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Jon Hislop, MD, PhD

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Jon Hislop, MD, PhD

@HislopMD

Physician. Specialist in family medicine. Educator. #Digitalhealth. Science. Oh, & uh...no patience for those who push quackery.

North Vancouver

Joined March 2010

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Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Jul 12, 2018
Antibiotics aren’t ‘strong’ or ‘weak’. They are: - Indicated or not indicated - Broad or narrow spectrum - Dosed correctly or incorrectly What matters is effectiveness, not ‘strength’...
Louie Mantia, Jr.
@Mantia
Jul 1, 2018
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Mar 14, 2022
Here are all the diseases that have been wiped out by ‘natural’ herd immunity: No diseases. The end. 🤨
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Jun 10, 2020
Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Varicella vaccine The Hepatitis vaccine The Pertussis vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine 👍😃
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Jan 20, 2022
Can we try at least as hard to keep Covid out of schools as we do to keep peanut butter out of schools? That would be nice. 🤨
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Dec 22, 2020
Until you are ready to get on a plane with 199 other people, knowing that 1 of you will be randomly selected to be shoved off mid-flight, don’t talk to me about your “99.5% survival rate”. 🤨
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Aug 11, 2018
Public service announcement... The following words are likely being used by those who will take your money but not improve your health. Detox Organic Cleanse Superfood Antioxidant Energy-boosting Immune-boosting Anti-inflammatory-food & perhaps most of all: Natural
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Jan 7, 2022
I’ve seen *way* more adults complain about kids wearing masks, than I’ve seen kids complain about wearing masks themselves. 🤨
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Jan 9, 2021
A brief reminder that if vaccines could alter your DNA we would have used them to cure a few dozen genetic diseases by now. 🤨 Thank-you.
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Dec 5, 2021
“What about the long term effects of vaccines??!?” Viruses that cause new problems years after infection: - chicken pox - hepatitis B - hepatitis C - HIV - HPV - EBV - CMV - HHV8 - HTLV1 Vaccines that cause new problems years after administration: None. 🤨
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Nov 2, 2019
Anti-vaxxers: “Skipping vaccines isn’t like not using seatbelts! That’s a bad analogy!!” Fine. Skipping vaccines is even more like drinking & driving. It’s doing something risky with your health while thoughtlessly endangering others...& you even tell others to do the same. 👎🤨
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Jul 14, 2023
Naturopaths: “Our training is just like a medical doctors’!”...🤗 Sure...you’re just missing medical school, residency, board exams, a single day in the e.r., ICU, CCU, any other wards, & ever being taught by a real medical doctor. Other than that...it’s like...identical! 🤨
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Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Jul 8, 2023
Okay, let’s once again review a basic medical concept… …here’s a list of all the viruses that are healthy for children to get: No viruses. End of list. 🤨
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Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Feb 24, 2019
Convinced a vaccine-hesitant mom to let me give her kid their MMR shot 1 mo ago. We now have a local measles outbreak! They came back in recently for additional catch-up vaccination, ...& she thanked me repeatedly! 😃 Know what? She’s a hero too...for overcoming her fears! 👍
Jon Hislop, MD, PhD
@HislopMD
Dec 10, 2018
Naturopaths: “Our training is just like a real doctors’!”...🤗 Sure...you’re just missing medical school, residency, board exams, a single day in the e.r., ICU, CCU, any other wards, & ever being taught by a real medical doctor. Other than that...it’s like...identical! 🙄😂🙄🤪