January 03, 2010 06:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
1 Boring Old Man: The 00's were characterized by a disastrous and wasteful foreign policy that put us into staggering debt and a corrupt domestic policy that did nothing for the people and lined the pockets of selected segments of our financial elite.
Tengrain presents…: Makeus Sickby, M.D.
In These Times: This is Your Country on Drugs: Hooked on Big Pharma
TalkLeft: Obama directly blames AQAP in Yemen for failed Detroit attack
Balkinization: Oren Hatch and his friends get the benefit of the pages of the Wall Street Journal to tell us things about the individual mandate that are not actually true
Eschaton: Failing into a Sunday show guest slot
figure it out
Fox News Channel may drive blood pressures to record highs among liberals but the right-wing cable channel just finished its best ratings year ever and easily tops CNN and MSNBC with viewers.
The only cable channels that do better than Fox News are entertainment ones. MSNBC and CNN aren't even in the top 10.
people like infotainment, and that's only +/- 1% of the population that watches it.
Was that a Rasmussen poll perhaps?
about the Pharma shit is that the public funded Universities spend all of the time and effort to isolate various naturally occurring chemicals and find out with hours of study that they do some good then turn around and hand it over to the drug companies.
Simvastatin is a generic now, but you originally used to be able to buy it in a health store as a supplement until the FDA sided with Pharma to regulate it.
I'm wondering if Pharma makes some of these dangerous new drugs up, then hands them over to different Universities for study on lab rats (students,etc) to avoid lawsuits to themselves.
Because of my (work) spinal injury, I can't get a test done at a private hospital or doctor anymore, only at the U will they allow it.
University hospitals must be some sort of a legal barrier for the private sector insurers and hospitals, no?
for animal cruelty (experiments) 162 Violations . . we're back to this shit again . .
According to USDA inspectors, animals at KU Medical Center were left to suffer from painful illnesses and invasive surgeries without adequate veterinary care; inadequately trained staff members were allowed to handle animals; and experimenters repeatedly failed to consider modern alternatives to using animals in experiments, as required by law.
The USDA report describes how monkeys that were afflicted with an infectious disease were left to suffer from extreme weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea and neurological disorders for at least a day after they met criteria for euthanization. The monkeys were part of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
. . imagine that mentality being the ruling norm in the U.S. Hospital system. These are the kind of people who are already in charge of peoples health care in the institutions known as "Hospitals".
I feel like that when I go to a hospital now, I'm treated like poison when I show up.
Check this out,
I go to the local private hospital with chest pains.
They take me immediately to intensive care and monitor me for a day then send me down to surgery to have a look see up my femoral artery for blockage, but they don't do stents at that hospital if there is blockage.
While I'm half knocked out, they call my wife at work to allow a stent or two to be installed.
The Doctor calls in a sub contract Doctor to install the stents so they don't have to remove me to the University where that sub Doctor hails from.
They will not release me to a regular room, they keep me in intensive care until I check out.
There is no record of me receiving those stents in that hospital, when I asked after that all I get is a "we don't do stent procedures here" line.
I'm some kind of a medical industry poison case because of the spinal injury I suppose, eh?
sheesh . .
It was enlightening to read the drivel from Orrin Hatch & Company. It is neither surprising that it was published in the "Fox News" Street Journal, nor was it surprising that Ken Blackwell is a co-author of this article. Whenever you get 2 republics in the same room the lies fly like goose shit on a golf course.
a year before that I went to another local hospital ER in the same medical group as the one above.
Same thing happened except that time they kept me tethered to the bed in intensive care for 3 days while they found another hospital willing to do the procedure, they found one from another local hospital in a different group to do it.
That hospital treated me like a human being with a regular room and all.
But when I decided to go back there with this latest problem they spun me around and sent me back to the first hospital group ER.
The system is FUBAR IMO
Add: This was supposed to be a reply to Evet, I pushed the wrong button I guess ;)
Great Ygelsias piece. Marketing "overactive bladder" is rather disturbing.
"Senator hatch admits GOP 'standard practice' was to run up deficit"
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/hatch-admits-gop-...
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