C_Wags

There's been a lot of talk recently about the need to further monetize reddit in order to ensure it's financial longevity - what kinds of steps do you think need to be taken? Do you have any ideas or goals about how to approach this?

Thanks for taking the time to share. I’m a resident physician, have logged a lot of time in the ICU and am going into critical care medicine for my fellowship training.

I see that you don’t have any formed memories while you were intubated and sedated, so two questions:

1) do you have recollection of being extubated or placed on “sedation holidays” basically where we cut your sedation and see where you are at in terms of neurological status?

2) did you end up requiring a tracheotomy since you were intubated for so long?

I hope you’re doing well OP. Post-ICU is a long road to recovery. I’m very happy to see the worst is, at least, behind you.

Good afternoon Dr. Stein, and thank you for taking the time to do this AMA.

When asked about your opinions on vaccines, you had this to say back in a July piece that ran in the Washington Post:

"Like any medication, they also should be — what shall we say? -- approved by a regulatory board that people can trust. And I think right now, that is the problem. That people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence.

As a medical student and future physician, I'm a little alarmed that you were seemingly flippant about the CDC, in whom the public needs to place trust in order for several public health initiatives to be successful. It appears to myself, and other people in the medical community, that you are pandering to the liberal faction of anti-vaxxers for political purposes. I think statements like these can be misleading, especially when vaccines like MMR, DPT and influenza have been studied exhaustively with CDC oversight and proven time and time again to be just as safe as other available medications and treatments.

My question is thus: do you think running for president puts you at odds with your goals and aims as a physician, and how do you plan to balance your medical and political interests when making decisions on policy?

As I mentioned in my question in this thread, though, she panders to the anti-vaxx community on the left and loves to disparage the CDC - by eroding the public's faith in the CDC, she's working against many important public health initiatives they oversee. I'm curious if she's always been anti-FDA and anti-CDC when she was a practicing physician, or only now when it is politically favorable.

This is the obvious and correct answer