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About Henry Smith

Henry F. Smith Jr. MD is a native of Northeastern Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the University of Scranton, and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Sleep Medicine.

He underwent post-graduate training in Internal Medicine at The University of Rochester, Rochester NY and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia

He is the Director of the Sleep Testing Program at the VA Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa as well as practicing pulmonary medicine at that facility.

Henry has long had a passion for protecting the environment, and in particular, the valuable ecosystems in the Northeastern Pennsylvania region. He was a founder of Defend our Watershed, a grassroots organization that organized to defend the former PG Energy watershed lands sold secretly to unknown buyers. Their efforts, along with the help of others, led to the protection of large tracts of this extraordinary property.

He is a frequent guest editorialist on topics of the environment, and healthcare, with local newspapers. He volunteers and lectures in the Pennsylvania state park system on photography as well as topics involving the natural world .

Dr. Smith has been involved with photography for over thirty years. He specializes in landscape photography of the eastern U.S, with a focus on Pennsylvania, the Adirondacks, and New England. His work has been used in diverse publications and has been featured in multiple galleries throughout the Northeastern U.S. His most recent book, Pennsylvania Seasons, is available through Amazon, Borders, and Barnes and Noble.

He is married to his college sweetheart, Catherine (Spitzer) Smith MD. They have two extraordinary children, Brigid Louise, and Henry Francis (Gus).

They reside in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, along the western border of the Poconos and in the high peaks region of the Adirondacks.

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Pandemics End?

The CDC, and NIH, manipulated the government, and the willing press, into supporting incredibly corrupt behavior. Prestigious medical journals, such as the Lancet, suspended their usual stringent review processes to publish fraudulent data. The regulatory agencies, and Pharma, acting in concert, punished non-doctrinaire opinions. They manipulated our academic institutions by the issuance and withholding of grant money.

The FDA is Broken

The FDA is broken. In a three-year span, they have morphed from a regulatory agency that set the standard for the world, to an illogical, incompetent, and apparently corrupt organization running interference for Big Pharma.

Covid Care Fiasco: The Lawrie-Hill Video

Published on the American Thinker March 15th, 2022 Let me tell a story. It details probably the most important event in the suppression of the drug Ivermectin for treatment of Covid-19 a medication that had the potential to have saved many lives. Dr. Teresa Lawrie is an MD, and the leader of the Evidence-Based Medicine…

Why Ivermectin was Disappeared

So what’s the difference between prescriptions written for an anti-bacterial, versus Ivermectin, which is an anti-parasitic agent, for a viral infection? Both primarily target infectious agents other than viruses. If anything, even it was futile therapy, Ivermectin is safer than the antibiotics discussed.  Yet it is the only medication that has been effectively banned

Our Bizzare Devotion to the Vaccine

In a sensible world, given this data, public health officials would quietly back away from the insistence on mass inoculation, and begin to feature therapeutics in their approach to Covid.

Viral post, December 23, 2021: My Omicron Infection

Since then, my main symptoms have been that of a rather annoying viral respiratory infection. There is some fatigue, a modest cough, but a lot of upper respiratory congestion and sneezing. Yesterday, at least in the morning, the symptoms might have prompted me to call off work (as if I weren’t busy) even without the quarantine requirements of Covid-19. Today I feel better. Symptomatically I would’ve gone back to work, albeit with a little self-pity.

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