Dr. Bow Tie
The Hardest I've Cried (Repost from MedPage Today)
It's been a while since I've posted here - most of my creative output has been going to TikTok/Reels, but I also have done some writing...
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Managing Health Expectations
A Hospitalist Sifts Through Disinformation
I'm Dr. Joseph Thomas. I am an M.D. and I work as a hospitalist in Western New York. I started writing long-form status updates on Facebook to sort through all the disinformation that was being bandied about regarding COVID-19. I needed a place to collect those posts, and I forgot how much I like regularly writing, even if it's not so much creative as it is exasperated. I'm going to try to be regular in my updates around my work schedule. Please get your vaccine, and for now, wear a mask indoors and in crowds - the pandemic is still ongoing.
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Dr. Bow Tie
Jun 291 min
2024 National Hospitalist Day Contest Winning Entry: Celebrating the Human in Hospitalist (and Patient)
Recently I submitted this essay to the Society of Hospital Medicine's HM Voices National Hospitalist Day Essay Contest. The theme was...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Jun 282 min
1st Presidential Debate 2024
I didn’t watch it live, but reviewing video -last night’s debate confirms a few things: One candidate is an old man who is a convicted...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Jun 13 min
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew: A Commentary
As we sit horrified at Israel’s firebombing of Palestinian’s supposed safe haven, Rafah, and Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed it as a “tragic...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Mar 93 min
SOTU 2024
I watched the State of the Union. I have my criticisms of Joe Biden, make no mistake. But once again, he puts to rest the myth that he...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Feb 247 min
Response: "Tough Love - NEJM Not Otherwise Specified, Episode 2.3"
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine put out an episode of one of its podcasts and posted it with a headline that it was...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Nov 9, 20231 min
President Biden Doesn’t Have Dementia
I’ve been seeing this every week since November of 2020, and I should have said something publicly (instead of just in personal...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Oct 24, 20233 min
RSV: Potentially Deadly - But Now a New Vaccines and a Monoclonal Antibody!
It’s that time of year! Fall is in full swing in the northern hemisphere and that means apple picking, hay rides, and gathering at...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Sep 29, 20236 min
COVID-19: Three Years Later (Pt. 5: UPDATE YOUR VACCINE!)
The public health emergency (PHE) has been officially declared over. Great - problem solved, right? Well, not quite. The pandemic has not...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Sep 28, 20234 min
COVID-19: Three Years Later (Pt. 4: MASKS AND MITIGATIONS)
TW: Suicide The public health emergency (PHE) has been officially declared over. Great - problem solved, right? Well, not quite. The...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Sep 27, 20233 min
COVID-19: Three Years Later (Pt. 3: LONG COVID)
The public health emergency (PHE) has been officially declared over. Great - problem solved, right? Well, not quite. The pandemic has not...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Sep 26, 20232 min
COVID-19: Three Years Later (Pt. 2: JUST THE FLU?)
The public health emergency (PHE) has been officially declared over. Great - problem solved, right? Well, not quite. The pandemic has not...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Sep 25, 20234 min
COVID-19: Three Years Later (Pt. 1: VARIANTS)
It's been three years since our world changed after a virus spread across the world and, over the course of two years, killed over one...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Sep 8, 20234 min
The Future of Hospital Medicine Is...Connected (Repost from The Hospitalist)
It's been a few months and my writing has been rather slow these days. This partly stems from the fact that I've been trying to write...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Jul 10, 20239 min
Transgender “Advantage” in Sports, And Other Myths
Transgender athletes are back in the news again. Admittedly, I'm not sure they ever left the news. But it resurged again when Lance...
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Dr. Bow Tie
May 11, 20237 min
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine
I wrote a post three years ago, about a month prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, about HPV Vaccines. I was just starting to do more...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Apr 25, 20235 min
On Dropping Mask Mandates in Hospitals/Healthcare Facilities
On April 20th, one of the hospital systems in which I work decided to follow the examples of area offices, some other hospital systems,...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Mar 8, 20236 min
COVID-19 Catch-Up: Straight From The Heart
I've been dealing with some writer's block lately. My last two posts took weeks to write, which is not normal for me. But as I look at...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Feb 24, 20236 min
Calling In My Fellow Christians
My birthday is this week. As has been the case the past few years, I have tried to reflect on myself and my world. Earlier this month, in...
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Dr. Bow Tie
Feb 2, 20237 min
Buffalo Blizzard 2022: Let’s Never Do That Again
If someone says the words "Buffalo, New York," odds are that if you do not live here, you think of either snow or the Bills. If someone...
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