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Thank you for your trust in the past. Ray Schilling, MD

Closure of my websites askdrray.com and nethealthbook.com

These websites will be taken down on April 30, 2025 and no further updates will be provided.
I hope you enjoyed the content of these websites. You can continue to read Dr. Schilling’s blogs which I publish daily on Quora

My home page there is: https://www.quora.com/profile/Ray-Schilling

Click on this: Under my image there is a heading “Profile”. Right underneath this you find a search box entitled “search content”. Type in any term you are interested in. You will get several answers I have written (I have written more than 15,000 answers).

On Quora you can also write comments that I will answer.

Thank you for your trust in the past. Ray Schilling, MD

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