"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
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" The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power." - Bob Sutton
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it." - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - HL Mencken
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." - Herbie Hancock
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"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Workouts by month - Goal 200 from 11/1/09 through 10/31/10
RT @paulinechen: New "Doctor and Patient"; Learning to Keep Patients Safe in a Culture of Fear http://nyti.ms/bYA14V - blog post comingMarch 12, 2010 1:35
RT @tom_peters: @kevinmd Spoken like an MD. - true primary care is very complex - it is not simple care -March 11, 2010 12:43
RT @efalchuk: Seriously, what is Nancy Pelosi Talking About? http://bit.ly/9sHSc2 #healthreform #hcr #healthcare think Dazed and ConfusedMarch 10, 2010 7:53
Obama Says Health Overhaul Should Trump Politics - http://nyti.ms/bwKRyo - and he is correctMarch 8, 2010 7:28
@BertDecker multiples of 37 - trivial - any factor of 111 would factor into the others. The key here is that 37 * 3 = 111March 7, 2010 9:00
RT @dmrind: Meta-analysis and New Knowledge http://bit.ly/awMtmT important and well statedMarch 7, 2010 12:10
@autolycos while books need no batteries - they are expensive to produce and use resourcesMarch 6, 2010 3:02
@langdon count me in - and contact @medpedshospMarch 6, 2010 2:20
Some friends have started a new Health Care blog – hcrenewal
I will excerpt from their first post:
Health care around the world is beset by rising costs, declining access, stagnant quality, and increasingly dissatisfied health care professionals. Discussions with physicians and other professionals revealed pervasive concerns that the core values of health care are under seige. Patients and physicians are caught in cross-fires between conflicting interests, and subject to perverse incentives. Free speech and academic freedom are threatened. Psuedo-science and anti-science are gaining ground. Causes include the increasing dominance of health care by large organizations, often lead by the ill-informed, the self-interested, and even the corrupt. (1) However, such concentration and abuse of power in health care has rarely been discussed openly. This blog is dedicated to the open discussion of health care’s current dysfunction with the hopes of generating its cures.
I plan to read this blog regularly – and will probably cite it often. Please check it out. Now to remember how to add it to my blogroll!
I like to think most of us have recognized this ill-conceived concentration of power in health care when HMOs were the darlings of the day. They indeed prevented escalation of health costs for a while, but then the lust for greed among health corporate CEOs overwhelmed them to the extent that the quality of health care began to decline, while health car providers (otherwise known as doctors) became stooges of these thieves. Patients, in the meantime, kept complaining about the care they never received.
As proud as we are of our technical achievements, we have not organized our system of health care in a fashion that would
get rid of the inequities we now have. This is something politicians and legislators have been working on for over 60 years, but piecemeal work from time to time is all we have to show, and it’s not something to be proud of.
Universal health care, as tempting as it is, would do away with uninsured or underinsured Americans, but is it worth pursuing amid all the problems that we have seen, say, in Canada and Great Britain? That is not what I see with this administration, and coming up with the right answers to the problems will be the focus of debates that we expect to see the next four years.
But it’s so easy to say that (easy should be in quotes) when you’re insured, even if the care you get is lessened. I don’t think there are that many people who will say that universal health care is problem free. But what do we have to offer uninsured or underinsured citizens? Prayer that they won’t get sick? I, for one, would just like to get the chance to complain that universal health care sucks, the waiting lists are too long, and that the care is substandard. So far, the only times I’ve heard these complaints is when I’ve visited people in the hospital.
4 Responses to A new blog – Health Care Renewal
RGL
December 15th, 2004 at 10:57 am
I like to think most of us have recognized this ill-conceived concentration of power in health care when HMOs were the darlings of the day. They indeed prevented escalation of health costs for a while, but then the lust for greed among health corporate CEOs overwhelmed them to the extent that the quality of health care began to decline, while health car providers (otherwise known as doctors) became stooges of these thieves. Patients, in the meantime, kept complaining about the care they never received.
As proud as we are of our technical achievements, we have not organized our system of health care in a fashion that would
get rid of the inequities we now have. This is something politicians and legislators have been working on for over 60 years, but piecemeal work from time to time is all we have to show, and it’s not something to be proud of.
Universal health care, as tempting as it is, would do away with uninsured or underinsured Americans, but is it worth pursuing amid all the problems that we have seen, say, in Canada and Great Britain? That is not what I see with this administration, and coming up with the right answers to the problems will be the focus of debates that we expect to see the next four years.
S. Jones
December 15th, 2004 at 3:36 pm
But it’s so easy to say that (easy should be in quotes) when you’re insured, even if the care you get is lessened. I don’t think there are that many people who will say that universal health care is problem free. But what do we have to offer uninsured or underinsured citizens? Prayer that they won’t get sick? I, for one, would just like to get the chance to complain that universal health care sucks, the waiting lists are too long, and that the care is substandard. So far, the only times I’ve heard these complaints is when I’ve visited people in the hospital.
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