Keep Them In Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen, move over – Florida reality again trumps both fantasy and novelistic legerdemain. Perhaps it’s the effect of earthquakes and oil spills (our one year anniversary of the BP disaster) but strangeness pervades the state. Some weeks ago five teenagers in Silver Springs Shore snorted the remains of […]
Does sleep loss give me the munchies, or do I just get high? (4/1/11)
How to Gain Weight Without Even Trying Sleep less, weigh more. Even if might feel temporarily high from staying up all night, keep staying up and you’re going to put on weight. Quickly. Columbia University researchers rigidly controlled the life of 13 men and 13 women for six days. One group slept 8 hours, the […]
These mistakes can last longer than you – your Electronic Health Record
It Couldn’t Happen – But It Did If in the future you inexplicably don’t get a job or insurance you thought you had, consider this story: “Mrs. Smith. This is the health department. You have gonorrhea. You need to come in and see us quickly.” The shocked Mrs. Smith is the 67 year old wife […]
The doctor as drug (3/16/11)
Doctors or Technicians? “I don’t feel like I’m a person anymore, just a bunch of numbers. All she wants to talk about is tests and drugs.” That’s how patients describe some of their doctors these days – technicians. Bright, intelligent, often concerned, but technicians – purveyors of tests, gatekeepers of other technicians who will eventually […]
Prepare for daylight savings (3/9/11)
Thieves of Time People don’t get enough light in their lives. They really become distressed when governments take sunlight away from them – rather like officials increasing the tax on air. With daylight savings approaching this weekend, the politics of daylight are heating up. Scotland The most recent example of public unhappiness is Scotland. Attempts […]