Archives for the 'medicine' Category
Turkey Flu
Published on 20 Nov 2009 at 11:52 am.
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Filed under medicine.
Swine’s aloft! Less than a week from now, the biggest travel day of the year. Moms, dads, kids and grandparents, packing into planes, SUVs, minivans and trains to fly and drive in from all over the place and pig out together, then flying and driving home … just as the swine flu hits a historic high. Boston Herald:
Lawful
Published on 29 Oct 2009 at 9:53 pm.
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Filed under Boston, courage, guns, medicine.
An armed, licensed off-duty security guard’s shooting of a mentally ill man with a knife who was attacking his psychiatrist was not only lawful, it probably saved other lives, DA says. Boston Herald:
A Teachable Moment
Published on 25 Oct 2009 at 9:40 am.
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Filed under Obama, medicine.
President Obama declares an H1N1 national health emergency. Washington Post:
First, Do No Harm
Published on 25 Oct 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under crime, medicine, pols.
Wait a minute, that’s the Hippocratic Oath. Congress took the Hypocritic one. First, Make No Sense.
Maine: Kids First, Cons Maybe After That
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 11:51 am.
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Filed under medicine, pols.
Massachusetts is rushing swine flu vaccine to the prisons. Maine says, schools first, prisons … maybe later. Finally, a public official who says “It’s about the kids” and apparently actually means it. That doesn’t happen around here much. Boston Herald:
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Social Distancing
Published on 23 Sep 2009 at 11:18 am.
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Filed under medicine, science, shameless opportunism.
Turns out there’s a major upside to the swine flu. It’s called “social distancing.” It’s being advocated by the Centers for Disease Control.* It even has its own website, socialdistancing.org.**
Scary Dangerous Health-Care Protest
Published on 3 Sep 2009 at 10:20 pm.
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Filed under media, medicine, moronocy.
Turns out the lefties and the media were right about the danger of bloodshed at increasingly heated health-care protests. This kind of shifts the irrational health-care rage thing solidly into the other camp, though. Pro-socialized medicine MoveOn protestor confronts, yells at, menaces an elderly anti-Obamacare protestor, then bites the old guy’s finger off in the ensuing fight. KTLA.
Ha. Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne chimes in sagely. [...]
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Failure Accompli
Published on 24 Aug 2009 at 11:23 am.
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Filed under Obama, medicine, pols.
The excuse-making starts. Here’s the Daily Beast with Yglesias, the 20-something boy wonder whose long view of history convinces him failure is not only unavoidable, it’s laudably presidential. The notion that it might be due to inexperience, hubris, poor political skills, gross incompetence, that kind of thing, isn’t addressed in Matt’s explanation of why a big [...]
Meaningful Debate
Published on 11 Aug 2009 at 9:23 pm.
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Filed under Obama, medicine, pols.
Obama gets the one he’s been looking for in New Hampshire. Whitehouse.gov:
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Portsmouth! Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody have a seat. Oh, thank you so –
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you!
To Save American Health Care …
Published on 16 Jul 2009 at 12:18 pm.
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Filed under medicine, moronocy.
… they have to destroy it. Take it away, International Business Daily:
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual [...]
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Big Mother
Published on 10 May 2009 at 8:13 am.
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Filed under Obama, medicine, taxes.
Obama admin eyes new taxes on economy-driving businesses, investing classes to pay for socialized medicine. Fox:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will propose $60 billion in new tax increases over 10 years on wealthy estates, businesses and others to make up for shortfalls in its fund to pay for an expensive overhaul of the health-care system.
The measures [...]
Sky, Not Falling?
Published on 3 May 2009 at 10:57 am.
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Filed under impending doom!, medicine, racism.
What a disappointment. First, it started cooling off. Big problem no one’s quite ready to deal with yet.* Great Depression fears … Shiller at NYT, tell us something we haven’t heard before. Now this, swine flu … petering out?
Well, the great thing about impending doom, is it’s never too soon to panic … or to start capitalizing [...]
Pork Flu
Published on 28 Apr 2009 at 12:20 pm.
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Filed under Obama, medicine.
