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Nearly 1 in 10 surgeons leave active clinical practice within 8 years. Highest losses were in oral and maxillofacial surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and plastic and reconstructive surgery; mid-career surgeons are most at risk.

Surgeons are an integral part of the health care system, supplying critical and urgent care in nearly every field of medicine. But surgeons are already...

No Child Deaths Definitively Linked to Covid Shots, FDA Says [now that Dr. Vinay Prasad is out].

About 6 months ago, Vinay Prasad wrote to FDA staff, This is a profound revelation. For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge...

The current surgeon general nominee Nicole Saphier (radiologist) sells, promotes, and manufactures supplements (via Insta) through DropRX in a way that Amazon is now investigating her company

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/nicole-saphier-supplement-trump-surgeon-general "The two products [for 'preventing Alzheimer's disease'] the Guardian purchased, [Calm and Focus], listed ingredients including organic ginkgo biloba extract, organic Bacopa monnieri and organic...

Judge, cops force woman to give birth handcuffed in a courtroom

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/woman-gives-birth-new-york-courtroom-b2978059.html Because the woman was such a threat or giving birth is such a minor thing that they couldn't be bothered to being her to a...