Recommendations

UNUSUAL THINGS THIS MONTH:

 Kernie rehabilitated post operatively such that she is going to Europe this month.

Mark Volman died on the day I saw “The Roses”. Think opening song.

I had three doctor visits in three days, a first. All good!

MOVIES The Penguin Letters (Netflix). A period piece (Argentina in the 70’s) in English, dry wit and a quirky story line about an English teacher in a boys private school.

PODCASTS: The Medical Matchmaking Machine: Radiolab. Fascinating: young doctor comes down with a terminal diagnosis and does his own research which conflicted with the medical orientation of his doctors and finds a drug that helped him and a decade later is alive to tell his tale; he is developing a matrix of drugs and potential effects on diseases.

ARTICLES: NYT editorial by the mayor of Chicago: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/trump-chicago-national-guard.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare  The Mayor of Chicago rebuts the notion that the root causes of crime are eradicated by military/police force.  I would add, it is also unaffordable in the long term. He suggests Evidence Based Solutions…….

A Massive Vaccine Experiment

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/09/vaccines-rfk-states-covid/684121/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=flipboard&utm_campaign=health. This mostly breaks down RFK’s efforts to blow up a system that took a century to build-and the state-by-state experience that will determine how public confidence (not to mention predictions of reality) is tested. The recent Florida abandonment of vaccine mandates is a bold move that will be scrutinized for years coming. Lastly, I have never understood why a religious exception makes sense for children attending a secular institution—the point in school is herd immunity and religion does not confer that to anyone…..