doctors
September 2, 2009
- Transplants and organs for sale has become a hot topic on TV these days.In an interview, one doctor shrugged when he was asked if he cared where the donor organs came from.Another man told the interviewer that his mother accepted an organ from a poor foreigner, rather than the one he had offered her. The donor, an 18-year-old girl from China, died shortly afterward. When asked if he and his ...
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August 27, 2009
- What’s wrong with the current system? Gross inefficiency, redundancy of services (generally lowering overall quality because the added programs lack adequate proficiency and don’t significantly improve access), irrational deployment of resources (i.e. too many specialists and too few primary care physicians, simultaneous physician gluts and shortages in different geographies, an ...
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August 26, 2009
- I won’t lie and say the moment was transformative. I’d always had compassion for my patients, even the less sympathetic ones. On my psychiatry rotation, I received a tongue lashing from my resident for being disorganized–spending extra time with the retired subway driver who’d attempted suicide after secretly battling depression, and now wanted to talk to someone. I objected ...
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August 25, 2009
- Daniel Haller, Julius Mackie, William Powlis—these three men saved my life. I was 25 and in my final year of medical school. I’d had a nagging cough for several months and my friends urged me off and on to get a chest X-ray, check it out, though they half laughed when they told me. No one, I least of all, imagined anything would turn up. I was interested in radiology at the ...
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August 19, 2009
- It's been two weeks since I left the hospital. I still can not understand the stroke. Today I went to the doctor and even she can not understand why I had a stroke.The Doctor asked, Do you smoke? Yes maybe 8 cigarettes a day. Do you have high blood pressure? No, I have low. Do you have high cholesterol? No just got tested May 24th, it was normal. Do you eat a lot of red meat? No, I eat ...
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August 13, 2009
- The left has renewed an old strategy: Global warming is a national security threat. Apparently, they felt the fear was wearing off, so they needed to add some new scare tactics into the World is Going to End campaign. Oh, and according to Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon Incheon, "Climate change, as all previous speakers have already stated, is the fundamental threat to ...
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August 5, 2009
- Okay, I hope you've had enough of my non-healthcare blogs for a bit because today, I'm angry. I want to know just what our country is becoming...I have my ideas, but I'll just make my arguments and let you draw your own conclusions.According to the Democratic National Committee and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, anybody who opposes healthcare has no mind of their own and are being ...
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July 26, 2009
- Part 1As Billy-Joe sits early in the morning, unable to sleep because of a crime that was committed almost twenty-nine years ago. The memories are so real the pain, the yearning for it to stop is still as vibrant as the day she was victimized. Brutally and with out mercy.That day will never be forgotten by her. The memories will go to the grave with her. After twenty-nine years she figured that ...
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July 23, 2009
- Thought you might find a bit about my European health care experience interesting. Especially since a pivotal time for change in the U.S.A. seems to be occuring. Now is a good time for the U.S.A. to switch to Medicare Health Care for All: do away with superfluous paperwork, let patients keep their own records and take the temptation of pharmaceutical perks out of the doctor's office. ...
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June 13, 2009
- If you could do it all over again would you change anything? Would you change one or two things?Would you go to a different college, marry a different spouse, have kids sooner or later or really be smart and not have any kids and just travel? That last example was a joke! I have pondered this question before. You probably think I was pondering this question while sitting in a canoe in the middle ...
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