Dr. Lanny Johnson, MD – Page 12 – What is Dr. Lanny Up To?

What is Dr. Lanny Up To?

What am I up to?

Dr Lanny March 26, 2012

Thank you for asking. A blog seemed like the best way to answer this question on a regular basis. In addition, this blog provides a means for me to keep track in an organized fashion of what I am up to.

The information will be in one place for recording memoirs and historical events. It will be a place to document the present and consider the future.

I expect to regularly make entries concerning various categories: physician/surgeon; medical research and development; the golf adventures and Life. You may see a recent post or follow the topic that might interest you.

Let me know what you think as this blog will becomes my “Lectronic Legacy” in what ever time remains.

Answering the frequently asked question (FAQ) of what am I up to now?

Dr Lanny March 20, 2012

A BLOG seemed the best and most efficient means of answering the FAQs on a regular basis. It might be said that I wear multiple hats or have many interests. Discovery in medicine will always be the main topic. However there are other categories; Golf Adventures, Inventions, and some Christian writings. Hopefully the BLOG will be a format to tell what I am up to in each of these main endeavors. It seems almost daily there are interesting events; at least to me. Perhaps the events may be of interest to others.

I want to make it clear, I am not retired. Retirement it is bad for one’s health. I concluded my clinical practice in 1995, but work regularly in these various endeavors. I do not see anywhere in the Bible where retirement is to be desired or realized. I have told my daughters that I will not be speaking at my retirement party.

From time to time I will answer publicly herein those questions that recently surfaced and may be of general interest. I will not be recording what I had on my hot dog at a ball game, let alone focus on mundane events.

I trust I will accomplish the intended goal of answering “What am I up to?”

Mother Earth or Father God?

Dr Lanny April 28, 2020

4/29/2020: I saw today that Michael Moore invoked the name of mother earth as controlling or affecting events in this world. If one is to accept mother earth, would it not be logical to at least grant a similar position of authority to Father God?

Pence Misses the Mark

Dr Lanny April 28, 2020

4/29/2020: VP Pence by not wearing a mask at Mayo Clinic visit today was not an error in health care, it was an error in his Christian doctrine. He refused to submit to authority of the Mayo Clinic at which he should have submitted as guest at their house. If they were visiting him then he has the liberty to do as he pleases, but not there. Jesus equates submission to authority with the maximal level of faith in the story of the Roman centurion. (Matthew 8:5-13) Even this gentile Roman by equating authority with faith was declared to have more faith than the existing religious community of the day.

Data Driven?

Dr Lanny April 23, 2020

4/23/2020: “Everything is data driven.” However we have no data on the future. What we have from health care modeling has not been very accurate. So much for data! 🙂

Time well spent

Dr Lanny April 23, 2020

4/23/2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaD43R-g3dk. This video goes slow and deliberate. It takes time and patience to sit through the hour or more it lasts. However, I have not heard so much contemporary relevant truth in one place. It was spoken prophetically in 1992 and again to me today.

I know Derek Prince’s teaching. I had and still have every audio tape (yes tape) he made back in the day (sixties). His teaching changed me then and now.

Please take the time.

Borrowing your way out of debt?

Dr Lanny April 14, 2020

4/14/2020: It appears that the prevailing government principle that it is possible to borrow oneself out of debt. Will they be suspending the law of gravity?

Yesterday, today and again tomorrow the government, business and individuals have increasing debt. More debt tomorrow than today and on and on. How does that work?

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Record-government-and-corporate-debt-risks-15210446.php

The government can print the money. They can tax or allow for inflation.
Most likely there will be inflation for business and individuals and increased taxation. Will we need wheelbarrows instead of wallets as in Germany years ago to go shopping?

A forgotten ancient proverb says “Owe no one anything but to love them!”

Dr. Fauci’s argument critique

Dr Lanny April 14, 2020

4/14/2020: Dr. Fauci’s argument discrediting the malaria drug for coronavirus patients is somewhat misleading. It is true that the randomized double blinded studies are the gold standard in medical science research. It is also true the hydroxychloroquine has been used for more than 50 years in other conditions with minimal complications. There are published studies in peer reviewed journals from France of the successful use in COVID-19 patients.

However, Fauci knows better, but ignores the fact that historical controls are a valid means of producing valid reliable data. For example, if it is known that a given condition results in 100% mortality in 6 weeks even with the present treatments. This forms a historical control. The result is that everyone dies.

With his historical control, a known medicine is given according to law where the doctor patient relationship allows a licensed doctor to prescribe an “off label” drug. An “off label” drug is one approved for another condition. In the best judgement of the doctor and the informed consent of the patient the medicine is given. This is legal and medically ethical. That is what is being done with hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.

Back to my example. When a series of medically well-defined patients have been followed for 6 weeks with the “off label” drug and 50% live it is accepted as valid research based upon the historical control. Only bureaucratic doctors who do not or perhaps never went face to face with a patient would withhold a potential safe reasonable treatment waiting for FDA approval.

What is being done in practice and benefiting patients with “off label” drug is legal, ethical and scientifically sound.

Dr. Lanny