Oakland Riviera
Staying by Oakland Marina. Yes, there is a Marina! With little boats and everything! I was as surprised as anybody. But I did see a prostitute a couple of blocks away, so it still...
Staying by Oakland Marina. Yes, there is a Marina! With little boats and everything! I was as surprised as anybody. But I did see a prostitute a couple of blocks away, so it still...
Arch Int Med / Archives of Internal Medicine / backscatter / body scanner / medicine / radiation / TSA / X-Rays
by mike · Published 2011-04-04
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
Been a while since an update. Matched into Psych in CPMC in San Francisco. More to follow…
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...
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 / health policy / medicine / probability / Russian Roulette
by mike · Published 2009-08-05
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...
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...
Arnold Schwarzenegger / California / medicine / poison / rotations / toxicology
by mike · Published 2009-06-29
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...
Atul Gawande / El Paso / health care / health policy / McAllen / Medicare / medicine / Texas / The New Yorker
by mike · Published 2009-06-27
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 …...
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