http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:05:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some treat him with contempt and disgust, usually the ones who have been directly involved in antiabortion activities. They hate all abortion except for their special case. One even said they should all be killed. Only fourteen, she came with her mother. What brings you here? he asked. I have ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/08/09/13/05/seguro-de-si-mismo/ Every time I find myself the recipient of one of these late night phone calls, tramping through some back alley behind another dark abandoned warehouse... Stuttering another secret password... Entering another hastily constructed operating room... Scalpel in hand, performing another indescribable procedure... I see another pair of eyes... By now ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/08/08/13/24/underground-surgical-vignette/ Half of the [United States] insured population uses virtually no health care at all. The 80th percentile uses only $3,000 [the 95th percentile has] only $11,487 in costs. It’s the 99th percentile, the people with over $35,000 of medical costs, who represent fully 22% of the entire nation’s ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/08/05/17/46/health-insurance-russian-roulette/ In the early summer of 1956, an epidemic of poliomyelitis broke out in the city of Cork. It was not unexpected. The Irish medical authorities had noted the two-year gap between previous outbreaks, and were ready for 1956 to be a polio year. ‘Ready’ rather overstates it. Some hospitals had ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/07/11/14/03/dirty-oul-town/ I started my rotation today doing an elective in UCSD's Poison Control unit ("Toxicology"), which the Governator planned to eliminate to avoid increasing the car registration fees he slashed as part of his quid pro quo during the recall election. Anyway, discussion highlights today included poisonous box jellyfish, weird fish, ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/06/29/16/46/i-got-the-poison-i-got-the-remedy/ El Paso County, eight hundred miles up the border, has essentially the same demographics ... Yet in 2006 Medicare expenditures ... in El Paso were $7,504 per enrollee—half as much as in McAllen ... Between 2001 and 2005, critically ill Medicare patients received almost fifty per cent more specialist visits ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/06/27/18/45/a-plague-of-doctors/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Michael Jackson Dead - Tour Tickets Available!"][/caption] NME never one to miss a sales opportunity. http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/06/25/17/23/context-ad-fail/ The AMA may be regressive when it comes to health care reform, but it does sometimes display an impressive ability to change. Or maybe not. At its annual meeting, the AMA voted to recommend white coats be banned in hospitals to prevent nosocomial infection spread. Then it decided to reconsider ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/06/20/09/41/no-more-white-coats/ Buried on Page 31 of the [US Senate Finance Committee's policy reform document] was a proposal to "Modify the Requirements for Tax-Exempt Hospitals," which would require nonprofit hospitals to maintain minimal levels of charitable activity, limit aggressive collections, and restrict charges to the uninsured and indigent. The proposed penalties for ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/06/19/08/35/alms-enforcement/ Most settlers take out long-term mortgages on units in multistory apartment buildings. Detached, single-family homes are hard to find in the densely populated settlements. Low-price rentals are often available directly from the state, sometimes for less than $150 per month ... according to an Israeli report, many settlements were developed ... http://www.meehawl.com/Blogfiles/2009/06/16/08/34/real-state-of-israels-real-estate/