Archive - Transcendental Reflections

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

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

August 2024

Summer Reflections...

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

Aug 10, 2024 •

Joel E. Yeager, MD

March 2024

Medicine's Return to Paternalism

Reflections at Midpoint (Part 1)

Mar 11, 2024 •

Joel E. Yeager, MD

January 2024

No Stopping or Standing

Reflections on January 1st

Jan 1, 2024 •

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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

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

November 2023

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

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

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

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

"WHO will never have dominion over what I do as a practitioner with patients in my practice."

Sep 20, 2023 •

Joel E. Yeager, MD

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