As I pointed out yesterday, the Harvard longevity study was bound to produce some tendentious responses. But I must say that even I was not prepared for anything as dumb as this post from AmericaBlog:
Another proud legacy of the Bush administration, news you’d probably expect to hear from developing nations, not the United States of America in the […]
Panda Bear, MD must have incredibly strong metacarpals. His posts make my hands hurt just reading them. And, unlike most long blog posts, his effusions usually remain coherent from beginning to end. Here’s his take on what government can do to improve health care:
It would be a simpler, cheaper, and, as our country is terrifically overdoctored and overmedicated, probably […]
It would appear that a Kentucky dickhead congressman wants to outlaw anonymous posting:
Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
Nope. He’s not kidding:
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
If our masters inside the Beltway […]
I inflicted my first post on an unsuspecting world on February 7, 2007. It received a whopping 41 page views. Counting only those readers who were not my friends or relatives, it may have racked up a dozen reads.
That didn’t bother me, however, because I was so clueless about blogging that I didn’t know how to access my stats. When I finally unraveled that […]
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Posted 12 February 2008
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Lots of medbloggers wrote about that ER wait time study, and everyone agrees that the basic problem is overcrowding. What I found interesting was the diversity of opinion as to what is causing the overcrowding:
Kevin believes the root problem is lack of PCP access:
Like most of today’s health care problems, a lack of primary care access is […]
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Posted 17 January 2008
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I’ll be spending the next few days in the bosom of my family—eating, drinking, and no doubt talking too much. I’ll be back, shovel in hand, after Christmas.
Meanwhile, I hope everyone has a pleasant and safe holiday.
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Posted 22 December 2007
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Today I’m starting an intermittent series in which I intend to highlight particularly sanctimonious blog posts and essays about health care—the kind of moralizing that evokes images of the Church Lady leaning over her desk and asking, “Could it be (fill in appropriate Lefty demon)?”
Today’s church lady is Maggie Mahar, whose latest post about the WellCare investigation […]
A couple of days ago, I wondered how much time it would take for the usual suspects to start using the WellCare investigation as a general indictment of “the health care industrial complex.”
Well, it turns out that they’re going for a “twofer” on this one. Wellcare, it seems, is not merely another blood-sucking insurance company. […]
As Jeff Goldsmith wrote last week at THCB, it has become politically incorrect to say anything positive about American health care. So, I’m glad that Kevin,MD linked to this post that I had overlooked. Scalpel tells it like it is:
Anyone who is honest and who has even the most basic level of medical knowledge should […]
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Posted 09 October 2007
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This humble blog is included in the latest installment of the MedBlog Power 8 at Kevin, MD. Each of the featured sites is worth a perusal.
However, if you have time to read only one, make sure its “The ED of the Future.” It produced a coffee-spewing LOL at the Catron house.
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Posted 20 September 2007
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