Baltimore An email comes from the POTUS or President Obama as he’s more widely known, and you think, gee, something’s up. Maybe they are taking this fight seriously for a change? But, then you remember this is just an email, which is different from a real fight. Nonetheless those who are intent of fear mongering …
Month: August 2009
Ethics of Dr. Pay and Cancer Trials
Washington I can’t seem to escape the conclusion that the pay of doctor’s is not only a real problem in the health care insurance debate right now, but also it seems doctors’ pay is a problem in doing what is necessary to create healthy patients. A story by Gina Kolata in the Times about the …
Convalescence Not Recovery
New Orleans Moving into August, the “Katrina” month, in New Orleans forces a renewed reckoning with the status of the city’s comeback. Wildly spinning stories this week expressed surprise with the robustness of the “recovery.” The city’s population has now reached 76%+ of the pre-storm number putting us over 350,000 and rising. Observers were shocked, …