Porn, huh?

Let’s talk about public health crises, shall we? So, about a year ago Utah’s governor declared Porn as a public health crisis.  Why is this a crisis? There are a dozen things that more effect on health than viewing porn and does that negatively impact health? Well, I guess if you whack it or rub …

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This is why we can’t have nice things…

So, in Utah HB 399 was introduced this session to ban conversion therapy in Utah.  Similar legislation has gained some momentum across the country and is currently the law in 13 states as well as in some municipalities where the state does not have those protections in place. The bill was introduced by Rep. Craig …

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Try as I may…

I quite often spend time just shaking my head at folks. Grown adults that should know better and yet the crap that comes out of their mouths would fertilize a farm field. Blood exchange, giving an older person a younger person’s blood to help invigorate them? Ok, seriously when they fired up the large hadron …

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Please don’t diagnose addiction…

Let me say this situation is the latest in a stream of crap that has rolled by me in my professional life. So tonight, a patient presented in the ER, that was reported to the ER physician by his wife and his bishop, as having a substance use problem. For those of you not in …

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