"For such a time as this..."

Those are the words of Mordecai to his orphaned cousin Esther when he was urging her to appear uninvited before the king to plead the plight of her…

Sep 13 • 

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April 2025

A Physician's Rebuttal...

to Rev. Dr. Gregory Poland's "Seven Lessons on Public Health and the Local Church"

Apr 15 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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February 2025

"Ask your doctor if deprescribing is right for you."

I’d venture a guess that many of my readers won’t have heard of the word deprescribing. As physicians, we’re generally trained to prescribe, not…

Feb 8 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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August 2024

Summer Reflections...

It’s been 5 months since my last post…what can I say?!

Aug 10, 2024 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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March 2024

Medicine's Return to Paternalism

Reflections at Midpoint (Part 1)

Mar 11, 2024 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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January 2024

No Stopping or Standing

Reflections on January 1st

Jan 1, 2024 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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December 2023

Light Shining in Darkness

Between this morning’s Christmas Eve service where we sang a lovely anthem entitled “Bethlehem of Noblest Cities” (ending with the words “thou alone the…

Dec 24, 2023 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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17 Million...

That’s the number of people who have died so far worldwide from the “safe and effective” Covid jabs.

Dec 6, 2023 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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November 2023

What if...?

I told LuAnne this morning that I was going to do a Stack today entitled “What if…?” It was going to be a thread of about 25 random thoughts, posed as…

Nov 8, 2023 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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October 2023

To Bulldoze or Not to Bulldoze; That Is the Question.

Tree-huggers used to lie down in front of bulldozers to prevent a tree from being cut down in the name of environmental conservation.

Oct 23, 2023 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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Deo Volente (D.V.), tr. "God Willing"

My father was ordained a deacon in the conservative Mennonite church when I was six.

Oct 17, 2023 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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September 2023

"Even When He Is Silent"

The following words were found written on the wall of a concentration camp in Cologne, Germany following World War II:

Sep 22, 2023 • 

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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