The Romance of Mental Illness
The Fantasy: The Reality:
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Oligopoly and Regulatory Capture
This is what oligopoly and regulatory capture looks like:
Shocked, Shocked To Find That Gambling Is Going On In Here
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll abruptly resigned after an Internet cafe company that was her former consulting client was linked to an alleged illegal gambling racket … Operation “Reveal the Deal” uncovered what law...
Texas Bans Shooting Immigrants From Helicopters
Well it’s just not sporting is it? You’ve got to at least give them a fighting chance to run for it. Officials in Texas announced on Thursday that State Troopers would no longer be...
Catatonia, FTW!
Just diagnosed catatonia in a patient who became unresponsive and got intubated, got a CT, then a CT stroke protocol, CT angio chest, MRI, spinal tap, continuous EEG, flagrantly extensive metabolic and infectious workup....
Fancy an Appy?
Fancy an appy? That’ll cost you between $1,529 and $186,955. JAMA By comparison, hip replacement seems like a bargain at only between $10,000 and $125,000. JAMA
Obamacare Delivers Early?
Data also show overall health care spending growth continuing at the lowest rate in decades for a fourth consecutive year … From 2009 to 2011, total health spending grew at the lowest annual pace...
It’s This Surfeit of Cooks That’s Having Such a Negative Impact on the Broth
Did my first psych interview with a blind, deaf and mute patient last night. It was a whole Monty Python/Big Train surreal sketch comedy scenario.
PitA Personality Disorder
KNOWN ALLERGIES: –adhesive tape, –all dairy products, nuts, –artificial sweetners, –barium sulfate, –cigarette smoke, –corn, corn oil, corn syrup, –dalmane, –desyrel, –dust, –fd, –gynelotrimin, –halothane, –high fructose corn syrup, –insect stings, –iodized salt, –ipecac,...