Archive - Life In Long Term Care Land

"No Kings" and Older Adults as the Progressive Movement's New, Geriatric Red Guard.

Since the left has been increasingly losing the youth - radicalizing the geriatric set seems to be the only card they have left. On visible display…

Jun 16

May 2025

For the Hur Interview, did Biden have Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or Dementia?

MCI sufferers can function at work at a normal level, just need extra effort to do so. Despite Biden's lapses during the Hur interview - was this him?

May 25

Taboo Words and the Alpha Taboo

Musings on recent internet events re. "The Word of Power," some strange phenomenon occasionally seen in the traumatically brain injured, & what it means…

May 13

April 2025

The Long Shadow of the Coronapanic: The LTC Nursing Shortage of 2024 and Beyond

The Coronapanic caused a massive nursing shortage in LTC. Unlike in other practice areas of nursing (ICU nursing, pediatrics, etc.), LTC nursing has yet…

Apr 18

March 2025

Living in a Blue Area: Playground Politics to Cancel Culture

Why Metaphorically Nonviolent Resistance - Nonparticipation - Is often the Best Response if you find yourself in an anti-Trump struggle session

Mar 8

February 2025

Psychologically Surviving Working in the Managerial State 2019-now

As a doc who has worked for many years in a highly government regulated medical institution I feel I am in a good position to comment on this

Feb 9

January 2025

How Will the Trump Administration Treat Older Adults?

The US's aging demographics have been repeatedly papered over by debt. These problems may likely come to a head under the Trump administration. A…

Jan 20

November 2024

The Vindication of Dr. Bhattacharya and Team Reality

Jay Bhattacharya and Jeffrey Tucker were some of the first people I reached out to when I when I felt completely alone, helpless, and despondent. This…

Nov 29, 2024

October 2024

The Death of the 60-40 Portfolio Could Kill Your Retirement if you Don't Prepare

My thoughts on the age-old investment advice and why it may be critically relevant for middle aged and older investors nearing retirement

Oct 15, 2024

September 2024

"Masturbatory Insanity" Panic of 1760s-1940s vs. "Trans Panic" of Today

Medicalized moral panics have a surprisingly long and sordid history in the Western World, and they seem to often target children

Sep 28, 2024

How Educated, Smart People Can Go Horribly Wrong & Cause Incalculable Damage

One of my favorite Substackers (@Gurwinder) coined this term "Fashionably Irrational Belief Systems" (FIBS) and it's perfect

Sep 21, 2024

August 2024

When will the Decolonolialists, Antiracists, and DEI People Come for Geriatrics?

An entire movement based on leveraging racialized class envy has seemed relatively slow to make its way to clinical geriatrics, but it won't last.

Aug 31, 2024

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