Americans Should Not Wait for Politicians to Help Syrian War Victims
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT—Seventy-eight nations plus 40 non-governmental organizations recently gathered to raise money for the relief of Syrian refugees. Kuwait’s Emir opened the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria with a plea for funds.
The small Gulf nation has carved out an international humanitarian role. “This is our baby,” one Kuwaiti official told me.
Kuwait opened the proceedings with a promise of $500 million, matching last year’s donation. The U.S. won the number one position with an offer $507 million, but many participants offered little more than good will. Overall the conferenc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Health Law Events at January 2015 AALS Annual Meeting
Health Law Events at
the January 2015 AALS Annual Meeting
Friday, JAN. 2
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Lebanese Taverna
2641 Connecticut NW
Health Law
Professors Reception
Drinks & heavy
hors d'oeuvres
Hosted by Hamline
University Health Law Institute
Saturday, JAN. 3
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Marriott Park
Wardman
Maryland Suite A
Lobby Level
Competition Policy
in Health Care
Section on Antitrust
& Economic Regulation
Co-sponsored by
Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care
Competition in
health care is a fundamental issue to a better functioning he...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 20, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
This is not Thug Kitchen.
However, I have a roll recipe for your motherf.ers that you are gonna love.This is what I bring to every holiday gathering, and have brought since forever. It's a soft, white, not-too-sweet, not-too-salty, buttery bread that you can make into loaves, or into rolls, or into a braid. It is incredibly easy, even if you've never made bread before. It's also high in fat, totally devoid of nutritional value, and should therefore be eaten only once or twice a year.Check it out: you will need. . .one package of regular yeast, or quick-rise/bread-machine yeast, or a cake of yeast, if you roll that way. (For newbies: these packets c...
Source: Head Nurse - November 26, 2014 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
Health Law Events at AALS 2015
If you are a health law professor attending the January 2015 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, there is robust programming in our area of teaching and scholarship. There are at least six distinct health law events summarized below.
In addition, please consider serving as a commentator as part of a new “Works in Progress for New Law Teachers” program by the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care. This Saturday evening session is comprised of three separate concurrent roundtables with the junior authors identified below. If you can participate, please contact chair-ele...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 4, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Let's you and him fight
U-Cal prof As'ad AbuKhalil breaks down the Syria clusterf* for you.Point number 1 (and I said it here before), the "moderate, progressive" Free Syrian Army is and always has been bogus. They are a small conglomeration of various people who ducked under the umbrella in order to get U.S. support. Many moderate factions are actually allied with the Assad regime (which was always secular, NB). For the most part, the contending rebel factions represent various strains of Wahabism.Then you have and Iran vs. Saudi proxy war, a Saudi vs. Qatari proxy war, the Sunni vs. Shia thing which was mostly conjured up by the Saudis as part ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 24, 2014 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
My First Blind Date
Malcolm Gladwell writes in The Tipping Point about individuals known as Connectors who know lots of people and enjoy introducing them. Connectors are unique in that they have both a rare social talent and the energy to use it. My Connector-friend is Uhhcya, and he connected me months ago with Cuz1. Uhhcya clarified the connection: “No one is getting ‘set up.’ That happens on its own.”I initiated conversation with Cuz1 through text messaging. I wrote that Uhhcya meets lots of interesting people. She wrote that he collects people. I asked if she has any hobbies as unique as collecting people. 110 text exchanges later...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - July 25, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: girls Source Type: blogs
Football
As usual he avoids all videos of violence in his country (his country?) published in youtube.com. He starts listening to songs. In T.V. he starts watching an Arabic Lebanese series named لو (=If), which is about romantic relationships. He chooses to write a new article on an Arabic website about some old paintings about hypnosis. He opens the newspaper less often and prefers to see anything but the first three pages. The other day he liked this picture in the first page of his newspaper. But as he flips the first three pages to that page of culture he found this caricature.As he sees that caricature he remembers tha...
Source: psychiatry for all - July 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Baba Ganoush, Lebanese Style
My friend Paula and I threw a Middle Eastern dinner party on my rooftop last Saturday evening.
