Daily Archives: 08/08/2026
The Decline of Medical Ethics: Small Hospitals vs Corporate Healthcare
Time to introspect. 🙏🏼 I have been wanting to write this for a long time—not against any individual doctor or institution, but about a growing culture in healthcare that concerns me deeply. There was a time when medicine was primarily about patients, relationships, empathy and professional respect. Today, in many large corporate hospitals, healthcare increasingly […]
Bile acid sequestrants (resins)
Bile acid sequestrants (resins) — specifically colesevelam, cholestyramine, and colestipol — are the lipid-lowering agents contraindicated in severe hypertriglyceridemia because they can significantly raise TG levels. This is a well-established class effect: by interrupting enterohepatic bile acid recirculation, resins upregulate hepatic VLDL synthesis, worsening hypertriglyceridemia. They are generally contraindicated when TG ≥300–400 mg/dL and absolutely […]
deemagclinic
deemag and chest clinic 