DocGurley - Posts from an Insane Healthcare System (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Check out the Doc Gurley SFGate article on this topic, bursting with tips on how you and your loved ones can stay Image via Wikipedia healthy this holiday season. H1N1, food-borne illnesses, falling behind on your exercise, deep-vein thromboses, “staycation” issues – it’s ALL covered in this comprehensive round-up of practical health advice. Feel free to forward [...] Related...
Dear Son-Marks on his chest are from the central line. Bruises on his inner arms are from trying to locate a vein for the IV. Things have gone south since I last wrote. On Friday or so, Dear Son began running a fever. He ran a fever for over 24 hours and yet they were unable to determine the source of the fever. They did some blood tests and a blood culture however no bacteria grew so the good news,...
The "let's begin in the middle of a standard-seeming action sequence" opening is a much-loved Venture Bros. standard by now, and "Self-Medication" goes at it with the gusto you'd expect. The doc is being menaced by the Monarch and his floating cocoon, things are at their worst, and then Rusty's alarm goes off, and he's got a therapy appointment to go to. This is not really surprising;...
ACT has just announced it is going to support the ETS legislation. This appears to be a move to curtail the Maori Party demands and prevent legislation being passed under urgency and before Copenhagen. This is intriguing however: Mr Hide said that while ACT was strongly supportive of foreign investment and the private sector, it also had concerns about proposals to allow private companies, foreign...
The House voted largely along party lines Thursday to permanently end annual cuts in doctors' Medicare payments, which the Congress has temporarily averted from year to year, the Associated Press reports.
Across the country last week thousands of Americans gathered at more than 850 house-parties organized by the Sierra Club to watch a new documentary , 'Coal Country'. I meant to write about the doc last week but better late than never especially as the movie's screenings have been met with intimidation and outright threats of violence in several places, with the unseen hand of big coal working with...
When we interviewed Anvil! The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi back in April, he told us the documentary’s “happy ending … is what’s happening after the film.” And it’s true — since the movie’s release, the little metal band that could has played on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien , been profiled on Nightline , and even toured with AC/DC....
A college professor once described what he called the “Rudy’s Test” to his class. The Rudy’s test involves going into Rudy’s (a bar) sitting down next to any guy at the bar, and asking them their opinion about a proposed…
Are Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) finally willing to say no to the Fee for Service Medicare approach that has destroyed their practices and profession? The Mayo Clinic in Arrowhead, Arizona fires a shot across the bow, by informing patients that they will no longer accept Medicare for their primary care doctor visits as of Jan 1 [...]
Neddy P - Muskrat's Revenge 2 (Feat. 2Rad, Doe Boy, & Papa Joe) BROKEN RECORDS Part 2 of Muskrat's Revenge (Diss Trax) Produced TurreekK http://www.jamglue.com/people/TurreekK Lyrics: Neddy P (First Verse) aight listen up u fuckin wit the muskrat u want revenge, recording where im at u wanna fuck wit us, come n play the game Ik ur Irish but u aint fight like Notre Dame u just a worthless good...
It looks as if Harry Reid has the 60 votes he needs to pass his health care bill to the floor. This is a procedural vote, but an important one, and Republicans may not be able to keep the bill from passing. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has used every trick in the book [...]
Local officials in Norfolk, Concord, Framingham, and Shirley are expressing disappointment and dismay over the loss of state mitigation funds that have in the past compensated them for the ambulance, police, and other services they provide to state prisons in their communities.
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