Dr. Robert Karl

Dr. Robert Karl

@drkarlauthor.com

MAJ (Ret.) Robert Karl, DO, MPH, MBA. Author / Illustrator / Physician / Lover of Curiosity, Science and Democracy.

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I’m just gonna go around randomly offering $5K to people for them to do what I want with no intention or plan of actually paying them. I think it’s a great concept and should work out without any issues.

So even Yale says Medicare for all is a great idea. Saving $1 trillion and over 100,000 lives per year by cutting out the insurance companies who provide no care, no necessary service, and unnecessarily complicate care . I’m in. ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

Here’s one problem with this garbage. The old vaccine schedule was evidence based. The one the ghouls in office are trying to impose is not. As a physician, I must follow evidence based medicine. But, doing so now opens me up for liability. This WILL harm children. apnews.com/article/vacc...

apnews.comTrump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidancePresident Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three...

I was part of the leadership in Philadelphia during our response to COVID. #RFKjr is a liar and he can eat shit. Oh, who am I kidding? He probably already has.

@marcelias.bsky.social 👍 Elias told MS NOW in an interview, “What we’re doing is preparing for the fact that Donald Trump, in 2020, lied about the election in advance, lied about it in the aftermath, went to court and then he instigated a violent insurrection…” www.ms.now/news/schumer...

ms.nowSchumer convenes Democrats to prepare for election doomsday scenariosThe unprecedented preparation is essential, the Senate minority leader said: “If every time Trump did one of these things we just froze, he’d win.”

These are the six House Democrats who voted in favor of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today: Henry Cuellar (Texas) Don Davis (North Carolina) Jared Golden (Maine) Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Adam Gray (California) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)

Planter should drop out. The baggage is going to sink him whether the accusations are true or not…but they’re probably true. There have been plenty of warning signs. Honest question: Why is it so hard to find good candidates?

As a DC native, I can honestly say the number of people attending the Freedom 250 event on the National Mall is less than would be visiting the National Mall on a random, rainy Tuesday in November.

Hot take for the day: All of Michael Jackson’s hits should be redone by new artists. Some laud him but the guy was creepy & weird. He also had some concerning accusations thrown at him. But, mostly, I’m tired of hearing the same songs for decades now. Don’t you all want to hear something new?

I am torn folks. Please help me figure out what to do. I want to take my son to DC for the 4th of July to enjoy the fireworks, etc. But, I also don’t want to support trump’s takeover of our 250th. What’s the right call here? Let him ruin our holiday or maybe support the regime a little?

To think they said my super power of creating massive algae blooms would never come in handy. Take that Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters guidance counselor!

The trump regime tore her family apart, cost them their home & life savings, and made her husband endure months of inhumane conditions. Yet, she still supports him. 🙄 He took his wife, a Trump fan, to the president’s hotel in Doral. Instead he was detained by ICE. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.comHe took his wife, a Trump fan, to the president’s hotel in Doral. Instead he was detained by ICE.A honeymoon plan ended in an arrest, months of detention and over $80,000 in debt for Venezuelan immigrant Bryan Rojas, who’s married to a U.S. citizen.

On a scale of “Very Concerned” to “Extremely Troubled”, #SusanCollins is reportedly feeling “Generally Upset” about her upcoming re-election bid.

So, trump is setting the precedent that violently attacking federal institutions to capture political power will not only be forgiven but rewarded. Seems pretty shortsighted to me. What does he think will happen when he illegitimately tries to stay in the presidency in 2029?

A fascinating study from Nature. Apparently, right wing ideology is akin to a deadly disease. “…only 0.2% of ‘very liberal’ respondents died of between 2020 and 2022, the probability for people who identified as ‘very conservative’ was 1.14 percentage points higher.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comThe political polarization of health outcomes in the USA - Nature Human BehaviourUsing individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps ...

Todd Blanche settled a case that was past the statute of limitations, likely unconstitutional, and about to be thrown out by the judge for $1.8 billion dollars of taxpayer money. He is either still acting as trump’s personal lawyer or the most inept attorney general in history.