Wednesday Bible Study: Job finally shuts up
Yep. He spends the next three chapters saying, endlessly, the following:I used to be riding high, fortunate and admired, benevolent and generous.Now I ' m in the pits.If I ' d done anything wrong I could understand it. And then, thank God, " The words of Job are ended. " It ' s long past time for this guy to STFU.29 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:2 “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;3 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;4 as I was in my a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Just say no
I just finished reading Dopesick, by Beth Macy. You don ' t need to take my word that it ' s worth your while, the book was a huge bestseller. However, it does have a fairly narrow focus. It tells the story of the opioid epidemic largely within the confines of a region of rural Virginia, but this is a disaster of national scope that manifests somewhat differently in different places. Here ' s the really sad news: source:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services I know it ' s a little small but you can see it full size if you click the link. The short version of the story is that deaths from opioid ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bloody Religion
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”Steven Weinberg
In 2003, I started a web page that documented the horrors of the Iraq war. The title of the page was corrie.html, because one of the first entries was about Rachel Corrie. This was it.
On Sunday, 16th March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip.
You can read here some of the emails that she ...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Palestine war Gaza Israel Source Type: blogs
Bloody Religion
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“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”Steven Weinberg
In 2003, I started a web page that documented the horrors of the Iraq war. The title of the page was corrie.html, because one of the first entries was about Rachel Corrie. This was it.
On Sunday, 16th March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip.
You can read here some of th...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Palestine war Gaza Israel Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Desperate to get this over with
neJob now goes on a three chapter rant saying the same shit over and over again that he already said nineteen times. I ' m really sorry about this, I ' m as anxious to come to the end of it as you are. So I ' m going to post three chapters today, they ' re all Job yammering on so why not? It ' s just more of God and His creation are beyond understanding; and I ' m righteous, I don ' t deserve this, but nevertheless I ' m not going to say anything bad about God. I ' ll just make a couple of notes.First, all of the stuff Job says we can ' t possibly understand -- notably in Chapter 28 -- we do understand, at least a lo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 15, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The proletarianization of the medical profession
I ' ve come to a sticking point in my book project because there is just too much current discourse to absorb about the commodification and corporatization of medicine. The medical industry exists to make profit for owners and enrich executives -- even so-called " non-profit " medical corporations are mostly organized around maximizing revenues, minimizing costs, and racking up the big bucks for their managers.The people who suffer the most from this are, of course, patients. However, it has also produced a huge shift in the status of physicians, who used to constitute what Paul Starr called a " sovereign profession....
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Armchair diagnosis
I used to think it was a slowly progressive form of frontotemporal dementia, rather than Alzheimer ' s disease, but now I ' m starting to suspect that the frontotemporal dementia and severe personality disorder are indeed complicated by Alzheimer ' s,and that the rate of progression is increasing. I don ' t have anything to add to that personally, the guy has clearly lost his marbles. Not that he ever had a full bag.What is disturbing is that the cultists applaud and cheer uproariously for his incoherent ranting, and even completely incomprehensible, unintelligible passages accompanied by bizarre gestures and sounds....
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Dichotomy Was the Through Line at AHIMA23
Dichotomy of Healthcare
Dr. Zeev Neuwirth opened the 2023 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA23) conference and spoke about the dichotomy of healthcare. He shared with the audience that is simultaneously frustrated at and excited by our industry.
On the frustrating side, clinicians have more regulations, financial uncertainty, and workload to deal with than ever before. These pressures are leading to an increase in moral injury (Dr Neuwirth’s preferred term for burnout) which is resulting in more clinicians leaving the profession. Dr. Neuwirth shared an especially poignant story of a colleague who t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Interoperability Revenue Cycle Management AHIMA AHIMA23 American Health Information Management Association Dessiree Paoli health data stewardship Interlace Health Johns Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: A little literary history
In Ch. 24, Job laments the wickedness of many humans and the seeming indifference of God to the fate of the good versus the wicked. In the mercifully short Ch. 25, Bildad again tries to blame Job for his own fate. While we continue to wade through this interminable rich purple poetry, I ' ll at least try to entertain you with a bit of speculation about the origin of this story. Job was probably written in its present form in the 6th Century BCE, or perhaps a bit later. A Sumerian work dated around 1,700 BCE, usually called in English the Poem of the Righteous sufferer, tells a similar story, far more briefly, of a man...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 11, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
AHIMA23 Attendees are Ready for the Challenges Ahead
The HIM professionals at AHIMA23 are ready to face the challenges ahead. Despite the tough economic environment, the increased cybersecurity threats, and the changing policy landscape, AHIMA members remain excited and upbeat about the future.
Frustrated Yet Encouraged
Dr. Zeev Neuwirth, author of Beyond the Walls: MegaTrends, Movements and Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare and Reframing Healthcare, kicked off the 2023 American Health Information Management Association annual conference (AHIMA23) with a heartfelt keynote. He spoke about the dichotomy of healthcare – how he is both frustrated and encourage...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management AHIMA AHIMA23 American Health Information Management Association Errol Weiss Health-ISAC Healthcare Cybersecurity Kevin Sowe Source Type: blogs
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I ' m not going to " do " Columbus this year. I think people are coming around to the consensus that he is not a person who should have statues or a day in his honor. I ' ll just outsource to Adam Conover That taken care of, I commend your attention to thisinterview by Scientific American with Peter Hotez, who is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, on the authoritarian roots of science denial. Best you read the whole thing, but here ' s a pull quote.People call [the antiscience movement] “misinformation” or “the
infodemic” as though it’s just random junk out there on t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Sunday Semonette: My eyes glaze over
We keep going around and around and around and around in the same endless, turgid circles. 😞zzzHow this endless spewing of the same vapid argument, repeated like one revolution of a scratched record until the brain turns to mush, ever got a reputation as a significant work of literature is inexplicable. But I said I was going to read the whole thing so we ' re stuck with it.22 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:2 “Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him?3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 8, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bad news
Yep, there ' s bad economic news, according to CNNUS markets fall on shockingly strong US jobs report The terrifying news is that the U.S. economy added 336,000 jobs in November, disappointing economists who had been predicting about half as many. Americans have no problem finding work, and that ' s bad for capitalism because it means it ' s harder to make a profit. In order to have a healthy economy, we need to put people out of work. No wonder voters are so disappointed in president Biden -- he hasn ' t created the mass unemployment we desperately need. (Source: Stayin' Alive)
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
