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by Benko
Fri Aug 13, 2021 7:34 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 398759

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

Hopefully a note from my physician + filling out a form should allow me to avoid it. "Wait. . . I AM a physician!" Not sure what you are asking. yes I am a physician, but they wouldn't like me writing my own note, especially because the exemption is related to an autoimmune issue (not in my area of...
by Benko
Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:03 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 398759

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

It may be difficult to practice medicine soon if you are not vaccinated. My hospital mandates it as do several others in the area. The only exceptions allowed are those CDC mandates. I have a legitimate (but unusual) medical exception which does not fall under CDC guidelines. Hopefully a note from m...
by Benko
Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:39 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Do Dems want a race war?
Replies: 8
Views: 2325

Re: Do Dems want a race war?

GT wrote:
Thu Jul 15, 2021 11:09 am
They want change - AKA power - Dems will say anything to get more of it.
and more ominously, it seems, do at least almost anything.
by Benko
Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:26 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

I have no desire to talk anyone into anything. There are bad practitioners in every field e.g. I had to find another orthopedist because the highly thought of one I was seeing wasn't treating me optimally. Part of the problem is that people are individuals and 50 people with disease x don't all have...
by Benko
Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:25 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

Surely the energy stuff has been compared to a placebo. Does it work or doesn't it? which stuff?; Chinese liniment which is $20/bottle? Chiropractic/other associated modalities? exercises to treat disk problems? Several flavors of Chinese medicine? It is all much more complicated and less profitable...
by Benko
Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:38 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

Tortoise, Back surgery is very often a really bad idea. I had shooting buttock pain going into my toe which my chiropractor diagnosed as a disk. I followed the exercises he recommended (standard stuff) and it resolved within a couple weeks. I forget the difference between sciatica and disk, but a Ch...
by Benko
Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:13 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

Is this kinetic energy, gravitational or electrical potential energy, or something else? What does it mean for it to be blocked? The energy AKA chi/ki/Qi, et is not something that has any conventional western correlate. Several of the modalities use pulse diagnosis i.e. by putting one's hands on th...
by Benko
Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:53 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

NOTE: Tai chi and yoga both have health benefits because you are giving yourself an energy treatment. Benko, What IS an "energy treatment"? In the orient the model for health for many different modalities is that of lines of energy AKA meridians. Some restore blocked energy by needles (acupuncture)...
by Benko
Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:24 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

PS I have no scientific evidence for the "magic Chinese liniment", but I've used it myself in many cases, recommended it to a zillion people, and 1000+ amazon positives and been around hundred of years. It is cheap, has no side effects, and works amazingly well.. If you know people of asian backgrou...
by Benko
Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:17 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

Maddy, If you are uncomfortable with something don't use it. "Breath through your nipples" sounds like Chi Gung which is a different animal from what I'm talking about (Chinese herbs mainly). "I have found myself turned off by the fact that its prescriptions are so often explained in purely "energet...
by Benko
Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:30 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

Maddy, Yes Will Cole. Do you know him/of him? Not what you think--I'm a radiologist (interpret x-rays, CT, MRI, etc). I help friends/colleagues when asked/I can be of help. I would have needed a different background to be an integrated practitioner. I was given a decade of antibiotics as a child whi...
by Benko
Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:43 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Alternatives to Modern Medicine
Replies: 42
Views: 6291

Re: Alternatives to Modern Medicine

Maddy, I'm an MD and have explored a wide variety of alternative approaches and found many that are very helpful. Often it is choosing the right tool(s) for the specific problem. To be clear you are just looking for someone to help you with wellness and don't actually have the hopeless disease (whic...
by Benko
Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:56 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: If Hilter Were Alive in 2021...
Replies: 7
Views: 2447

Re: If Hilter Were Alive in 2021...

