"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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The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty: "There once was a man named O'Bama ..." http://ow.ly/1nUH3 - HCR limericks and a cold one for BobMarch 18, 2010 5:24
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RT @yejnes: My thoughts on the annual exam, etc., final letter ACP Internist, March 2010 http://bit.ly/9FNcXn wel-stated & importantMarch 15, 2010 12:47
A note to the professors, from the "real" world, on the use of ICDs in a fee for service community... http://ow.ly/1jaPy - great postMarch 13, 2010 2:19
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
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Obama Says Health Overhaul Should Trump Politics - http://nyti.ms/bwKRyo - and he is correctMarch 8, 2010 7:28
Apparently, magazine Legal Affairs sponsors weekly debates on legal issues. This week’s debate focuses on special health courts. The participants:
Philip K. Howard is Founder and Chair of Common Good and the author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. Stephanie Mencimer is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly and is writing a book on tort reform.
They each post daily. You might guess that I’m rooting for Philip K. Howard. Read their comments and you will have a much better understanding of the argument – both pro and con.
thanks for the link – i read the whole debate so far. i think howard has some pretty indisputable points, and i am amazed by the distortions and blatant appeals to some sort of warped populism that mencimer makes. her arguments to preserve the status quo only benefit trial lawyers and patients whose injuries are sensational enough to actually have a day in court. reminds me of my own running debates of yore with a certain frustrating jd.
Charles, they were only frustrating because I’m not as convinced of your greatness as you are.
Here’s the key phrase in the whole debate, and it’s right there in the beginning:
“In this country, we trust juries enough to let them kill someone in a criminal case, but somehow, when juries make decisions about money, especially insurance company money, they’re attacked as irrational, unsophisticated, unwieldy, and slow.”
3 Responses to Special health courts – the debate
charles
March 17th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
thanks for the link – i read the whole debate so far. i think howard has some pretty indisputable points, and i am amazed by the distortions and blatant appeals to some sort of warped populism that mencimer makes. her arguments to preserve the status quo only benefit trial lawyers and patients whose injuries are sensational enough to actually have a day in court. reminds me of my own running debates of yore with a certain frustrating jd.
Curious JD
March 17th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
Charles, they were only frustrating because I’m not as convinced of your greatness as you are.
Here’s the key phrase in the whole debate, and it’s right there in the beginning:
“In this country, we trust juries enough to let them kill someone in a criminal case, but somehow, when juries make decisions about money, especially insurance company money, they’re attacked as irrational, unsophisticated, unwieldy, and slow.”
arf
March 18th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Since there are some states that do not have the death penalty, I guess some states do want to limit the penalties meted out by a jury.
I believe the arguments used by death penalty opponents include that the death penalty is…..irrational, unsophisticated, unwieldy, and slow.
In addition to….not being a deterrent, imposed unevenly, etc.