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I am holding a contest on my Facebook page to come up with a haiku about healthcare. I honestly don’t care what it’s about as long as it is clever (including llamas does not give you an advantage, though). Head on over there and give me your best haiku! You know what is at stake [...]
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This post is the first in a series of posts about our frustrating system from different perspectives. Although the story is a caricature, there is truth at the core. 118/70 – Home OK, I can’t forget about my doctor’s appointment at 10:30 this morning. I have a bunch of things I need to ask the [...]
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Grand Rounds revolved around advice for some guy whose name rhymes with “no llama.” Perhaps the advice had merit, but that is not really what I want to tell our next president. This post is the first (hopefully) of a series of posts that give my advice from the trenches. It is unlikely that he [...]
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Dear Mr. Obama: Congratulations on you victory. It really is a great thing that you have accomplished what you have, and you are a symbol of hope to a huge number of people – both in this country and abroad. I will never forget the look in the eyes of one of my favorite patients [...]
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Today is October 31st. When I was a kid going to a Christian school, instead of emphasizing Halloween, we were taught that today is Reformation day – the day on which Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg. They weren’t against Halloween (like the Baptists here in Georgia), [...]
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It’s the American way: invest your money to secure your future. Put money into your IRA, 401-K, 529; invest online and maybe you can strike it big. Publicly held companies are increasingly under pressure to produce in the short-term to keep their investors happy. The bottom line is to achieve as high of profits as [...]
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