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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Frederick Smith

Frederick Smith

Dr. Kevin Pho on why current HealthReform bills are docs' best hope - 0 views

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    Pho is a fairly conservative primary care doctor in New Hampshire, but believes that defeat of the current Senate/House legislation will eventually lead to more draconian restrictions on doctors and patients, since the cost of medical care will otherwise become untenable in the U.S.
Frederick Smith

Pogue - Palm Provides Plenty of Plusess With Improved Phones - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Palm Pre- & Pixi-Plus phones via Sprint & Verizon - advtgs include multitasking (eg, music while checking email), BECOMES WiFi hot spot (which others can use w/i 150 ft) at $40 extra/mo. "Good for non-techies"
Frederick Smith

, Review of MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS-by Tracy Kidder-NYTimes - 0 views

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    Title of review: "A Season in Hell." Kidder authored "Mountains beyond Mountains" in 2003, about work of Paul Farmer (from Harvard) and his organization Partners in Health, which has a large Haitian-run health organization in Haiti - pretty much intact after the earthquake.
Frederick Smith

Op-Ed - Tracy Kidder on Haiti - Country Without a Net - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Kidder authored "Mountains beyond Mountains" in 2003, about work of Paul Farmer (from Harvard) and his organization Partners in Health, which has a large Haitian-run health organization in Haiti - pretty much intact after the earthquake.
Frederick Smith

Medscape: MDs Delay End-of-Life Talks - in Hematology/Oncology, Other Cancers from Med... - 0 views

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    From: Keating N, et al "Physician factors associated with discussions about end-of-life care" Cancer 2010; DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24761.
Frederick Smith

The Academy: a journal of secondary education, NY State, 1896; 4:159 - 0 views

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    Cicero's usage demostrates that the Latin word "serpolus" meant not "little slave" (as defined in the lexicon) but had the pejorative meaning "paltry slave."
Frederick Smith

For Top Medical Students, an Attractive Field - New York Times - 0 views

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    cosmetic plastics attracting more doctors in training
Frederick Smith

Beliefs - For Ex-G.O.P. Official, Obama Is Candidate of Catholic Values - Question - NY... - 0 views

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    Douglas Kmiec, pro-life conservative, supports Obama because he thinks he is most likely to REDUCE number of abortions = the real goal
Frederick Smith

Op-Ed Columnist - The Push to 'Otherize' Obama - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    efforts to make Obama the rejectable "other" with whom compromise is impossible (ethnicity an unspoken aspect?)
Frederick Smith

What makes us happy? (JWShenk) - 0 views

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    The Grant longitudinal study of Harvard students (1937->) incl JFK, Ben Bradlee - & G.Vaillant ldrshp
Frederick Smith

Evangelical reporter refutes 'theocracy aim' - 0 views

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    J.M.Phillips (former NYT reporter) attacks columns by M.Dowd, F.Rich & P.Krugman about menace of evangelical "jihadism."
Frederick Smith

Robert Wright, "the Evolution of God" - 0 views

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    God as human projection over time, evolving toward universal and inclusive morality
Frederick Smith

"God, he's moody" - 0 views

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    Salon interview with R.Wright, author of "The Evolution of God"
Frederick Smith

Costs & Compassion, by Paul Krugman on health care reform - 0 views

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    Agrees with Obama's 7/22/09 analysis of need to overhaul health care system - compassion coincides with need for cost constraint.
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