The Washington Post has an article by Jacqueline Salmon arguing that health care reform is driving a resurgence in evangelical political organizations. As far as the article goes, this seems to be the entirety of evangelicals’ objection to reform: After seeing their bread-and-butter issue of abortion take a back seat during the election last year, [...]
Wed, September 9 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
If you have 30-40 minutes today, I urge – no, I insist you listen to this Fresh Air segment with Kairol Rosenthal (of Everything Changes) and Iva Skoch (a Newsweek reporter). It’s a raw, honest, and deeply moving discussion of the experience cancer and illness. You’ll be a better person just for listening – and [...]
Wed, September 9 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Patients for a Moment is up at Getting Closer to Myself. Thanks to Leslie for a wonderful job of compiling and presenting the posts. Find out more about PFAM on the archives and calendar page.
Wed, September 9 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
#1 Dinosaur claims that the ‘dirty little secret’ of medicine is that patients can never be “partners” in their medical care, because they can never replicate a physician’s training and experience. This is why no amount of information — whether obtained from me, the internet, or even those really cool collections of pieces of dead [...]
Tue, September 8 2009 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
The last two weeks have been a little fragmented; I’m not sure why. I think it might be my brain adjusting to the Paxil, but for whatever reason I have not had a lot of energy for blogging. That seems to be changing. In the meantime, I let slip by this blog’s birthday; my first [...]
Tue, September 8 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Washington Post ran an op-ed by Arthur M. Feldman, MD, titled “10 Things I Hate About Health Care Reform” in Sunday’s ‘Outlook’ section. As a former Post subscriber, I know their editorial board and Outlook in particular have a strong preference for contrarianism for its own sake, facts be damned. This is especially true [...]
Tue, September 8 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
McSweeney’s offers an amusing rebuttal to the various myths surrounding health care reform – e.g.: MYTH: Obamacare™ will ration life-saving medicine away from the elderly and disabled via “Death Panels.” FACT: While nothing can replicate the current mercy-driven system of rationing via “Private Insurer Form Letter,” the new proposal certainly does not consign end-of-life decisions [...]
Fri, September 4 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
NPR ran a useful story on malpractice this morning. Here’s a snippet from the Kaiser Health News text version: Limiting lawsuits by itself won’t change a system that gives doctors a financial incentive to do more and more. But liability reform could still be useful, if it helps win doctors’ trust. The point is that [...]
Wed, September 2 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
A novel crime against decency by Duncan Cross
