A whole new perspective
Through a chain of events that I won ' t bore you by reciting, I find myself the Democratic candidate for First Selectman of the very small town I live in. (I expect that ' s surprising. It is to me.) This suddenly makes me think about problems I really hadn ' t considered much before.Our town ' s main industry is agriculture. We don ' t really have a main street. There ' s a liquor store, an auto repair business, an acupuncturist, a seamstress (really) and a chain saw shop. We have a sawmill and a campground. That ' s about it. Our problem is that agricultural land pays very little in real estate taxes, which means that a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Naive Realism and the Legal Profession
By MIKE MAGEE
In 2002, psychologist Emily Pronin and her co-authors, in an article titled, You Don’t Know Me, But I Know You: The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight, laid out the concept of “Naive Realism.”
As she explained, “We insist that our ‘outsider perspective’ affords us insights about our peers that they are denied by their defensiveness, egocentricity, or other sources of bias. By contrast, we rarely entertain the notion that others are seeing us more clearly and objectively than we see ourselves. (We) talk when we would do well to listen…” Point well taken, but these (most would agree) are tryin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Jan 6 Lawyers Mike Magee Trump Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Profundity?
The Book of Job has been influential in Jewish and Christian theology, and in later secular Western culture. There have been many allusions to it in literature and art, and it was adapted into a play in verse, titled J.B., by the American poet Archibald MacLeish, which won a Pulitzer prize.* Scholars believe it to have been written between the 7th and 4th Centuries BCE, but as with much of the Tanakh there is controversy as to whether it has a single authorship, or represents an accretion of material. As with Esther, the setting is not in Judah. Job appears to be an Israelite who has a relationship with the Israelite ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Richer than all their tribe
Professor Campos laments the large incomes of U.S. physicians, and it is certainly true that they make more than the sawbones in other countries. Quoting from a WaPo article, which I don ' t link directly due to the paywall:By accounting for all streams of income, [a study] revealed that doctors make
more than anyone thought — and more than any other occupation we’ve
measured. In the prime earning years of 40 to 55, the average physician
made $405,000 in 2017 — almost all of it (94 percent) from wages.
Doctors in the top 10 percent averaged $1.3 million. And those in the
top 1 percent averaged an astounding $4 m...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 7, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Getting it over with
Ch. 10 is only three verses, so I ' ll give you chapters 9 and 10 today and that will be all for the book of Esther. Here the Jews massacre 75,000 people, which is a cause for great celebration. In verse 6, they kill 500 people in Susa, and in verse 15, they kill 300 at Susa, apparently some leftovers. They kill the ten sons of Haman in verse 10, then impale them in verses 13 and 14, presumably already dead, then they impale them again in verse 25. Whoopee! Time for a party!Next up is the Book of Job, which I know very well.9 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar,
the edict commanded by ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Gdp
Yesterday I discovered that a huge tree limb had fallen on my property. It came from an oak tree so tall I couldn ' t actually see the scar where it had broken off. It would have been a pretty big tree all by itself. I heat with firewood so on the one hand, this was a bonanza, but on the other hand it was complicated and laborious to clean it up. I ' ve been harvesting firewood and cleaning up deadfall since I was a kid, and I have have the necessary fixed capital - two chainsaws, a tractor with a loader, a peevee. There ' s a lot of knowledge, skill and judgment involved to do it safely. You have to start by removing...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 4, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The ultimate sanction
Some while back I discussed the death penalty here, in response to a couple of atrocious crimes that happened in Connecticut and provoked a lot of controversy. The first person to be executed in the state following the Supreme Court moratorium was a man named Michael Ross, who raped and murdered young women in what is now my neck of the woods as it were, a bit before I moved out here. He asked his attorneys to stop trying to prevent it, in other words he went to his death willingly, evidently preferring it to life in prison. So in that situation one has to ask, what ' s the point? One element of controversy was whether his...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Republican Misbehavior Promoted Health Professional Activism
By MIKE MAGEE
If you wanted to create a motto for the summer of 2023 – one that would stand the test of time from the medical exam room of Ohio to the gilded bathroom of Mar-a-lago – it would have to be Jack Smith’s “Facts matter!” If that is true on a national scale, it is equally true in states across the nation where doctors increasingly are coming out from behind a self-imposed clinical curtain and going public.
As reported in ProPublica last week, “Doctors who previously never mixed work with politics are jumping into the abortion debate by lobbying state lawmakers, campaigning, forming polit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion Activism health care providers Mike Magee Physicians Trump Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Historical oddity
Sorry for missing regular posting recently. I was dealing with some extremely frustrating technical problems. Will get back to it. Chapter 8 departs in a few ways from what has been our understanding of the situation of the Jewish population in this historical era. Note again the complete lack of any mention of Jerusalem or Judah. The Jews appear to be dispersed throughout the Achaemenid empire, from " India to Ethiopia. " Furthermore it is possible for people to convert to Judaism everywhere in this diaspora, which is basically contrary to the law and custom in all of the previous literature, in which far from being ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 2, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Parker Health Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Transform American Healthcare
Parker Health an innovative biotech company for electronic health records, hospital developer & management, and subscription-based health services, today announced that it has secured $25 million in Series A funding led by Bias Capital, a multisector and multi-stage angel syndicate, joined in this round by L’PAJ Ventures, CGT Capital Group, and other angel investors and family offices. This funding empowers Parker Health to further its position as the industry’s most compliant and competitive solution helping expand our medical technology and services and to employ global teams. Parker Health has raised $26.3 milli...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bias Capital CGT Capital Group Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment L’PAJ Ventures Maximillian Naza Parker Health Vincent Lopez Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The king has dementia
In the previous chapter we saw the king completely forget that Mordecai had tipped him off to an assassination plot. Now, the king has completely forgotten that in Ch. 3, he had ordered the murder of the Jews at the behest of Haman. Just in case there ' s any doubt or confusion, I ' ll reproduce it here. Obviously, the king has Alzeheimer ' s disease, because he has no memory of this.8 Then
Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among
the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves
separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 30, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 31st 2023
In conclusion, an SBP level below 130 mmHg was found to be associated with longevity among older women. The longer SBP was controlled at a level between 110 and 130 mmHg, the higher the survival probability to age 90. Preventing age-related rises in SBP and increasing the time with controlled BP levels constitute important measures for achieving longevity.
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Source: Fight Aging! - July 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Trump's Higher Impunity Revisited
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Source: Health Care Renewal - July 29, 2023 Category: Health Management Tags: Donald Trump health care corruption impunity threats to democracy Source Type: blogs
The view from nowhere
I commend to your attentionthis essay from Dan Froomkin on the willful blindness of the corporate media to the reality of right wing politics in the U.S. today. (Even Froomkin doesn ' t seem to notice that the Republican party generallyis driven by dispensationalism, that most of their voters really do believe in Biblical inerrancy and literalism, and the imminent apocalypse. But that ' s for another day.)I was particularly interested in Froomkin ' s example of opposition to solar farms in rural Ohio. Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein really stepped in it with his remarkably na ïve article headlined “Small-...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 29, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Quote of the Day
From The Madness of Crowds, by William J. Bernstein, describing John Blunt, the mastermind of the South Sea Bubble:From their earliest histories, commercial societies equate riches with intelligence and rectitude; people of great wealth appreciate hearing of their superior brainpower and moral fiber. The wealth and adulation that accompany financial successes inevitably instill an overweening pride that corrodes self-awareness. worse, great wealth not infrequently arises more from dishonesty [or luck -- C.] than from intelligence and enterprise, in which case the adulation induces a malignancy of the soul, as indeed ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 27, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
