Dr Terry Simpson (@drterrysimpson) on X (original) (raw)

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  Diabetes, Weight Loss, Remission or Cure
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  Replying to @jonlovett
  Speaking as a surgeon, a virologist, and a member of the GOP - this was a total fuck up. This administration now has body bags to account for - we could have done so much better.
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  Health Savings Accounts pay for contact lens solution but not tampons. What stupid male wrote that rule
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  Replying to @DrJenGunter
  You can get a starter home for less than 300k in California in 1990
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  Took off my n95 mask - this surgery mask goes over it. Long day in OR- so when someone says masks cause problems - they’re idiots. I wear it because the #covid19 patients I operate on - yes it causes bruising but I wear it because some of you idiots didn’t
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  I have been accused of being political - anti-trump. Here is the thing - I am getting ready to walk into the ICU, with a N-95 mask that is a week old (suppose to be disposable). I hope not pass this on to my 95 yo dad, 9 yo son and wife (age undetermined). This is personal
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  Replying to @cdmukasa
  As an elder attending - wondering why I didn't use
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  sooner - comfort, pressed - and who doesn't want to look their best? Bury me in figs please - want to be comfortable for my cremation
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  I spent days in California in a hospital overrun with COVID. Our hospital was licensed 30 ICU beds and we had over 200 patients in ICU with COVID and on vents. We learned a lot. For example, In Wuhan they didn't have enough data, and we made many assumptions, such as putting
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  I applaud
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  for getting the HPV series - a good example. We can wipe out this cancer - get vaccinated (oh, and she slightly falls out of the age range)
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  I was in a discussion with a physician who wanted my position backed up with data. As I tossed some articles his way I thought of my colleague
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  and wanted to say "I'm not your librarian." He blocked me before I could say that but...
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  Replying to @rebeccanagle
  From our Athabascan Nation in Alaska - who fought the fight of the Alaska Native Land Claims, we thank you for bringing this to the court, and congratulate you on a well earned victory