How does America protect public health? A clear example can be seen in national pedestrian deaths, up twenty percent from 2009 to 2014. Presently five thousand walkers a year are mowed down by motor vehicles, with tens of thousands seriously injured, and hundreds of thousands maimed. In a recent study by Smart Growth America, a […]
Does Health Insurance Insure You?
Why is using American health insurance such a farce? We can begin with the preposterous process of personally procuring it. As the end of 2015 appeared, I received missives in the mail from Assurant Health, my health insurer, that I would be delisted at the end of the year. I had used them for only over […]
The Pain Mess
Pain rots the soul. Pain scourges the body. Sadly, so does the present day treatment of chronic pain. What was a problem has become a national mess with thousands dying yearly and millions more suffering. Fashion may be the arbiter in social media, but it is a poor selector for health treatments. For many years it was […]
Apple Watch or Apple MD?
Is the Applewatch a way to self-health? The Apple Watch wants to keep every Dick Tracy alive and healthy. He will be notified when it’s politic to get up and stand, how many steps he takes getting to a perp, and whether fellow cops, friends or criminal masterminds are anywhere in the vicinity. […]
Learning From The Next Ebola (10/20/14)
When the Past Is Prologue Humans don’t see threats until they’re kicking at the door. But that does not mean you can’t put a crisis to good use. Chance rules the world. As Nassim Taleb showed in “The Black Swan” and other books, low probability events can create high impacts. But the threat to the […]