I’m already sick of that verdammte Schwein of a flu, exactly what we needed on top of war and economic ruin. Meanwhile, waiting on our illustrious leader to figure out a way to use this pig to pork his agenda forward. Did I miss it, has he already put the government healthcare push on a war footing? If the [...]
Headed Your Way
Published on 26 Apr 2009 at 8:56 am.
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Filed under Mexico, illegals, medicine.
It’s swine flu, from Mexico: NYT. Your public health officials, not on the ball: Washington Post.
Most of the cases so far are in California and Texas, not surprisingly, given the high volume of legal and illegal traffic across the Mexican border. Already some linkage of swine flu and immigration policy, compliments of Malkin.
ObamaCare
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 8:48 am.
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Filed under Obama, medicine.
The country docs at Maggie’s Farm examine ObamaCare, and describe in detail symptoms that suggest Dr. Obama is either a quack, or delusional. Short version: We live longer here than the third-world countries we are unfavorably compared to, as well as the first-world ones with socialized medicine. It costs more, thanks to lawyers and better technology, drugs and treatment. Guess [...]
Uncle Sam MD
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 12:53 pm.
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Filed under medicine.
Dr. Shrinkwrapped examines some of the symptoms, and assumptions drawn, as the patient stumbles toward the government healthcare clinic.
Step One, in case you missed it: Government to rate drugs, treatments. First, government has to figure out which treatments to rate. Dispensing with confusion sounds great. $1.1 billion worth? Unclear as yet how much that’s going to work out to per treatment. [...]
In The Future
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 8:59 am.
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Filed under medicine.
We will be on treadmills at work. via USAToday:
TV Surgeon General Wanted
Published on 5 Mar 2009 at 9:36 pm.
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Filed under Obama, medicine.
Gupta’s gone. Michelle wants Dr. Phil. Is that guy a real doctor? I dunno, title sounds impressive … especially with the casual first name part. But I don’t think he’s authorized to prescribe or cut. I vote for Dr. Drew. Maybe not a surgeon but a real doc, specializing in sex and drugs, popular with the young [...]
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Celebrate Lifes!
Published on 31 Jan 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under America, TV, incompetence, kids, medicine, moms and dads, money, moronocy.
All 14 of them. That’s how many the heart-warming miracle octuplet mom has brought into the world, with no dad in sight! Because six wasn’t enough, even for a woman in bankruptcy living at home with mom and dad. LA Times:
The Truman Syndrome
Published on 25 Nov 2008 at 9:52 pm.
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Filed under Greenness, TV, culture, medicine.
Beats the heck out of thinking the CIA is monitoring your thoughts. Or George Bush is erasing your civil rights. The new paranoia is the delusion that your life is one big reality TV show. UK Telegraph:
Why We Suck
Published on 27 Oct 2008 at 7:07 am.
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Filed under celeb, medicine.
I’ve often wondered. Here comes Denis Leary with the answers. Sounds like it’s already an interesting book. Boston Herald:
Blackwater Fever
Published on 26 Mar 2008 at 9:41 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, medicine, moronocy.
It’s new, it’s so bad they named it after the hated American mercenaries, because it kills the innocent just like they do. Slamming Blackwater is always fun and really adds some zing to this story suggesting that an Iraqi malaria epidemic is being kept secret. Too bad these moron reporters not only don’t know their [...]
Get Snipped, Watch Hoops
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 9:33 pm.
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Filed under medicine, sex, shameless opportunism, sports.
It’s a win-win, if you plan on spending March Madness on the couch anyway. That’s the Oregon Urology Institute’s advice.
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She Can’t Testify …
Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:26 am.
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Filed under crime, medicine, punishment.
Because of the brain damage he’s accused of inflicting. That’s the stepfather’s legal argument in the Haleigh Poutre beating case. Boston Herald:
Lancet Botches Another One
Published on 18 Jan 2008 at 10:19 am.
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Filed under medicine, science.
According to Medecins Sans Frontieres, which judges a malnutrition study in Lancet to be deeply, dangerously flawed in its methodology and conclusions. MSF:
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First, Do No Harm
Published on 3 Dec 2007 at 11:20 pm.
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Filed under medicine.
To another doc. That’s how 45 percent responded, anyway.
