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Ever Growing
I've thought much in recent times about what author Scott Adams calls the "Talent Stack." Think of it as what you bring to the table in business and life: your skills, your talents, and the things you have worked to know.
Often, I hear "What don't you do?" Well, that list is long, but apparently it isn't normal to have knowledge in multiple areas ( Read more... ) -
Archaeology
Today, for the first time in a very, very long time, I logged into my LiveJournal account. My last entry was over five years ago, in the space between the death of my mother and the birth of my first daughter. I didn't completely quit writing, as I have continued to post on my Facebook page, but I did mostly abandon the type of writing that gave me ( Read more... ) -
Mourning
The first two days after my mother's death, Friday and Saturday, were, in the simplest term, bad. The suddenness of her passing hit hard and hit deep. But by the end of Saturday, the blackness of my mood, the sadness in my heart, it all faded into an underlying hum, but as background for the music of life, of new life, of renewed energy. At first, ( Read more... ) -
October
What is it about October? It was on October 23, 2007, that my father passed away. He was septic from an acute abdomen, with a mind that had gone from normal to bizarrely abnormal a month before, and rather than put him through the torture of surgery and maybe a physical recovery, I elected to ask for comfort measures. We held his hands while he ( Read more... ) -
Blogging to live
I realize that I have been absent from the blogosphere as a writer for a very long time. Often I have written to process things, or during times of depression, loneliness, or sadness. As I've finished training, am employed full-time, and have a wife and a soon-to-arrive daughter (along with numbers other "irons in the fire"), I've neither need to ( Read more... ) -
RAM Helps Socialized Medicine
As many of you have learned over the years, I am actively involved in an exceptional little nonprofit known as Remote Area Medical, based here in Knoxville. RAM's work was featured on 60 Minutes in March of 2008, earning the 60 Minutes team a Peabody, and since then RAM has been inundated with requests to bring our expeditions to various places ( Read more... ) -
Socialized legal services
Ok, here's a concept inspired by Rush regarding socialized medicine.
The current Democrat party health reform bill includes language that creates a "right to health care" in America. I and many others find this concept anathematic, somewhere on the level of making doctors and nurses into indentured servants, rather than the professionals that they ( Read more... ) -
Crazy like a fox?
The currently maniacal push for overhaul of the delivery of health care services is a rehashing of an old "progressive" cause. We've already gone there with the VA, the military health care system, and the Indian Health Service. Within those systems, costs are limited by limiting access and options. However, I'd like to address the private ( Read more... ) -
I am more dangerous than my gun.
An oldie, but fun none-the-less.
Doctors and Guns
FACTS TO PONDER:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
* Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.
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Now think about this:
Guns:
(A) The ( Read more... ) -
The government they deserve...
What work are Americans who have not chosen to be educated in white collar jobs being relegated to? In the agrarian early years, there were very few jobs that couldn't be done by anyone who put their mind to the tasks at hand. Most Americans learned by OJT how to use natural resources to produce products needed by others. Technology blossomed in ( Read more... )