Where the Hell Are We?
Posted in Money Matters, Health, wordpress, disclosure, ethics, sports, Baseball, Big Pharma, Legislation on April 9th, 2010 by Stanford MatthewsNothing like being in the right mood to publish a post on what can only be described as stupid. A baseball game just ended. It should have been one for the win column for what should be MY team… the Milwaukee Brewers. After leading since the third inning a pinch hitter for the Cards smacked a two run homer in ninth and the Brew crew went down in order in the bottom of the ninth. This is not an uncommon event for the team from brew town.
To add insult to injury a fitting annoyance was observed at a sports site while preparing this post. Wanting to represent the games’ chronology accurately a peak at the stats was in order. On arrival at the site a big picture of T Woods was presented with the title ‘destyiny of a champion.’ Excuse me while I throw up. The Masters is in session and this occasional viewer will neither watch it or the network, CBS, airing it. The whole scenario from Tiger’s dishonesty to his tabloid ’secret’ lifestyle and the public’s eagerness to ‘forgive’ (as well as his wife’s) strike me as shameless AND stupid.
Enter the original focus of this post…. healthcare. Yup, Obama won a coup d’eta with his Obamacare and while attempting to destroy the American health system he moved on quickly to doing same with our national defense and security. But some events in healthcare and reports about it are the real subject of this post. The rest was just a fun way to start this.
First, there is a report on clinical trials. The initial premise describes a situation where trials are stopped short of completion due to better than expected results. It further suggests those results are flawed.
If this doesn’t remind you of the AGW scam it should. It is as if we have been time warped back to the Dark Ages. How long will it be until we reach the age of enlightenment? Seriously folks, it really doesn’t matter whether the stupidity is the result of intentional deception or not having a clue. The outcome is not better either way.
The second report in this group features another curious announcement.
I’m sorry. Neglect is not the real problem with curing disease. This is not the first time this thought has been expressed on this blog. Given Big Pharma, a sector of the economy producing drugs, their billions in sales would be at risk if diseases were regularly eliminated by finding cures. Likewise, researchers and others who earn a living ’searching for cures’ would be out of a job (and income) if they solved the problem.
How about you don’t get another dime until you cure something?
Then there’s a report about the need for more minority doctors to serve minority patients. At first glance the proposition seems innocent enough. But after further review stupidity is observed revealing the nonsense.
While living in an area liberals would define as ‘diverse’ a successful doctor once expressed a simple yet intelligent formula for dealing with patients. The doctor was white and many of his patients were not. He held that effective communication with one’s patients did much of your diagnostic work for you. Letting them speak, listening and asking the right questions provided the necessary information to solve the health problem(s).
Please, let’s not suggest that successful outcomes in medicine require the doctor and the patient to possess a shared cultural or demographic heritage.
Two reports for this post remain although there certainly are more to review. The first of these two is absolutely priceless. So is pursuing the sort of reasoning it describes. Which may help understand some of the reasons why healthcare costs continue to rise so fast. Stupidity.
The details about the equipment are what make this report ’stupid.’ For those not fond of the metric system, if memory serves, kilograms are converted to pounds by multiplying the number of kg’s by 2.2.
680 x 2.2 = just under fifteen hundred pounds (1,496 lbs). You don’t need an explanation do you?
The last report is a repeat of some from the past. Caesarean Deliveries at All-Time High in US may indicate a trend in unnecessary procedures. All of these reports feature a serious case of stupid.
If you disagree, sound off. It appears there is much evidence to suggest the human species is mired in stupidity. Are we all in decline based on our recent collective performance. Has someone spiked the water? What’s the deal?
Stanford Matthews
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Athletes who use drugs in general is bad enough. But when performance enhancing drugs are used to alter the outcome of competitive sporting events the definition seldom used and focused on is fraud. It is the same with Barry Bonds and the home run record. If you cheat there is no record breaking event. The lame debate on whether the Barry Bonds’ record should stand or have an asterisk placed next to it in the record books is deranged.
