You know those commercials.
“Help! Help”
Or…
“Help. I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
Continue reading Beware the ides of March?
Share this:
Beware the ides of March?
Tag Archives: emergency
The reports of my death…
Remember that old saw- “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”? Just like they weren’t true about Mark Twain, they are not true about PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare).
Continue reading The reports of my death…
Share this:
Brother, can you spare a dime?
I have been holding off on this series for a while. Because I was hoping there would be some good news to include as a “happy ending”.
Continue reading Brother, can you spare a dime?
Share this:
Still?
More than 3 decades ago, bowel surgery was the scourge of medicine. Folks undergoing such procedures were pretty much assured they would develop complications due to infection. Those infection rates were well upwards of 90%! The death rate was pretty high, too. Of course, not operating on these folks guaranteed the patients almost certain death.
Share this:
2 liters…
Decades ago, I became involved with a few water treatment companies. (These firms were actually venturing into water reuse and industrial water needs; they also asked us to help them with their entire business efforts.) It was an eye opener when we saw their water supply business. This was long before it was normal to see those 5 gallon jugs in our offices and home, proffering cold (and hot) drinking water for our needs.
Share this:
Mythbuster!
I read a manuscript today and realized that I am guilty of believing in myths. Perhaps, you are guilty of the same crime. Crime, you ask? Yes, it’s a crime when we don’t get paid for the value we provide our clients.
Share this:
What Medicare Needs?
Most of you know that I believe in universal health insurance. Because in the long run it will save us (as a nation, and individually) money. Notice, I did not say universal “free” health insurance, even though I recognize that about 10% of Americans can’t afford it, another 10% will need help paying for all of it, and about 15% of Americans think they don’t need it. (Of course, about 15% – or more- of Americans don’t think they need car insurance, but that doesn’t mean we don’t demand they carry it.)
Continue reading What Medicare Needs?
Share this:
It’s way past time to bury these items
OK. It’s rant time. But, no, I have not lost power again- yet. Although, I must admit, having bought my house some 25 years ago, I have had the “opportunity” to experience a blackout- longer and more pervasive than the one that hit the Northeast when I was a young lad- enough times that I find it amazing that we consider ourselves to live in the “First World”.
Continue reading It’s way past time to bury these items
Share this:
Make it autonomous
So, I haven’t decided if this is about multi-tasking (time-slicing) or practicing… Because, if we don’t hone our abilities to perform functions to perfection, then our ability to do multiple things nearly simultaneously fails miserably.
Continue reading Make it autonomous
Share this:
Who are you going to call?
Seconds count when you are in medical trouble. And, now, a new company, EmergencyLink, may be able to help medical health personnel respond more completely to the situation. But, it requires us to do something now to make that possible. And, they (EmergencyLink) need to figure out how to respond more quickly, too!
Continue reading Who are you going to call?
Share this: