Regarding DMSO and its aroma after using it, I’ve given it IV diluted in 0.9% saline to heifers and cows that have a pinched nerve, once daily for 3 days. 60 ml DMSO IN 1 L. works quite well for acute neuropathic injury (like parturition with maternal-fetal size mismatch). The animal certainly carries DMSO aroma for the next 24 hours. Indeed, at vet school, the equine ICU reeked of DMSO due to it frequently being used.
Interestingly, as a clinician with a valid veterinary-client-patient relationship, when I give an antibacterial herbal mix to organic dairy cows as mixed in dextrose, the animal exhales the primarily garlic scent immediately (the mix has garlic, goldenseal, beriberine, ginseng and echinacea). Sulfur is an incredibly potent element!
If the problem is well-specified, an AI can be a very good search engine - but of course you have to check the results yourself. They can also be useful tools for "brainstorming" for suggesting answers you may not have thought of - but you have to do your own work and not be lazy...
"it was not possible for them to also have enough space in their minds to hold both perspectives simultaneously."
That's also why doctors believe in the broken contagion theory of disease instead of terrain which states that sickness is not from some invader (war like big pharma bull$hit) but from a systemic issue.
That's why most doctors still promoted vaccines until this COVID shamdemic.
Most of my doctor friends forgot basic chemistry when they were pumped with organic chemistry which is mostly memorization.
Speaking of ignorance of basic chemistry, Pierre Kory talking like aluminum is a good thing just like they said with mercury being in another form. Umm ok, mercury, aluminum, lead, and other toxic metals damage because they are reactive.
If only Pierre Kory understood Dr Christopher Exley's extensive study of aluminum and why it causes issues. (We did not evolve to use aluminum!)
Memorization is also the reason why higher level calculus and engineering creates idiots. I've always pushed back against that in school as it made chemistry, biology, and physics become quite disconnected from reality. Engineers have usually been lackluster in understanding issues where the operations people actually figured it out. Before colleges cranked out engineers, they were people who learned to work with and maintain machines via APPRENTICESHIP.
AND NO SORRY... THE WAY THEY DO INTERNSHIPS IS MORE LIKE MILITARY HAZING THAN APPRENTICESHIP.
My trades apprenticeship taught me more real world useful mechanics than any engineering program.
Think about it .... A doctor is a body mechanic. Would you prefer to have a guy with a degree fix your car or a skilled mechanic? 😂
The medical system sucks because academics were programmed to serve an industry instead of the actual science.
Same with quantum physics, which like virology has turned into a memorization game that has no basis in reality.
Here's a good video on the broken theories of modern physics.
"Nothing personal" Does this "smell" like the WEF - World Economic Forum - participation?
Let us presuppose that what has passed is not the work of any one person, but the combined works of many, because the Covid pandemic has taken years to set up and get the involved parties working together towards a common goal which was Covid, this time around, but probably a Bird Flu Pandemic next time around.
It seems to me that the World Economic Forum brought together the millionaires and they set up the World Health Organisation to take their invested money and increase its value by at least $35 for each $1 invested - by injecting the vaccine poisons into all of us Human Rubbish, with the intention of exterminating us, while making the millionaires even richer - and the scheme has so far, worked remarkably well.
The WHO offers donors a 3,400% return on investment, openly promoting “at least $35 for every $1 invested.”
Bill Gates GAVI offers $20 for each $1 invested.
WHO’s Directing Global Health Policy?”
Published by the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (AMPS), June 2025
Purpose of the Report
This independent investigation by AMPS critically examines the World Health Organization’s (WHO) funding mechanisms, focusing on the top-100 non-country donors to the WHO’s voluntary contributions for specified purposes in 2022–2023. The report aims to evaluate whether these funding arrangements compromise the WHO’s independence, especially given its central role in new global health treaties such as:
The 2024 Amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).
The WHO Pandemic Treaty/Agreement.
So if each investor invests $100 for your free vaccine shot, they are paid "at least" $3,500 back, after your free vaccine injection, multiplied by the numbers of free vaccine shots, they invested in, from the outset. Money for Jam - but if nobody gets a vaccine, then the investors don't make any money, or get anything paid back, do they - so how to get the maximum number of vaccinations made, to make their original investments, pay out handsomely?
Bill Gates funds, or used to fund the CDC and the CDC is the weapon of WHO to force compliance for vaccines, gene therapy injections and all other injections into everyone, so that the process is self supporting and a continual delivery system, which supports and funds those who contribute to WHO, for their $35 return on each $1 invested, but possibly Tax Free too, because it is a medical and not a business, capital venture.
Don't agree with your disclaimers on "wrote learning". It takes background information to allow creation of ideas and solutions to same. You mention, actually disdain, organic chemistry as being only wrote gibberish. Engineering, advanced math, too. But, when you get that job you wanted, you suddenly realize there was a reason why you "memorized". Ya gotta have tools to fix flat tires. Background information is the springboard of creative ideas and having said tools makes it all possible. You don't use all your tools constantly, but you have stuff available for recall when you did the wrote thing. You sound anti-intellectual, "all I need is a hand calculator and I can solve any problem".
Hope you and your family had a healthy and Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for the beneficial information for students and others to know, in order to learn and remember. Thanks for all the information you have provided o enlighten others. You do what doctors are supposed to do...teach. The word doctor comes from the Latin word: docere meaning to teach.
My Mum was just telling me I'm the vet's nightmare because we just had a visit where we were ahead of the vet at every turn. I told her I don't want to be like this, but when I was a teenager I was prescribed an antibiotic for a flu-like illness and when I got a rash the nurse very dismissively and confidently stated I was allergic to penicillin. It took me 20 or so years to find out that rash is a sure sign of Epstein Barr. One clue was a doctor saying if I took augmentin ok my whole life up to that point it was impossible I was allergic to penicillin. That would have been in my notes. At the time I had everyone treating me like I was making it up, just getting out of school. Heaven forbid a teenager might have glandular fever! These guys don't even know the standard stuff, let alone the stuff not in their pharma sponsored textbooks.
What you said about paying attention to your feelings when studying is very important. There was a study where people wrote a story about shame and the participants suffered serious mind wandering as compared to controls. We naturally avoid feelings we think we can't manage. The shame participants took longer and wrote more. My guess is that is perfectionism as a response to shame. If people knew how to manage their feelings would we even have ADHD? Instead of a brain disease epidemic maybe we just have a population of people whose parents never taught them to contain their emotions (because they didn't know themselves).
I may have been a pretty useless student but I'm grateful I can research to my heart's content now and not just let any confident sounding idiot gaslight me. The study found that pride is an antidote to mind wandering and I guess I am proud to be ahead of the vet and doing the right thing by my pets and myself.
You are a blessing to the world, AMD. Thank you for all you do - your brilliance, the time you give to your community (aka fellow man), and the "risks" you take by exposing the dark. I know I can speak on behalf of your entire community -- we are all very grateful for YOU!! 💛🙏
Here's an example of someone who didn't do as described in that quote. Learning of it had a huge impact on me. Here's the example:
This woodworker living in Grenada when I lived there around 10 years ago, was in his 70s, had only an old pickup truck and his tools as possessions. No family. He'd done custom projects all over the world and I met him at a party where he described a Japanese woodworking joint that he used on a job in NYC to construct a long handrail. This fellow would do a job, get paid and then spend all his pay on his friends and having good times. Thus, his lack of possessions later in life. So, one afternoon he was sitting on a dock looking out at the setting sun, enjoying the view, the moment. He had just been kicked out of his apartment for nonpayment, he had no place to stay, he had no job or job prospects and he didn't know where his next meal was going to be. Yet, he was sitting on the dock watching the horizon. Anyone else would have been tearing their hair out, worrying about all the above and frantically trying to figure out what to do to solve the situation. Then, he gets a tap on the shoulder and turns to see a man standing behind him. The man says, " Are you so and so ? " He says yes. The man says, " I've been looking everywhere for you. I have a job that needs doing ASAP. You could start tomorrow. Are you interested ? " Our fellow says, " Yes. "
For me, it is the best example of trusting in " God ", no Ego involvement, that I've ever come across.
For me, it is the best example of being in the now that I've come across.
For me, it is the best example of someone living in love, not fear that I've come across.
As an undergraduate, I did research in synthetic organic chemistry with one prof, and theoretical chemistry with another. The first day with the prof in synthetic chemistry, he handed me a couple of articles - one was in French, the other was in German. He asked me to translate both. The French article was easy, but I told the prof that I couldn't read German, at which point he leapt out of his chair and said "HOW IN HELL DO YOU EXPECT TO DO RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY AND NOT KNOW GERMAN?" and the he sat down, said "I'm going to enroll you in first semester German", called the chairman of that department and did precisely that. "We're two weeks into the semester, you'll have to catch up, but you should do fine." At the beginning of the next semester, he asked me how I did, I said "I got an A-/B+", he said "That's fine, now I'm going to enroll you in Scientific German (prerequisites two years of German and permission of the instructor... who was also the department chair)" and he did that. Two weeks after that, he hands me a book of 1500 name reactions - in German - and tells me I have two weeks to memorize it, after which on every Friday, he would pick three reactions at random, and ask me to give full details - and he did precisely that for the next three months... and I got the high "A" in the scientific German course. Knowing those reactions and their details was an invaluable part of really learning organic chemistry - you have to know the existing components before you can make new ones, so to speak... During my two years with Professor Albert Burgstahler (RIP) we had numerous pre-meds come through the group, they were there to "check a box". They were great memorizers, for a while, but the memorized material just didn't stick, which is why they had to take chemistry review courses for the MCAT, it was memorize, take the test, get the "A", and then forget it, because there was new stuff to be memorized and forgotten after the test and grade. Seven years later, I scored at the top of the class in my Advanced Organic Synthesis class in grad school, for my PhD.... in my case the knowledge stuck...
On the other hand, when I was getting my math degree, one of my fellow students was memorizing the trigonometry tables.....He was Japanese. I thought at the time that that was such a bizarre waste of time, as one could just look the needed information up.
The easiest way is to use a slide rule with trig scales -and there are characteristic values - π, π/2, π/3, π/4, π/6, which can be memorized, and then you can do interpolation. Trig functions are periodic and there are interpolation formulas available - and you can model other periodic functions using trig functions - for some fun, try: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TrigonometricFittingAndInterpolation/
I think your Japanese fellow student was putting something over on you
Maybe so, but I remember being shocked at how serious he was about it. This is back in the late 60s. I thought at that time, " Why use your brain to parrot stuff instead of thinking through things ? " For example, history. Why memorize dates instead of learning something about the reasons behind certain actions, so that maybe one could learn not to repeat some and to augment others ? Besides, I've come to realize that history isn't what we've been told/taught. That I really don't know anything. But, in order to function in this "fear-based" reality, I have my little set of beliefs/assumptions that I use until something comes along that causes me to modify my belief system.....
AMD, you've done so much to help folks, it is necessary to give thanks to you, for enabling the people to take charge of their health, in a dangerous world overladen with untrustworthy, and witless advocates that serve themselves, instead of those in need of real healthcare.
Thanksgiving is a Christian tradition. The purpose of the 'holyday' is to acknowledge the providence of God, our Creator, and His Son, Jesus, our only salvation from this dastardly, evil excuse for a civilization, and show some gratitude to the One who made our lives possible, complete with all the blessings from above we receive daily, often not even noticed.
I am, therefore quite intrigued by your assertion that "luck" played a part in your success. I quote you here... "Likewise, I feel many of the things that happened for me in life were entirely due to luck..."
and here... "Much of that capacity was entirely luck..." (regarding the capacity to remember large volumes of information).
God provided us with His testimony, the Bible, and provided witnesses of that testimony. Many have given their lives, asserting that the testimony is true, and took death before dishonoring God.
The Bible says that man chooses his way, and God guides his steps. (Proverbs 16:9, KJV).
It is quite apparent to me, that you have served God in your career, using the gifts God gave you, and the guidance God gave you. You have not acknowledged this fact though, in this article, on the day of Thanksgiving.
Luck has little to do with your success... in my opinion. Many would agree with me, that YOU, AMD, are indeed a gift from God, to the world, to help in the fight against evil. Medical cartels are evil. Love of money is the root of ALL evil.
In that tenor, and on that note, I would assert that everyone, this thanksgiving, should give thanks that you made the efforts to accomplish something that few have, and were sent from God to do this, and that you faithfully served in your vocation/profession for good. Thankworthy.
Likewise, AMD, thanks is due the Lord, God Almighty, for your commendable success. "All good things come from God". It would be fitting, in my opinion, for you to give thanks to God for your successes, rather than to "luck".
Google AI supports my opinion: "The King James Version (KJV) verse that encapsulates the idea that "all good things come from God" is James 1:17, which states: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." This verse emphasizes that all goodness and perfection originate from God, who is described as the "Father of lights" and is unchanging. Other related verses support this, such as those describing God as the source of wisdom, strength, and provision, and affirming that all things work together for good for those who love Him, as stated in Romans 8:28."
Further, AMD, it is arguable, using your graph, that the further America removes from the Lord, and His laws and precepts, the worse the outcome.
Also, regarding understanding: God gives understanding only to His children... the wicked will never understand. I can attest that some folks I have worked with were great with rote memory, but had little actual skill, and even less understanding. They were a danger to work with in my Profession. They could study hard enough to pass written tests, but lacked the CRITICAL performance skills later on.
I have, historically, noted that the best doctors are indeed those who are also good mechanics... understanding is a must in mechanics, and many doctors, as you note, are not very good at understanding. Algorithms are not comparable to understanding, in real life scenarios, when intelligence and understanding may save the day, and lives.
Regarding learning and problem solving, I too, as you have, found that taking a nap has often been the path to solving a difficult engineering problem. Wake up relaxed, and the answer is right there, clearly. It actually is cost effective and good time management to rest when needed. The Bible supports this view also, as does Google AI Overview:
"Ecclesiastes 10:15 (KJV) means that the toil of a fool is so exhausting because they lack wisdom and direction, leaving them bewildered and unable to complete even simple tasks. It's a metaphorical expression for how foolish, misguided effort leads to utter weariness and failure, contrasting with the focused, effective labor of a wise person. The verse illustrates the futility of working without divine guidance or proper planning, ending in confusion instead of accomplishment."
I note the AI comment about "divine guidance". Wisdom is a gift from God, valued more than rubies, in fact. Anything done without God is doomed for failure.
So it is incumbent upon me, your humble subscriber, to make note, and counsel you AMD, in this matter. Your work is phenomenal... and thanks needs to be given to God, for His grace, mercy and love, to have made you so valuable that you are the number one medical SubStack author, physician, and healer, excepting God, of course.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, and to all your subscribers.
Thank you AMD!! I have a praise. I went to bed and woke up pain free (mostly always neck and head) for the first time in a long long time. My diet was pretty inflammatory for 2 days lol, i read and had screen time galore. The only thing different was new niacinimide and a new omega 3!! I have 6 herniated discs, had fractured my c 2 at 25 and have had 4 joint replacements from arthritis. I did surf pretty hard on tues and wed (took creatine those days too...new) and did lots of squats and abs with stand up paddleboarding. I was emotionally drained thinking of the guardsmen and their families...I'll take it though. I'm so happy to wake up with no pain! Oh yeah, thanks to you, i remembered my chia seeds and vibration plate on the days i surfed!
Thank you for your articles. I enjoy each and every one of them and have gained a wealth of information that I try to pass on. I am a person that is highly sensitive to medicines so I always try to go the natural route as much as possible. Plus I tell people that God forbid something happens and they can’t get their “drugs” you better have a back up plan.
I have really enjoyed all of your articles and many thanks for all your research and hard work..It is nothing short of amazing. A big thankyou
DITTO
Excellent post as usual.
I’m very grateful and thankful for Drs like you.
You are a rare breed.
Moving forward how are doctors going to implement Ai in their care for patients.
How can this possibly be a good thing?
I think it will gradually force them to produce results for patients because otherwise they are interchangeable to AI
Regarding DMSO and its aroma after using it, I’ve given it IV diluted in 0.9% saline to heifers and cows that have a pinched nerve, once daily for 3 days. 60 ml DMSO IN 1 L. works quite well for acute neuropathic injury (like parturition with maternal-fetal size mismatch). The animal certainly carries DMSO aroma for the next 24 hours. Indeed, at vet school, the equine ICU reeked of DMSO due to it frequently being used.
Interestingly, as a clinician with a valid veterinary-client-patient relationship, when I give an antibacterial herbal mix to organic dairy cows as mixed in dextrose, the animal exhales the primarily garlic scent immediately (the mix has garlic, goldenseal, beriberine, ginseng and echinacea). Sulfur is an incredibly potent element!
If the problem is well-specified, an AI can be a very good search engine - but of course you have to check the results yourself. They can also be useful tools for "brainstorming" for suggesting answers you may not have thought of - but you have to do your own work and not be lazy...
"it was not possible for them to also have enough space in their minds to hold both perspectives simultaneously."
That's also why doctors believe in the broken contagion theory of disease instead of terrain which states that sickness is not from some invader (war like big pharma bull$hit) but from a systemic issue.
That's why most doctors still promoted vaccines until this COVID shamdemic.
Most of my doctor friends forgot basic chemistry when they were pumped with organic chemistry which is mostly memorization.
Speaking of ignorance of basic chemistry, Pierre Kory talking like aluminum is a good thing just like they said with mercury being in another form. Umm ok, mercury, aluminum, lead, and other toxic metals damage because they are reactive.
If only Pierre Kory understood Dr Christopher Exley's extensive study of aluminum and why it causes issues. (We did not evolve to use aluminum!)
https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/alzheimers-disease-is-caused-by-aluminium
Memorization is also the reason why higher level calculus and engineering creates idiots. I've always pushed back against that in school as it made chemistry, biology, and physics become quite disconnected from reality. Engineers have usually been lackluster in understanding issues where the operations people actually figured it out. Before colleges cranked out engineers, they were people who learned to work with and maintain machines via APPRENTICESHIP.
AND NO SORRY... THE WAY THEY DO INTERNSHIPS IS MORE LIKE MILITARY HAZING THAN APPRENTICESHIP.
My trades apprenticeship taught me more real world useful mechanics than any engineering program.
Think about it .... A doctor is a body mechanic. Would you prefer to have a guy with a degree fix your car or a skilled mechanic? 😂
The medical system sucks because academics were programmed to serve an industry instead of the actual science.
Same with quantum physics, which like virology has turned into a memorization game that has no basis in reality.
Here's a good video on the broken theories of modern physics.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UaUzq4YuErs
I LOOK FORWARD TO A TIME WHERE SCIENCE IS SCIENCE AND NOT THIS CORPORATE/GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED GARBAGE THAT WE HAD FOR DECADES+!
"Nothing personal" Does this "smell" like the WEF - World Economic Forum - participation?
Let us presuppose that what has passed is not the work of any one person, but the combined works of many, because the Covid pandemic has taken years to set up and get the involved parties working together towards a common goal which was Covid, this time around, but probably a Bird Flu Pandemic next time around.
It seems to me that the World Economic Forum brought together the millionaires and they set up the World Health Organisation to take their invested money and increase its value by at least $35 for each $1 invested - by injecting the vaccine poisons into all of us Human Rubbish, with the intention of exterminating us, while making the millionaires even richer - and the scheme has so far, worked remarkably well.
The WHO offers donors a 3,400% return on investment, openly promoting “at least $35 for every $1 invested.”
Bill Gates GAVI offers $20 for each $1 invested.
WHO’s Directing Global Health Policy?”
Published by the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (AMPS), June 2025
Purpose of the Report
This independent investigation by AMPS critically examines the World Health Organization’s (WHO) funding mechanisms, focusing on the top-100 non-country donors to the WHO’s voluntary contributions for specified purposes in 2022–2023. The report aims to evaluate whether these funding arrangements compromise the WHO’s independence, especially given its central role in new global health treaties such as:
The 2024 Amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).
The WHO Pandemic Treaty/Agreement.
