This is what you get when you make overreaching laws in the name of health. Humor.
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Suitcase, huh?
by Doug Farrago •
I enjoy baseball. Heck, I am involved in a fantasy baseball team. When I see injuries, I tend to get a little skeptical knowing what I know about medicine. This news item made my eyebrows go up. “After a freak accident involving Jonathan Lucroy caused him to be scratched from Monday’s lineup, an MRI…
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iPads for Everyone!
by Doug Farrago •
Here is some new information from an article in the American Medical News: The VA is launching the “Clinic-in-Hand” pilot program as part of the mobile health initiative. One thousand family caregivers of veterans will be given Apple iPads loaded with apps to help them provide care and communicate with the veterans’ physicians. The iPads…
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Oldest Female Bodybuilder
by Doug Farrago •
Edith Wilma Connor began working out in her 60s. By her 65th birthday she entered her first competition, the Grand Masters in Las Vegas, and won first place. She works out at least three times a week and is now a competitive bodybuilder. Oh and she is 77 years old! She still runs her data…
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Memorial Day Doctor
by Doug Farrago •
Here is a nice story about a doctor, Roger LaRosa, who served in the U.S. Army for four years as a doctor in field hospitals across the European Theatre. Cool story. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the US Armed Forces. Roger made it. So many…
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The Good Old Days?
by Doug Farrago •
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David on the Standard American Diet
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Perk Be Gone
by Doug Farrago •
Medical insurance was not always like it is today. Obviously. It started as a perk that companies used when hiring some employees. Somehow it just hit that tipping point that it became expected. Well, those days are probably gone. The cost is so high (or they are getting set for Obamacare) that companies are…
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Another Way to Get Rid of the Middleman
by Doug Farrago •
Take a look at this article in the American Medical News. They discuss a “new” way doctors are negotiating directly with employers instead of insurance companies. I love it! Of course, it is not new. Insurance companies haven’t been around that long. The article doesn’t give the greatest spin on the concept because it isn’t…
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Quote of the Week
by Doug Farrago •
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”—The Shawshank Redemption (Tim Robbins) Tweet0