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
Yesterday Stripes the cat went to the veterinary dentist to have all her teeth removed – which is the only real treatment for FLyPS, it turns out. This was a difficult decision, to put it mildly, but the general sense was that Stripes deserved a chance, even if that meant spending an embarrassing (and insane) [...]
Thu, August 6 2009 » Uncategorized » 5 Comments
John Chait has a round-up of dumb things said about health care reform. The culprits all approach the issue from the right, not surprisingly. Of course, there are different flavors of dumb: Feldstein strikes me as ignorant dumb, while Kristol is full-of-shit dumb, but Papa Bear is just plain vanilla dumb. The only thing keeping [...]
Tue, July 28 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Evan Falchuk has a good round-up of blog responses to the Putting Patients First. This is helpful and we should be grateful to him for putting it together, but mostly I want you to read the part where he calls me a “very smart gentleman”. Evan is being thrice charitable in as many words. Also [...]
Mon, July 20 2009 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
My Senior Veterinary Consultant thinks nobody wants to read about my cat, but I feel obliged to put something up before I go away for the weekend. The last time I wrote about Stripes the cat, she was on a massive dose prednisone. This is a steroid familiar to many people with a variety of [...]
Fri, July 3 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Grand Rounds is up at EdwinLeap.com. Thanks to Dr. Leap for hosting this week.
Tue, June 30 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I’d like to have all submissions for the next Patients for a Moment in before midnight Sunday, June 28th – so send ‘em if you got ‘em. You can be a patient, doc, nurse, wonk – whatever, so long as your post is likely to appeal to a wide audience of patients (who don’t necessarily [...]
Wed, June 24 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Grand Rounds is up at Florencedotcom. Thanks to Barbara for hosting. Just a reminder: the deadline for the next edition of Patients for a Moment is Sunday, June 28th. I will publish it on July 1st. I’m looking forward to your posts, and it’s never too early to submit.
Tue, June 23 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Sun, June 21 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Welcome to the first ever Patients for a Moment – a roundup of blog posts for, by, or about patients. If this is your first time hearing about PFAM, let me explain that the goal is to build connections within the community of people who blog about illness, disease, and disability. This includes doctors, nurses, [...]
Wed, June 17 2009 » Uncategorized » 20 Comments
A novel crime against decency by Duncan Cross