It was really all Paula’s idea. You see, her dad once ran a Lebanese market in Worcester, Mass. Paula inherited not only her father’s butcher block kitchen table and meat grinder, but a real love for the foods of her ancestors. I can tell you that enthusiasm is highly infectious, having caught it from her last year while sitting at the table at our cottage rolling grape leaves under her tutelage. So when Paula proposed a joint party – she’d provide the food and I, the venue and sous chef duty – I...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - June 11, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers Baba Ganoush Babaganoush Eggplant Bitahini Lebanese Lemon recipe Source Type: blogs
Actuarial management key to changing industry
by Jonathan H. Burroughs
Key stakeholders must back up and align healthcare transformation mandates to achieve high quality and low cost with strong contractual incentives. Healthcare organizations increasingly create co-management or joint venture collaborative arrangements with physicians, large employers and third-party payers to meet the triple aim goals (improving population health, improving the experience of care, and lowering per-capita costs).
UnitedHealth, the nation's largest insurer, will increase its quality/cost incentives to $50 billion within the next five years, and healthcare organizations increasingly ...
Source: hospital impact - March 21, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
Yet 5 healthcare iPad apps that could arrive before Christmas
by Ron Shinkman, FierceHealthFinance
I don't own an iPad, so I rarely poke around the Apple app store to see what is new and exciting. The only exception is the last few weeks of the year, when I seek out the healthcare-related apps I would like to see arrive before the big holidays. The absolutely essential apps listed below have yet to show up, but with seven more shopping days before Christmas, you never know:
1. iCharge, Master!
Price: It really depends. But we don't think it's important to begin with.
Details: Tired of those pesky journalists asking for your price lists and wondering why your hospital is charging...
Source: hospital impact - December 21, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
How I Create: Q&A With Authors Dan Millman & Sierra Prasada
I’m honored to feature both Dan Millman and Sierra Prasada for this month’s “How I Create” series. Millman and Prasada are the authors of the new book The Creative Compass: Writing Your Way From Inspiration to Publication.
In it, they feature five stages of creativity and combine their personal stories with sage insights from other writers and artists. (I shared their wise advice in my piece on creative cures for writer’s block.)
Below, they share a glimpse into their creative process along with surprising insights on cultivating creativity.
Millman is a former world champion gymnast, university coach a...
Source: World of Psychology - December 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Habits Happiness Interview Self-Help Brainstorming Creativity techniques Dan Millman Idea Imagination Inspiration Sierra Prasada Writer Source Type: blogs
Hard Seats & Cold Feet
Recently I have sat in our Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and asked myself, why am I here?
The chairs are hard, it’s very cold and I am physically uncomfortable. Later, I have a thirty mile drive home in an old unheated car and being an old man, I’ll have difficulty getting out and in to that fire I know will be there. Why then, do I suffer it?
The answer begins in a day in May 1963 in a hospital in Perth, W.A. where I was very sick with the disease of alcoholism. A man is standing at the foot of my bed “Believe you have a problem,” he says, and I admitted the truth a big problem, beyond me to solve.
Next day...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - September 28, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery why am I here Source Type: blogs
Time for Congress to Decide on War in Syria
Doug Bandow
On Saturday, President Barack Obama made the right decision and asked Congress for authority to go to war in Syria. Now Congress should make the right decision and vote no. Conflicts and crises abound around the globe, but few significantly impact U.S. security. So it is with Syria.
The bitter civil war obviously is a human tragedy. However, the conflict is beyond repair by Washington. Ronald Reagan’s greatest mistake was getting involved in the Lebanese civil war. The U.S. invasion of Iraq sparked civil conflict which killed tens or even hundreds of thousands of civilians. Civil wars are particularly resist...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Washington Foolishly Tilts Towards War in Syria
Doug Bandow
The bitterest fights tend to be civil wars. Today, Syria is going through such a brutal bloodletting.
The administration reportedly has decided to provide arms to Syria’s insurgents. It’s a mistake.
This kind of messy conflict is precisely the sort in which Washington should avoid. Despite the end of the Cold War, the U.S. armed services have spent much of the last quarter century engaged in combat. At the very moment Washington should be pursuing a policy of peace, policymakers are preparing to join a civil war in which America’s security is not involved, other nations have much more at stake, man...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Did John McCain Provide Material Support for Syrian Terrorists?
Doug Bandow
One of the more far-reaching federal rules targets people who provide “material support” for terrorists. In principle, it’s hard to disagree with such an approach: terrorism is bad, so no one should support terrorists.
However, what does “material support” mean? You can go to jail for 10 years if convicted, so it would be nice to know what is prohibited.
There is more than a little nervousness in the non-governmental organization community over the rule’s reach. Warned the Center for Constitutional Rights, the law criminalizes “activities like distribution of literature, engaging in political adv...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
