Dr. Lane’s Thoughts LXXXVII

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Dr. Lane’s Thoughts LXXXVII

1) The supplement industry is, largely, a sham. Researchers estimate that around 90% of supplements are inaccurately labeled, and the FDA has little oversight of supplement manufacturing. Point blank, most supplements don’t work. 

2) Zohan Mamdani has my confidence to improve NYC  ont only the city but the United States is lucky to have him.

By now, many of you know my crush on Alexandria Ocasio-Castro.  That combination of beauty and accomplishments connected to that intelligence! She is a national treasure.  We are lucky that the face of real change in this country is such a pretty one.

3) In all situations of learning the one thing you always gain (besides the topic, which you might learn) is how to get through the program  In 5th grade you learn how to get through 5th grade.

Medical school is the same: you learn how to apply get accepted, and succeed in the difficult program.  Your real skill was getting into the program and then getting through it.

4) The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” 

~ Bob Moawad

5) Out of the many things that Trump has stated or suggested about his ‘incredibleness’ (leading his principal sycophant, Karoline Leavitt, to explain ‘what he meant’) is his supposition that he invented words and phrases that have been in the American or English language lexicon for many years, sometimes hundreds of years.

Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have invented or newly coined several words or phrases, even though all of them long pre‑date him in English.​

Notable words and phrases

  • “Fake” / “fake news”

    • Trump told Mike Huckabee that one of the “greatest” words he had “come up with” was “fake,” in the context of media coverage.​

    • He has also taken credit for inventing the term “fake news,” even though the phrase appears in print in the late 19th century and the word “fake” itself dates to the early 1800s.​

  • “Prime the pump” / “priming the pump”

    • In a 2017 interview with The Economist, Trump said of the phrase “we must prime the pump”: “Have you heard that expression before?… I came up with it a couple of days ago.”​

    • Reporters and linguists quickly noted that “prime the pump” has been used in English since at least the early 1800s and in an economic sense since the 1930s.​

  • “Equalizing” / “equalise/equalizing”

    • In 2025 remarks about drug pricing, Trump said, “Basically, what we’re doing is equalizing. There’s a new word that I came up with, which is probably the best word.”​

    • Coverage of the comments pointed out that “equalize” has been in English since the 1500s and that Trump himself had already used it in earlier speeches.​

Pattern in his claims:

  • Trump often frames common words or stock political phrases as if they are his creations or signature innovations, especially when discussing media, economics, or policy branding.​

  • Linguists and fact‑checkers consistently show that these words and phrases are centuries old or at least many decades older than his usage, with numerous prior printed examples.​

Trump’s need to embellish or lie about every part of himself will forever be a joke to the American people and a stain on the United States among all other countries, specifically those that speak or us English as their majority language.

6) I have read that the attraction of heroin is that it recalls the feeling you had when you were a newborn and felt secure and loved. That desire to return to that feeling is the basis of the addiction.

7) It is better to have a short life doing what you enjoy than a long life doing what makes you miserable every day.  If money is your motivation you will always be a slave to your own needs; better to have a life where the future has not yet been decided than a life where each day will be tedious and unrewarding.

8) Like most parents I want my children to have the best life (e.g. the life I couldn’t have due to poverty).  The problem is that I will. inevitably, create children who are spoiled and expect constant support and reinforcement.

We live in a world where our kids expect support until ‘the child’ is 50 years old!  If I become disabled or unable to provide I sincerely speculate that they will ship me up to the arctic to be cast away on an ice flow to die.  In this way they resemble their peers.

Their love is contingent on my constant outlay of giving to them.

9) 

  • Every husband feels he is a better husband than his wife deserves.
  • Every wife feels she is a better wife than her husband deserves.

10) I read this quote in the New York Times: The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates of any major industry in the country, second only to mining, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Add in drug overdoses, where construction workers die at a greater rate than workers in any other industry, and a bleak picture emerges of a population in crisis.

While there may be underlying issues about the person the article was about, it may also point to a larger existential crisis concerning blue-collar versus white collar work, rural versus urban life, college-educated versus trades-educated, and other issues that create the world of discomfort and anxiety many of us live in.

We can ask ourselves the question of whether it is better to skip college and get into a trade that will always be in demand (e.g. construction, carpentry, plumbing) or to go college and get trained in a program that may not offer jobs, opportunities, or advancement to a person with huge debts from getting the education.

Don’t look for an answer with me, or perhaps my own story is a tale of finding an answer; only you can decide.  I spent 17 years in various college programs accumulating degrees and exploring fields until I came upon one that I handled pretty badly: chiropractic medicine.  

It isn’t so much that I was a bad doctor but that I was never trained by anyone on how to get money out of patients using an ABN ( Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage) which allow me to seek money from the patient for whatever the insurance that they use doesn’t pay.  For most insurance, the insurer pays almost nothing of the billed care for chiropractic. This meant that I had to seek anywhere from 75% to 100% of my fee from the patient using this form.  The problem was that I had never learned how to use the form!


If the patient doesn’t pay me after receiving the bill then I have to seek the money through collections or the courts.  If you don’t do this then you are stuck with $45.00 for a patient visit or just taking a loss on the patient’s care.  Since I had never learned how to use an ABN form I NEVER sought this money from my patients!

In this way, chiropractic is a terrible profession to work in because your patients become your enemies because they don’t want to pay for a service they strongly feel should be paid for by the insurance that they paid for.  MD/DO have the same problem but they can afford a billing service because they have larger fees and have much more that they can collect.

The reason that I bring up the disaster that is chiropractic is to explain that insurance companies control the income of chiropractors.  This will never change because it is against the interests of the insurance companies to pay any medical professional for anything that they do and they have complete control over the payment process.

I have had a much better income for the last 10 years because I am a CDL medical examiner and get paid in cash for each exam that I do.  It is a difficult training to accomplish but it makes my relationship to my clients much more fair and upfront. 

Also, I love my population of truckers and workers.  These men and women are the true backbone of this country!

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