Category: Health
UK drugs advisor resigns over media driven policies, again
April 2nd, 2010, No Comments
Drugs advisor Eric Carlin resigns from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs over the tabloid driven ban on mephedrone: Re-Mephedrone; we had little or no discussion about how our recommendation to classify this drug would be likely to impact on young people’s behaviour. Our decision was unduly based on media and political pressure. [...]
Isolated incidents
March 25th, 2010, No Comments
Democratic representatives and senators are threatened for voting yes on Obamacare: WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers have received death threats and been the victims of vandalism because of their votes in favor of the health care bill, lawmakers and law enforcement officials said Wednesday, as the Congressional debate over the issue headed toward a bitter and [...]
CotD: do not be too proud of Obamacare
March 24th, 2010, No Comments
HTML Mencken provides a reality check: I’m feeling a replay of the 90’s in the sense that, then, many liberals made the mistake of claiming Bill Clinton was an awesome president because he was victim of constant, retarded right-wing attacks. This attitude soon morphed, in practice, to lumping all the attackers together, left and right, [...]
More Democrats like Barney Frank
August 20th, 2009, No Comments
At least in this context, as Barney Frank isn’t afraid to call people who are so stupid that they believe Obama’s health care reform equals Nazis crazy and as much use to debate as “arguing with a dining room table”. More goodness here as well.
Condom credit cards!?
June 11th, 2009, No Comments
One NHS doctor’s opinion on Labour’s latest badly thoughtout health proposal: Don’t get me wrong. I am strongly in favour of providing any young person of any age with free contraception. But why do we not just give them the condoms? Why must they first have a “condom credit card”? Probably because, in the finest [...]
Never Give A Dialysis Patient an AK-47
June 5th, 2009, No Comments
I’d better warn you, I’m in a very, very bad mood this morning; it’s a bloody good job I don’t have access to weapons. I had hoped that after the fiasco that was yesterday this morning would be better. Yesterday was awful; first the hospital car didn’t turn up at all for my cardiologyappointment/dialysis session [...]
What If Gordon Won’t Go?
June 4th, 2009, No Comments
I have cardiology appointments and a dialysis session for the rest of the day and no access to wifi so no blogging from me till much later, if at all and anyhow the media, especially the BBC, seem to have cold feet and have backed off Gordon Brown. For the moment only. Nick Brown, PM’s [...]
You Can Polder If You Want To. You Just Have To Want To.
May 6th, 2009, 1 Comment
Should America follow the Dutch social model? Ask that of any US pundit, the conventional reply will be “Nooo, the socialism, it burrns! 52% tax!” But just maybe, maybe they should think the unthinkable, says American exiled in Amsterdam Russell Shorto, in a fascinating article in the NYT magazine. Americans pretty much pay an equal [...]
Well, There’s A Surprise.
April 13th, 2009, No Comments
Brain scans of 20 devout Christians “found no evidence of anything mystical”, says researcher.
Does he take sugar?
March 27th, 2009, No Comments
As Dave Hingsburger found out, If you’re in a wheelchair, obviously you’re leaving your luggage unattended: Suddenly, I lost existance. I was waiting patiently in the airport, quietly watching people go by. My luggage was stacked up next to me and I felt that I looked like quite the world traveler. Suddenly this illusion was [...]
