateInsurance
#MedicalCare
#medicine
#surgery
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#insurance
🧪 The placebo-controlled trial wasn't invented by doctors. It was invented by medieval witch hunters.
In 1423, Jean Gerson proposed testing religious claims with consecrated vs unconsecrated objects that looked identical - the same logic behind modern placebo controls.
His method ended up in the Malleus Maleficarum (1486). In 1599, a French physician used it to prove a "possessed" girl wasn't really possessed - she reacted the same to real and fake holy water.
That trick-trial design reached Lavoisier and Franklin, who used it to debunk mesmerism in 1784 - the direct ancestor of every clinical trial.
Source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/…
Today’s hike revealed my first ever Ghost Plant!! I’ve always wanted to see one myself 🤍
I asked a trusted Cherokee source and the name of this plants is ᏩᎶᏏ ᏅᏬᏘ (walosi nvwot) which means wart medicine.
#nature #naturalist #plants #Indigenous #medicine #Cherokee
