Increase Government Involvement in Quality/Cost of Health Care, Watch Public Trust Go Down. Here’s Why
It would be ironic, wouldn’t it? While the federal government’s involvment in health care is increasing, the level of public trust is likely to go down. The Disease Management Care Blog explains. Remember the Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA)? When it was passed twenty years ago, the federal requirement that institutional health care providers and [...]
The 10-year rule: you must persevere with learning and practising for 10 years before making breakthrough
From The Lancet: Hard work is required: “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration” – Thomas Edison Late in life, Charles Darwin made the same point in a letter to his son: “I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things, and a most perplexing problem [...]
Saturday night
Actually, last night, at the BCT. And it was awesome.
Can you avoid ESRD by how you eat?
I don’t know, and I can’t validate this, but here’s an embedded booklet posted by Uremic Frost.
Orthogonal, towards MIT
Walking along the Charles River on the Cambridge side late this afternoon, I glanced southeast towards Boston across the river and was blinded by the glare of sunlight reflecting off the ice. How can the setting sun attack from the southeast?! The riddle is solved when you see that the stainless steel roof structure and/or [...]
