Before Organized Medicine, the Torah addressed the Healing Arts with a multi-factorial approach. A Pantheon of Professionals, Prophets and Priests collaborated with the Israelite Deity to address national health care concerns. The Torah Portion Tazria focuses on the Priest’s role in medicine. With Tazria, and other Torah Portions, both politics and theology flesh out variousContinue reading “Tazria: Medicine’s Trajectory?”
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It’s A Miracle, I’m Sick!
“Because that’s where the money is.” Willie Sutton Be it a bank or a liquor store, that’s where the money is! Theft is an art form. Bank Robber extraordinaire Mr. Willie Sutton understood that robbery is more rewarding when the target is swimming in cash. If Mr. Sutton grew up today, he would likely targetContinue reading “It’s A Miracle, I’m Sick!”
Universal Healthcare Is Not About Healthcare
A Progressive Leader, while confessing leftist sins, declared that “Universal Healthcare” was one of movement’s causes. Why? Power. Universal Health Care creates power. If someone other than an elected official controlled seventeen percent of the United States’ economy, what would you think? Currently, U.S. health care costs hover at around seventeen percent. Someone controlling aContinue reading “Universal Healthcare Is Not About Healthcare”
Gaming The System
A Retired Judge often complained to me about parties “gaming the system.” She- keen on this issue- authored a well-respected treatise. Her text addressed a Health Care System plagued with controversy. In the United States, there are a number of Health Care Systems. These include Medicare, Medicaid, and Workers’ Compensation. All of these systems areContinue reading “Gaming The System”
A Feel So Good Moment
In three decades of advocating health care to clients, my father presented me with my most unique challenge. In his mid-80s and ravaged by Alzheimers, his severely arthritic hip jeopardized both his functionality and well-being. His fragile mental state appeared to make a hip replacement surgery impossible. Exposure to anesthesia made the procedure too risky.Continue reading “A Feel So Good Moment”
The AI Made Me Do It!
Bloggers can face terrible consequences touching upon controversial topics. Suicide is the one upon which I believe that received a virtual flogging from the powers that control the internet. A long time ago, I posted about an article that suggested that it was government policies that may have caused some rise in teen suicide. InContinue reading “The AI Made Me Do It!”
The Failure of Post Modern Medicine, Exhibit 5
Preserve the strength of my body and soulthat they may ever be ready to helprich and poor, good and bad, enemy as well as friend.In the sufferer let me see only the human being. The Physician’s Daily Prayer Attributed to Maimonides around the world, medical schools may be teaching doctors to behave like petulant children.Continue reading “The Failure of Post Modern Medicine, Exhibit 5”
The Failure of Post Modern Medicine, Exhibit 3
health insurance costs keep rising. monthly insurance premiums can be expensive as rent. due to this problem, the health industry, including medical schools, should be striving to educate practitioners how to provide both effective and economical treatment. while certain medical conditions can involve costly treatment, other can be treated with minimal expense. if this courseContinue reading “The Failure of Post Modern Medicine, Exhibit 3”
The Failure of Post-Modern Medicine: Exhibit 2
medicine, to consumers, is really a piece of pie. nations, businesses, and individuals take their pie-available income- and portion it among necessities. for a nation, this expenditures can include such items defense and infrastructure. for business, these income is used for dividend payments and wages. for individuals, income pays for housing costs, transportation and food.Continue reading “The Failure of Post-Modern Medicine: Exhibit 2”
The Failure of Post-Modern Medicine: Exhibit 1
a prior post addressed an editorial from a prestigious medical journal, the lancet, with respect to the growing diabetes crisis. in the post-modern world, the terms crisis and emergency are triggers used to exploit public opinion to allow for both outrageous expenditures and restrictive freedoms. during times of crisis and emergency, those in charge increaseContinue reading “The Failure of Post-Modern Medicine: Exhibit 1”
The Ten Commandments Project 