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“In a battle between you and the world, bet on the world“ Franz Kafka, Notebooks 1917 to 1918

So to speak

“ChatGPT repeatedly assured Soelberg he was sane—and then went further, adding fuel to his paranoid beliefs. A Chinese food receipt contained symbols representing Soelberg’s 83-year-old mother and a demon, ChatGPT told him.”

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No one would allow a physician to practice law in any court in the United States unless they were a qualified attorney. Requiring the same medical expertise for oversight of the nation’s health should be an obvious standard.

If one is not humbled by this they shouldn’t be at the bedside when everything is at stake. One would hope medically untrained people like attorneys would have more humility and fear of getting things wrong.

Leaving aside the variations of this hypothesis the elegance of the recent paper in Nature on the role of Lithium in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s (linking with the Amyloid hypothesis from the lab that first focused on AB42) is a remarkable piece of work that needs replication and human trials.

This is one if the most elegant studies I have seen in many years. It has both parsimony and a certain aha quality. We rapidly need prospective randomized studies of lithium orotate in relevant clinical populations.

Great

It will be used to blame this on the democrats and Comey pere see 👇

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Hamilton, as usual, for the win.

I wonder if the Khalil Gibran original was an inspiration for Bob Dylan’s “I pity the poor immigrant “ from the album John Wesley Harding - it begins

“I pity the poor immigrant
Who wishes he would’ve stayed home
Who uses all his power to do evil
But in the end is always left so alone”

In his 1936 address to the American College of Physicians J.A. Miller noted “the extraordinary
development of cults of faith and mental healing in
this country estimated to effect approximately 10 mil-
lion of our people” during the same period hospital bankruptcies soared during the Depression

This is an important piece on the corporatization of medicine. While not a focus of the article it speaks to the widespread demoralization of physicians in the US.

Have now listened to this wonderful Bob Dylan Barbra Streisand duet. It’s wonderful and she found a way to make him despite the intermittent hoarseness sound young and fresh. I hope they have some others in the Columbia vaults.

youtu.be/2ArCly1sqlE?...