TSA Icarus
This Arch Int Medicine article was quoted widely and contained this interesting statement: Naturally occurring radiation is higher at the altitudes of commercial air flights because of the greater proximity to the sun
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
People in Motion, People in Motion
Been a while since an update. Matched into Psych in CPMC in San Francisco. More to follow…
Seguro De SÃ Mismo
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...
Underground Surgical Vignette
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...
Health Insurance Russian Roulette
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...
Dirty Oul’ Town
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...
I Got the Poison, I Got the Remedy
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...
A Plague of Doctors
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 …...
Context Ad Fail
NME never one to miss a sales opportunity.
No More White Coats?
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...