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Why Ebola will not stay in Africa.
Tweet This PostToday’s Belmont Club has a good explanation of why Ebola will not stay in Africa. UPDATE: Patrick Sawyer was planning to visit Minnesota when he got sick. UPDATE #2: More from Belmont...
View ArticleIs Ebola airborne ?
Ebola has become an uncontrolled epidemic in Africa. I have previously posted on Ebola. UPDATE: A new CDC report has now been provided on precautions. Somebody is worried. The document, itself, is here...
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Treatment of the Ebola contact.
The early information of the Ebola patients in Dallas seems to suggest that competence has not been high on the list of priorities. First, the patent seems to have known about his illness before he...
View ArticleEbola is now acknowledged to be airborne.
I was just going to add another comment to my previous post on whether Ebola can be airborne but comments are now closed. The CDC has now changed its guidelines on transmission. I linked to Patterico...
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Don’t Panic: A Continuing Series – Ebola or Black Heva?
[Readers needing background may refer to the earlier members of this series, Don’t Panic: Against the Spirit of the Age, and Don’t Panic: A Continuing Series.] Time is running out, the man explains,...
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Don’t Panic: A Continuing Series – Ebola Realities and the True Test
as airline stocks tracked – and predicted – Ebola did not become established in the US Although the false alarms might continue for a few more weeks, we have obviously transitioned into the...
View ArticleWhy Gruber has to lie
The left does not do economics. They do politics and elections and lying to get past the “stupid voters” but, when pressed, nothing they do qualifies as numerically or mathematically sound. Social...
View ArticleLovescanning
Especially for Valentines Day, GE posts a video about Stanford University’s MRI-based “love contest.” It’s not quite a cold and clinical as it sounds, on account of the individual stories told by the...
View ArticleA Brave Author
I remember reading an article a long time ago about advice that an experienced journalist gave a new writer in the newsroom. He said to “never write anything bad about cats” because the paper would be...
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Myopia and why it is increasing.
A couple of interesting articles about the increasing incidence of myopia in children. Myopia isn’t an infectious disease, but it has reached nearly epidemic proportions in parts of Asia. In Taiwan,...
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Obamacare = Medicaid
I have been interested in health care reform for some time and have proposed a plan for reform. It is now too late for such a reform as Obamacare has engaged the political apparatus and sides have...
View ArticleWhy Doctors Quit.
Today, Charles Krauthammer has an excellent column on the electronic medical record. He has not been in practice for many years but he is obviously talking to other physicians. It is a subject much...
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A Bleg.
I have a new book out on Kindle that is now published. It is called “War Stories: 50 Years in Medicine.” I’ve been working on this for 20 years and kept having to revise it as I would put it down and...
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Obamacare Lives !
UPDATE: The decision is analyzed at Powerline today with quotes from the decision. The Affordable Care Act contains more than a few examples of inartful drafting. (To cite just one, the Act creates...
View ArticleStill Too Early – But Perry Makes Some Points
Most here haven’t commented on the darting and illusory fortunes of the huge Republican field; I’d mentioned earlier that Perry would have trouble – double or triple BDS syndrome, a bit too much of an...
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The Coming Shortage of Doctors.
I’m sure everyone is tired of my pessimism about politics so I thought I would try something new. Here is a piece on pessimism about health care. This Brietbart article discusses the looming doctor...
View Article“The Medical History of the American Civil War”
Michael Kennedy’s blog series in six parts: The Medical History of the American Civil War The Medical History of the American Civil War II The Medical History of the American Civil War III The Medical...
View ArticleMelanoma and Pregnancy.
This is just a brief post to mention that that today’s Daily Mail has an article about a pregnant women with a spreading melanoma. In my book, linked on this site, I have a chapter on melanoma and...
View ArticleThe Doctor Shortage Update.
There is an interesting piece today in the Daily Mail about young NHS GPs quitting and going to Australia. In the past five years, the number of GP appointments made by Britons has risen from 300...
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