So if each investor invests $100 for your free vaccine shot, they are paid "at least" $3,500 back, after your free vaccine injection, multiplied by the numbers of free vaccine shots, they invested in, from the outset. Money for Jam - but if nobody gets a vaccine, then the investors don't make any money, or get anything paid back, do they - so how to get the maximum number of vaccinations made, to make their original investments, pay out handsomely?
Bill Gates funds, or used to fund the CDC and the CDC is the weapon of WHO to force compliance for vaccines, gene therapy injections and all other injections into everyone, so that the process is self supporting and a continual delivery system, which supports and funds those who contribute to WHO, for their $35 return on each $1 invested, but possibly Tax Free too, because it is a medical and not a business, capital venture.
Being a Doctor, is that how it worked?
Don't agree with your disclaimers on "wrote learning". It takes background information to allow creation of ideas and solutions to same. You mention, actually disdain, organic chemistry as being only wrote gibberish. Engineering, advanced math, too. But, when you get that job you wanted, you suddenly realize there was a reason why you "memorized". Ya gotta have tools to fix flat tires. Background information is the springboard of creative ideas and having said tools makes it all possible. You don't use all your tools constantly, but you have stuff available for recall when you did the wrote thing. You sound anti-intellectual, "all I need is a hand calculator and I can solve any problem".
Hope you and your family had a healthy and Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for the beneficial information for students and others to know, in order to learn and remember. Thanks for all the information you have provided o enlighten others. You do what doctors are supposed to do...teach. The word doctor comes from the Latin word: docere meaning to teach.
My Mum was just telling me I'm the vet's nightmare because we just had a visit where we were ahead of the vet at every turn. I told her I don't want to be like this, but when I was a teenager I was prescribed an antibiotic for a flu-like illness and when I got a rash the nurse very dismissively and confidently stated I was allergic to penicillin. It took me 20 or so years to find out that rash is a sure sign of Epstein Barr. One clue was a doctor saying if I took augmentin ok my whole life up to that point it was impossible I was allergic to penicillin. That would have been in my notes. At the time I had everyone treating me like I was making it up, just getting out of school. Heaven forbid a teenager might have glandular fever! These guys don't even know the standard stuff, let alone the stuff not in their pharma sponsored textbooks.
What you said about paying attention to your feelings when studying is very important. There was a study where people wrote a story about shame and the participants suffered serious mind wandering as compared to controls. We naturally avoid feelings we think we can't manage. The shame participants took longer and wrote more. My guess is that is perfectionism as a response to shame. If people knew how to manage their feelings would we even have ADHD? Instead of a brain disease epidemic maybe we just have a population of people whose parents never taught them to contain their emotions (because they didn't know themselves).
I may have been a pretty useless student but I'm grateful I can research to my heart's content now and not just let any confident sounding idiot gaslight me. The study found that pride is an antidote to mind wandering and I guess I am proud to be ahead of the vet and doing the right thing by my pets and myself.
You are a blessing to the world, AMD. Thank you for all you do - your brilliance, the time you give to your community (aka fellow man), and the "risks" you take by exposing the dark. I know I can speak on behalf of your entire community -- we are all very grateful for YOU!! 💛🙏
Good quote.
Here's an example of someone who didn't do as described in that quote. Learning of it had a huge impact on me. Here's the example:
This woodworker living in Grenada when I lived there around 10 years ago, was in his 70s, had only an old pickup truck and his tools as possessions. No family. He'd done custom projects all over the world and I met him at a party where he described a Japanese woodworking joint that he used on a job in NYC to construct a long handrail. This fellow would do a job, get paid and then spend all his pay on his friends and having good times. Thus, his lack of possessions later in life. So, one afternoon he was sitting on a dock looking out at the setting sun, enjoying the view, the moment. He had just been kicked out of his apartment for nonpayment, he had no place to stay, he had no job or job prospects and he didn't know where his next meal was going to be. Yet, he was sitting on the dock watching the horizon. Anyone else would have been tearing their hair out, worrying about all the above and frantically trying to figure out what to do to solve the situation. Then, he gets a tap on the shoulder and turns to see a man standing behind him. The man says, " Are you so and so ? " He says yes. The man says, " I've been looking everywhere for you. I have a job that needs doing ASAP. You could start tomorrow. Are you interested ? " Our fellow says, " Yes. "
For me, it is the best example of trusting in " God ", no Ego involvement, that I've ever come across.
