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John Livingston

Skin in the Game

Successful people in any walk of life understand that it is more difficult to deal with success than it is with failure. It has been proven statistically that if a good golfer makes a birdie on a hole, the chance of the next hole being a bogey is increased. Great businessmen know that the moment […]

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“The Real Anthony Fauci”

Below you will find a link to the movie based on Robert Kennedy’s book, The Real Anthony Fauci. If you want to know the truth about Covid, you need to watch this movie which has been banned just about everywhere. The makers of this movie released it on October 18, 2022, online for free, because […]

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John Livingston

An Apology Is Due

Long before Covid, before The Affordable Care Act (ACA)—Obama Care, long before Al Gore and Global Warming, there has been a flight from integrity in the scientific publishing community. It started back in the mid-seventies in academic medicine when “the way to promotion and pay” shifted from fee for service and taking care of sick […]

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Protocols for Death?

The Gem State Patriot would like to thank Viki Purdy, Mila Wood, and Laura Demeray for their efforts in bringing us this video on Victims of Pandemic Policy & Law. Here is a link to the video presentation which is quite lengthy but it is worthwhile watching. In several previous articles, we have written about […]

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John Livingston

Adjusting for the Failures of Management

There is much to learn about our world when we examine different businesses and how basic economic principles apply to situations outside of the world of politics. Any person who has planned for a family budget, or run a business or a farm or ranch, understands that future unintended consequences and opportunity costs need to […]

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UPCOMING EVENT: Idaho Victims of Pandemic Policy & Law

Monday September 26, 2022 9am-6pm Nampa Civic Center311 3rd St S Nampa, ID 83651 Come join us for a listening event, to learn about the effects of the past two years on people’s lives, their professions, their health, and their families. Listen and communicate with national experts on medical related pandemic policy, biology, treatments, and […]

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John Livingston

Questions That Need To Be Answered

For the past several months I have called for an out brief by State Officials of the Covid Response in Idaho. I respectfully asked for what has traditionally for the past 130 years in medicine been referred to as a Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) review of the State and local health districts response to the […]

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John Livingston

Is Money more important than Medicine?

Thank you to Jann Higdem in helping me with the collection and review of the data included in this article. There is so much that went wrong with the Covid response strategies and very little is being reported about out briefs or after-action reports or clinical MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY reviews. Mitigation strategies failed. Vaccinations—my family […]

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John Livingston

Moral Distress and the Corruption of Power

Andrew Jameton in his book published in 1984 Nursing Practice: The Medical Issues, described the conflict that nurses experience during medical dilemmas. “Moral distress arises when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of action”. These words were written forty-eight years prior to […]

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John Livingston

Organized Medicine — Organized Corruption and Tuskegee Revisited

Organized medicine in all the modern Western Countries over the past 100 years has been at best progressive and in selected instances fascist in its application of moral and ethical standards. For conservatives, the predicate for any policy position or legal edict can be found in Biblical and Natural Law Principles. We look backwards to […]

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John Livingston

Fearless Warriors

A person with a “Warrior Spirit” is one who is willing to do everything within their power to achieve an outcome. A warrior is fearless, a warrior thinks little about “risks and rewards”, especially as they pertain to themselves. A warrior trains, takes responsibility for their actions, and is truthful to themselves and others. A […]

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John Livingston

Experts — Judgement — Wisdom

Over the weekend it was reported on Medscape that Minnesota Republican Gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen was once again being investigated by the Minnesota State Board of Medicine because of his politically incorrect and contrarian though well supported positions regarding Covid mitigation policy. Dr. Jensen is a family practitioner with many years of experience, certainly many […]

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