How is sodium low in sodium?
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Are there survival benefits to drinking your own urine? What you don't know (or don't want to know) might not make any difference.
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Giving every student athlete a screening EKG is likely to be extremely expensive and not very effective.
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Endoscopes may become cheap and disposable.
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You would think that the ER and hospital staff put forth the effort to get an accurate list of every patient's home medications. Far too frequently, you'd be wrong.
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An example of why it's hard to write software for health care delivery systems.
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It is said that the happiest days in a boat owner’s life are the day he buys it and the day he sells it. Likewise, The happiest days in a doctor’s life are the day he get his license and the day he figures our how to make a good living without it. I.e....
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The Congressional health care reform boondoggle, otherwise known as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" expanded government funded health care to about 32 million Americans but other than some tepid insurance restrictions, basically screwed the rest of us. How is the new reform law doing at 90 days?
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Is 300 pixels per inch when viewed at 12 inches the limit of resolution for the human eye? Has anyone checked Steve Job's math?
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Tony Stark developed palladium toxicity that could only be treated with lithium dioxide and the creation of a new element.
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