If David Bowen got the policy pep talk, Michael Myers, the senator's staff director, got the strategy talk.

And he basically gave me the outline over the phone on his way to surgery of how we were to accomplish Obamacare.

Unite the factions.

And his final point was, this is going to be hard.

So just be ready, be prepared.

This is going to be hard.

Kennedy brought his staff director, Michael Myers.

And I can remember meeting in the conference room, but there was a farewell party for the secretary going on down the hall.

We could hear it.

They went round and round like this with the secretary for two hours.

Thompson was going back and forth from the party to the conference room to the party to the conference room.

And finally, he just dragged Senator Kennedy and Governor Romney into the farewell party so that they could enjoy the fun and give him a hearty farewell.

Ted Kennedy was

Do you think that there are any vaccines on the current schedule for children that where you think a reasonable physician could look at the evidence and say, oh, this one deserves more discussion? Or should it just be as a doctor, as a pediatrician, especially you just say, yeah, we need to do all these vaccines?

So I guess the simple answer would be no, I do not believe.

that any FDA-approved vaccines that are currently preventing children from getting 18 preventable infectious diseases deserve a second look by doctors.

I think that the, first of all, the FDA itself would not issue a license and would certainly not preserve a company's ability to manufacture its product if there were real safety or effectiveness concerns with any of the vaccines that it licensed.

So the consternation that you're getting about aluminum adjuvants or thimerosal or combination vaccines and the need to sort of split these into single dose measles, mumps, none of this has any basis in scientific evidence or fact.

To be honest, I'm not even sure what is driving this.

I don't understand what the partisan point is.

Do you, do you feel like if someone's already had an infection, potentially developed immunity, Would that change necessity for subsequent vaccinations or is natural immunity any different than vaccine immunity?

and genes and the epigenome that influence our immune responses so for listeners who may never have learned about immunology or perhaps haven't thought about it since high school can you start with a simple overview of the immune system and explain how the different components work together to protect us from

infection.

So like you, I'm, you know, half a century now into my formal training and the advances in understanding of the immune system and genetics, as you know, has increased several fold.

At its very basic level, and I would say just in my personal view, that the immune system is probably second to the central nervous system in terms of its complexity and importance to us as a species.

The immune system really allows us to survive in a world filled with germs and dangers.

People often don't think about this, but the first evidence or the first wall of the immune system is really your skin.

And so there are a number of physical barriers, chemical barriers like the stomach acid when you get sick.

Do you agree or disagree? Well,

... that whole situation?

So I think what you're speaking to...

And now we're six years away, and I think some of us may even have a little bit of amnesia about that time.

But I, I need to say a couple things about what we need to keep in perspective, right? So during the time we were going through the third coronavirus pandemic, right? Because we forget that in the early part of the century, the first SARS-CoV-2 caused a kind of a localized epidemic in China, and then we had in 2012 something called MERS, the, the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, which was mostly in Saudi Arabia.

These were all caused by coronaviruses.

But we had never seen the kind of outbreak that we saw, in our lifetime at least, with SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

And so we were basically, um, ma- kind of making the dance steps up as we were going along.

Do we, do we lose that then by doing vaccines too early?

Let's talk about some of the things that we wanted to talk about, which is what has changed in the dental marketing? How has AI affected things? So what has changed? What hasn't? Where do you see the future being when it comes to marketing? Kind of lay the land from the marketing perspective.

Yeah, times have changed since the Yellow Pages, I'm sure.

Obviously, with Google, the big thing is having a website, trying to rank well prominently for things like best dentist near me, cosmetic dentist.

There's things that you can do as part of search engine optimization to rank well on Google.

You obviously really hit big on reputation management, having amazing reviews.

That plays a huge part in pulling up.

Times have changed.

So if you had to kind of go over just a checklist of things that practice should be doing, how do you think the best way for them to become the obvious choice in the AI market is?

That is a little bit about my story.

So I pulled my talk with this catchy title, How I Went From Having a Serious Mental Illness to a Normality Without Any Treatment.

My lived experience, it's a bit unusual or atypical, and that's why I've given it that title.

I was a late bloomer when it came to same-sex feelings all through college and medical school, including being engaged for almost two years during my internship and the following year when I worked as an emergency medicine physician that was in Detroit, Michigan.

When my fiance and I broke up, it wasn't about sexual orientation confusion, actually.

That started a few months later.

I was in my mid-20s.

And there's only one way to conquer that stigma is to start doing

She

went to Metcalf.

I went to Metcalf.

We was not in the same classroom, same grade, same nothing.

Why say we went to the same school in high school? No, we...

You never met her.

She Facebooked me January 2015.

Yes.