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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

[Exercise] is undeniably the best medicine there is for preventing a host of cardiovascular diseases….Its documented beneficial results would qualify it as a mi...

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November 17, 2019

Organizations following the money never understand that real innovation comes from thinking outside the box, something which has nothing to do with boarding, #EMRs or #AI. Indeed, thinking outside the box is generally punished by the crowd. #DPC

November 17, 2019

Testing fairly requires asking the right questions. Seems a simple enough concept, but like many apparently simple notions, complexity is a hard taskmaster. Looking forward to your column.

November 15, 2019

The 80s generated "bureaucratese," a term for government employees whose words said nothing. Rhetorically, words can be generalized into meaninglessness. "Practitioner" is a good example of generalizing to cover up differences. Very important differences.

November 11, 2019

Concentration on increasing profits will escape any health care reform that fails to clear the Middle Earth between the patient and physician. Universal health care in other countries offer choice, as it can here. No one knows real cost of health care we have. Except suffering.

November 10, 2019

And one of those is to prevent physicians from owning hospitals. Seems to be some notion physicians are greedier than corporate medicine. What a croc. Or krock. Both fit. Especially the Middle English one, thief.

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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.