Mark Crislip

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Mark Crislip, MD has been a practicing Infectious Disease specialist in Portland, Oregon, from 1990 to 2023. He has been voted a US News and World Report best US doctor, best ID doctor in Portland Magazine multiple times, has multiple teaching awards and, most importantly, the ‘Attending Most Likely To Tell It Like It Is’ by the medical residents at his hospital. His multi-media empire can be found at edgydoc.com.

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Mark Crislip

Mark Crislip, MD has been a practicing Infectious Disease specialist in Portland, Oregon, from 1990 to 2023. He has been voted a US News and World Report best US doctor, best ID doctor in Portland Magazine multiple times, has multiple teaching awards and, most importantly, the ‘Attending Most Likely To Tell It Like It Is’ by the medical residents at his hospital. His multi-media empire can be found at edgydoc.com.

A streetlamp glows at night, illuminating swirling trails made by flying insects, which create intricate patterns against the dark sky. A leafy tree is visible on the left edge of the image.

Politics and Regulation Science and Medicine

Infection Control/Infection Prevention

Summertime. And the living is easy. Janice Joplin has to be the best singer. Ever. There may be those in the comments who disagree, but remember, within the context of the blog, what I write is canon. Which is not the same as being true. Canon. Any-who. I spend summer on the front porch and rarely venture inside. Outside has had the...

Mark Crislip / June 17, 2025

Public Health

1799

“Give me your E. coli, your polio, your huddled Tuberculosis yearning to kill free.” Statue of Liberty, 2025 Originally I was not going to write a post this month. As this goes live, I am in Adelaide on a trip down under. When I was young, aka in my 50s, I would try and write a blog entry while traveling. It is...

Mark Crislip / May 20, 2025

Science and Medicine

Acupuncture Paradox?

Let's see. Let's put the chaise longues facing the ice berg. The blue and white of the ice are a nice focal point. We can alternate the chaise longue with Adirondacks for those that don't want to put up their feet. We should also have a few ottomans as well. Looks good. The band sounds nice; I always did like Autumn Dream.

Mark Crislip / April 15, 2025

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Herbs & Supplements Science and Medicine

Vitamin A, Infections and Measles

I have always had a bias towards the Appeal to Nature Fallacy: An Appeal to Nature Fallacy happens when someone argues that something is good, better, or more authentic simply because it’s natural, while brushing aside anything man-made as inferior or harmful. Or last my version of it. I have always thought of the human body as more or less tuned by...

Mark Crislip / March 18, 2025

X before. X after. WHere X = vaccination or science or public health or what you choose

Science and Medicine Vaccines

It’s the end of the world as I know it. And I feel fine.

Pondering the future of a few infections. As to the image, consider it a metaphor of before and after where Jesus is a stand in for science or public health or whatever you want him to be. Except a promoter of peace and helping the poor. Not in 2025 anyway. See https://www.bu.edu/sequitur/2016/04/29/handler-ecce/ for more.

Mark Crislip / February 18, 2025

Diagnostic tests & procedures Medical Academia Medical Ethics

Old Doctor Yells At Clouds

I’m at that age, 67 going in 68, where it is reasonable to yell at the clouds. Which, come to think of it, may be a good title for another collection of my SBM essays. Aging does indeed suck, but it is, usually, better than the alternative. As we, and by we I mean my family and me, age we get the...

Mark Crislip / January 21, 2025