- Ah, such sweet, sweet justice. (Tip o’ hat to Karen.)
- London Olympics. Tax dollars at work.
- Double dosage of cuteness: “50 Toddlers Who Are Best Friends with Their Dogs.” (Actually, in a couple of cases, I doubt that would be the dog’s opinion. But gosh darn, they’re still so cuuuuuuuute.)
- The electronic medical records being pushed so hard by the Obama administration (and previous) distance doctors from their patients — and their patients’ real condition.
- Drone attacks from victims’ point of view.
- TSA removes 18-month-old terrorist from plane.
Finally (via Radley Balko), we have an explanation for why so many cops can’t get within a block of a dog without slaughtering it:
I am sure the London Olympics has benefited many people that had the right connections to the government. The facilities after the games can also be used to house dissedents, enemies of the state, losing political parties etc.
I’d guess the 18mos old was removed from the plane because of the wrong sur-name, origination from a suspect country and limited computerized history. If she had been a terrorist all of the right documentation, timelines, bonafides would of all been there and no problems boarding.
As far as the drone attacks go, who you going to believe? The Government, or the lying eyes of the victims? It’s just a plot fostered by the local branch of the Taliban to gain sympathy. Nothing to see, move along.
As one who has worked with electronic medical records (EMR), I heartily agree with Dr. Sibert.
When one has to search through 15 screens (X-rays, lab work, consult report, surgical or other recommendations, nurse’s report, several pages of checked-off patient-history minutiae, signs and symptoms, etc) to collate a patient’s story, it’s difficult to know what the problem is, or remember what you’ve read before. By the time you’ve found everything (if you’ve had time to do so), you’re left with very little time to interact with the patient.
EMR was established for databasing and it is following in the footsteps of the medical profession itself, namely its kinship with insurance companies. In the long run, it’s easier for them to pinpoint a word or phrase or number in a test result in order to establish proper diagnosis *for which they have to pay*, than to think through a narrative report which will explain if and how a patient is reacting to his treatment of that diagnosis. In “actuarial” terms, it’s easier to blame a (poorly-documented) EMR and refuse to cover the patient’s care than to be concerned about their patient-client’s welfare. And with Medicare/Medicaid lurking around most every patient, it’s easier for government, also.
EMR makes for inconsistency in that they require succinct wording and explanations, but if you miss saying something (in narrative form) that comes up in a lawsuit or even in diagnostic discrepancy, there is no parenthetical explanation written somewhere to rely on.
When I was in high school, one of the football team had a Jeep, and considered it fun to “buzz” people riding bikes(see how close he could get to you-never happened to me because I lived in the opposite direction). One fine morning, he awoke to find it hoisted up a tree by its own winch-the neat touch was they removed the wired controller, making it a lot more difficult to get the Jeep down..and this was one of those straight-up pine trees..
No one ever admitted to it, and I suspect neither the school or cops looked into it too hard. I guess you could file it under a “If You Gotta Put Up With Them, They SHould Have To Put Up With You” heading.
Well, if you know someone with a crane, then this suggests a solution to the karoake neighbor problem.