Is the answer to corruption and runaway spending in Washington to elect more doctors to Congress?
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Obviously religion and spirituality are not the same thing (one can have a lot of one of these without much of the other). Prior studies have found that religious ideation involves diffuse brain cortical areas in the frontal and parietal lobes but feelings of spirituality appear to involve at least two much more focal...
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In 1986, Maryland basketball player and NBA 2nd overall draft choice, Len Bias had a seizure and died from a single intranasal dose of cocaine. In 2010 one guy uses cocaine to "unwind" on the weekends and wonders if it really is that dangerous.
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And the phobia* of the day is: “Wrongcontextophobia“. The fear of sending a sensitive and personal text to the wrong contact on your smart phone (or in the wrong context). *If this prevents you from using text or causes significant difficulty, then it’s a phobia. If it does not then it’s just a fear.
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Obviously vaccinations suffer from a battered public image these days. What is needed is a new advertising campaign.
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Abstinence-only sex education has never been shown to work well. What if they just threw out all of that "no sex until marriage" stuff and instead, focused on the hazards of teenage sexual activity?
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Trial lawyers and Democrats already know what happens to the practice patterns of physicians when their malpractice liability goes up. That's why Washington has all but ignored national medical malpractice reform lately.
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Q: What happens when the chronically sick and elderly have to pay more out of pocket every time they see their doctor? A: They go to the hospital more. It's not cost shifting. It's Medicare.
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How much would you pay for real primary medical care?
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Millions in tax payer money is wasted per year on Medicare purchased electrically powered wheelchairs and scooters. Much of this is from improperly filled out or missing documentation but I suspect that even more is because of needs and use that is not really completely medically necessary.
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