Notable & Quotable: Florence King From a 1995 Journal review of the book ‘The Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America.’ From “Dan Rather and Other Enemies of Civilization” in the July 31, 1995, Journal, a review of Tom Shachtman’s book “The Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America” by writer Florence King, who died […]

She wasn’t a TV Star and wouldn’t dress like one. Jo Cox, the first British MP to be murdered since 1990, died on June 16th, aged 41 The ECONOMIST  |  From the print edition | Jun 17th 2016 OUT-OF-TOUCH and self-centered at best; deceitful and crooked at worst: Britons have developed smolderingly low opinions of […]

The capital city of the United States; “a city of Southern efficiency and Northern Charm” –John F Kennedy. Washington is no place to a civilized man to spend the summer.  –President James Buchanan. There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone has been too long away from home. […]

Several years ago the editor of MedicalTuesday received a notice of a tax audit alleging an under payment of an amount that equaled 90% of his income that year. After six months of researching files with my CPA, essentially all of the charges were reversed. How could the IRS come up with any reasonable idea […]

U. S. Senator Rob Portman, is the first GOP senator to back same-sex marriage, after announcing that he has a gay son and could no longer justify his opposition to same-sex marriage. That statement, in and of itself, would normally remove him from any objectivity in the debate. He was a sponsor of the 1996 […]

If all the countries of Europe had a common ancestor only 1000 years ago, maybe we all had a common ancestor some 6,000 years ago? —Suppose their names were Adam and Eve? Adam and Steve could never have produced such a family. You can’t reproduce hooking up to the rectum. You can’t even have a […]

Doctor:  “You’ve simply got to have more diversion and relaxation in your life.” Patient:  “But, Doctor, I’m too busy.” Doctor: “Nonsense! The ants are hard-working creatures, but they always take time to attend all the picnics.” “Oh, doctor,” said the young lady, “will the scar show?” “That, madam,” said the doctor, “is entirely up to […]

Healthcare Executives Network Grace Cleaves • The Forbes article describes this ironic paradigm: we needed our docs to be excellent clinicians and we trained them to do that. Now we need them to be business savvy change leaders. We didn’t train them to do that. We wanted them to know how many bones were in […]

Will Telehealth replace the traditional office visit? Liam Woodard National Director, Academic Division |Top Contributor 82% of Young Adults Would Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visitbeckershospitalreview.com A new study from MDLIVE, a telehealth software provider, has found the vast majority (82 percent) of young adults age 18 to 34 say having a consultation with their physician […]

Mechanic to doctor wearing hearing aids picking up his car: “I couldn’t get your brakes fixed so I made your horn louder.” The California Drought Cartoon in the Sacramento BEE: Two men with guns approach a lady watering her lawn: YOUR GRASS DIES OR YOU DIE. Administrators Get Paid More So not only are there […]