Dr. Bow Tie
What's Up With RSV?
I started this blog as a means of combating pandemic disinformation, and it's obviously focused a lot on COVID-19. I've dabbled with...
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
- Nov 4
- 2 min
What’s Your Voting Plan?
Election Day is next Tuesday, November 8th. What is your voting plan? Voting has never been more important. Since 2016 the political...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Nov 1
- 3 min
The Imposter Syndrome I Didn’t Know I Had (Originally Posted to WIMSBlog)
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Women in Medicine Summit back in September. It was such a fun and enlightening experience! I...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Oct 27
- 3 min
COVID-19: A NEW VACCINE!
I actually wrote this back in July, but it's been, as my good friend Dr. Zachary Rubin puts it, Disinformation Whac-A-Mole and my posts...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Oct 24
- 6 min
DID A PFIZER EXEC SAY THE VACCINES DON'T WORK? DO THEY NOW REQUIRE COVID VACCINE FOR SCHOOL?
There are a couple of newer outrage touchpoints making the rounds on social media. Both are being propagated by the usual...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Oct 4
- 4 min
COVID-19: BREAST MILK, MENSTRUATION, AND AVOIDING INFECTIONS
These days, there is a new level of vigilance regarding infectious disease. We still have a global pandemic going on with COVID-19, as...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Sep 29
- 2 min
In Which People Are Used As Political Pawns to Exaggerate the Immigration Crisis
So two weeks ago Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Texas governor Greg Abbott did a despicable thing. They took groups of legal asylum...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Sep 28
- 5 min
Trainees Are People, Too
Medical education is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it's an incredible expanse of knowledge that grows with each passing year, and it...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Sep 12
- 5 min
COVID-19: BIVALENT BOOSTERS ARE HERE!
As the pandemic has worn on and new variants have emerged, vaccine effectiveness has been under close watch. The original vaccines...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Aug 30
- 2 min
No, Masks Have Not Been Shown To Inhibit Child Development
Today I'm talking about a Tweet from Dr. Leana Wen, a physician who's touted herself as a public health leader, but has since abandoned...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Aug 28
- 2 min
On Student Loan Forgiveness
I have over $200,000 in student loans. None of them are from undergrad, and I am privileged to make enough that I won’t qualify for any...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Aug 19
- 5 min
COVID-19 CDC Guideline Update: "We're Tired of Arguing, Do Whatever You Want"
The CDC released updated guidelines this weekend regarding COVID-19. They are...frustrating. Dr. Leana Wen, former public health...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Jul 20
- 5 min
COVID-19: Breaking Our Public Health Promises To Ourselves
A few weeks ago I shared maps of the CDC's "Community Levels" (the newer, politically-driven, toned-down version of the map to make it...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Jul 15
- 2 min
A Little Girl From Ohio
TW: Rape, sexual assault The 10-year-old girl from Ohio who had to go to Indiana for an abortion is literally the reason these...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Jul 1
- 6 min
The Supreme Court Has Blood On Its Hands
A lot of women and people with uteruses are going to suffer, and many will die, because of the decision of the Supreme Court on June...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- Jun 20
- 5 min
COVID-19: FINALLY! VACCINES FOR <5!
(This previously began with a post about Novavax, but I’ll make that a separate post). After months of waiting, parents of small children...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- May 30
- 2 min
I finished reading The 1619 Project two days ago.
As I read, I became more convinced that anyone who decries Critical Race Theory doesn’t understand what it is. I look at the racist...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- May 24
- 1 min
Effective Gun Control Reform. Now. Nothing Else Is Enough.
18 children are dead, along with 2, possibly 3 adults in Texas. This just on the heels of 10 people at a grocery store in my city of...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- May 23
- 6 min
Fed. Is. Best.
You have probably heard by now that there is a formula shortage in the United States. Abbott Nutrition, one of the biggest formula...
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Dr. Bow Tie
- May 20
- 4 min
COVID-19: Treatment Updates (Or, What Happens If I Get COVID Now?)
In my most recent COVID post, I touched on the dismissive phrasing of "We don't need to worry about COVID as much now, because we have...
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