SerPolUS_IDES

Bob Doherty is the main Washington lobbyist of the ACP - after the AMA, the largest organization of US doctors (representing internal medicine physicians, whether primary care or subspecialist). He's had some very interesting posts since the Massachusetts Senate upset. His blog is a finalist in the sixth annual Medical Weblog Awards for the Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog. Doherty articulates the ACP's case for supporting the current Senate&House Health Care Reform legislation (whose failure he & many others will end up leading eventually to more draconian limits on doctors & patients, in order to control the currently unsustainable growth in US health care costs (now approaching 20% of GDP).

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.

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"

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.

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.

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

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."

cosmetic plastics attracting more doctors in training

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

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

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

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

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