John I began reading your articles on your website in 2017 after a close relative had a heart attack and I was desperately trying to learn complex medical heart issues. I came across your website and I was hooked by an article you wrote on Iogenisis (sp?) or the medicalization of normal life. It was extraordinary….expressing what I felt deeply but could never articulate. Since then I have been an avid reader of your columns. While the Covid experience was a mess and tragedy it raised awareness of the thinking of people like you. I am sure all your readers are grateful this Thanksgiving for your contributions to medical knowledge for laypeople.
Thank you, John. In very dark times, and though I'm not a doctor, I often turn to your podcast for sensible reasoning about how medicine can do a good job and the importance of careful examination of evidence. Our leaders/rulers are horrible (and I don't mean just one set of them but overall those in power), and our institutions have lost a great deal of legitimacy amid run-amok capitalism and corruption, but people like you ROCK and are the reason some things work well in some contexts. We all want to emulate you! A light in the darkness, as are many other people of course. Thankful for all those.
And, reasoning and evidence are FUN!! Please keep keeping on . . .
John I began reading your articles on your website in 2017 after a close relative had a heart attack and I was desperately trying to learn complex medical heart issues. I came across your website and I was hooked by an article you wrote on Iogenisis (sp?) or the medicalization of normal life. It was extraordinary….expressing what I felt deeply but could never articulate. Since then I have been an avid reader of your columns. While the Covid experience was a mess and tragedy it raised awareness of the thinking of people like you. I am sure all your readers are grateful this Thanksgiving for your contributions to medical knowledge for laypeople.
And with you! Love this space and thankful for the minds that fill it! 🦃🙏
My gratitude for your commitment and passion to help us all 😊🙏
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And Happy Thanksgiving to you from Perth, Western Australia (where it's the one day that we haven't copied the US!)
Thank you John for some phrases that go through my head every day:
Exercise every day that you eat.
Stop and think.
Are you getting bamboozled?
Thank you, John. In very dark times, and though I'm not a doctor, I often turn to your podcast for sensible reasoning about how medicine can do a good job and the importance of careful examination of evidence. Our leaders/rulers are horrible (and I don't mean just one set of them but overall those in power), and our institutions have lost a great deal of legitimacy amid run-amok capitalism and corruption, but people like you ROCK and are the reason some things work well in some contexts. We all want to emulate you! A light in the darkness, as are many other people of course. Thankful for all those.
And, reasoning and evidence are FUN!! Please keep keeping on . . .