It is obvious that our primary care system is broken. Third-party payers, primarily insurance companies and the government, plus a broken torts system that allows for gigantic punitive damage awards that primarily benefit lawyers who prosper from others’ misfortunes, all conspire against the primary care system. The costs associated with the system are growing, and doctors are finding it ever harder to make a living befitting of their commitment to education and training. Many are leaving the primary care practice for less stressful occupations, either going elsewhere in medicine or exiting the practice of medicine completely. I could go on and on here, but I’m not a doctor and my understanding of the screwed up mess is less than thorough. Accordingly, I’ll direct you to an excellent discussion of this issue on a doctor’s blog, DB’s Medical Rants.
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Postcards from the Edge
Has anybody been following my primary health care travails? If so, you’ll recall that in my most recent post in the thread I was informed once again that I was going to get a postcard describing the results of my blood test. You’ll further recall that at the time of that last post, a week ago, I had already spoken with the physician’s office three times via telephone, in my attempt to glean the results of the May 17 tests. At that point, it was already 23 days since the blood was drawn. It gets worse.
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Silly Little Fairy!
The title of this post is a line that is—or was—in a Dodge Caliber commercial that has been hitting the airwaves for a couple of months. Apparently, the tiny but vocal “gay lobby” and their much more extensive knee-jerk contingent once again have been offended by “hateful words,” prompting at least one network to air a censored version of the commercial with the spoken line “silly little fairy” chopped out of it. While on the surface it might appear that they have a point, in context this phrase is innocuous. Let me describe the uncut commercial first, after which I’ll add some bombast about how it was chopped, why it was chopped, and how I feel about the butchery.
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