Here’s one case where they failed miserably. Sometimes people laugh when you ask for medical advice online or whatever but the scary fact is that we have to be responsible for our own health because we can’t necessarily trust doctors to do what’s best for us.
Sure when we get sick they’ll talk to us for 30 seconds and then prescribe some medicine but where are the doctors who will plan your healthcare with you? You might just be on your own, just like the woman in the article linked above suggests women at risk for breast cancer need to insist on a mammogram.
Continue Reading October 18th, 2009
This is a friend’s story: I have a bridge because of dental malpractice. I had a cap put on a tooth due to a bad cavity. The dentist then told me I was good to go. He had put on a TEMPORARY cap, never saw in his files in return visits (checkups and cleanings) that the cap was temporary, never notified me of its temporary status nor did in anyone in the office, and let me go on with it.
It finally fell out 18 months later while chewing a Starburst. He then exclaims “Whoa! It was a temp! Man my handiwork is good if it lasted 18 months!”.
Having such shoddy, temporary work in my mouth that long allowed for a vicious gum infection above the tooth. I had the gum infection worked on twice — apparently, this involves cutting into the gum and scraping it out — before the oral surgeon said “there’s nothing we can do, we have to yank the tooth to get to the infection”.
Its a newer procedure, as its a false tooth that attaches to one side of the surrounding teeth, not the cap that goes over the surrounding teeth entirely.
No attorney would take the case because dental malpractice is “impossible to win in court”. I called a crazy number of attorneys before I gave up.
Continue Reading October 13th, 2009
This article concludes with the obvious “vary your workout routine for best results” but it does survey some interesting research on rest time between sets. For a few weeks you can spike testosterone and HGH with shorter (1 minute) rests between sets. However the difference declines by 5 weeks into a routine. Over 10 weeks, a 2.5 minute rest would show better gains.
This is a decent article, though the facts are somewhat disturbing. Anabolic steroids you inject are safer than all the methylated prohormones you swallow. Yet the safer option is illegal while the more dangerous option is not.
Continue Reading September 18th, 2009
This argument makes sense to me:
“Why would it drive private insurance out of business?” Obama said of the proposed public option. If private insurers “tell us that they’re offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can’t run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That’s not logical.”
The Republican counter-argument I have a problem with:
The Republican National Committee released a cable-TV ad saying Obama’s insurance plan would result in “putting government bureaucrats in charge instead of patients and their doctors.”
My problem is that even now we have bureaucrats deciding who gets what treatment. We all know that private health insurance companies want to make money. Sometimes that means denying certain treatments because they are expensive.
Continue Reading June 24th, 2009
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