Hitler isn't alive but followers of Marx alas are, and they've killed

100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years- ... 1510011810

and probably aren't done.
by Benko
Tue Jun 08, 2021 11:01 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Why the Allies Won
Replies: 83
Views: 10076

Re: Why the Allies Won

Goes without saying, or should, but it was war, and one needs to be willing to do terrible things (at least as terrible as your opponent) unless you wish to lose.

A lesson we've forgotten and which has relevance for our current circumstances.
by Benko
Tue May 25, 2021 8:31 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: COVIDs done, Vote On Next Major Issue
Replies: 22
Views: 4502

Re: COVIDs done, Vote On Next Major Issue

Mountaineer wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 3:53 pm
The only crisis that matters! Tossing the source of absolute truth to the wolves.
how about taking a step closer to the source i.e. why this happens--pick a name marxism, cultural marxism, etc.
by Benko
Sat May 22, 2021 4:53 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Attention, Doodle!
Replies: 7
Views: 2088

Re: Attention, Doodle!

While the plan to augment unemployment benefits may have had some merit a year ago, there is zero reason to be continuing it at this point. If they stopped giving away free money, people would be forced to actually work to pay the rent and buy food. And then the labor shortage would magically disap...
by Benko
Mon May 17, 2021 9:51 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: 70% of Republicans Believe Falsehood of Stolen Election
Replies: 29
Views: 7349

Re: 70% of Republicans Believe Falsehood of Stolen Election

tomfoolery wrote:
Mon May 17, 2021 1:09 am
Third, you have a bunch of lunatic republicans who forbid schools from failing a percentage of black students...

"... republican-run public school system "
Can you let us know what planet you live on in which the left doesn't control the schools? many of us would like to move there.
by Benko
Thu May 13, 2021 5:13 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club
Replies: 20
Views: 4068

Re: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club

The history of this bookblub is that there have been from time to time people who join to seek attention and who try to dominate the conversation. This one just has an added feature. Even after the brief interchange during the beginning of the last meeting subsided, there was very little discussing ...
by Benko
Wed May 12, 2021 11:41 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club
Replies: 20
Views: 4068

Re: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club

Murphy you are correct and I suspect I have not heard the end of this topic (though I can try to find books without any references she can twist.
by Benko
Tue May 11, 2021 8:25 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club
Replies: 20
Views: 4068

Re: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club

Thanks everyone. I don't remember what made her uncomfortable. I do remember that the book illustrates issues/flaws with the main characters and with society at that time. She wanted something "more uplifting" and I pointed out she was free to read whatever she wanted but that this was the point of ...
by Benko
Tue May 11, 2021 3:37 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Cortopassi counter culture
Replies: 12
Views: 2640

Cortopassi counter culture

Cortopassi,

Republicans taking out their own i.e. Cheney because she is not representing their views is not the same as Ds forcing their views on everyone else.
by Benko
Tue May 11, 2021 3:32 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club
Replies: 20
Views: 4068

Re: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club

Can you take discussion of cancel culture to another thread please.
by Benko
Tue May 11, 2021 12:09 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club
Replies: 20
Views: 4068

Re: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club

Alas employment is Gov't hospital.
by Benko
Tue May 11, 2021 10:56 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club
Replies: 20
Views: 4068

Thoughts please: cancel culture and my book club

I’ve run a meetup book club for years—classic novels e.g. Steinbeck, Maugham, Austin, etc. This Month’s book was first half of Vanity Fair. At the online book club last night someone said perhaps Vanity Fair should join Dr Seuss (book recently cancelled). I got upset and said that politics didn’t be...
by Benko
Sun May 09, 2021 10:08 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Josh Mittledorf (phD type) on Covid: Unthinkable Thoughts
Replies: 3
Views: 1100

Josh Mittledorf (phD type) on Covid: Unthinkable Thoughts

Josh Mitledorf has written a book on antiaging (Cracking the Aging Code) which is the topic he usually writes about. http://agingadvice.org. is his website where he distills a lot of thoughts on diet, supplements and other interventions toward health. His latest blog is on Covid: Unthinkable Thought...