Every one of these was done to people like you by a careful doctor following the rules. 1915: healthy teeth pulled by the mouthful, then the tonsils, to cure arthritis and madness. It was the standard of care. 1925: X-rays aimed at babies' chests to shrink a gland that was a perfectly normal size. The cancers turned up decades later. It was the standard of care. 1935: mothers drugged through labour, strapped to the bed with their heads padded, and sent home with no memory of the birth. It was the standard of care. 1940: electric shocks through the brain with no anaesthetic and no muscle relaxant, strong enough to fracture the patient's spine. It was the standard of care. 1948: premature babies kept in high oxygen as routine. It blinded about 10,000 of them. It was the standard of care. 1955: women in Irish maternity hospitals had the pelvis sawn open in labour in place of a caesarean, and were not asked. It was the standard of care. 1970: the whole breast, the chest muscle and the armpit removed for a lump a smaller operation would have dealt with. It was the standard of care. 1985: newborns given open-heart surgery awake, paralysed so they could not move, with no pain relief, because babies were held not to feel pain. It was the standard of care. None of it was fringe. A doctor who refused to do any of those could be sued for negligence, and the expert witness against him would have been quoting the textbook. Standard of care describes what everybody is doing. It has never described whether it works, and the two get compared about once a generation, usually at an inquiry.

WTH????? For the love of God and my for my brother, who took too many COVID jabs, and now is in hospice care, please DO NOT TAKE ANOTHER SHOT - especially the mRNA variety. Fauci will burn in hell along with Bancel and Bourla for this.

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The company that makes M&Ms owns your vet and your dog's checkup went from $60 to $140 because of it Not a metaphor. Mars, the candy company, owns Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and about 3,000 animal hospitals in America. It is the largest veterinary owner on earth. The place with the local vet's name on the sign was bought years ago and kept the sign because the sign is worth more than the vet Private equity and corporations now own the majority of vet practices in most metro areas. Vet prices are up about 60% since 2016, roughly double the rate of everything else you buy Here's how a corporate clinic makes money on your dog: The exam is $89 now. Bloodwork is "recommended" for every visit. The dental cleaning that used to be $300 is $1,200 with anesthesia monitoring. There's a checklist. The vet is paid on production. She's a good person who went to school for 8 years to help animals and now has a quota And when the bill hits $2,400 and you start crying, the front desk slides a brochure across the counter CareCredit. "0% for 12 months" Read the back. It's deferred interest. If you don't pay the full balance by day 365, they charge you interest going back to day one at 26.99% to 32.99%. Miss the deadline by one day on a $2,400 balance and you owe about $700 in interest that was invisible until the moment it wasn't. The card is issued by Synchrony, who runs the same trap at your dentist, your LASIK place, and the furniture store The 0% on the vet's counter and the 0% on a business credit card are two completely different products with the same two characters. One is a loan where the interest is hiding. The other is a loan where the interest is actually zero and the bank makes its money elsewhere. Almost nobody knows the difference and the brochure is designed to keep it that way What to do when the dog is sick and the number is huge: Ask for the itemized estimate. Ask which items are required versus recommended. Ask if there's an independent vet in the area. There's usually one 20 minutes away charging 40% less because nobody in Virginia is taking a cut If you have to finance it, a real 0% card with no deferred interest clause beats CareCredit every single time. Same 12 months. No trap on day 366 A candy company bought the animal hospital, raised the price, and then lent you the money to pay it at 30%. That's the whole loop (i delete the CareCredit collections and fix the score. 30-90 days. link in bio)

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