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The layman definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results. That mentality, incidentally, also appears to be the cornerstone of Republican politics. We have seen it many times before: start a war or two, give tax cuts to the rich, and expect the national debt to decrease. If at first [...]
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A nurse by the name of Jerry Lucas, the man behind MaleNurseMagazine.com, is a great guy. I’ve been a reader of his site for a long time. I don’t remember when it was that I first heard about his site, but it was well before Hurricane Katrina. He was at Ground Zero after 9/11. After [...]
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Unlike most people I see complaining about the “threat” of socialized medicine in relation to President Obama’s health care reform plan, I actually have first-hand experience with both the American and the Scandinavian health care models. I grew up in a country – Finland – where health care and medicine are socialized. In this post I am going to articulate some advantages and disadvantages of the Finnish system, and draw personal conclusions as to why I perceive changes to the American health care model to be necessary in the long term.
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First: what do a health care reform event and a semi-automatic rifle have in common?
While you’re chewing on that, here’s another one: why is it that whenever someone makes a point of saying that they’re “exercising their rights”, it is usually accompanied by behavior that most people would call offensive, unwise, or even downright stupid?
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There’s a quote I’ve learned from my father-in-law that I find interesting. It goes, to paraphrase, something like this: “if a young man is not an idealist, he has no heart; if an old man is not conservative, he has no brain.” When I was about 16 or 17 years of age and still living [...]
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Mika Salakka is a Finn living in the United States. He is a nursing assistant, a creative writer, a devoted husband, and an observer of the human condition. His interests range from music and literature to psychology, sociology, medicine, technology, and spirituality.
Oink Oink, Bang Bang
October 7, 2009
in Commentary
I have a mental list of the types of individuals I refuse to accept medical advice from, and this week I made a couple of new entries: political TV show hosts, and physicians who run websites that try to sell homeopathic health products.
Tagged as: epidemics, H1N1, health, health care, medicine, pandemics, swine flu
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