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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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March 23, 2019

I know this sounds hokie, but I read newspaper stories, the ones with tangential content to what I'm trying to write about. Usually find something that makes me mad enough that I can start writing. :)

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March 18, 2019

Possibly contributing to this problem is state online death certificate sites which offer three possible causes of death, and any attempt to amplify or add to "other" crashes the system.

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March 8, 2019

I don't want to get on someone's blocked list for repeating to often that it's time to repeal the law preventing physicians from owning—and running—hospitals.

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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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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.