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You need to type 35 more of these.

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"Unfortunately, the best doctors aren't accepting new patients."

This is a false narrative if I ever heard one.

The quality of your care is determined by your geography and/or how good your insurance is.

"Oh your garbage HMO plan covers 2 counties in Texas but you need to get on over to Johns Hopkins because no one you've dealt with so far actually knows what they're talking about? Yeah, sorry there buddy. Enjoy dying."

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I recently read this NPR article which discusses the notion that a certain contagion might cause Alzheimer's.

Norins is quick to cite sources and studies supporting his claim, among them a 2010 study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that neurosurgeons die from Alzheimer's at a nearly 2 1/2 times higher rate than the general population.

Another study from that same year, published in The Journal of the American Geriatric Society, found that people whose spouses have dementia are at a 1.6 times greater risk for the condition themselves.

Do you have any thoughts on whether there might be a germ component to Alzheimer's?