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Why Would Couch Potatoes Read the Book The Haywire Heart?*

Posted on June 4, 2017 11:32 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

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February 18, 2019

I believe physicians have overlooked the wary parents and grouped them with the crazies. Until physicians acknowledge some medical results are unexpected, even with vaccines, and become proactive in ferreting out reasons for unexpected results, change will be difficult.

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February 17, 2019

"How to Lie with Statistics" one of my favorite books. Still in print, possibly working its way up to the longevity of Strunk and White. In the age of the news bite, it's good to keep your eye on the concepts, not the plethora of numbers.

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February 15, 2019

ER "Treat and street" mantra dumps a lot of sick patients into the street. Many receive substandard care in the name of saving money. No money really saved. Cost simply shifted to other health care organizations. A classic shell game illusion. #healthcare

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February 9, 2019

The NP chant "full practice authority" especially effective in giving the illusion that two years of additional training after the nursing degree is somehow equivalent to physicians' 8-10 years of training. https://t.co/zwCxljeibB #NP

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January 28, 2019

Leads to question of whether Atul Gawande can bring some sort of ethics to a heathcare system gone awry from the previous Goliath's involved. #DPC a bottom-up approach, a David with a sling-shot. Real reform will come from the sling-shots, I suspect.

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Some young HR person once looked at my CV and asked me, quite seriously, if I had really done everything I had listed there. Well, yes. Because I am someone who can't sit in a Morris Miller cubicle every day, much less for any great stretch of time. Once the problem is solved, I get bored and I'm ready to move on to the next challenge. This hasn't afforded me any great stability in my work life. I simply arrive in places about ten years ahead of time. So far, at least, that penchant for early arrival hasn't been accompanied with a pocketbook full of door handles.