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We expose daffy doctors and bad medicine, And there are not enough hours in the day to keep up with it all.

Over the years I've made it a career to write and lecture on the absolutely stunning particulars of rotten medical shenanigans. It is a jaw-dropping fact that the typical American citizen - with all the power and convenience of electronic info at their fingertips - remain resolutely clueless about the monstrous swathe of carnage thousands of bad doctors carve right through the heart of society. Here's the ugly fact: bad healthcare kills 200+ people every single day.

My EMS partners & I have responded to more doctors' offices after medical screw-ups, than any of us can count. The ridiculous lab coat antics never stop. Neither are they often disciplined. The typical state medical board is an embarrassment in their refusal to mete out appropriate discipline.

As a 35-year Paramedic, I've kept notes on serious physician misbehavior for decades. I began my note-taking in the late 1970s when one of our most popular guest speakers - Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald - failed to show up for our neuro-trauma lecture one morning at UCSD La Jolla. He had just been convicted of butchering his wife and 3 children.