White House's Fever Dream Photoshoot

In their final episode of 2025, Drs. Salles & Burgart perform a brief examination of the Vanity Fair exclusive featuring Trump's new White House staff. Our physician hosts dissect the viral photoshoot that's causing more raised eyebrows than a Botox convention, with special attention to the inflammatory rhetoric surrounding Susie Wiles and her supporting cast of characters.The physicians perform a thorough examination of HHS cutting AAP funding while also funding an extremely unethical study of the Hepatitis B vaccine, news of HHS abandoning Hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for newborns, and Idaho’s anti-scientific tossing of school vaccine mandates (and Florida showing symptoms of the same). The doctors discuss ethical complexity in mitochondrial risk assessment for anesthesia in the setting of bombing of boats off the coast of Venezuelan.Resources:Interview with Vanity Fair photographer, Christopher AndersonRaeShanda Lias’s video about the Vanity Fair photosCDC adopts ACIP’s anti-scientific recommendation on Hepatitis B vaccinationLecture on emerging anesthesia safety concern in kids. (I would stop at the Q&A because the speakers are not prepared to answer several genetic & safety questions)DHS’s original post about remigration. Here is the post with the added context.Alyssa’s paper: Pregnancy Testing without ConsentPregnancy Justice’s report: Pregnancy as a CrimeKeeping Police out of Pregnancy Care (Fact Check: the second author of the essay is the CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health)Stephanie Tillman’s paper on opt-in consent💊Take Two and Call Me in the Morning💊Taylor Ann Gallo’s makeup tipsGlenn DeVar’s first drag video and a more recent Text us!Thanks for listening to The Present Illness! Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube @ThePresentIllnessCreditsProduction by Arghavan Salles & Alyssa BurgartEditing by Alyssa BurgartTheme Music by Joseph UphoffSocial Media by Arghavan Salles