Francisco Cepeda

“John D. Rockefeller—realizing he could use by-products from his oil production to create pharmaceuticals—heavily funded medical schools throughout the United States to teach a curriculum based on the intervention-first Halsted model. An employee of Rockefeller’s was tasked to create the Flexner Report, which outlined a vision for medical education that prioritized interventions and stigmatized nutritional, traditional, and holistic remedies.”
― Casey Means, Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

“One of the most cited doctors in medical school classes is Dr. William Stewart Halsted, a Johns Hopkins founding physician in the early 1900s who created the concept of residency. To Halsted, medical education was “a superhuman initiation into a superhuman profession that emphasized heroism, self-denial, diligence, and tirelessness.”
― Casey Means, Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

“If Middletown had changed little by the time I was born, the writing was on the wall almost immediately thereafter. It’s easy even for residents to miss it because the change has been gradual—more erosion than mudslide. But it’s obvious if you know where to look, and a common refrain for those of us who return intermittently is “Geez, Middletown is not looking good.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“The film is a prime example of when Hollywood gets it all right.”
― Ralph Macchio, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me