Bebout Family Medicine

10/10/2025

09/24/2025

Dr. William Bebout, MD – Direct Primary Care

✅ Same & next-day appointments
✅ After-hours office visits when necessary
✅ Care for all ages – pediatrics through geriatrics
✅ Discounted prescriptions & testing for the uninsured and underinsured
✅ Free “Meet & Greet” visit to see if his services are a good fit for your family

While Dr. Bebout does not bill insurance for office visits, your insurance can still be used for labs, imaging, and testing.

Note: Medicaid will not cover prescriptions or orders since Dr. Bebout has opted out of accepting Medicaid.

This model of care ensures direct access to your doctor without the red tape of traditional insurance.

09/18/2025

When Profit Outweighs Protection: Veterans, Coal Miners, and the Cost of Responsibility

Where do we draw the line between financial survival and human responsibility? In my work as a physician, I’ve seen how government agencies and industries sometimes place profit ahead of the very people who sacrificed for them—veterans who served our nation and coal miners whose lungs bear the cost of their labor.

Follow the link in the first comment to read my thoughts on this complicated and important matter.

09/18/2025

Would you give your baby o***m for colic?
In the 1800s, parents did — thanks to Dalby’s Carminative.

This “soothing syrup” for teething infants contained laudanum (o***m tincture), alcohol, peppermint oil, and sugar. Each bottle held the equivalent of half a tablespoon of o***m mixed with booze.

No wonder the babies stopped crying.

History like this reminds us why modern drug safety laws exist.

09/17/2025

Imagine having an asthma attack…and being told to light up a cigarette.

That’s exactly what Dr. Schiffmann’s Asthmador Ci******es promised in the early 1900s. Each pack contained stramonium and belladonna—both nightshade-family drugs—and the instructions literally told patients to inhale the smoke deep into their lungs to stop bronchial spasms.

No to***co, just toxic alkaloids, burning paper, and desperation.

It’s a perfect snapshot of how far medicine has come—and how far we’ll go when gasping for air. Ridiculous, dangerous, and yet somehow widely sold in pharmacies for decades.

This unopened pack (with all 24 ci******es still inside) now lives in Dr. Bebout’s Cabinet of Medical Curiosities—because you can’t make this stuff up.

09/04/2025

New Memoir Entry: Why Medicine Draws Me In

Why does medicine interest me? That’s a question I’ve asked myself more than once. The answer isn’t neat. It’s curiosity that won’t quit, a fascination with the morbid side of medicine, and a love of history that keeps me asking why.

In my latest memoir post, I talk about the specialties that never clicked, the ones that keep me energized, and the path I sometimes wish I’d taken. From family practice to forensic pathology, it’s all part of the same story.

08/15/2025

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08/12/2025

Don't believe everything the medical establishment tells you in an ad. The tragic case of Eben Byers is a perfect example. Look at his wiki link in the first comment

08/08/2025

How do you know if your child’s sports physical was done right? Here’s what should always happen during a real, medically sound pre-participation exam:

Heart and lungs listened to with a stethoscope

Personal & family history taken seriously (especially sudden cardiac death)

Neurologic & orthopedic screening (reflexes, balance, strength)

Breathing assessed—for asthma, exercise-induced issues, etc.

Vision checked

Honest discussion about previous injuries, symptoms, or red flags

If that didn’t happen?
It wasn’t a physical.
It was a shortcut.
And shortcuts get kids hurt.

You don’t go to a tire shop for a flight physical. Don’t go to the wrong place for your kid’s life.

08/07/2025

🖥️👨‍⚕️ Back in 1996—before Google, before Wikipedia—I built a humble little website called Bill’s Net World to organize medical resources. I didn’t advertise it. I just uploaded it and moved on.

One day, flipping through Medical Tribune, I found my site had been reviewed in a special internet issue… and had received their highest rating—even beating out the AMA homepage.

That write-up was later picked up by the Boston Globe.

I was flown out to speak at conferences. Rode in a limo for the first time. And I’ve been hooked on digital projects ever since.

08/06/2025

Not everything I say or post will be liked but sometimes it is the moral and ethical thing to do ..so here goes:

Not everyone who’s allowed to do a sports physical should be doing them.

Let me be blunt:
If you can’t hear faint wheezing…
If you can’t detect a subtle murmur…
If you don’t know how to evaluate neuro, ortho, pulmonary, or vascular systems…
Then you have no business clearing a kid for contact sports.

This isn’t about acne or posture.
This is about whether a child walks off the field—or gets carried off.

Thanks to politics and lobbying, there are providers signing off on physicals without the training to catch life-threatening conditions. That’s not opinion—that’s reality. And the worst part? Parents don’t know the difference.

This isn’t about turf.
It’s about training.
And when your kid’s health is on the line, you better make damn sure the person holding that stethoscope knows what they’re listening for.

Because I’m not here to fill out a form.
I’m here to keep kids alive.

08/06/2025

Found something weird and wonderful during my latest archiving session:
This is a 19th-century illusion print titled Cholera Morbus. From a distance, it’s a skull. Up close—two mourning children. It's haunting, and it’s real.

I restored it from the original lithograph and included the raw historical version alongside the cleaned one.

Enjoy the creepy vibes. 🖤