You will have to pardon me, but I believe that the nation and the world have greater things to consider than whether or not Barack Obama is for or against gay marriage. We can rule out the North Carolina vote by merely saying, “What else did you expect.” The state has some wonderful educational institutions [...]
Archive for the ‘Health care’ Category
What a country
Posted in America, Bureaucracy, Ethics, Government, Health care, Human behavior, Illegal immigrants on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Who pays the price?
Posted in Accountability, Health care, Health insurance, Hospitals, Opinions, Patient care, Personal on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Doggonit, I really don’t like getting pissed! Congress irritates me on a regular basis because they are about as useless as tits on a bull. The Occupy movement drives me nuts because (a) they don’t know what the hell they’re doing; (b) there’s a group in there who just want to ‘rumble’ with the cops, [...]
Unmentionable goes public
Posted in Growing old, Health care, Human behavior, Patient care on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
(This piece is not for everyone. In fact, it’s a bit raw. Just letting you know.) I find that through aging, there are a great many internal as well as external bodily changes. The external are reasonably easy to spot…you know the ones. Like when you’re walking on the beach barefoot and someone compliments you [...]
Don’t pee on my leg…
Posted in Bureaucracy, Health care, Integrity, Laziness, Opinions, Patient care, People, Stupidity on October 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Massachusetts and all the boats that are still in the water. Breaking news from your resident curmudgeonly blogger.” The Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts Board of Public Health don’t give two hoots in hell about patient care. They don’t want to hear anything that might rock the boat concerning [...]
Too old to change?
Posted in Addiction, Athletics, Growing old, Health care, Integrity, Life, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Symbolism, Trust on September 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Old people don’t like change. In my youth, and even up until my early seventies, I thought that was just another urban myth; a fallacy that one could disregard as being propagated by the very young. When computers first came into our workplace, nearly everyone was excited about this new technology and how it would [...]
Love and happiness
Posted in Altruisim, Death, Family, Growing old, Health care, Human behavior, Integrity, Life, Love, Nostalgia, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Values on September 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“I love Mommy and Daddy this much,” as the arms spread to their fullest possible length. Let’s see; that lasts until…umm…oh, I don’t know; maybe seven or eight? Whadda ya think? Nowadays, does it even last that long? I grew up in the fifties. We loved our parents a lot longer then, I think. Granted, [...]
Dementia is no joke
Posted in Health care, Opinions, People on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As kids we used to make fun of older people we’d see who might be carrying on conversations with themselves. We thought it both frightening and funny. There was an old man in our neighborhood who used to walk up and down the street talking to himself; winter and summer, he’d always be wearing a [...]
The trouble with smoke and mirrors
Posted in Accountability, America, Education, Greed, Health care, Honor, Human behavior, Integrity, Law & Justice, My Beloved Country, Opinions, People, Politics, Trust on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a question for you, Americans: Do you really care if we have a balanced federal budget? Do you, personally, actually give a damn if our debt ceiling is over fourteen trillion dollars? Do you even know what all of this crap means to you personally? How many of you are actually involved in the [...]
No day at the beach
Posted in Death, Family, Health care, Love, Opinions, Personal on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is something of an open letter to anyone who is a care giver to a loved one dying of cancer. I’ll probably get all preachy and stuff, but pay no mind to that…I’ll try not to do too much of it; I just get carried away sometimes. Before you think I don’t know my [...]
Getting ready for the big game
Posted in Health care, Human behavior, Personal on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the evening before that causes all of the problems. You think you’re tired and want to go to sleep; your eyes feel kind of sandy or gritty, and you think that if you could just lay your head on the pillow and close those gritty eyes, maybe, just maybe, sleep will come. It won’t. [...]