For me, it is the best example of being in the now that I've come across.
For me, it is the best example of someone living in love, not fear that I've come across.
As an undergraduate, I did research in synthetic organic chemistry with one prof, and theoretical chemistry with another. The first day with the prof in synthetic chemistry, he handed me a couple of articles - one was in French, the other was in German. He asked me to translate both. The French article was easy, but I told the prof that I couldn't read German, at which point he leapt out of his chair and said "HOW IN HELL DO YOU EXPECT TO DO RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY AND NOT KNOW GERMAN?" and the he sat down, said "I'm going to enroll you in first semester German", called the chairman of that department and did precisely that. "We're two weeks into the semester, you'll have to catch up, but you should do fine." At the beginning of the next semester, he asked me how I did, I said "I got an A-/B+", he said "That's fine, now I'm going to enroll you in Scientific German (prerequisites two years of German and permission of the instructor... who was also the department chair)" and he did that. Two weeks after that, he hands me a book of 1500 name reactions - in German - and tells me I have two weeks to memorize it, after which on every Friday, he would pick three reactions at random, and ask me to give full details - and he did precisely that for the next three months... and I got the high "A" in the scientific German course. Knowing those reactions and their details was an invaluable part of really learning organic chemistry - you have to know the existing components before you can make new ones, so to speak... During my two years with Professor Albert Burgstahler (RIP) we had numerous pre-meds come through the group, they were there to "check a box". They were great memorizers, for a while, but the memorized material just didn't stick, which is why they had to take chemistry review courses for the MCAT, it was memorize, take the test, get the "A", and then forget it, because there was new stuff to be memorized and forgotten after the test and grade. Seven years later, I scored at the top of the class in my Advanced Organic Synthesis class in grad school, for my PhD.... in my case the knowledge stuck...
On the other hand, when I was getting my math degree, one of my fellow students was memorizing the trigonometry tables.....He was Japanese. I thought at the time that that was such a bizarre waste of time, as one could just look the needed information up.
The easiest way is to use a slide rule with trig scales -and there are characteristic values - π, π/2, π/3, π/4, π/6, which can be memorized, and then you can do interpolation. Trig functions are periodic and there are interpolation formulas available - and you can model other periodic functions using trig functions - for some fun, try: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TrigonometricFittingAndInterpolation/
I think your Japanese fellow student was putting something over on you
Maybe so, but I remember being shocked at how serious he was about it. This is back in the late 60s. I thought at that time, " Why use your brain to parrot stuff instead of thinking through things ? " For example, history. Why memorize dates instead of learning something about the reasons behind certain actions, so that maybe one could learn not to repeat some and to augment others ? Besides, I've come to realize that history isn't what we've been told/taught. That I really don't know anything. But, in order to function in this "fear-based" reality, I have my little set of beliefs/assumptions that I use until something comes along that causes me to modify my belief system.....
Adaptation is a prerequisite for survival.
We are all thankful for you!
Excellent and very useful article They are based in logical and ancestral science and wisdom
AMD, you've done so much to help folks, it is necessary to give thanks to you, for enabling the people to take charge of their health, in a dangerous world overladen with untrustworthy, and witless advocates that serve themselves, instead of those in need of real healthcare.
Thanksgiving is a Christian tradition. The purpose of the 'holyday' is to acknowledge the providence of God, our Creator, and His Son, Jesus, our only salvation from this dastardly, evil excuse for a civilization, and show some gratitude to the One who made our lives possible, complete with all the blessings from above we receive daily, often not even noticed.
I am, therefore quite intrigued by your assertion that "luck" played a part in your success. I quote you here... "Likewise, I feel many of the things that happened for me in life were entirely due to luck..."
and here... "Much of that capacity was entirely luck..." (regarding the capacity to remember large volumes of information).
God provided us with His testimony, the Bible, and provided witnesses of that testimony. Many have given their lives, asserting that the testimony is true, and took death before dishonoring God.
The Bible says that man chooses his way, and God guides his steps. (Proverbs 16:9, KJV).
It is quite apparent to me, that you have served God in your career, using the gifts God gave you, and the guidance God gave you. You have not acknowledged this fact though, in this article, on the day of Thanksgiving.
Luck has little to do with your success... in my opinion. Many would agree with me, that YOU, AMD, are indeed a gift from God, to the world, to help in the fight against evil. Medical cartels are evil. Love of money is the root of ALL evil.
In that tenor, and on that note, I would assert that everyone, this thanksgiving, should give thanks that you made the efforts to accomplish something that few have, and were sent from God to do this, and that you faithfully served in your vocation/profession for good. Thankworthy.
Likewise, AMD, thanks is due the Lord, God Almighty, for your commendable success. "All good things come from God". It would be fitting, in my opinion, for you to give thanks to God for your successes, rather than to "luck".
Google AI supports my opinion: "The King James Version (KJV) verse that encapsulates the idea that "all good things come from God" is James 1:17, which states: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." This verse emphasizes that all goodness and perfection originate from God, who is described as the "Father of lights" and is unchanging. Other related verses support this, such as those describing God as the source of wisdom, strength, and provision, and affirming that all things work together for good for those who love Him, as stated in Romans 8:28."
Further, AMD, it is arguable, using your graph, that the further America removes from the Lord, and His laws and precepts, the worse the outcome.
Also, regarding understanding: God gives understanding only to His children... the wicked will never understand. I can attest that some folks I have worked with were great with rote memory, but had little actual skill, and even less understanding. They were a danger to work with in my Profession. They could study hard enough to pass written tests, but lacked the CRITICAL performance skills later on.
I have, historically, noted that the best doctors are indeed those who are also good mechanics... understanding is a must in mechanics, and many doctors, as you note, are not very good at understanding. Algorithms are not comparable to understanding, in real life scenarios, when intelligence and understanding may save the day, and lives.
Regarding learning and problem solving, I too, as you have, found that taking a nap has often been the path to solving a difficult engineering problem. Wake up relaxed, and the answer is right there, clearly. It actually is cost effective and good time management to rest when needed. The Bible supports this view also, as does Google AI Overview:
"Ecclesiastes 10:15 (KJV) means that the toil of a fool is so exhausting because they lack wisdom and direction, leaving them bewildered and unable to complete even simple tasks. It's a metaphorical expression for how foolish, misguided effort leads to utter weariness and failure, contrasting with the focused, effective labor of a wise person. The verse illustrates the futility of working without divine guidance or proper planning, ending in confusion instead of accomplishment."
I note the AI comment about "divine guidance". Wisdom is a gift from God, valued more than rubies, in fact. Anything done without God is doomed for failure.
So it is incumbent upon me, your humble subscriber, to make note, and counsel you AMD, in this matter. Your work is phenomenal... and thanks needs to be given to God, for His grace, mercy and love, to have made you so valuable that you are the number one medical SubStack author, physician, and healer, excepting God, of course.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, and to all your subscribers.
That was why I said I felt I had a spiritual obligation to reciprocate that "luck"
An absolutely beautiful and true read. 🙏
Love this. I share alot of similar ideas & views.
Very good post!
"Better to die once than a thousand times".
Not sure where that quote is from, but it goes to heart of your piece.
Thank you very much!
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Thank you AMD!! I have a praise. I went to bed and woke up pain free (mostly always neck and head) for the first time in a long long time. My diet was pretty inflammatory for 2 days lol, i read and had screen time galore. The only thing different was new niacinimide and a new omega 3!! I have 6 herniated discs, had fractured my c 2 at 25 and have had 4 joint replacements from arthritis. I did surf pretty hard on tues and wed (took creatine those days too...new) and did lots of squats and abs with stand up paddleboarding. I was emotionally drained thinking of the guardsmen and their families...I'll take it though. I'm so happy to wake up with no pain! Oh yeah, thanks to you, i remembered my chia seeds and vibration plate on the days i surfed!
Thank you for your articles. I enjoy each and every one of them and have gained a wealth of information that I try to pass on. I am a person that is highly sensitive to medicines so I always try to go the natural route as much as possible. Plus I tell people that God forbid something happens and they can’t get their “drugs” you better have a back up plan.